Don Greer

@sflorimm You should have thrown in an m--dash.

using lowercase just to make sure you don’t think i’m an ai

@brockpierson Depends on when. Younger self 16-18, probably not; younger self 20-25, maybe; post-25, definitely. Of course, I separate my life into two distinct portions: Before kids, and After kids. All of my priorities changed the moment I held my daughter for the first time.

Do you think your younger self would be impressed by you?

@juicystar1908 I think I just found a something I can sell on Amazon and make a killing. I just gotta accept Euros and Pounds.

I had to explain to my husband (born and raised in Wisconsin) that ranch is very hard to find outside of the US. He thought that the rest of the western world had access to it.

@JasonRink You're not wrong, but I was stupid and always listened to others who said, "That'll never work." Oh well, at least I'm on vacation this week.

I am 51 years old. I can't count the number of opportunities to become a multimillionaire that has been afforded to my generation. Any GenXer with a steady paycheck could be wealthy right now if they made the right decisions. The internet. Bitcoin. Stock Market. Real estate

@whale6x $2.6M

What amount of money do you need right now? Be realistic don’t say $1M

@FreddyLA7 Welcome to Texas, Freddy!

CHOOSIN' TEXAS🤠

I've literally driven hundreds of cars, dozens of models, over the years. Used to work for Ford in high school. I test-drove a Model Y a couple of years ago, and it was easily the best vehicle I've ever driven, including Caddies and Lincolns. Smooth, comfortable, spacious, and quiet. Even my wife admitted it was nicer and more comfortable than her BMW. Yes, if you're in the market and you live somewhere that has sufficient charging infrastructure, I believe it is the best car you can get. Just make sure you know what "mission" the car is for. If you're going to be making regular 600-1000 mile trips, it might be a bit inconvenient.

Should I buy a Tesla?

@JefferyCMay @esrtweet @Andercot "Piled Higher and Deeper" I befriended several of my professors in college, and the first thing they did was disabuse me of the idea that a PhD meant one knew how to reason.

@theDonGreer @esrtweet @Andercot PhDs know a whole lot about very little.

I think Neil de Grasse Tyson just plain sucks. He has none of the depth of Carl Sagan, none of the humility Hawking, nor scientific accomplishments. He is a gotcha sound-byte narcissist, an absolute dead weight to society, he just fucking sucks

@DaveBlundin Dave, you and I both know, this cat left the bag in the 80's. Restricting technology has been a game played for decades; this is just the first time it was explicitly done against AI (although, if Marc Andreessen is to be believed, it's not actually the first time).

This is one of the most pivotal events in history because of the precedent it sets. Even if it doesn't stick, the cat is out of the bag: the government can now unilaterally decide who gets to use AI. Over the last few days I had fully transitioned to orchestrating with Fable. It initially felt like the cookie jar was moved out of reach. Now after spending the day with Opus, I've accepted just how monumental this is. Being denied the best AI model is effectively the same as being denied future employment.

@alexthechick Um.... what about HPs? I'm screwed, aren't I?

Just putting this here for no reason.

@IntCyberDigest Jira and Teams should be shut down because they're just unmitigated pieces of crap.

Dear US government, Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people: - Microsoft Teams - SAP - Salesforce - Jira - Outlook Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

@greengirlbella_ Narvana.

WTH IS THIS PLACE AMERICANS PLEASE EXPLAIN

@Illuminawti No need to shout, only to encourage. There is nothing worse for your health than biscuits and sawmill gravy, but there is also little that tastes better. Endulge.

I have a confession to make. I've been in the USA - Texas, specifically - since 2005 and I still haven't eaten biscuits and gravy. You may shout at me now.

"Hardware doesn't work like this..." Clearly, you've never worked in IT (or at least, enterprise IT). Hardware hiccups all the time! We take backups for a reason; we do reboot cycles for a reason; we have UPSs and generators and redundant cooling infrastructure for a reason. As for software, when you include the OS, compiler, libraries, monitoring systems, etc. A single-application platform may be something on the order of 100 million lines of code involved (and maybe several times that). What do you think the chances are that there's a bug in that much code? 100%. And probably lots of them. Hence, you have to find those bugs (one at a time) and fix them. That's the "maintenance" of the code, excluding the obvious things like external API changes, changing business needs and legal requirements, optimizations, etc.

can anyone ELI5 why software needs to be "maintained"? Like why do you need whole teams working on stuff that already works? Hardware doesn't work like this If it functions, it functions and does not need to be changed unless you're replacing something worn out.

@FreddyLA7 My man, I believe you have become America's favorite German.

This is so insane😭😭😭

@MoMohler Nah! That'll never work!

No better words spoken.

@Revolutioig9 Honestly, Toyota and Honda make the best engines on the planet. Car bodies, not so much, but if you could mix and match a Toyota engine and a GM transmission into a Ford body, you'd probably have the best overall vehicle on the planet.

2010 Toyota Corolla. Regular maintenance, I changed the alternator/starter and O2 sensors. She’s still purrin’. I’ll pick Toyota over American any day.

@japan_nobunaga Well, since half of us are on Ozimic at this point, doggy bags are becoming more popular. :)

I'm Japanese and I've never finished an American-sized meal alone 😅 On TV, one person orders a plate big enough for three people. In Japan, portions are smaller. We'd probably call that "family size." Do Americans actually eat the whole thing? Or is doggy bag culture the real answer? 🥡

@sakebu_cheese_ A lady down the road from me does the same with eggs. She has a small fridge that she stores the fresh eggs of the day in. You come and put your $5 in the box and take your dozen eggs. She's done it for years. I've seen similar produce stands on country roads over the years.

みなさんこんにちは🌎 日本には、道端に野菜が置かれていて、お金を箱に入れて買う「無人販売所」があります。 田舎に行くほど多いです。 驚くことに店員はいなくて、信用で成り立っています。 みんなの国でもこれをやったら成立しそうですか？😂

@kaorukazama As a general rule, don't eat in bars. The food is usually mediocre and outrageously expensive. Eat first, then go to the bar.

Why is that, Americans? What do you usually do for dinner?