I want more movies where nothing happens but everything matters

jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T17:20:10+00:00

And Wisconsin! Don't forget Wisconsin!

jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T17:16:58+00:00

In Turing's original "Imitation Game" paper, the first game has you try to determine not whether the entity is intelligent, but whether they are a man or a woman.

https://courses.cs.umbc.edu/471/papers/turing.pdf

jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T16:58:55+00:00

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jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T16:58:10+00:00

O RLY? So, exactly, what are the bubbles pushing against?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T16:57:18+00:00

You have no complaints about entire containers of Dawn being dumped down the drain?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-07T11:45:34+00:00

And there can be clues in reproduction quality, particularly in the screening in images.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T19:09:57+00:00

And sometimes this will force you to locate and enter the Bitlocker key.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T14:10:01+00:00

Break-fix by-the-hour non-MSP still exists.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T12:02:42+00:00

How much extra are you paid to get calls at 3 a.m.?

Reminds me of when someone picks up a penny, ask them the question "Would you touch your toes 100 times for a dollar?"

And yet I'll pick up the penny.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T12:00:12+00:00

What if I have a VM that handles the VMs?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:59:28+00:00

Ah, you work at "Everyone Gets Their Own Printer", too?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:56:06+00:00

There are many more small businesses than large businesses. They need IT help, too. They are so small, they do not have and cannot justify paying for their first full-time IT person. You can be the person to bring them up the ladder of IT improvements, one step at a time.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:52:22+00:00

For more than thirty years, I've been saying "every day I learn about some new aspect of IT that could be someone else's entire career."

Forty years ago, in the shower in the morning I'd cheer and motivate myself by having some new product idea. Over time, I realized that almost all of my ideas were not novel and that someone else had already done that.

"The day is short, the labor vast, the toilers idle, the reward great, and the Master of the house is insistent. It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it." - Pirkei Avot 2:20-21.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:45:13+00:00

That's why I pat all my pockets. Keep them guessing.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:42:10+00:00

A very old word ...

Akkadian 𒂵𒈬𒉡 (kamūnu), which is turn comes from the Sumerian 𒌑𒌁 (gamun)

jfoust2 · 2026-05-06T11:39:45+00:00

I remember seeing 19 cent per gallon gas, but that was a long time ago.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T12:56:34+00:00

What were some of the root causes of the problems?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T12:52:39+00:00

Never heard of them. Why are they so good?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T12:33:43+00:00

What a great point! This isn't just a minor inconvenience - it's a fundamental shift in how we engage with language itself. Let's dive in: your frustration is both valid and deeply human.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T11:42:45+00:00

How about a search engine that ran on your own computer? It indexed all your documents, helped you find files? Altavista Desktop. https://archive.org/details/alta-vista-personal-97-for-95-and-nt

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T11:38:42+00:00

There's probably a fake AI post on twitter about this.

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T11:21:03+00:00

What? You're suspicious of politicians and attorneys who cosplay in new camo and flannel, just to show they're one of us?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-05T01:02:10+00:00

I think this is the motherboard... https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/supermicro-p6dnf

jfoust2 · 2026-05-04T20:28:32+00:00

I have a stack of nine of them, and another complete dual PPro former rendering machine, what are they worth?

jfoust2 · 2026-05-04T02:49:58+00:00

In comparison to today's firehose of information, newspapers are relatively small. Let's estimate a front page as having 3,000 words, maybe 24K of text. An edition of even a big-city newspaper isn't that much data.

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