Overpriced, multi-story driving range.

Me (a man):

Wakes up… “Hmmm. I really have to pee.”

My brain: “Horny! HORNY NOW!”

Me: “What?! No! Why??? Ughhh!!”

I just realized it had been a few days since I’d seen any Sandy pics. Hope you recover quickly!

Found the philosopher.

That’s a toss-up for me. Maybe give it one date and see how it goes?

Pre-skeeze is not unwarranted but not enough info to know if full on skeeze is. If nothing else it would give you a good sense about whether he’s just enthusiastic or whether he’s more attracted to his idealized version of you. That said, if he’s making you uncomfortable, you should make that clear. His response will tell you what you need to know.

Forget servicing the product. Hell, forget the product. Why can’t they just charge every person alive a subscription for existing? You can choose from monthly or annual, which is slightly cheaper, and either way you get nothing in return.

I think in some ways Generative AI is very emblematic of the current state of software development. Projects are approached from the outset with the driving question being, “how can we make money materialize out of thin air?” Not, “What kind of problems are we trying to solve?” Or, “Why would someone pay for this?”

The last several projects I’ve worked on have been solutions in search of a problem. Hyped up products that made executives see dollar signs but didn’t actually produce any because they failed to provide any tangible value.

Horselike Reflexes: When you weigh 900 lbs (408kg) and can run at 30 mph (48 kph) but you’re still scared of your own shadow.

You use sun block? Straight to jail.

None. If I broke up with someone it was because I didn’t want to continue a relationship with them.

That’ll show those pesky pirates.

My advice is avoid tape backups. The cost, risk of media degredation, and management overhead make them not worth it, especially for a homelab.

Also, restoring an entire VM is almost easier than recovering a single file, just because of the sequential nature of reading data from a tape. Data recoveries are pretty slow in general.

I backup to an external hard drive with regular copies to iDrive S3. Been doing it that way for a number of years with no problems.

Ignorance and hubris are consequences of youth. The fact is that your parents do probably know quite a few things that you don’t, if for no other reason than they have more lived experience. That shouldn’t necessarily make you feel foolish. Part of growing older is realizing that you possess a microscopic fraction of all the knowledge in the universe. Meaning that most people know things that you don’t and you could learn something from them. That’s wisdom. Some adults never embrace that, seeing their ignorance as an asset and turning their hubris into blind arrogance. Those people should feel foolish because they are fools. But they probably don’t.

I don’t agree with every decision my parents made. But in my mid thirties, I do now understand why they are the people they are and why they made some of the decisions they made. They were far from perfect parents. But they did ok, especially in light of the incredibly shitty examples they both had for parents.

Lol. I knew a guy who refused to tag his car because of some sovcit bullshit reasons. He changed his mind real quick after his wife got a ticket for driving without a valid registration.

There’s a ticket in the backlog. We’ll get to it next sprint (aka never).

Ingen went all “move fast, break things” but with genetically engineered apex predators. Pretty much worked out exactly as expected.

Why try to reach an agreement with someone who is just going to rip it up and throw it in your face in a few years? Backstabbing and broken promises are a byproduct of empires and the US has a long trail of those behind it.

And a guy with an (oddly accurate little) golden gun who also has his own theme song.

Hells Bells by AC/DC.