... that's terrible. Aren't the team rioting already?

- You should've heard the noise when we called that cassette player "Walkman".

Discussion on the Sony Playstation 1 team, paraphrased.

Whoops. That's a bottom-rung typo if I ever saw one.

I'm pretty sure wether you're in ketasis (body produces it's on bloodsugar) or overbooked on sugar (which many often are) is a key factor in wether you're a prime target for mosqitoes. That would also totally make sense for them from a nutrition standpoint. If you're a mosqito magnet, try losing some wait and go into ketasis, perhaps with interval fasting. At least when they're out and about. That's likely do reduce or solve the problem.

Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

Jensen Huang to college grads: "Run. Don't walk" toward AI

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/...

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang told graduates at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh yesterday that demand for AI infrastructure is creating a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to reindustrialize America and restore the nation's capacity to build."

Why it matters: With many college grads fearing AI could obliterate their career dreams, Huang pointed to boundless opportunity as a "new industry is being born. A new era of science and discovery is beginning ... I cannot imagine a more exciting time to begin your life's work."

Nvidia, which makes AI chips, is the world's most valuable company. Huang told 5,800 recipients of undergraduate and graduate degrees that the AI buildout will require plumbers, electricians, ironworkers, and builders for chip factories, data centers and advanced manufacturing facilities.

"No generation has entered the world with more powerful tools â" or greater opportunities â" than you," he said. "We are all standing at the same starting line. This is your moment to help shape what comes next. So run. Don't walk."

"Every major technological revolution in history created fear alongside opportunity," Huang added. "When society engages technology openly, responsibly, and optimistically, we expand human potential far more than we diminish it."

Full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It was awesome. I even got this special grafics card calles Matrox Mystique which had this very special function: It would specifically support enhanced gaming(!). A brand new concept, can you imagine?

... what electric motors are capable of. Seriously, a specifically designed for MX purposes e-motor will launch you into orbit if that's your aim. No need for flywheels or other ghetto-type shit / steam age technology.

Seriously, now the cat's out of the bag, there's no stopping.

... is drying up. No more 150k+/year for building bullsh*t online services that might turn a profit in 10+ years. Boomers have stopped investing and are spending and passing on heritages in their last days of life. This isn't the only factor crunching the tech industry, but a notable one, I suspect.

... late than never I say.

But, then the water is pumped out to make the tunnel usable. How do they keep it submerged? What prevents the entire tunnel popping up to the surface?

4700 metric tons of balast, rocks and gravel per segement. Sorry, didn't mention that in the GP post but it's in the articles and videos.

First of all, the singular term is "agility" not "agile". Second of all, agility isn't a means, it's the end. The actual goal. And "agile software development" is a thing and will remain a thing in teams and "projects" where it fits and makes sense. Those are scenarios with experienced teams booked on a well-seasoned and under control stack with which every team-member has solid experience to basically take on any task in the scope of the project.

Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff. This is why agile software development is most often used in web development and generic user-facing software for vertical markets. Because that's precisely where you find customers who are usually overwelmed with formulating the requirements of a piece of software to be programmed.

And no, it's not at an "end" and no, it's not "dead". Perhaps the fad with dimwitts has died and they've moved on to another new buzzword, but that would be a good thing.

Agility or Agile Software Development is still alive an well for anyone actually aware what those terms really mean. See the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development for further details.

Congratiulations, you are now ahead of 99% of the buzzword crowd. You're welcome.

This is what made the Web so successful and omnipresent while at the same time introducing this type of epically dimwitted security nightmares:

The Web has nice pictures you can click on, meaning everybody has an opinion about it and wants to develop with and for it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but most web "developers" (emphasis on the quotes) have no idea about how the web actually works and what secure-by-design actually entails.

That's when you get this sort of thing, roughly 70%-80% of the time.

It's super frustrating and can get you severely depressed if you aren't aware of the cultural reasons for this problem. I've been doing non-trivial web development for 26 years now and have learned to live with this problem, but it still is just as annoying as it was in the year 2000, even though I've since notably updated my zen-skills in dealing with these types of people and projects. The upside is that by now I (mostly) get do decide who I work with and those are people who pay me fair and do listen when I say that an idea for a web solution is a bad one and has security issues built in no matter how much the juniors or marketing think it's awesome.

That said, I still consider the Web superiour to most other ways of doing software, for the simple fact that it is 100% open standard, human readable, truely 100% cross-platform and FOSS all the way through. And I wouldn't have it any other way doing professional software development. Fixing and replacing abysmally shitty code every odd project is a downside I'm willing to take with that.

... ook ook.

I suspect the judge isn't going to buy it. I likely wouldn't either.

EOM