I hate biking and don’t want to bike anywhere or interact with anyone while doing it.
I like my car.
Day: October 9, 2024, 12:59 PM
Data Loss
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever ever believe any end user or any manager about data not needing to be backed up, or having already been backed up, or anything an end user says about any data.
Always do a backup. Always. Even if your manager says not to. Even if it is against company policy (just don’t get caught). Because like as not, your own manager will throw you under the bus as at fault when some exec goes haywire over missing data. I think every IT person in the world has learned this the hard way. I certainly did.
End users lie and are clueless. Managers are unreliable. Image that fucking drive before anything else. These days it only takes 10-15 minutes and could save your job.
Habitation
By the way, we are happy with our new (to us) house and would be happy even if it halved in “value.”
We bought it to live in, not as an investment vehicle. We only pulled the trigger on buying when we knew we could afford the house to be worth $0 and we’d be financially ok. We are lucky to have that privilege. Lucky, and worked hard too. And I have zero guilt about exercising that privilege and reaping the rewards of my luck and my work.
Geo
I bet he can actually read. Of course, I am biased by my own experiences.
I was accused of memorizing books when I could definitely read very young, between 3-4 years old. I remember being angry about that. (One of my earliest memories is being incensed at adults underestimating me.) I could read fine. To prove I could actually read, I picked up one of my grandfather’s electrical engineering books and started reading it aloud. There were some words I didn’t yet know, but I had no problem with most of it.
That shut ’em up. For a little while, anyway.
Shani
Good. Wish I could’ve pulled the trigger myself. I have no compunction nor remorse for taking out trash. That would have zero weight on my conscience because I would’ve done the world a service. I’d never torture anyone, as they tortured Shani. It’s pointless. It’s counterproductive. But some people just deserve two bullets in the head and one in the heart.
Because these sort of things should be seen, and because her family wanted this anti-civilized horror to be witnessed to shame the world, here is Shani’s body with the (mostly) now-dead savages (it’s not clear Shani is dead yet in this photo or not but I hope she was1):
But let’s not remember her like that only.
What happened to Shani is what you support when you back Hamas, you useful idiots.
Grinding
Russia loses the number of KIAs every 2-3 days that the US lost in Afghanistan during the entire 20 years we were there. That is, around 2,500 people.
Pure insanity.
An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem.
Is the attack helicopter dead?
Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes. Hate those fucking things.
How private intelligence companies became the new spymasters.
Chinese Laser Anti-Drone System Spotted In Iran.
Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger of the future.
Baby boomers living longer but are in worse health than previous generations.
Needles in Haystacks: The Lostwave Story.
The Beijing-Moscow Axis Is Much Stronger This Time Around.
AI-Generated Code is Causing Outages and Security Issues in Businesses. The least shocking thing in world history.
China is oversupplying lithium to eliminate rivals, US official says.
MI5 spy chief says Russia and Iran are behind a ‘staggering’ rise in deadly plots.