It is odd seeing someone do political self immolation for no reason at all. I’m starting to think Haley isn’t the brightest bulb in the pack.

Spot on! Youth should power and drive the future, the elders should avoid the pitfalls they made themselves.

I love helmets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9yL5usLFgY

Hmmm… yes, I will listen and act on this unquestioningly.

That’s cool, different tastes for different folk.

It was a few years back there is the group King Gizzard, the sub-reddit started to have a lot of tier lists for their albums because they had a decent back log by then and they spanned a wide range of genres. It was fascinating seeing how wildly different people ranked these albums. Some that many considered a classic would hit the D tier list on others. Very cool to see.

Some see Pink Floyd as S-tier, other could barely muster a D-tier. Just how it goes.

I will make a broader statement with the addictions. Try to minimize dependence in all its forms. Not just chemical, but social, physical and economical. Easy to say, difficult to do but it is worth it.

Something I find fascinating about a lot of 80’s tracks is how tastefully subdued they are. Like they could have gone far harder but knew to keep it restrained in just the right way.

One that always comes to mind is ‘Slave to the Rhythm’ by Grace Jones. I masterclass in playing it cool.

I will forever associate crunk with like 2 minute appearance of ‘The Crunk Clown’ on the show Flavor of Love.

Ouch my old bones! But nah aging is kind of weird and fun. Feel like I’m 20 but the mirror gives away the show. Occasionally, you catch a reflection in a shop window and I just see my father.

Age has nothing to do with it, they are cooked from the early years and then they age.

It used to be thought that age was a virtue. The Senate originates from the latin Senatus ‘Assembly of the Senior’. This was because the elders were considered wise, not so sure about it nowadays.

That said, now is the time to become the elders you never had.

RFK appears to be holding in his entire family’s rage. Might just explode while giving a talk one day.

The Phile-pile.

Back in the early days of WWW, there was a great site called File-pile. It ended up closing down because it was basically just a thousand assorted FTP’s compiled together than the link rot was pretty bad towards the end.

A situations like this makes me use a form of Malapropism one would expect of a Dickensian society to bring about almost Orwellian situation. Makes you wonder when someone will use Chekhov’s Gun before it all gets Bowdlerized. Alas this Machiavellian paragraph is reminiscent of a Lovecraftian creature.

But seriously, that paragraph above reads like the scene in Blackadder when they meet the writer of the Dictionary.

The temporarily embarrassed millionaires will never have that dream fulfilled but they can finally become bed ridden masters of chips. What a waste.

Pretty much. When I was 13 I was running a 486 33Mhz with 4MB of RAM. So compared with that thing, this laptop has 1000x the RAM.

Only works if local models cannot do it.

Couldn’t they find a picture of earth? I mean the Deep Space Climate Observatory takes a photo of a single side of the planet every hour or so.

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

My daily runner is a Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM. I have a bigger rig for fun and profit but that is just the side gig compared with this thing.

I have softened very VERY slightly on AI code. If it can identify genuine issues than that is fine. It is when folks just trust it blindly and just send 50 commits without understanding a thing or even remotely testing it, that is just crazy. But then on the flip side, yeah all the other issues probably aren’t worth it.

It is complicated at times but then things like this always are. The most successful evil always has some claim to virtue.

Alas, occasionally you have to walk with the devil to achieve some good. One just has to weigh up if it is worth it.

I once asked Stallman about how he used to build and run GNU tools before having the Linux kernel. He was using a proprietary Minix system as a means to get work done until there was a better alternative. I mean running a proprietary system is one thing, burning through the amazon with 100 quintillion tokens is very different.

It is like home cooking, once you have done it and get good at it, why would you do it any other way? Go straight to the source.