Because we’ve seen 30 years of the Web? Because streets used to be (and some sill are) nothing but a place to put up billboards and ads? Because corporations are led by psychopaths and they care absolutely nothing about your well-being or personal health in your home?

OF COURSE if they can put an ad in your kitchen they’ll by all means put an ad in your kitchen. It’s literally the goal of giving out brochures and pamphlets of ads: to make you take the ads into your home. Why are there brand names on everything? It’s advertising all the way down. Giving them an Internet-connecting screen they control in your kitchen is just asking for ads to be displayed in your private space.

Having PERL be a shell style environment was hilariously slow. Entertaining, but slow.

I feel bad that I read that page in Chrome. I’m a failure of a techie.

Tomorrow I must atone by teaching more students terminal commands. Maybe using web API calls with cURL. Or get and some eviloverlord.com quotes?

During the era it wasn’t rare to upgrade components on the motherboard and ISA/PCI bus cards. We’d had some relatively stable CPU socket standards and you’d do things like change out CPU and ram for upgrades.

Was this a stupid marketing gimmick? Oh yeah. Was it unreasonable to talk about upgrading a system at home? Not really. We did do it for a while.

I bought a single €2 snack while walking through a Christmas market. Other than that, it was a day of riding public transit (monthly pass), walking through parks, and eating a packed lunch.

Out of pocket total: €2.

People not knowing when to use ‘is’ and ‘are’ in English.

For reals, though? Mostly energy put into conversations, who spends the effort to initiate topics, and whether someone actually has hobbies other than just watching TV.

“The bombing of civilians will continue until you agree to be conquered and owned.”

Just leaving this here in case @op needs to check the weather where they are: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/@2016590/ext

And now we’re surly adults! No goatee anymore, though. They itch too much.

Peter’s The Evil Overlord List is a treasure of the long before times: http://eviloverlord.com/

Copyright 1997

“The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord”

Mandatory reading for anyone trying to be an Evil Overlord.

“trust is” says marketing.

You’re sitting on the Chinese Translator problem, and to some extent the basis of the Turing Test (mostly the translator problem).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Knowledge != Intelligence

Regurgitating things you’ve read is only interpolative. You’re only able to reply with things you’ve seen before, never new things. Intelligence is extrapolative. You’re able to generate new ideas or material beyond what has been done before.

So far, the LLM world remains interpolative, even if it reads everything created by others before it.

But they were put in there 14 years ago after they were left alone with him at his mansion.

The city I just left is almost through that entire arc. How did you guess the history of a city you’ve probably never looked at!?!

The latest wave of city council leadership is actively trying to build out more public transit and it’s amazing just how horrible people can be when you ask them to make a tiny percentage of the roads (often 3+ lanes wide in the city core) have a bike lane or even a few blocks of bus priority lane so the busses can arrive on time during rush hour.

At the same time it’s in the top 5 most dangerous cities for pedestrians in our state, but the mutilation of fellow city dwellers is okay as long as people can drive fast through downtown to get to the big box store 20+ miles away. Strangely, the City Council’s old members keep yelling about how the city downtown is dying because we added a few bike lanes and therefore people don’t want to be there since it’s harder to drive (but only during major rush hours).

I used an auto-cleaning script on my Reddit account. It went through and deleted all 13+ years of posts, comments, and activity before nuking the account itself.

This post feels like a bot wrote it as pro Microsoft spam.

Talk to the hand was likely one of the most annoying teenagerisms ever devised and promulgated. That made me want to just deck every kid who pulled it.

Psych!

Not

Wuzzzzap?

Radical, dude

Cowabunga

Catch you on the flip side

The Information Superhighway

Bud. Wise. Er.

AWS is mostly built on AWS.

Yes, DNS started failing to properly fill name lookups. So, DynamoDB started failing. That started making security and other AWS services fail. Which in turn made higher level services fail.

It truly was a house of cards kind of moment.

Anyone from Dragonball.

Or Love Hina. There’s some great choices there.