raktheundead

The Nobel Prize committee really seem to be trying hard to make this the worst set of awardees ever, aren’t they? All we need is another Kissinger-esque situation for the Peace Prize and a Handke-esque situation for the Literature prize and they’ll have disgraced the Nobel Prizes permanently.

Ballbag Srinivasan still at his old tricks.

King of England, beware!

Do you hear that? It sounds like the squeak of tank tracks, circa 1968 in Prague. Or maybe 1956 in Budapest.

The T-90 of air defence systems.

“Berenstein Bear”, but not “Mandala Effect”?

I’ve still got my copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks; there are seven in total.

Now, Windows 95, that was a monstrosity on floppy disks.

Lithuania is considered, along with Latvia and Estonia, to be a developed country now. It really took a step forward after being freed from the chains of Russian subjugation.

certainly the man is due respect

How about no?

As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say that’s the sort of thing that’s gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, I’m not entirely comfortable in the water.

I think the PRC lacks something in the soft power stakes; they’ve created some degree of good will outside the West, but they suck at projecting cultural output that doesn’t stem from the imperial Chinese era.

being as thorough and then some as I could ever hope to be

That’s not the flex you think it is.

You hang it out the side of the plane when you want to get out and taunt your enemy face-to-face. Well, face-to-face with a separation of a few miles, that is.

Can we get LLMs to design the engine?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6HJ7L68r5Es/maxresdefault.jpg

I’m guessing there is also some schadenfreude, at least among some people, at seeing a European country getting colonised by a semi-Asian one.

All this tells me is that Indians’ objection to colonisation is that they weren’t the ones doing it.

I wonder if they’re counting on nobody in the mainstream press paying attention or even understanding how that stuff is embarrassing and just going for the zinger.

Edward Snowden has struck me for a very long time as one of the most prominent cases of stopped-clock theory. It doesn’t surprise me at all that he’s a coiner.

The term includes those devs who carry water for the Silicon Valley vulture capitalist crowd as well.

You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren’t familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.

Shouldn’t have stuck that stupid fucking Bitcoin shit inside.