They’re also inflating conversion numbers (the thing company ad spend is based on) by over 50%. Google is doing the same. So even real ads are only half as effective as companies think.

Good news! There’s an ad bubble too!

It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve done lab work, but the ol’ lab coat comes out for Halloween every few years.

banana ball?

If we make that slang for tennis ball then we’re molding the world to suit our memes.

I walked into to work this morning to a dev IM needing permissions. Instead of telling me what the error message said, which would contain the allowance needed, he needed he sent me a screenshot of what chatGPT said he needed. GPT effectively said the solution was to let him assume any privileged access policy that exists.

I think security teams are fine for a while.

Given how much time I spend actually looking at the screen while the show/movie is on, it might as well be in ca. 2000 RealVideo 160x120 resolution.

If the doctor orders I eat 2 breakfasts, I’m not letting a pharmacy screw up the good thing I’ve got going!

But what insurance is requiring 90 days and are they taking signups? Mine forces everything to 30 unless I use their mail pharmacy that constantly loses orders.

Once upon a time they insisted that Amazon had independent decision making on their providers when they were needing new infrastructure and they “always decided that AWS suited them best.”

Shockingly (/s), they stopped making that claim right about the same time they started admitting that their biggest users are all under Private Pricing Agreements.

So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed? You young ops have gotten soft! Learn to live by ChaosMonkey or die by the Gorilla.

I still think the web took a wrong turn when NCSA Mosaic first stated supporting inline images.

Or we know all about them and avoid them at almost all cost.

We tore our front lawn out this summer. By the time we were working in July the (clay) soil under the sod was brick hard for 18 inches before it got workable again.

The yard is now 70% native and the area with high sun is drought tolerant. It’s only been a few weeks and already the pollinators are here in force and there’s a pair of mourning doves that come by to hang out most mornings.

Yeah. Obviously that’s what console.debug() is for.

Yo, listen up, here’s a story
About a little guy that lives in a BLUE world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

Da-ba-dee, da-ba-di, da-ba-dee, da-ba-di

Like a nice hot cup of tea

Give it a pass. The strange matter dongles are due out by new year and they’re not compatible with exotic matter.

I assume this in regard to the possible evidence of life on mars, recently announced.

They denied it until the instant doing so was inconvenient to them.

So we got rid of most of the useful government data and now we’re paying gas fees to billionaires to store the rest. Great.

Yay!

Countdown to articles (that take themselves very seriously) about people getting really upset over the term “clanker lover”