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It s time to fight back Let s get this out of the way: The singular act of redistricting early in Texas is the grossest example of deafness by Texas legislators I ve ever witnessed. We have so many other things that need attention independent of this that to lock it together with flood aid is nothing less Continue reading Texas Nonsense, and The List
AI is the cloud computing industry s attempt to keep its aging assets and purchase contracts appearing valuable. They overbuilt and overcommitted on infrastructure. Stargate will buy, at great tax payer expense, these distressed assets at inflated prices and subsequently go bankrupt. The datacenters will then be sold back to cloud computing industry dirt cheap, thus Continue reading The Stargate…
This is a followup to my previous post. Microsoft has removed information about disabling mitigations to Downfall in upcoming and current security updates to Windows. Why would Microsoft suddenly care about publishing how to turn off bare-metal mitigations that one could simply choose not to install? These updates can cause significant performance degredation in operations Continue reading…
In response to Ars Technica s coverage of the Storm-0558 Azure/Exchange hack: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/hack-of-a-microsoft-corporate-account-led-to-azure-breach-by-chinese-hackers/ Let us all take a trip back to 2018, the earliest year mentioned in the article, and a year I revist often when in reference to Microsoft. Spectre Meltdown had been quietly discovered a year earlier,…
Preface: Conspiracies carry a different weight these days for something so common, in light of that understand I find no grand conspiracy in this, likely just a bunch of people who don t care. That being said, using this would be too easy. I ve submitted this bug to Google already. They ve replied with a WONT FIX Continue reading Transparency Character Codes: How open government information is…
In the years leading up to writing this article I was of the opinion that everything I m about to comment on are matters of common sense, matters of basic held ethics, business practices one learns when first learning what business is, and qualities of decent human beings. In a time where I have been delighted Continue reading Bad Business Practices
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Mankind has not yet developed artificial intelligence. What we do have is computer learning and neural networks, and both of these are just ways of rearranging pre-existing data sets. While amazing insight can be had with these tools, when used without oversight they can produce not just tacky, but down right offensive results. Here s a Continue reading Algorithmic Bias (AI is Racist)
Short and sweet: You re doing it wrong. Your Javascript is too clever , and will be a maintenance nightmare. Read the docs. No really, read them. You ve been adding inline padding styles to fix your elements because you didn t read the docs. Worse yet, you simply didn t take the time to do a couple searches before you vomited code all Continue reading You re doing it wrong: Javascript, CSS, UI UX…
As a Software Developer in Dallas, TX it is very obvious that the demographics of my profession have absolutely nothing in common with the demographics of my city. To be frank, it s mostly Caucasian males (~65%), Indian males females (33%), the later weighted towards immigrant workers. This is just a mind dump on something larger Continue reading Demographics of Development in DFW