DickCaramel

I was one of several people hired to a team that dangled a single promotion in front of us. I had enough self awareness to know I wasn’t in the race but man this one guy did so much brown nosing it was actually embarrassing and ultimately he lost out on it. He totally crashed and disengaged. Painful to watch. You’re right about the rewards: one person got rewarded and the rest of us are taking inflation paycuts every year because there are no raises or bonuses.

I’d drink one if it meant a lawsuit big enough to never work again.

As a middle-aged bald, I needed this.

No it is not their main money generator. Their personal computing segment of the company which includes Windows, Xbox, Bing and surface is less than 15B in revenue compared with 100B for Azure. So windows is literally a single digit percentage of their revenue.

Right now I’m just using it for an AirGradient dashboard, which is an open hardware / open software air quality monitor. I used claude to rewrite the firmware to send the data to prometheus instead if their own servers, and countless other frustrating changes because they make the whole operation dependent on a connection to their servers…anyway, I didn’t want to pay a subscription for something so simple. I’ve thought about using it for some other projects, but for a lot of stuff I just don’t see the need for a dedicated dash.

Dan Carlin did a mini episode of Hardcore History about torture and execution and the first like 20 minutes is him talking about the morality and psychology of consuming it as entertainment and hypothosizing how that could come to be in modern times. Aaannd we’re here.

Here’s a study that claims night owls are “cognitively superior” and that whatever chronotype you are, you must organize your life around that.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/study-finds-night-owls-have-superior-cognitive-function-compared-to-early-risers

Here is a study that claims you are not beholden to whatever chronotype you think you are, and can retrain yourself.

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news-archive/2019/night-owls-can-retrain-their-body-clocks-to-improve-mental-well-being-and-performance

And here’s a study that suggests there are actually 6 chronotypes.

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-say-there-are-6-human-chronotypes-not-just-morning-people-and-night-owls

brb, i need to decide if I am a moderately active chronotype or a daytime sleepy chronotype and what effect that will have on my chances of requiring a disability pension or developing diabetes.

Primetime, about the To Catch a Predator show [music] from the 00s. I don’t think it’s out yet

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• Fleet: 4–5 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Learning & experimenting, Cost savings

So I guess they managed to hack deeper than the employment records afterall. You can absolutely never trust the first reporting on breaches.

Can I take the over on diarrhea epidemics on Kalshi? This country went from Hope and Change to resembling a Paul Verhoeven movie so fast I have whiplash.

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”