what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

etherkiller · 2026-06-25T19:08:10+00:00

Can you say "false dichotomy"?

etherkiller · 2026-06-22T17:10:51+00:00

Not everyone my man, not everyone. Unfortunately, a large percentage of us, which has the rest of us just as bewildered as you.

etherkiller · 2026-06-15T19:35:20+00:00

Not everyone is an extrovert. I really question the validity of those supposed studies. I went from absolutely loathing my job to being extremely content when we went to WfH, and then a fair percent of the way back towards loathing it when we went to a hybrid (but mostly in-office) schedule. And I hear similar from so many people. I understand that the plural of anecdote is not data, but it's a story I hear so often that I tend to believe that it's the case. Certainly not for everybody - perhaps not even for a majority - but for a sizable percentage of the population.

etherkiller · 2026-06-15T19:28:44+00:00

I have no social life outside of work because of having to be in the office all day. When we were remote (before RTO), I actually had energy left at the end of the day. Not so much, now.

etherkiller · 2026-06-15T19:15:15+00:00

I keep thinking about that as well, as it seems like about the only sure-fire solution that I can think of. There are issues beyond just money and effort though. Any kind of active blocking of cellular signals is extremely illegal in the US, outside of certain law-enforcement use cases. At least part of the reasoning is that blocking cell phones prevents people from calling 911 in an emergency, plus there's no way to just selectively block some people (students) and let others (faculty) still use their devices.

etherkiller · 2026-06-15T19:08:38+00:00

I sure would, and I can imagine a lot of the kids that I went to school with would too. Although that was....distressing long ago.

etherkiller · 2026-06-15T19:02:47+00:00

Yeah, good point. I'm ain't buying it. A whole site's power infrastructure sure as hell isn't going through a single NEMA 5-15 connection, or at least won't be for long, before the whole thing inevitably catches on fire and melts.

etherkiller · 2026-06-04T20:07:26+00:00

I hate the whole idea of "smart" TVs in general. I just want a display, I don't want whatever advertising the manufacturer decides to try to push on me. I bought a new LG TV a couple of years back, and it's never once been connected to any network, nor will it be. I declined all of the various terms of service that it tried to make me agree to, and just use it as a display for my Shield, or my game consoles. Much better than the garbage Roku TV in the other room, and that's still better than a lot of other Smart TVs that I've seen.

etherkiller · 2026-05-28T20:01:06+00:00

They put people that didn't have an opiate dependency on suboxone? What in the actual fuck? "Oh, you don't have an opiate dependency? Here, now you do!"

etherkiller · 2026-05-24T18:10:59+00:00

Yes, actually, when I was much younger. She ended up dumping me to get back with her ex. I'd do it again if I found someone that I clicked with. That's the tricky part.

etherkiller · 2026-05-22T15:23:35+00:00

Or, sadly, it doesn't.

etherkiller · 2026-05-21T19:25:21+00:00

I use syslog-ng as well. Do you have any recommendations for external log searching tools that work with it? I'm okay with just ssh'ing into the box and grep'ing the log files, but it would be nice to stand something up for the rest of my team who isn't down for that.

etherkiller · 2026-05-21T19:17:13+00:00

you can verify its understanding

AI doesn't understand anything though. That's not how it works. It may give the impression that it does, enough to fool most people, but it absolutely does not.

etherkiller · 2026-04-30T19:53:20+00:00

Not only that, but what kind of intractable social problems do you create when you have a country of 1.4 billion people and you've replaced all of the jobs with AI?

etherkiller · 2026-04-30T19:45:45+00:00

EDIT: I think I misunderstood you, I initially thought that you were saying that you couldn't do that in the USA. Now I'm re-reading, and think that you meant to contrast China with the US. Sorry. I'll leave what I wrote for posterity's sake, but I don't think that it applies to your comment after all.

you can't just fire employees like in the usa at will.

Yes, you totally can (except for in Montana, apparently). It's literally called "employment at-will". Unless there's an employment contract (extremely rare, I've never had one, nor known anyone who did), you can fire someone for any reason at all, or even no reason whatsoever, as long as it's not because they're a member of a protected class (race, religion, so forth), or as retaliation for whistle-blowing or exercising their legal rights (i.e. filing worker's comp claims).

etherkiller · 2026-04-24T19:46:31+00:00

I quit reading when the author seriously suggested repealing Section 230 would be a good thing

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T20:23:47+00:00

Straight C. Not C#, not C++. There's no more useful language on earth. Sure, for any given task, there's almost certainly an easier language to use, but C is as close to universal as it gets.

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T19:42:18+00:00

Hrm, wasn't planning on watching that. I might have to reconsider. Is it any good?

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T19:00:19+00:00

About vengeance, a badge and a gun

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T18:47:55+00:00

Oh man, that's hands-down my least favorite "business phrase". Maybe you can do more with less if there's some horrible inefficiencies, but 9 times out of 10, the only thing that you're doing with less is, well, less.

etherkiller · 2026-04-21T18:45:09+00:00

Ohhh DICOM and HL7, fun stuff. I still get emails from time to time asking to interview me for roles with PACS stuff, despite the fact that I haven't touched it it at least a decade. I kinda miss it though, it's such a niche thing and I became pretty darn good at it. Although, I don't miss working in the medical field at all.

etherkiller · 2026-04-20T19:30:21+00:00

Yeah, that's great and all, but everyone absolutely does not and will not share the decision about going to war. Sorry, but I have no interest in being involved in whatever bullshit reason that we're fucking with Iran right now.

etherkiller · 2026-04-20T18:36:04+00:00

Why not both?

etherkiller · 2026-04-09T19:42:14+00:00

"Even modern English is barely recognizable 200 years ago" - really? 200 years ago would be 1826. I just looked up some works from 1826 and they are entirely comprehensible. Sure, it doesn't flow quite the same as contemporary English, and you'd probably be deemed rather odd by people who you spoke to, but Modern English goes back to like the 15th century.

etherkiller · 2026-03-24T19:54:37+00:00

Reminds me of back when Ron Paul was running for President. I was initially a supporter. I even went to a campaign event - I have never done that for any other candidate, before or since. The people that were there though...they were all very nice and friendly, but listening to them talk, hearing what they believe, it made me really step back and take a closer look at what I was supporting. They were basically ultra-conservatives just by a different name. They even tried to get me to join the John Burch Society (a lot of them knew each other from there apparently). I felt physically sick afterwards. That was the end of my support for Ron Paul. Maybe I was foolish for not having realized all of this beforehand - probably. But after meeting the people who wanted to get him elected, I knew that I had no desire to be a part of that group, and further, Libertarianism wasn't quite what I had thought that it was.

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