TIL PhotoBucket is still around.

You can’t explain that!

I have to use Outlook for work. It’s difficult or impossible to find the features that were actually useful in the new Outlook.

I still use old Outlook because at least it actually works.

“Experts say power plants ‘burn coal to convert water into steam.’”

I mean, does anyone really know how these things operate?

If you’re having fun at your job, you’ll never work a day in your life.

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, “we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it’s a positive impact as much as possible.” tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

That causes a rather severe rash.

The many faces of Kristen Stewart

You joke, but some gullible idiot will buy that.

I know people who get their phone service through “PureTalk” to escape the “liberals at AT&T”. I’m still not sure which is the greater irony: the fact that AT&T is an extremely conservative stick in the mud Corpo of the fact that PureTalk is an MVNO whose network is provided by – wait for it – AT&T

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“Get your feet out of your brothers mouth.”

One of many phrases that I never thought I would have to say before I became a parent.

🎶Jody, Jody, Jody, Jodddyyy. I’m beggin’ of you, please don’t take my woman. Jody, Jody, Jody, Jodddyyy. Please don’t take her just because you can.🎶

Now hold on on a minute. Are you seriously trying to tell me repeatedly prompting an AI agent with, “That person is supposed to have FIVE fingers. Not four. Not six. Five. People have FIVE fingers. What the hell is wrong with you!?” doesnt constitute “effort”??

/s

If you willingly gave money to a two-bit con-artist who is widely known for robbing or defrauding nearly everyone he has ever done business with, then you got what you had coming.

“AI” coding tools can offer some value. The problem is that they often generate tech debt with pay day loan level interest rates. What’s made the interest rate so high is that now, not only do you have the actual code base tech debt. You also have a bunch of code that no one understands and the barrier to entry for software engineering has become so high that fewer younger people are actually learning how to be good programmers. Lots of organizations don’t give a shit about their rapidly growing mountain of tech debt today but they’re sure going to at the end of the week when the payment comes due.

What their “leadership” fails to understand is that any idiot can shell out code. I’ve seen lots of terrible programmers generate millions of lines of really shitty code that somehow, by the power of the dark Lord himself, manages to compile. That’s not what a software engineer actually does though. Software engineers design operational systems with software. Writing code is a secondary function of that. There are currently no AI agents that can successfully design a software system with any degree of complexity because LLM’s don’t actually understand anything.

It should be fine. We hope.

Pretty much the COVID strategy from the first Trump administration.