>> If I send it at 3 PM, it looks like normal work hours. If I send it at 8:47 PM, it looks like I'm going above and beyond.
I do the same thing but the exact textbook reverse opposite. Granted, I'm a techie / regular developer who makes 1/3rd of the IT director in cause, but can't complain, I'm definitely not starving.
So here's my version (sometimes):
>> I finish a lot of work at 3 AM.
>> I send it at 8:47 AM.
>> Same document. Different optics.
>> If I send it at 3 AM, it looks like like I'm going above and beyond. If I send it at 8:47 AM, it looks normal work hours.
> short of major algorithmic breakthroughs I am not convinced the global demand for GPUs will drop any time soon
>> Or, you know, when LLMs don't pay off.
Heh, exactly the observation that a fanatic religious believer cannot possibly foresee. "We need more churches! More priests! Until a breakthrough in praying technique will be achieved I don't foresee less demand for religious devotion!" Nobody foresaw Nietzsche and the decline in blind faith.
But then again, like an atheist back in the day, the furious zealots would burn me at the stake if they could, for saying this. Sadly no longer possible so let them downvotes pour instead!
>> “The only, absolute and best friend a man has, in this selfish world, the only one that will not betray or deny him, is his dog.”
Well, this is far from absolute, isn't it? :) There's a fair number of vicious attacks of a dog on his owner. Oftentimes pitbulls (are they even dogs or rather "creatures"?!), but other breeds do it too. So ... nothing is absolute :P
For another example of betrayal, one of the cronies in Katherine the
Great's court always gave a dog to his girlfriends whenever he started
a new relationship. Then if the dog ever greeted some other guy
familiarly, he inferred he was falling out of favor. He probably
learned that trick when someone did it to him, because he would let
the other guy know how he was rumbled before graciously bowing out.
I've gotten "BEWARE OF DOG!" pitbulls and rottweilers to befriend me simply by speaking kindly to them, and then over a period of days raising that to handsniffs, then petting.
Misanthropic dogs are taught that behavior, which contradicts 10,000+ years of training. They don't enjoy being assholes.
This is not to say dogs aren't naturally barky and suspicious of strangers; that is also part of their millenia of training. Lots of nice people are also suspicious of strangers. But aggressively attacking people is basically psychotic behavior for a social animal that considers humans part of its society.
The quote doesn't insist all dogs are infinitely loyal.
Your disgusting prejudice aside, I've never met a pitbull in public that wasn't sweet and loving - which reinforces my suspicion that the real problem with them is the sort of psychotic, uncaring owner they attract.
When I was young, it was Dobermans that were demonized, and likewise the dog of choice for assholes who abused them as mere security devices.
As kids in a rural area in Eastern Europe, summer "vacation" was sure to be filled with "fun" farm work. I recall being amused at hearing one of my friends towards the end of the summer say: "man, I can't wait for school to begin, so I can get some rest".
Yes, pretty much this. If they worked in the fields 12 hour per day as in a Victorian industrial setting, they would have perished from exposure, not having time to attend obligatory work around the house and to process the food and materials used to make food. Basically peasants worked all the time to maintain a level of "comfort" like in the article's picture: https://i0.wp.com/juliawise.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/S...
Also idealization of rural life and past rural life tends to come almost exclusively from city dwellers, basically people who never set foot in a rural area let alone grow or live there.
I grew up in rural Romania and even though the conditions were (and are) exponentially better than what the non-industrial non-mechanized non-chemical (herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers) past offered, all I thought growing up was get the funk out of there. Agriculture (and it's relatives, animal husbandry) sucks and I hate it! :)
And without mechanization it's incredibly labor intensive to tend to a farm. Just to keep the animals alive over winter you have to dry and deposit a lot of hay, but before that you gotta scythe it. Scything is no walk in the park and basically you gotta do a lot of that every day to cover enough area to keep the cattle fed. Then plowing without a tractor and using animals: not just dangerous but backbreaking work. Then hoeing the weeds, funking need to do it all the time because without herbicides, the weeds grow everywhere and by the time you "finished" going once over all crops, they've grown back where you first started. At some point my father had this fantasy of what is now called "organic" crops, in fact cheapskating at paying the price for herbicides, so I did so much hoeing that it got out of my nose. I don't recall me saying it but my mother told me that at some point in a middle of a potatoes hoeing session I said that I'd rather solve 1000 math problems than do even just another row of potatoes. Definitive moment in my career choice, which is a lot closer to solving math problems now than hoeing organic potatoes :)
Yes, I lived in a rural area in my youth (not too bad, very close to the city), and I had friends who were sons of farmers. Much of the work was mechanized, but still there was plenty of boring, tiring work to be found.
I am always amazed by those who idealize the rural life; they obviously never had a part in it, otherwise they would rather not do it. People who end up doing this all their lives usually are stuck there with no real opportunity/alternative.
>in fact cheapskating at paying the price for herbicides
This is a pattern I have noticed as well. In my opinion, many of the organic proponents don't actually do the hard work and are often stingy to a fault. It is effortless to argue for something that requires way more work when you have to take part in the work. I think it is just rhetoric to ask for something of perceived better quality at a lower cost.
I recall starting to program in BASIC on CP/M and ZX-Spectrum machines and they didn't have procedures, only GOTO. Just like assembler, you can use all the JMP you want and not use structured programming and procedures but ... it will all become an unmaintainable mess in short time.
Very likely in a number of alternate futures (if not all of them), given the original set of CPU instructions, people would gravitate naturally to C and not some GOTO spaghetti or message passing or object oriented whatever.
I remember jumping out of gosub on the Apple ][ and eventually running into an out of memory error as the stack on the 255 byte page $01 overflowed. As math was also done on the stack math functions broke. Simplifying expressions only delayed the inevitable doom. I had to abandon the project and only later understood my first encounter with a memory leak.
The BASICs of the time often had GOSUB which remembered the return address. Also, while the stack not being prominent in the high level language, they very well used one on the assembly level. For example on the C64 (probably other 6502/6510 based systems) it always started at $100 ($ being the old convention of writing hex), right after the zeropage.
Yeah, I think it was but I was just starting in programming and GOSUB didn't made much sense to me as it's not a proper structured programming procedure with input and output params but more like a hack with data passed through global variables. And by the time I learned structured programming I already moved to Pascal (HiSoft Pascal : https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Hisoft_Pascal ) and there was no turning back to BASIC.
>> I send it at 8:47 PM.
>> Same document. Different optics.
>> If I send it at 3 PM, it looks like normal work hours. If I send it at 8:47 PM, it looks like I'm going above and beyond.
I do the same thing but the exact textbook reverse opposite. Granted, I'm a techie / regular developer who makes 1/3rd of the IT director in cause, but can't complain, I'm definitely not starving.
So here's my version (sometimes):
>> I finish a lot of work at 3 AM.
>> I send it at 8:47 AM.
>> Same document. Different optics.
>> If I send it at 3 AM, it looks like like I'm going above and beyond. If I send it at 8:47 AM, it looks normal work hours.
Those familiar with the Gervais Hierarchy theory and my rank in the corporate ladder, will understand: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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