The effects of the tariffs haven’t hit most people yet. People with a 401(k) or who otherwise own stocks obviously know but that’s not necessarily immediate pain. I’m guessing if there’s no reversal in policy, late summer and early fall is when the shit is really going to become real for a lot of people.

Major companies have stocked up on inventory. Those inventories will slowly dwindle and prices will slowly rise. But a lot of consumer-facing companies launch new products in late summer (for back-to-school spending) or early fall (for Christmas spending). It’ll be completely undeniable when even Walmart doubles prices.

He’s not going to be able to run for a third term. Even if somehow no one stops him, he already looks more like Slimer from Ghostbusters than a living human and his brain clearly isn’t any different.

Everyone is blaming this solely on alcohol but I’m guessing based on his job title and the situation that steroids share some of the blame. People don’t typically get all aggro with (presumably sober and calm) hotel staff over last call if they’re just wasted.

Not currently. I used to be.

I wasn’t dismissing the problem that they exist. That’s the first problem. I was saying uncertainty prevents as much investment as do tariffs. No one knows what the tariffs will be in a month. His brain is a non-Newtronean fluid at this point.

A big problem with Trump’s tariffs isn’t that they exist; it’s that they’re subject to change at any moment. To be clear, they’re idiotic. But no one can invest in anything long term in America right now.

Imagine opening a restaurant in the U.S. right now. Half your kitchen equipment is subject to steel or aluminum tariffs. You don’t know if you can import anything. Or you can wait a year and see how full Trump’s diaper is. He also looks half dead without makeup and might have pissed off the Yakuza (or worse). The smart move is to wait to open your restaurant.

Now imagine any business bigger than a restaurant.

I hope he learned the lesson everyone else learned 6+ years ago.

Pfft. The U.S. has been around for over 2 centuries. How long has China been around?

Even if it does the basic shit at the expense of me working one less hour a week, it’s not worth paying for. And that ignores the downsides like spam, bots, data centers needing power/water, and politicians thinking GPU cards are national security secrets.

I don’t think we need a Skynet scenario to imagine the downsides.

I use it in software development and it hasn’t changed my life. It’s slightly more convenient than last gen code completion but I’ve never worked on a project where code per hours was the hold up. One less stand-up per week would probably increase developer productivity more than GitHub Copilot.

Did you see the wack ass Quake II version Microsoft bragged about? It wasn’t even playable. A fucking 12 year old could do better.

Because it’s alpha software. We’re 40 years away from “A.I.” being able to be competent at anything.

Dear CEOs: I will never accept 0.5% hallucinations as “A.I.” and if you don’t even know that, I want an A.I. machine cooking all your meals. If you aren’t ok with 1/200 of your meals containing poison, you’re expendable.

Humans or even regular ass algorithms are fine. A.I. can predict protein folding. It should do a lot else unless there’s a generational leap from “making shitty images” to “as close to perfect as it gets.”

Hard to imagine a CEO doing something that would make me less likely to apply or use their service.

I’m pretty sure browsers don’t even load http sites anymore.

I do that too. I almost never want to hit CAPS LOCK (and can type holding shift) but if you map it to CTRL or even something not on modern keyboards (like F15 or any number over 12, I guess), you can use it as a shortcut key.

Personally, I use CAPS (remapped to CTRL) plus Tilde as my shortcut to show/dismiss a Quake-style terminal overlay window. That key combo actually can be made to work on Windows and macOS too so it’s basically cross-platform.

I’m 99% sure macOS (with iTerm 2 setup for Quake-style) has a built-in system option to remap CAPS LOCK but it only allows a few keys. I forget the Windows method. I used to have to use Windows sometimes but it’s been awhile. I’ve definitely got it working with a third party terminal emulator and WSL2, though.

Trump unilaterally declared certain words in research papers would get funding for your research (and even university) revoked.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html?unlocked_article_code=1.904.1FgL.3feAf1QvdpOb

Gift link to the list of words compiled by The NY Times.

I was hotter, dirtier, and poorer when I was 23 and it wasn’t that bad.

Better sleep hygiene kind of does fix a lot of stupid assholes.

If you have an old enough circuit breaker, you can stick certain coins in it — a penny in the United States — until you can get to the hardware store and buy a proper fuse. It might burn your house down but not really if you don’t do it a lot.