Darrell Root

@PeterJAngel @senatorshoshana Imagine buying a product and before they decide on a price they ask to see a list of your family’s income and assets. That would be crazy! Oh wait. That’s the current college system.

The day the IBM PC was released, I was at this Somerville, New Jersey Computerland. There was no way a poor kid like me could own one. But I knew if I could hang out enough I could learn it. After a few weeks Tom the manager said “Roemmele you want get paid for this?”. I said yes and went about setting up and training 100s of executives at Central New Jersey corporations for almost a decade. I worked my own hours and this lifted me out of poverty. I got my first Apple II and Macintosh here as well as my first LaserWriter and Apple Camera. I would go to the local florist and pick up red roses for the IBM PC display. They spent a lot, but IBM demanded real roses and “fined” any sales company that did not have one with the display. One day in my first year the owner came in and said “who is this kid?” Tom said, “Oh that is Brian, he sold more computers and software than all our outside sale combined and he is not in sales”. The owner came over and said shook my hand and said, “let me take you out for dinner, you and your girlfriend”. He was kind and generous to me and offered me key consulting gigs around the state. So seeing this commercial pop up in my VHS AI training knocked me over. Tom did not have to bet on me and even guess a stuttering geek could do this work, but he did. Nothing but gratitude for this start…

"If a company in this country cannot choose to fire someone for this sort of unhinged abuse, then Heaven help us." Judge Oldham concurring in the judgment. Starbucks fired a wild eyed maniac yelling profanity at a disabled female colleague. The NLRB tried to penalize them. Nope!

We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/

Beware the empathy exploit. Empathy is good and right when thought through (deep), but can be deadly to civilization when simply stimulus-response (shallow). For example, releasing a repeat violent offender may feel good at first (shallow empathy for the criminal), but it is wrong to do so when that person will go on to hurt or murder innocent victims, as there should be deep empathy for future victims.

The former mayor of a Kansas town was taken into custody by immigration authorities Wednesday after acknowledging last year that he had voted in elections despite not being a U.S. citizen. kshb.com/news/local-new…

@politicalmath @BlueRepublik x.com/darrellroot/st…

There really is no way around this. Liberals will say "X is true" and you look at the data and say "no it isn't" and they will just simply not adjust their narrative they will ignore all rebuttals, they will reject all evidence. they will say forever "this is true" while the plain data shows that it is not You can't fight that. They're not arguing from evidence. They are just religious cultists who believe the narrative and the data be damned.

This is super common among liberals. "I have objective evidence that right wingers are evil. They must be delusional" I looked at the data that @BlueRepublik is referencing and found that it is, quite plainly, not true. But they keep telling each other it is true.

"The RCA COBOL Narrator Pitch: RCA claimed its problem-oriented language compiler would allow employees to learn to program in "days instead of weeks or months". It promised to completely remove the barrier of complex machine codes and generate the required computer instructions simply by interpreting a series of English-language statements." coding is over since 1960, since Sales Department took over the narrative.

During the iSight launch keynote (WWDC 2003), there were (as always) two stage computers: primary and backup. So the two iSights wouldn’t look weird, one iSight was aimed up, but one was aimed down. Earlier in the Keynote, there was an issue with the primary computer and they switched to backup. But the backup computer’s iSight was aimed straight down! One of the leaders in the crew (I won’t give the name) saw that there was going to be a problem. He went near the stage and waited. Once Steve Jobs was on the other side of the stage, he went up on stage to the demo computers and reversed which iSight camera was aimed correctly. Then he left the stage. He was on stage with Steve Jobs during a keynote! Nobody saw him. Nobody noticed him. This is why backstage crew always wear black: so we can do what needs to be done without being noticed.

If you used these growing up, don't forget to take a couple ibuprofen for your back today...

“Tell him to enter the password he knows is correct. Inform him it is incorrect. Invite him to reset it. Watch as he enters the password he believed it to be all along. Then tell him he cannot use it… because it is his current password.”

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

When I was teaching I’d always test each classroom’s AV gear before the term started Musk’s lawyers brought their own monitor, laptops, and cables. You *know* they tested the combination before they brought it. Open AI lawyers didn’t bring their own gear. They tried to use AV gear during a trial without prior testing. Amateur mistake.

Musk's lawyer brought a big monitor (maybe 36 inches) into the courtroom. OpenAI's lawyers asked to use it. Musk's lawyers said no. The judge told Musk's lawyers they have to let OpenAi use it. Then OpenAI said it might not be possible to connect their laptops to it.

@tpgoebel Passengers are allowed to have opinions how pilots should pilot a plane, but pilots are undeniably in charge because the safety of the flight is their responsibility. Passengers’ only recourse is to not fly in that plane. This is also true for ship captains and Uber drivers.

As an occasional Uber Driver, I have done over 300 passenger rides by now. I use FSD for 100% of my rides. For the first time ever, I just had passengers who were adamantly opposing my use of FSD. One of them said he doesn’t trust Elon Musk. He is a software engineer, and he says he knows that software isn’t perfect. He doesn’t wanna be the one to edge case that leads to an accident. We had a nice conversation. I tried to appeal to his mathematical mind, arguing that the combination of the system and myself observing is definitely safer than me driving without it. He didn’t wanna hear any of it. Both of them didn’t. Interesting. I did not expect that position from an engineer. Oh and: I felt a lot more nervous, driving entirely myself again. It was over 20 minutes. I do not want to do this anymore. Driving a vehicle is insane.

@alex_peys More AI excellence today courtesy of Ring: 😂

got a framed copy to hang by the ai team

@USN_Submariner “Tora, Tora, Tora”, “The Final Countdown”, and “Midway” (1976 version) are a trilogy

In 1980, under command of CAPT Matthew Yelland, Nimitz encountered an electrical storm after leaving Pearl Harbor and lost all contact with the rest of the fleet. What happened during that period is still highly classified.

Rubio says the Trump admin is VERY different from other admins because they understand OF COURSE adversaries like China and Russia are putting their own countries first Once-great European countries do NOT fight for their own and are capitulating to globalism at their own peril

@MarkMeadows @MZHemingway @ASGWoodward Looking forward to discovery on this one!

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 DOJ’s @ASGWoodward has SUED DC Bar Association officials for politically targeting Jeff Clark. This is BIG. Great work by Stanley Woodward and well deserved support for our friend. No more targeting Trump lawyers just because you don’t like their politics!!

This is actually insane. 42 minutes ago today. No one took that conference seriously, it is horrifyingly common and a normal OPT practice to set up fake offer letters and even fake payrolls on OPT.

update: since this post went viral, the “notice of intent to hire H-1B” page at @Mizzou has gone from over a dozen active posting to now ZERO

@brianwhelton The first network outage I helped troubleshoot (1994) was an unidentified college student taking a thinnet t-connector and terminator, causing 100% collisions on that LAN. Some things never change.

Good to have Big Dave back and he has hit the ground running. He has continued to improve his range of lightweight network enclosures, cable management and has been investing a lot of time and energy in improving network security. Find me a better innovative and secure SME example then this and I bet it will be AI generated.