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Dotcom (the internet) was not a wet fart. Its probably the single greatest human innovation ever, so far. AI is also not a wet fart. The rise, fall, fallout and eventual takeover will likely be very similar. If not exactly the same.

So the guy who's complaining about adding steps and "complicating" the process is also complaining about removing an unnecessary step Make up your mind. Also, thanks for agreeing on the reverse sear?

Does dry brining make a difference? I don't know... why don't you just take the 10 seconds to salt a steak and then stick it in the fridge before you go to work tomorrow morning. Then cook the steak the exact same way you otherwise would have that night. 29 steps? Fancy? What are you guys...

AI is absolutely, 100% not going to work out the way its being bet on. It's a race, and most races have a lot of losers. It's definitely, unequivocally, and without a doubt a bubble waiting to burst.

It's 2010. I have a simple application that is business critical but doesn't see much traffic or load. I deploy it to a VM. I would like high availability so I also deploy it to another, passive VM and take advantage of clustering. In the year 2010 we call this redundancy and refer to the...

Found the dumbass who can't properly cook a steak. "Cook it on high heat to medium rare". Why dont we just change your name to BrutulGreyBand.

Hes alluded to 16 being a shitshow as well (i think? I read these books so fast I gloss over some otherwise important details)

I think he's already foreshadowed a lot of that. Particularly Sheol (15) and 17. And probably 18 as well.

The S&P has returned like 14% on average over the last 12 years or so? Why would people concern themselves with beating that?

There is no magic. The purpose of virtualization was to decouple software from hardware, thus making the software durable and easy to migrate. Physical vs logical as you kind of touched on. Yet still to this day we have companies deploying entire code bases to multiple regions AND disaster...

I want you to read your post, the one that I quoted, from the standpoint of "words have meaning". And then contemplate how contradictory the entire thing is. Its magical how brainwashed people become in the tech space with buzzwords. The best possible example of this is virtualization, what it...

The more I think about it, the weaker the 10th floor was as part of the whole story. Especially the dynamic between the Crawlers and particularly Osvaldo. A lot of it seemed like an afterthought. The 11th floor and its revelations really saved the book imo.

I had a neighbor once who was pretty quiet and meek but had weird fantasies about "showing people who's boss" on internet message boards. Poor guy seemed pretty lonely. Wonder what happened to him.

I see you too are a man of distinguished taste

I never pat a steak with anything, ever. I salt it immediately and let it dry brine for at least 6 hours until the moisture gets drawn back in OR, if I want the steak sooner than that, I season it, bake it in a 200 degree oven until it hits 125, then sear it off.

This might get a good sear but the steak won't be as good. Either give it enough time to properly dry brine (i.e. the moisture naturally gets drawn back in, away from the surface) or reverse sear it. Never pat dry a steak.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is people use AI in the wrong way to try and simplify their lives. It's like AI makes them forget how anything and everything works. So using that example, prompting AI to do this type of thing can be efficient and a time saver. However people prompt and...

How many times can one contradict themselves in one paragraph? This isn't even really your fault. I blame the nebulous, dubious language that has steered technology "paradigms" over the last 30 years. "It's not wifi! It's mesh! It's totally different!"

"It's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission" It's an age old adage for a reason.

Meanwhile, since ~2004 you could just set a reminder yourself on your cell phone in about 10 seconds total. The things people waste electricity and compute on with AI is a thing of beauty.

Claude is super smart with stonks. Figure you guys might get a kick out of this.

Best book? Eh, who knows? The last ~100 or so pages were pretty epic though.

PoB has most of that info but nobody is really doing any training on this stuff so its pretty bad.

This show is great, and is also a major disappointment (for me) The first episode was exactly my kind of humor, and it was hilarious and had hints of horror. It seemed like this was going to be a comedy horror. But it's not. The humor is basically almost entirely gone, and the show is really...

I didn't chime in on your previous scenario because my assumption was simply that those men were having typical middle aged commitment issues. Which is a different kind of childish. I understand what you are saying but I was responding to what, apparently, was a rhetorical bait question from...

Because she's dragging other people into her miserable little world and then making idiotic excuses for what are essentially childish temper tantrums at 75 goddamn years old. You think the 60+ years old man she rug pulled like that is happy she wasted several of his still good twilight years...

I thought I read pretty fast but you guys are smoking this book. I'm only on page ~350

This is the most enticing part of it. I can honestly say I'd do a job I found interesting and satisfying for like $60k/yr and not even blink despite it being a fairly low salary (at least where I currently live).

There is typically A LOT of variance in how these things can/are installed depending on codes, the building itself, etc. It's one of those things where like 95% of the time its probably no trouble at all. But that 5%... I might be overthinking it but that's my middle aged man brain at work.

It's such an enticing notion. I never really watched YouTube until I had so much free time on my hands and now I find myself watching a TON of DIY channels. The biggest issue for me with a career change like this is... I'm 43 now and I don't think I want to START contorting my body in tight...

I think he means invest on our own without needing to go through a broker/financial adviser. Though E-Trade is a lot older than I thought it was, launched in 1992.

They aren't using availability groups?

Well that looks terrible.

Redundancy between data centers is a backup, very literally... did you mean to phrase this another way?

Congratulating and encouraging people to take it for diabetes but admonishing people for taking it for weight loss is some next level mental gymnastics (referring to the overall dialogue involving Ozempic, not the post above mine). I love weight loss discussions. People can never help becoming...

Fuckin Paul Rudd man. Guy looks like he's only aged about 5 years since Wet Hot American Summer.

This is true, but how many of those medications are being taken by as many people as these GLP-1s? These things are being taken by probably more people than any precription medication ever, so known side effects should get hammered out "somewhat" quickly. Claude says this: Ever used (lifetime)...

This was it, pretty sure he actually was (is?) a GGG employee:

Ozempic has been FDA approved since 2017 FWIW. I know it seems like a new drug because its newer part of the cultural zeitgeist but its been around and in use by diabetics for a while.

IT hiring probably has been going up. Just not for Americans.