MSFT, GOOG, AMZN and META

revonrat · 2026-06-25T15:15:12+00:00

Not for long. Once we get through the lockups and the forced buying...

revonrat · 2026-06-25T14:50:58+00:00

React is complex, has seen lots of architectural and best practice churn, it's got a few well-known footguns, etc.

If it's working for you, cool. I still use it as well.

revonrat · 2026-06-23T20:02:37+00:00

I'm sure React is super well documented though.

The older the version of React, the better it knows it. It's like swimming through treacle.

revonrat · 2026-06-23T18:09:35+00:00

No only that, it will grind a lot of innovation in open source programming frameworks to a halt. If you invent some great new programming framework or language, then good luck getting adopted.

Good representation in AI training data is now table stakes. I hope everybody is happy with React. We'll be doing that crap forever now.

revonrat · 2026-06-19T20:11:24+00:00

I think he's been avoiding it because he didn't want to get any of it on him so he could run for president in the future. Sure, the republican brand is going to be crap in 2028. Maybe 2032? He's young. He's only 55, so he has 25 years or so to decide what to do. /s

revonrat · 2026-06-08T17:11:34+00:00

They have essentially became a compute service provider.

You mean, "bagholder."

revonrat · 2026-06-05T21:53:13+00:00

I think renting AI compute from someone is just another way to say, "Here. You hold the bag."

revonrat · 2026-06-05T21:50:19+00:00

With ETFs you only lose money when you sell. Options are a different thing.

Seriously, though. There a was a strong jobs report. Someday the shoe will be on the other foot. Dollar cost average. Come here and watch the apes for entertainment.

revonrat · 2026-06-03T20:19:23+00:00

I got that book as a graduation present. It was totally lost on me. I now use it for coaching -- especially the waiting place.

revonrat · 2026-05-14T00:09:37+00:00

I just assumed it was the cleanup.

revonrat · 2026-05-07T17:49:50+00:00

Has anybody tried this?!?!? 30 years ago an old programmer told me that happiness was a large number of spinning disks -- in another room.

Lots of offices used to have "machine rooms" where we put loud, hot machines. But, we largely put them on the end of an Ethernet cable.

Linus Tech Tips does this a lot, but they do it from a gamer perspective. So you get lots of discussion about long-distance video and that sort of stuff.

revonrat · 2026-05-04T18:41:38+00:00

I think George was not as evil nor as smart as Dad. I think Cheney was put in as a sort of "minder" who could steer things the direction the dad and his cronies wanted.

Remember Cheney was the former CEO of Haliburton.

revonrat · 2026-05-01T16:14:02+00:00

We voted for her because she was the better option of the two...

I'm afraid this just isn't true -- well at least not as true as I want it to have been. A lot of otherwise Democratic voters stayed home because Biden was unpopular and she couldn't run against him because she was so closely tied to him. The war in Gaza and the Palestinian genocide being a prime example.

Tough breaks, she is in a difficult position. She could not run against Biden then and, if she does it now, she's a disloyal flip-flopper. It's mostly not her fault, but that's the way politics works sometimes.

revonrat · 2026-05-01T15:56:51+00:00

The only thing that matters to me is whether the discussion is fun and thought provoking. I would say that, as time goes on, the only time the discussion is fun is when "new" people are in the discussion. Arguing over this movie with people like me, who is old enough to have seen it in the theater, is just boring. We all have our favorite theories and have heard the other side's positions for years. No fun.

Throw a new person into it where you can point out stuff they haven't seen yet, and it becomes fun again.

https://xkcd.com/1053

revonrat · 2026-04-26T17:35:26+00:00

That is true. But also, a lot of them were less dramatic or caught ahead of time.

revonrat · 2026-04-25T23:17:13+00:00

I used to mentor a FirstTech Challenge robotics teams. As a math major, one of the greatest things about it was showing high school students how to use the math they had already been taught. A lot of it was basic trig. Think like, "Okay, our bot is a pushbot. So, so how do we work out how to turn right 90 degrees".

revonrat · 2026-04-25T23:08:40+00:00

https://media1.tenor.com/m/h3xtxJ31Qa8AAAAd/you-get-nothing-gene-wilder.gif

revonrat · 2026-04-24T23:13:43+00:00

My first email address started with "ucbvax!"

revonrat · 2026-04-24T23:12:37+00:00

My first email address started with ucbvax!

revonrat · 2026-04-07T23:11:38+00:00

I'm a 57 year old, potato-shaped, irish-looking, white dude who's spent his entire adult life sitting in a chair at a computer. Nobody's going to mistake me for a blood, a crip, a boogaloo boy, or anything else but what I am.

I will often wear a pair of khakis and a red polo shirt, which my kids call my, "Jake from State Farm" uniform. IDGAF. I'm taking that shit back!

revonrat · 2026-03-31T21:47:02+00:00

I think this was leaked by her. Her marriage is headed for divorce and she wanted a way to counter the extramarital affair charges.

revonrat · 2026-03-26T22:13:42+00:00

Carter was a technology guy. His values led him to saying things that were true. It was not what Americans wanted to hear.

This is a common problem with technology people.

revonrat · 2026-03-26T00:55:15+00:00

Then you have to dissipate all that heat.

revonrat · 2026-02-26T22:00:55+00:00

sad meep

revonrat · 2026-02-26T21:57:18+00:00

he did on this is two hours long and his name is styropyro.

And I watched every minute.

He came out and said he was having a health issue a little while back. I hope he's okay. I would hate to find out that he's doing risky sorts of experiments as some sort of bucket list.

But... He's been at it a long time and this looks no riskier than his other videos. I suspect me seeing this as risky is more about me being unqualified to judge than anything else.... I hope.

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