One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.
Anyway, yeah. The overwhelming impression one gets from so many of these emails is that a lot of them are guys who have never had a real, serious friendship with a woman in their lives.
Which sucks for them, but also sucks for every woman who has to deal with them, ever.
AI execs keep giving advice that young programmers should focus on AI instead of doing internships, etc. this is abominable advice, for many reasons. I’m going to focus on two:
We're watching a Bond movie, and we're like, "You know these guys are all in the Epstein files."
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Tell me five classes you took in college.
Computer Architecture
Celtic Mythology
Archaeoastronomy
Elements of Painting
Cosmology and Cosmogeny
This unnatural rhythmic bobbing, coupled with bizarrely exaggerated mouth movement, is a really common tell in AI videos. Try moving your mouth like that for a few seconds, and see what it feels like. It's utterly exhausting, isn't it?
Me, a moment ago: I don't think I have an NVME in my older small box here, but I do in my smaller old box.
Today, my Win11 dev machine has suddenly decided, for no apparent reason, to open Notepad when I hit PrintScreen. I normally use this key for calling out to an alternate screenshot application. Does anyone have a clue why this might be happening?
