The âoetruthâ is what you are told is true Anything else will land you in the camps that are already being set up Thank you for sharing your woke ideology. You have been placed on the lists of unlawful combatants and other enemies America

Thatâ(TM)s your fucking choice! You chose to buy into the rich get richer while the poor get poorer You decided to buy into this system of wage slavery because you are a weak minded coward And you will sit there like a slack jawed moron as they build more and more go concentration camps and start rounding up the immigrants, then the trans, then the gays and liberals And you tell yourself âoewhat can I do? I have rent to pay!â You and your pathetic, slavish ilk deserve every bit of whatâ(TM)s coming You are about to find out that you arenâ(TM)t entitled to anything you arenâ(TM)t willing to fight for Enjoy your stay in camp â" the brutality of those who you have enslaved yourself to is all you deserve

America is now filled with a bunch of willfully ignorant assholes Within a few years there will no facts in American media, only content If you arenâ(TM)t a member of the wealthy elite and donâ(TM)t want to live as a slave, GTFO now The fact is most Americans are slaves they are just too farking blind to see it If you hate whatâ(TM)s going on, but feel powerless to do anything meaningful because âoeyou have rent to payâ â" youâ(TM)re a fucking slave and should just STFU because your opinion does not matter, because uou speak empty words, have no autonomy and youâ(TM)re just worthless trash by choice

I ran a dedupe on my drive and eliminated 8 redundant copies of the goatse guy.

#SaveWaterWithGoatse

Why didnâ(TM)t the âoetechâ setup automated backups? That shouldâ(TM)ve been #1 on the agenda after services were restored. And wouldâ(TM)ve been an easy sell at the time. So did they âoenever learnâ, or did the geniuses they hired to fix their shit not give a shit about best practices and were happy to do the bare minimum and leave their hapless clients to their own devices? Frankly, I am fucking done with the tech industry. Fucking jackholes, sociopaths and scumbags from top to bottom. The fact that itâ(TM)s the mid 2020s and our security standards as a whole are just as abysmal as they were in the 80s, perhaps worse But at least our top tech visionaries have shifted from âoemaking everyoneâ(TM)s lives betterâ to âoefuck you, you filthy animals, weâ(TM)re going to take away everyoneâ(TM)s jobs then subjugate you all under autocracy and slaveryâ So yeah. Everything had gone to shit and I concede the MAGAts might be right. Burning everything to the ground might in fact be the only thing Americans are capable of doing at this point.

I once warned a manager at a smallish company that their fantasy of doing manufacturing would never happen partly because of a lack of QC and the lack of anybody with authority to shut a project down if it was not meeting spec. "We need that guy!" the manager said, and I came back, "If you had that guy you'd fire him the first time he told you something you didn't want to hear." Musk is in a pickle right now and I'm sure he really doesn't want to hear that the tank failed an X-ray inspection and the whole craft needs to be taken apart to make sure it's OK, thereby missing the launch window. And I'm sure the QC guy knows that. So as I warned that guy who once asked for my advice, this is what he got.

She hunted and pecked through the beginnings of a reasonably successful career as a magazine copywriter back in the day. I tried to tell her it would be worth her while to spend a few hours with Mavis Beacon, but she insisted she had her way of doing things and that was that. Two index fingers, staring at the keyboard instead of the screen. Meanwhile, I was younger than her but did learn touch typing on a manual in high school. Anyway a year or so after I gave up trying to convince her to spend some time learning to type properly, I walked in on her as she was working and she was holding her hands in the home position, index fingers hovering above F and J, eyes on the screen, and doing a good 80 wpm as she pounded out copy. When I pointed this out she looked at her hands and said, "I don't know about any of that, I just adjusted what I was doing to get a little faster." Well, that's why they teach it that way, but some people gotta ice skate uphill, y'know.

Jobs and Wozniak got rich off Apple, Gates and Balmer off Microsoft. Sinclair was already rich. Tandy, Commodore, Atari, and IBM had hugely popular machines but no "rock stars" single-handedly responsible for their development, and bad business decisions ultimately killed them. Similarly Coleco, which had a great chance to undercut the PC with the Adam and its cheap letter quality printer, but they were too ambitious and by the time they worked out their manufacturing problems the PC had taken root. But the PC killed the rest of the industry by killing itself, making the first clones possible which could run object code generated for other manufacturers' machines, which was Microsoft's second stage to orbit after providing Level II Basic for the TRS-80. It wasn't MIcrosoft's intent, but imagine what today's computer ecosystem would look like if all software was still architecture-specific and there were a dozen or more popular models to choose from.
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Apple and the rest had room to grow because the big names like DEC, Data General, and even IBM were focused on business and saw them as toys. They bought and ate anything that looked like it might compete with them, such as the CP/M office systems which might be a credible threat to minicomputers like the DEC PDP series. That was another gap IBM threaded by being IBM.

Waste Management used to have pretty good customer service, if they missed a pickup you just called, they'd send a truck out. Bin broken, call and they'd come fix it. Easy peasey. Now, all you can get is a call center in India that insists you got service even when you did not. They have missed three pickups in a row now. When my wife finally got a human being after 3+ hours on hold with multiple calls, the rep was completely unsurprised that it ended with a cancellation request and offered no pushback. There are three other companies doing trash pickup in our subdivision, one of them will now get our business, and apparently we're not alone.

Hal's insanity trigger was actually revealed in the book version of 2001 itself.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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Builders will have to learn what they can do with it, and what they can get away with, by experience. 3D printing allows walls to flow and make shapes that are all but impossible, or at least very expensive, with conventional techniques. Curves also make them stronger. But it's not clear just how well 3D printed walls will hold up to age and catastrophe. Eventually techniques will evolve to soften the layered look or at least vary it some. There is still no real consensus on what to do about roofs, and end of life demo promises to be a whole new thing. But there's certainly room to explore a technology that just needs to be hosed out after a flood, can't burn, and might be earthquake proof.

Can we please ditch this feel-good Cold War lie? Stars are powered by the proton cycle, a reaction that isn't attainable by any means other than gravitational confinement by the mass of a star, and which doesn't even produce that much energy. Stars just get very hot because they're very big, square cubed law and all that, and they've been burning for millions or billions of years. What fusion reactors are trying to achieve depends on deuterium and tritium as fuel, isotopes of hydrogen that are not found all that much in the Universe. Deuterium can be isolated and purified with a modest industrial effort but tritium has to be made in another nuclear reactor and has a relatively short half-life once made, and is wicked expensive. Fusion reactors are also likely to be extremely dirty, irradiating the whole facility with neutron flux that is not just lethal in operation, but makes otherwise stable materials radioactive through neutron capture. (The first clue that Pons and Fleischmann had not actually achieved cold fusion is that their apparattus wasn't shielded, and even at the relatively modest cell phone charger level power output they were claiming it should have killed them.) Nobody knows what that kind of neutron flux will do to a real life machine over a realistic operating life with all the working parts of a reactor, how the resulting waste will need to be handled, or even what it does to simpler things like construction structural elements over the long term. And of course there is the laughable way it's always been just around the corner for over sixty years.

You know what the argument used to be? Garbage collection. There were what we would today call scripting languages which made it all but impossible to have memory bugs, as well as other common bugs such as data type mixups. Yes those languages were slower, but when compilers were made for them they weren't all that slow, and still the entire industry insisted on continuing to program using a language whose every feature was pared down to make it fit in the memory of a PDP-8, in a day when corporate customers still regularly paid for their mainframe usage by the instruction cycle. When microcomputers became practical, most of them much more powerful than the mainframes of the sixties much less a mini like the PDP-8, mountains of code were written in languages like COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, and even BASIC, all of which made memory errors impossible. (Go ahead and call FORTRAN a toy language. I dare you. Let me stand back a bit first so I don't get flash burns.) Then instead of fixing the problem we layer frameworks and other band-aids on top of it which don't fix the problem, and make C and its derivatives just as slow as those other languages that started out safe, and the reason nobody notices is that computers themselves are a million times faster than a PDP-8 now and unless you are doing some kind of global level enterprise shit you'd never notice the difference in performance between a program written in C and one written in Turbo Pascal.