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  • So many comments about the power settings thing, but this isn’t about working effectively and efficiently.

    You can take AI out of this article and it would be just as sad, but it wouldn’t get the clicks.

    This article is either helping push, or documenting the push, that if YOU are a higher tier of worker bee that wants to prove your superior worth to your bound legal entity, AND you want to virtue signal having your head on straight to all the lazy selfish people around you actually being present in the moment, then YOU need ShinyTechBroProduct!

    Ohhh all the cool parents are into ShinyTechBroProduct! All the other lame asses who PaId AtTeNtiOn To tHeiR KiDs aren’t going to be the next Elon Jobs now are they!


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    Yeah, I don’t do web stuff, but I use the browser every day for all the microsoft stuff my employer uses and it’s 99% LibreWolf and then 1% switching to Firefox ESR that cane preinstalled on debian.

    If something didn’t work at that point, I’d probably fire up my Windows VM I use for testing before I’d install even chromium. I’ve installed it before but there’s just no need now.



  • No complaints about the comic here, but if I/we may go off on a tangent about the subject matter:

    To what extent is “destroy the patriarchy” a red herring to get people angry at “men” rather than “sociopathic billionaires of all genders?”

    Sexism is still a thing, of course, just like racism and all kinds of other awful shit. But those awful parts of our nature are often stoked by those in control to keep the attention off of them. “No war but class war,” as the Lemmings say.

    In my little corner of the world, when I see memes about crushing/destroying the patriarchy, it’s usually in the social context of a sticker on suburban moms’ Stanley cups, or t-shirts, or even occasionally SUVs. They (mostly) hate Trump, sure, but they have no problem with J. K. Rowling or Kamala Harris.









  • I’m convinced that much of, if not most of, society sees technology in our personal lives as a way to (ideally) not have to learn anything or put in one bit of extra effort.

    I’ve been getting my hands dirty and doing more things myself over the past few years, and ya know sometimes the journey is more impactful on you as a person than the destination is. Learning things and interacting with the world around you is good.


  • I’d argue that the rate of decay per atom is actually random, except that the probability per unit time is scaled according to how long the half life is.

    You need a shitton of atoms so that you can average out all that randomness and find the emergent property that is half life.

    Fortunately, any amount of radioactive material large enough for us to do anything with it does indeed have a shitton of atoms! Avogadro’s number is one of my favorite scientific constants because it reveals the crazy scale of the atoms we take for granted.

    Like with U238 and its 4 billion year half life, one mole of just that atom would weigh 238 grams and have 6.022x10^23 atoms. A half-pound or quarter-kilo chunk of very heavy metal that fits in the palm of your hand contains over 602,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

    Some of those atoms are going to decay today, and some of them will still be radioactive in 100 billion years.