I’m glad these devices have proved useful for people like yourself, even at the expense of your data. you take the bad with the good, as they say.

Much respect for the clever name of the company. I hope younger generations still know about Gulliver’s Travels

you know what, yes, I love this energy and I want more of it. This is how brave people should talk to management, but it’s how everyone should talk to AI hucksters.

Blank pages are for the young

I wouldn’t trust Alexa

Trusting Alexa/Amazon is insane. It wasn’t insane X years ago (your value of X will vary), but it definitely is insane now

the article MAY be dubious in origin, but nobody can honestly say that Twitter bots driven by AI aren’t out there

For instance, your punctuation is delightful.

HP’s laptops are complete and utter trash

a) yes b) perhaps that also describes their management

Work anywhere in the country

can you remote while out of the country?

we should fucking hope. Might catch on

a) Thank you :) That’s super nice to see, first thing in the morning.
b) Please tell your friends
c) Which ones do you like best?

well bud, I must admit that does sound a bit rough. I wish you well in your recovery.

we’re called The Three Leonards. We do covers of pop songs in a pastiche of mid-1980’s Leonard Cohen, and yes it’s pretty different than music other people make today. Folks seem to like our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain quite a bit.

And yeah, we friggin’ earned that beer.

oh jesus, GOOD beer.
how anyone can drink sub-par beer is fucking beyond me. Drinking that stuff is just self-disrespect. I mean, I get it, but, just, no.

even if 10^20 was almost 10^21 (which is isn’t) 2.39 is not almost 5.8. It’s less than half!

Why do we listen to people who do not know what the fuck they are talking about? Have we lost our ability to know who is, and is not, completely full of shit?

I’d buy you out but all I have is my 20 bucks from streaming music revenue and I’m going to spend that on beer.

You’re allowed to modify software you own

Companies have convinced people that exerting control over things they have purchased is still illegal if the company could make even more money from them. This attitude is a cancer on society.

This article is one of the most down-to-earth, realistic observations on technology I’ve ever read. Utterly striking as well.

Go Read This Article.

yeah, you know what?.. no. This is the kind of attitude that got us here to begin with. Yes, processers get faster, and yes size gets more available. But that shouldn’t be an excuse for poorly-written code.
An empty Microsoft Word document is larger than the first word processing program I ever used. That is just crazy when you think about it. but “oh people have lots of resources they’re not even using so it doesn’t matter”, right? When companies have this attitude of “oh the resources are there I may as well use all of them for myself” then their code runs like garbage and you need a faster computer just to make it work halfways decently. And because of this we all end up on this goddamned technology treadmill where we have to keep buying bigger and faster and more expensive computers to do the same thing the old computers did just because the programs written for it are too bloated and the people writing the code couldn’t be arsed to make it work well. It wastes our time and our money. I reject that. I think others should too.

On another forum, I was complaining about how Microsoft was planning to remove WordPad from Win11. I was advised that installing OpenOffice or LibreOffice was an appropriate replacement. I replied that WordPad was only 3 megs large, as opposed to the recommended replacements, which are decidedly larger.

I guess not everybody appreciates tight code, but I surely do. Things like this are amazingly impressive.