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Preach!

The student admitted to the allegations, saying, "I started using computers when I was in the fourth grade and taught myself everything I know. I happened to be able to access the information and had nothing against the company."

A while back I read the excellent graphic novel Wizzywig about hacking, and my takeaway was that, at base level, a hacker is a lock picker with insatiable curiosity.

I’ve learned that there are many unwritten rules behind the scenes, and when you speak their language, you start to understand them.

That is true of every country.

The nomenclature in this industry is all over the place.

Here's a tip for doing this while traveling: If you need quick help on the street from a stranger in a country where you don't speak the language, don't open by asking if they speak your language. People will almost invariably say no even if they do to avoid the imposition.

Just say "hello/excuse me" in their language and then ask the question in your language. If they speak it, they will often answer you quickly. Sometimes you can even see a look dawn on their face after the fact as they realize you skipped the first step.

SM: AMD Zen 4 6C / 12T

PC: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 4.7 GHz 6-Core ($170)

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SM: AMD RDNA3 28CUs 8 GB

PC: AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB ($280)

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SM: 16GB DDR5

PC: 2 x 8 GB DDR5-5600 CL40 ($225)

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SM: 512GB NVMe SSD

PC: Samsung 870 Evo 500 GB 2.5" SSD ($283)

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Other parts the PC will need:

- CPU Cooler ($18)

- Motherboard ($100)

- Case ($60)

- PSU ($60)

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SM: $1,049

PC: $1,196

When the U.S. first legalized pharmaceutical ads on TV, one of the requirements was that the drug companies had to disclose side effects during the ads. The companies chafed at that, thinking it would make the drugs less appealing, and only included the bare minimum the rules required them to. But their own data eventually showed that consumers actually responded positively to hearing the side effects. They found that people think if a drug is powerful, it must also have strong side effects. So instead of just scaring them, it reassured them the product was good. After learning that, the drug makers started including more side effects in the ads than they were required to.

When we later asked them about their stances on hybrid and remote work, their answers didn’t correlate with how much they trusted their employees or how much they loved being around people. The only trait that consistently predicted objections to remote work was narcissism — the tendency to be self-centered and entitled.

79k. Missed three from the last group: Vagitus, Yarborough, and Quire.

I wouldn’t have thought that black text on a lavender background would make for pleasing reading, but it was actually quite nice.

I’m almost fully converted, except my Gen 1 AirPod pros are somehow still kicking and thus I still need a Lightning cable.

One of my clients has insane style guides, plural. I’m talking about 500-page documents detailing the proper way to format quotes and the one true way to insert footnotes.

That’s absurd overkill.

If it were an industry, money laundering would be the third biggest business in the world, behind commercial property and ahead of pensions.

Claude Haiku 4.5 results with 60% fewer tokens. Sounds good, but they don't list token costs.

Absolutely. If packaging and marketing stopped mattering so much once the public already knows a product well, Coca-cola could have stopped spending so much on their brand a long time ago.

No one is claiming that OS is as good. They are saying it isn't that far behind SOTA commercial products. So why pay exorbitantly just to get something only a few percent better than the free option?

But there have been very good open source office apps for decades and few enterprises use them, so perhaps this is just the nature of B2B purchasing committees and 'nobody getting fired for buying IBM.'

A lot of adult players don’t know it either.

If I play a casual game with someone who doesn’t know about en passant and they make a move that opens them up to it, I don’t attempt to take the piece, but I do point it out to them and recommend we use the rule in future games.

That was fascinating and has implications for AI. The mouse didn't have new brain structures, it just had triple the number of neurons connecting its mouth-movement center to its hearing and vocal structures. It's the bitter lesson in wetware.

An extensive 2024 study by three economists associated with the National Bureau of Economic Research attempted to measure the raw effects of noncompetes on wages. The study compared states where non-competes are broadly enforceable with the four states that ban them outright. The authors concluded that “rendering NCAs unenforceable nationwide would increase average earnings among all workers by 3.5% to 13.7%.”

“November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 500,000 people died. ‘It’s going down, I’m yelling timber.’ 3:33 PM. Timber by Pitbull and Ke$ha.”

Also needs the occasional mariachi music and someone yelling “It’s showtime!”

It is unclear how, when, or how much the venture will make, but this clearly hasn’t hindered fundraising.

Sorta sums up the whole industry.

tldr: Acutus is an AI-generated "Potemkin" news organization allegedly operated by PR firm Novus Public Affairs that, among other things, serves as a political influence tool for OpenAI’s super PAC, Leading The Future.

Who is the author of this piece? There doesn't seem to be anyone listed.

They get 30 days to pay. I used to start sending reminders if they were late by even a day past that, but I quickly learned that can unnecessarily embarrass or annoy some clients, so now everyone gets a two week grace period after the 30 days are up.

I send a gentle reminder just to my immediate point of contact to start. If that doesn't work, I start sending more business-like requests for payment every week, and I CC anyone I think might help make it happen.

I've never fired anyone, and everyone has eventually paid (knock wood), but there have been times when I assumed the money was a lost cause (though never five figures worth like the person who shared this blog post).

But more than once, I've had a client contact me and request new work, and I've had to remind them they still have an unpaid invoice. I'll tell them I can't start anything new until the old work is paid. They almost invariably blame the delay on their billing department, and the money eventually finds its way to me.

I've been on reddit since the beginning. If they kill old.reddit, I'm gone.

I have a friend who retired but still does some contract work. They were on salary their whole career and are not used to sending invoices and tracking down payments. One of their clients was late paying and my friend wasn't concerned, but I encouraged them to be diligent about insisting on being paid on time. I have been a freelancer for over a decade and in my experience, the further away you get from a bill, the less real it becomes to the person who owes it. They start forgetting what the project was, or worse, start questioning why they even have to pay for it. You have to stay on top of these things or they can spiral out of control.

Do not try to prevent me from copying the text on your website. I will get it anyway. All you are doing is annoying me.

I’m the kind of person that just assumes customer service is going to be bad. I gird myself whenever I have to call a company and just deal with their gauntlet with patience, knowing the trick is to outlast them. It costs them money every time you call. I’ll often tell them I know that and assure them I will continue calling until the matter is resolved. It’s not fun, it’s just the way things sadly are.

My old man, however, still feels some kind of righteous indignation when he spends his hard earned money and doesn’t feel he’s getting what he paid for. He loves to give a piece of his mind to the companies that mistreat him, and he always says “And I hope my comments are being recorded for quality assurance!”