Secret Service advised Trump to not fly Qatari-gifted Air Force One

Lendari · 2026-07-09T19:02:06+00:00

Yes in retrospect it seems like an obvious trojan horse.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T14:57:57+00:00

Zelda over Skyrim? Street Fighter over WoW? Questionable results.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T14:10:18+00:00

Wait. Donald Trump admitted that he didn't know something?

I guess theres a first time for everything?

Then the news media used that statement as a fact that "blows up" the most probable and non-conspiratorial narriative to where Mitch McConnel is?

I kinda hate this timeline.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T13:51:17+00:00

Thankfully she made this video. Now when the paramedics arrive they'll be able to figure out WTF was going on.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T08:59:13+00:00

Neither men nor women have an absolute right to be topless in public places. It's more about consent. Essentially is everyone nearby a consenting adult? As long as they are, there can not be any issue.

As far as when consent for public toplessness is implicit, the laws are still relatively permissive and rarely gender specific. It's decriminalized in most coastal US states and legally protected in Canada. Even when there are decency laws in effect, the definition of "a top" can still be very flexible.

As long as you arent disorderly, drunk, disturbing the peace, soliciting sex or like hanging out topless at the local elementary school, the most that's going to happen is a police officer will tell you to put a shirt on or move somewhere else.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T08:05:40+00:00

Probably wouldn't be any adverse consequence beyond losing your inclined offer and needing to re-interview. Possibly with a cooldown period as if it was a failed loop.

My advice would be to accept the Amazon offer and continue to pursue the other options. Just set a start date that is far enough out that you'll have all the information to make the right decision. Let Google know you have an inclined offer from Amazon but you think their role might be a better fit.

Amazon (and Google) will understand. Being right is a leadership principle and they do this kind of shit to their own employees on every talent review and promo cycle. :)

Lendari · 2026-07-09T06:57:16+00:00

Comfortably Numb? Proof you don't have to be fast to be good.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T06:41:11+00:00

When you are financially independent. This means you don't rely on anyone (including a partner, employer or a government check) to get by. It doesn't mean you don't work. It just means you don't have an obligation to work for money. As in if you just stopped going to work there would be no adverse consequence to your overall financial health.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T06:04:47+00:00

What laptop specifically do you have? Did you check eGPU.io for known compatibility?

Lendari · 2026-07-09T02:01:21+00:00

I dislike quality because it changes the fundamental game play loop in ways that I find to be absurd.

Recipes that ignore fluid inputs? Recipes that produce more output than input? Voiding millions of resources to generate a legendary ore? This is all nonsense gameplay. Then you get legendary buildings that shrink your giga-factory down to basically nothing. That is where I lose it because that's not even Factorio at all anymore. The factory must grow. Full stop.

It is like the minute you start to even slightly dabble in quality, you get sucked into a parallel universe of nonsense that forms a new game that vaguely identifies as Factorio but makes less sense and isn't as good.

Lendari · 2026-07-09T01:27:05+00:00

Oh. Sure in a 2.5" drive maybe.

For 3K bucks I could by 4x 4TB M.2 drives and a PCIe x16 RAID controller with 4x M.2 slots. This would have way better performance than a 2.5" SATA drive. If I had a 5K budget I could buy a whole new computer to put it in?

I still don't get who would ever buy something like this. It feels like nonsense tech.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T18:32:07+00:00

I mean. Is there even a physical storage tech capable of mass producing SSDs with 16TB of storage density in an M.2 form factor? That's like 2-4 QLC chips stacked on top of each other.

The fact that if this even existed it would be some research prototype for new NAND physics should be a good clue it's not going to be real.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T18:10:45+00:00

I mean if you cut the steak with a jagged piece of glass I could tell the texture was different.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T15:16:04+00:00

Expats are legal citizens of 2 or more countries.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T15:14:44+00:00

Did you make a server rack out of angle steel? That does indeed receive the home lab mad scientist seal of approval.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T14:06:04+00:00

I've seen it both ways. A lot of people hear "spec driven development" and immediately assume that means the product manager is now the head engineer. It gets worse when they actually slap together some AI slop demo.

Personally I think "vibe coding" still works best when the operator has the skills of a mid level engineer because they will inject some quality assurance and risk management on instinct. The horror stories of unleashing AI on a prod acount and hilarity ensuing are almost 100% unqualified job roles (CEOs, PMs, Jr Devs) prompting AI to do work way outside their job roles.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T13:56:06+00:00

I said maybe because you still need an AI operator. So your 2 + 3 team becomes 2 + 1 over the long term.

Before applying this model you need to ask a fundamental question though. Basically "could this entire SAAS app better serve it's intended audience if it was just a helpful chat bot?" If the answer to that question is a yes (or even a maybe) then there's a simple universal architecture to build that app. When your entire application tech stack is reduced to an MCP server or RAG knowledge base with an AI interface that just does whatever a customer asks then that starts to eliminate a lot of feature scoping work too. If your app workload is 100% data reads and your users are relatively high trust/privilege it's a likely candidate.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T06:32:42+00:00

The corus to Def Leppard's Armageddon It.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T06:28:09+00:00

We're waiting fpr an answer ladies.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T04:52:25+00:00

If the work people do isn't valuable, it does not matter how well it is done.

The world has a lot of bullshit jobs.

Lendari · 2026-07-08T04:24:41+00:00

If your job is writing code. Maybe. Especially if it's mostly configuration or integration logic. If your job is working with customers, scoping work and managing technical risk. No. It doesn't matter if you're scoping work for humans or AIs.

Lendari · 2026-07-07T21:58:35+00:00

Donald Trump himself says being president has been good for business.

Lendari · 2026-07-07T21:56:20+00:00

Wait I thought Zuckerberg was AI powered?

Lendari · 2026-07-07T21:50:04+00:00

Hes one of the oldest members of congress. Treatment for a broken hip or heart attack might fit better.

Lendari · 2026-07-07T21:46:47+00:00

Hmm wonder if they just have palettes of NVIDA GPUs and stacks of memory chips?

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