Fractal cases are amazing. I have purchased several Define and Meshify models over the years and I’m always very pleased with them. The Define cases in particular are very quiet and easy to cool. Build quality is always stellar.

For ML you definitely want Nvidia from all that I’ve read. For literally everything else on linux you probably want AMD because it just works. I just built a brand new AMD CPU/GPU PC a few months ago with the 7800X3D and 7900XTX, and I’m very pleased with the gaming performance. But AMD just isn’t there yet with AI / ML.

Well, duh. I’ve seen movies, they write with paint brushes, why would they need pens?

Yes, I beat the game with Dogmeat in my party the whole time in one of my playthroughs (not the first one).

So. much. reloading.

My man!

I’m sure it will mix well with the depleted uranium smoke the targeted crew will already be breathing.

Ok but there’s ‘high’ and then there’s ‘low earth orbit’.

Good on ya mate. I retired, at least temporarily, from almost 30 years in IT today. I may do some part time consulting to pay for vacations in the future, but my FT days are over. I hope you enjoy being away from it as much as I will.

“We’ve always done it that way” is not a great reason to keep doing something wrong, though.

If it doesn’t breathe, eat, talk, and feel, it’s not a person. Calling it one doesn’t make it true.

To be clear this isn’t aimed at you, I’m pretty sure you’re not 200 years old and didn’t come up with the original idea.

It blows my fucking mind.

It’s like you’re asking people to go hungry or something. It’s fucking twitter. JUST STOP USING IT.

Every time I read this my absolute favorite part is how in all the monetary transactions described, nobody ever pays for anything with bitcoin.

I go with Nazis. Pretty accurate on their worldview, and less letters to type.

Just canceled my subscription and let them know in the comments it was because of this.

wazoo = anus

After 3 decades in IT let me share some wisdom.

What you describe is not ok, and it’s just letting the company walk all over you because it sounds like nobody had the experience to push back. There should be a senior guy somewhere in that team going “yo this is bullshit, we’re not doing this” and making the company define the criteria so you can say yes or no. Otherwise you just don’t comply, and everyone on the team has to be onboard with that. Gotta have boundaries in this career or they will literally own you and all your free time, and if shit hits the fan, they will scapegoat you in a heartbeat.

They need you more than you need them. Never forget that. There are lots, and lots, and lots of unfilled IT jobs out there.

I’d guess it’s because they aren’t saying “all motorcyclists have a 1 in 722 chance of dying riding a motorcycle” they are saying “1 in 722 Americans will die in a motorcycle crash” while completely disregarding that only (making this number up) 80 of those 722 ever even rode motorcycles in the first place.

In other words, pedestrian deaths simply outnumber fatal motorcycle accidents because there are a lot more pedestrians than motorcyclists.

We’ve known about the “make it so ugly nobody wants to steal it” technique for several decades.

A company I used to work for is big enough that everyone reading this has heard of it. They had this wonderful security nightmare going on:

When you were hired, the company would issue your user credential with a standard password that was “CompanyName1” and require you to immediately change it at first logon. Everyone knew this password because everyone got it when they were hired.

Password policy required everyone to reset their password every 60 days. Not the worst ever but still pretty aggressive. And with the rise of all the mobile devices connecting with your corp account it was getting to be a worse and worse experience.

Can you guess yet how these two policies are linked in my story?

Well, some of the C-Suite executives didn’t have time for any of these security shenanigans. So they would have their executive support person log into an administrative console and reset the exec’s password every 59 days to the same value that it currently had, thereby bypassing the password re-use filter.

That value they were continuously setting was… “CompanyName1”

I know of at least two executives that were doing this while I worked there.

Apparently this is a real term.

https://www.northcountrygazette.org/2025/01/05/deer_jacker/

I have a Xanax script and I use it as prescribed (for sleep). I don’t like the way it makes me feel if I have to be awake, so abuse is not a temptation.

It doesn’t have a lot of recoil at all which is why that guy still has a face. What it does do is make every square mm of exposed skin sting like a mofo the instant you fire it. It’s like getting slapped hard across your entire body at once. So yeah, go with the long sleeves on anti-tank rocket launcher day.

And make sure you check your backblast area or else you’re gonna kill or at least severely burn one of your own guys when you fire it.