I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids’ extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don’t use it. It’s infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.

It’s ridiculous that this sort of thing isn’t a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I’ve used work well. I’ve been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.

I’ve had a customer ask for me by saying “get us that guy who looks like Gilfoyle, he’s the only one who seems to know what’s going on.”

Though I am polyamorous, have been associated with the occult, have long hair and a beard, and wear rectangular glasses, so I can understand how they’d be mistaken.

I knew from the very first scene. Some company had just got bought so they had a big party and paid Kid Rock to play. But everybody was in polos and khakis and wanted to have quiet conversations and Kid gave up halfway through the first song.

I was at that party. It wasn’t Kid Rock, but I was at that party

Thanks! I’ll try these out tomorrow.

Sidenote: Is there a flying toasters screensaver?

The #2 reason I’m still on a Mac is because I prefer the look of its UX. Can you recommend a good window manager/theme that replicates macOS Sequoia?

And also one that will replicate system 7 because I am an old and nostalgic man.

I’ve been in the tech/startup world since the early ‘00s and I can definitively say you best start believin’ in Silicon Valley episodes; you’re in one.

Seems to only be happening on my feed, not other stuff

Glad I’m not the only one who had a bad production deployment today.

The difference between rednecks and hillbillies is hillbillies will shoot at cars with federal plates on principle.

Same for drunk driving if you took the keys from everyone in a Ram 2500, and the overlap is significant.

I’m gonna invent an AI to watch ads for me

He lacks the drive of Blofeld and the style of Scaramanga

And a wineskin full of barley water, chilled in the stream

the speed and bandwitdth of our visual processing

That’s really it. Some things need the bandwidth of visual processing, but others are more efficient at the lower, more specific bandwidth of a CLI. Think of drawing a picture. You could do it with a CLI. Lord knows I’ve figured out how to do it to process image uploads. But unless you’re doing it over and over again it’s way easier to use a GUI to do it.

Then again, if you have to rename an arbitrary number of files to a specific convention you want the ability to automate it, and with that many bits flowing - imagine the bandwidth of a 8.29 million pixels, each with 250,000 colors - it’s really difficult to pick which bits in the stream to flip.

I’m gonna die waiting for any revolution

Arguing about Google Docs will prepare them for the corporate world

The only thing that taught me more about computers than trying to get porn is trying to pirate software.

lol 5pm

Been working till seven the last two weeks.

Granted, it’s been largely pantsless but it’s still grueling.

Even with spinning disks all that extra write traffic isn’t exactly great.

Plus scrubbing floppies takes forever

Even local files still “exist” when you delete them. Usually the filesystem just marks those blocks as reusable since overwriting the data would take a lot longer.

Moy land moy snow simple as