@14mission even better than being an expert who answers “it’s complicated”: be a **consultant**.

What’s the difference?

An expert looks at your watch and tells you what time it is.

A consultant looks at your watch, tells you what time it is, and they keep the watch.

@ai6yr

@ai6yr this would explain why a small number of powerful beings, who have no regard for the survival of our species, are busy making this planet uninhabitable to us.

Perhaps billionaires are the advance shock troops sent by an alien species to soften up a planet and make it easier to conquer.

The attempt to read the UNIX V4 tape is underway!

Waiter, how does the chef get these shrimp to glow like this?

In #galaxyquest there’s a little gag about “go through the chompy crushie things.” It’s clearly a detail from an episode where nobody had a name for that scene. Sigourney Weaver’s character says “This episode was badly written!”

Star Wars Episode 2 has an entire pointless scene of chompy […]

And then there’s the thing I complain about all the time: Obi-Wan spends ages and ages with C3PO and R2D2. In episode 2, they all go to Tatooine. And there’s C3PO and R2D2 working on uncle Owen’s farm.

So when Episode 4 rolls around, obi-wan doesn’t remember ever owning any droids. And Owen […]

And Yoda can feel Anakin fucking up on the other side of the galaxy, but can’t figure out that the two Sith Lords are in the office down the hall.

I mean, I get it. It’s an important part of the plot. But it’s a stupid part of the plot.

#starwars #attackoftheclones

There’s the water planet where it rains all the time. But the landing pad for spacecraft doesn’t even have a roof or a cover? So Obi-Wan gets out of his spaceship in the rain and just gets wet. We have SPACE TRAVEL. And every other place that houses spacecraft in this universe has a roof […]

Who's got the latest? I dunno. I think Joe edited it last. Here's the version he emailed me last week. Ask what he's got.

They've got a book of loans like this. Hundreds of millions of pounds, and a few folks keeping track with ad hoc valuations and a spreadsheet they email around.

Naturally […]

The system was fascinating. Being a computer-toucher more than a money-toucher, I hadn't thought about how a bank-ish business would solve this problem.

See, part of this big, wealthy firm made loans using unusual things as collateral: an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, a factory... that makes […]

I quickly figured out that the team implemented authentication correctly, but literally forgot authorization. Like, anyone with a valid login (out of 70K employees) could use this system. It tracked material numbers related to important assets. And anyone could just login and tinker with the […]

@ApostateEnglishman I’m sure I could. It’s all about feel. They’re Goldilocks: not too tight, not too loose. Not too soft, not too rough. They stay up all day long without my ever touching them. I could almost certainly pick them out of my sock drawer without looking. They were a Christmas […]

@radiobeartime.com The fashion is high alright. Nearly up to his armpits.

@volts.wtf But have they tried BlahBlah model 4.8 with Parallel Reasoning™ and an expert Prompt Engineer™? Maybe we are all simulated in THAT…

They probably don’t understand how this stuff works. Let me go ask ChatGPT to find the flaws in their paper…

@paco lifetime membership in Hitler Youth?