It bothers me that finance people think they’re smarter than everyone when all their jargon bullshit boils down to SQL statements any senior DB person would understand. // SQL seniors can understand anything in finance. Senior finance people would be baffled from chapter 1 of anything serious in CS.

Fridges are really easy to repair [...] you could probably jury rig control board from esp32 and weekend of coding

Over the years I've dated a few Venezuelan women and

It's very non-obvious to me that school computers need an Internet connection at all.

Hot chicks aren't inherently dumb

I would find it hard to side with Jesus Christ himself if he decided to start teaching via Discord server.

"The extreme increase in efficiency/total flights combined with privatization means that every tom dick and harry is now flying/being a shitty tourist. I would nationalize all airline industries and I would have done it yesterday primarily because tom and dick should not be flying!"

We should have already made super-seeds that you can plant in concrete and grow all the tomatoes you'll need in a month with a single LED. [...] We just need a lot of bio nerds (and a few billion $) to develop it.

Apparently, everything popular is wrong.

Literary fiction never actually existed; it’s an artificial construct. I’d really love some professors to analyze a furry solarpunk story I wrote and dig through the symbolism like Virginia Woolf wrote it.

I never crashed once while drunk driving. FSD is way more unreliable than an average drunk driver.

The problem is you go to an independent bookstore do they have lots of Isaac Asimov? Nope. They just have some very niche books, some virtue signaling books and the top best sellers and lack any sort of deep collection of classics.

"I'd say porn makes people miserable not happy/ fulfilled. I've watched a lot of porn in my life, even had access to the best porn tracker in the world where I could find almost anything I wanted and trust me it did not fulfill me."

I do not appreciate it from my wife trying to figure out what I want to say in the middle of my senntence and interrupts before I finish what I am saying, imagine how much I tolerate it from a f computer!

[Requiring bots to disclose that they are bots] is a terrible suggestion because it ignores the fact that these bots are helping humans do human tasks, and allows for discrimination against useful tools.

It’s a shame they are using that far left platform and missing a massive audience on X. It will definitely slow the reach and spread of important scientific discoveries.

Unbelievable how anti-pg hn has gotten.

I wish people would stop dumping their entire life’s energy into chasing [being an Olympic athlete] —-do something more useful like stamping parts out in a factory.

Insurance company killed your mother? "I wonder if there is a niche to ameliorate this sort of thing by offering payday loans on insurance payouts."

It's too bad: they really should give prisoners like this computers with some limited access so they can work on coding projects. What else are they going to do with their time, after all?

My takeaway from this is that what would have saved this man is a proper liberal arts degree.

About 20 years ago, I suggested in comp.language.c++ on USENET that the committee's refusal to take memory safety seriously constituted material support of terrorism.

What if the blacks and women are actually not as good at their jobs?

If I built a binary Linux distro, you know damn well ZFS will be in the kernel, it will be hosted on only .onion and .i2p, and all Linux Foundation and Oracle Corp C&D emails will be published with sensibly witty lampooning comments.

At some point the correct solution is for engineers to collectively agree to refuse to model government-prescribed deviations from convention.