History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.
Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.
These past two days have been incredibly hard for me.Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
CEO: We need to cut costs.
Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.
CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?
Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.
CEO: Fire Greg.
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There was a question on reddit earlier:
> "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"
This was my solution.
> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"
Friday.
The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.
I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.
It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking.
Gotta love a fencepost problem.
Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's.
Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well.
I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.
There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.
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