Lets not forget those flock cameras that are recording us everywhere. Surprised and disappointed the kids in our neighborhood havent smashed them.

I don't think it's malicious. Most people who lose weight by any sort of diet end up putting it back on. The whole concept of a "diet" is inherently flawed. It should be looked at more like treating alcoholism or drug addiction, except that you can't go cold turkey, and you probably can't even control your lifestyle.

What we fundamentally need is a device that monitors our calorie intake and our calorie expenditure and starts asserting itself when our budget is off. The one nature provided isn't working out.

This is the super rich who have crashed the economy yet again trying to calm you down so you do not demand they fix the problem they caused.

There is a continued push to convince people to do things, or have their kids do things, the speaker won't do themselves:
- Join the military
- Skip college
- Take up the trades
- Nursing!
- Do manual, unskilled labor

All of those are fine options in theory, but there are definitely reasons we aren't doing them until better options have run out. I'm not optimistic those reasons have changed, just the rate at which better options are running out.

My condolences and heartfelt sympathy for Dell employees about to undergo what must be the 300th failure to try to do this thing in the past 20 years. You will singularly bear the brunt of the pain, you will endure insane new meetings that will go nowhere and do nothing, and the result will be yet another new, mediocre thing to deal with.

But operating a computer on a virtual screen?

It's actually really good at this and is my favorite way to use it, particularly when I'm not at home. It ends up being a large, high resolution screen that you can sit comfortably on a couch and work with. I spend a lot of time coding in this environment.

It's video games that I'm not sold on yet. It's great at RTS/factory/flight sim games, or when you can stand still and shoot/slap/etc. It's not great when you're moving.

I prefer scotch with my beef, but I guess that means I'm just a commie.

Those of us who don't work for anthropic, and whose bean counters are large and in charge will definitely not appreciate 5 (or more) free-running claudes. Either you'll spend a lot of money, or they'll just impose a token limit and 5 claudes will just be 5 hung terminals. If it's important, you'll have to go through a corporate approval/procurement process to have the cost approved.

I'd rather just write code than spend all day sell-sell-selling.

Well surely the people impacted won't figure out who has a raging hate-on for wind power because it's classified. Right?

I'm pretty sure someone was expecting that we were addicted to that $100B trade, and by throwing a 15-999% tariff on it, 15B-1.5T of fresh taxes were going to be generated. With a 40% drop in purchasing, that's going to translate to a lot lower tax intake than expected. The price for that will probably be more inflation, but the powers that be have shown very little concern over using other, more nuclear options (possibly even literal nuclear options), for handling budget shortfalls.

Exciting times!

I remember arguing with someone that the "States Rights" mantra was just a mask for racism and the ability to shit on minorities by southern states. He made vast arguments about the power of a federation and states abilities to try different things and learn from each other. Statements that even at the time were bullshit and we both knew it (sitting in Austin, working for tech companies that were only there to escape taxes).

Well, now that racism is federally mandated, they're still doing away with states rights. So I guess I win that 25 year old argument. I don't particularly disagree with the stated purpose of this law, but the irony of it being delivered by a racist at the expense of state's rights is hilarious.

I'm not even a manager and there are, at present count, 30 hours of meetings on my calendar. I go to less than half, I just let the meetings sandbag my calendar so that new meetings are difficult to schedule. Either you know me and we have a reason to meet, or fuck you.

The actual managers are much worse off. Corporate life is stupid.

It's considered a sale when you purchase goods with it. You owe capital gains on it at that point. At least if you're a US person.

People don't like having cameras streaming from their bedrooms and livingrooms. I'm shocked.

I'm not moving to a communist country.

The idea of living in a totalitarian shit-hole infested by a national surveillance network, people being taken in the middle of the night by masked and unidentified government agents, having protestors shot in the streets and generally living under the thumb of a dark and malevolent ruling class did make communism seem real bad.

Now it sounds like Trump's America.

There really isn't. I was skeptical and expected a 2-week long oddysey, but I put arch on my PC this past weekend and all my games work. It's definitely not suitable for mom, but my son could handle this.

Linux is still ... not great in terms of overall experience, but it's not worse than Windows, it's just different things that break. The difference is that it's often easy to identify exactly what is broken and work around it (ex. plasmashell crashesh when the screen is blanked, because my HTC vive was connected as a second device, so I can just unplug it while I look for a better solution)