It’s a good way to save money on organization and managing, because you just throw mutating swarms of people at a problem and whatever bullshit they hack together is fine because who cares, nobody watches 80% of the shit on Netflix anyway and the stock is basically a futures contract.

A hero in the sense he survived things that many others did not, but honestly all I can think of is all of the people killed by guns that proliferated thanks to the NRA-sponsored legislation he drove (and was well-compensated by them for) and how none of those people got to write tear-jerker final words or get a…

Leave cousin Oliver alone!!!!

I’ve never found a worthy successor to Picasa at the same intersection of “useful” and “usable”. It’s still running for me, too, even though there are no more updates the last stable version works fine.

With these new tools that do the same thing you have to look at publisher and CERT and a bunch of other due diligence…

Why no Kowalski Challenger?

I mean, if you’re going to make cars for movies, make them for good movies.

The Vanishing Point Challenger, which is what half the people who buy white R/Ts are looking for anyway. 440 6-pack, leather vest and an insignia on the dash with two bulldozers, plus a Sirius XM channel that only…

+1 for UltraEdit. You can do 85% of it with Notepad++ if you’re willing to juggle plugins, but even with UE’s goofy licensing and larcenous pricing, for cross-platform consistency, quality, scalability (will open and edit multi-GB files without issue if you turn temp files off) and binary editing when that becomes a…

I’m glad to hear someone else say this - I am still rocking an original Surface Pro as a backup personal PC. I can and do run Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XAMPP and Libre Office on it (not all at the same time). It will also run a few Steam games and make a decent effort at GIMP.

It’s great for traveling or just going…

A great season end.

Agreed. Her comments, and those like them from all races (whether or not they’re ironically intended), encourage the idea of “other”, which feeds the tribalism that’s behind so much of the crap we have to wade through now.

Words mean stuff and things and we’re an imitative species. Don’t say things you don’t want…

I hope Allie is doing OK, wherever she is. That strip was the work of a genius.

Yeah, but “treason” is a fungible definition.

Today’s Trump joke could very well be tomorrow’s treason.

Lossy consciousness - as an individual, getting just enough comprehension to get through the next minute, next hour, next class, etc and remembering what you did - the action you chose, even if you chose to not act - way, way better than why you did it,

Until you consider the alternatives.

It’s a way to categorize and label someone as something so we can 1) get on with our day and 2) avoid facing up to the truly terrifying arbitrariness of life.

I saw written once that we’re not rational beings so much as rationalizing beings - we don’t need a solution, just an explanation, and pointing at X and Y being…

I don’t know. Maybe it’s just seeing through the illusion of choice and action as being the only, or even the majority, reason why you succeed or fail. Respect effort over outcomes. Something like that.

And make deliberate choices, and stop obsessing about all of the ones you didn’t make, and see through the American cultural lie other people’s “choices” was the only thing that got them where they were.

That about says it.

Yeah, I think you’re right - I’m just going all Occupy Wall Street on the success literature this usually comes sheathed in.

I think you’re being facetious and appreciate the Vonnegut quote, but I think the answer is: Because I and the rest of the 99% didn’t win the circumstance lottery?

How many kids looking out a dirty window in Appalachia would be more capable businessmen than Warren Buffett, better programmers than Steve Wozniak, more…

That’s a good point - I guess I’ve just seen 1 too many clickbait articles decorated with a picture of some cackling bald f*ck giving that 1 big tip for success and it’s usually along the lines of “go for it!”.

Also, and too much about me but hey, it’s the Internet, there’s a scene in “They Live” where a human is…

I find this advice trite and repeated from billionaires who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Regretting your inactions is BS - the jails, hospitals and graveyards are filled with people who regret their actions.

And in the quantum universe, every action has an infinity of inactions associated with…