Spent some hours flying in EVE again, using classic Caracal RLML PVP fit.

Won a 2v1 situation, which rarely happens. I was very close to explode myself because the slow reload time of rapid light-missile launchers, but managed to do it in time, so the Wolf pilot didn't get to escape in time.

https://zkillboard.com/kill/134847821/

https://zkillboard.com/kill/134847824/

Pretty happy about this one!

#EVEOnline #AksPlaysEVE

Comparing the hagiographies of c level executives with the stories from the trenches is always enlightening.

https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion

There's a character in Galápagos, the 1985 novel by Kurt Vonnegut, who has created a computer called the Mandarax that can understand natural language, translate languages, and answer questions on many topics -- it's basically an LLM. His wife does ikebana (Japanese flower arrangements) and she discovers that his machine can do it as well as her because he's tape recorded her classes and fed the data into the computer. She says to him,

"You, Doctor Hiroguchi, think that everybody but yourself is just taking up space on this planet, and we make too much noise and waste valuable natural resources and have too many children and leave garbage around. So it would be a much nicer place if the few stupid services we are able to perform for the the likes of you were taken over by machinery. That wonderful Mandarax you're scratching your ear with now: what is that but an excuse for a mean-spirited egomaniac never to pay or even thank any human being with a knowledge of languages or mathematics or history or medicine or literature or ikebana or anything?"

I read that on the bus this afternoon.

#Books #Tech #AI

WE BUILT THIS FEDI! 🎶

WE BUILT THIS FEDI ON BLOCKIN' TROLLS! 🎶

I don't use CWs for bad jokes.

I don't use CWs for good jokes either, as I have never knowingly posted one.

Family “ready to forgive you” for meltdown

#ActuallyAutistic