Wiping your ass with silk is still significantly more friction than water

Save up. Save save save.

Moving is expensive, and any new job is risky to start. The places you’re looking at are expensive because most sane people want to live there.

If you can find a remote job, start there: once you’re a remote worker, you can establish yourself at the job before you move. Once you’re confident that you like the job and aren’t going to get laid off out of nowhere, you won’t have to stress about paying rent while looking for a job in a new place.

Visit a city before committing, make sure it has the vibe you want. Coastal cities all have their upsides and downsides.

The graphical user interface.

They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)

They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.

SMS is dogshit mfa, this is known

This was always coming, and we’re going to do fuck all about it. But on the upside, the future is going to be absolutely rad for the .001%

Moving too dumb. Something caused Microsoft to ban OpenAI for its employees last week, probably a massive security blunder that we hopefully get to find out about eventually.

Veep is far and away the most accurate political show we’ve ever had

It’s moderately common in my social circles to argue that South Dakota is a hoax

It would probably cost like $1 of components to make most led bulbs resilient to all but spookiest of power delivery, but why sell something once when you can make them buy it over and over again

200 vulnerabilities, 2-3 that might actually be exploitable, and no prioritization. But look at these metrics!

Cybersecurity, as a profession, is a fool’s errand.

Dedicated security staff exist solely to teach real engineers how to do their job, and the fact that such personnel exist is a catastrophic failure in computer science curriculum

https://openbooks.lib.msu.edu/app/uploads/sites/17/2020/06/carbon-cycle-1024x1024.jpg

The issue is that we have artificially accelerated the return of carbon to the cycle by burning coal and oil.

It sequesters the carbon while it’s alive, but you’d need to bury the plant deep underground to remove it from the equation

Blow up a coal plant?

You are being ripped off, 10g sonic is like $60.

There are only 3 good Star Wars movies, and I’m tired of pretending that there are more: A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One.

Risotto is easy but you do need to add liquid and keep it stirring for pretty much the whole cook time

REWIND

There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

• bill gets signed
• no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
• 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
• years late and at double the budget, it releases
• two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
• years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
• zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
• new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists

“Deez nuts”