Sleepy, Enjoy These Memes Instead

Pretty tired.  New post on Monday!

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

6 thoughts on “Sleepy, Enjoy These Memes Instead”

  1. “Your future doctor is probably using ChatGPT……”

    I had a fracture mechanics professor that used to make similar comments. He’d say “the next time you fly on an airplane, just remember that the engineer who designed that plane graduated based on partial credit”. He loved to point out how even a straight A engineering student still got up to 10% of the exam questions wrong.

    Despite the relatively low success rate of individual engineers, it always amazed me how groups of engineers could design systems with 99.999+% reliability when the work together (and they often did so using only slide rules). Of course, that all hinged on engineers working in a high trust society, which we no longer have thanks to DEI and the importation of ‘jeet engineers.

    Now I can’t help but shake my head in disgust as the refrigerator we bought 2 years ago has died and the repairman says it isn’t worth repairing because Samsung doesn’t know how to build reliable compressors. Given that the basic refrigeration cycle hasn’t changed much in 100 years, you’d think it would be a no-brainer to get this one right.

    So I sit in my recliner having a drink with no ice while while reading about more product failures with my former employer that will lead to more layoffs. These failure points were identified years ago, but the DEI managers were too stupid to heed the warnings. Welcome to the new third world…..

    JB

  2. On the Indian meme: In general, Indian programmers tend to be the worst on the planet. Their code runs….eventually, but only after 5 dozen refactors, and then it’s barely hanging on for dear life. I blame Indian culture for that problem. Indian culture is the least trust-oriented culture on the planet, where cleverness and intelligence are oriented around what you can get away with, not what you know and can do that is useful for everyone. The funny thing is if you can get an Indian person out of Indian culture and away from thinking like an Indian, they often become trustworthy and caring people that do quite good work and have excellent reasoning and problem solving skills. But that’s just it, it’s really hard to get someone to reject the culture they’ve had their entire life.

  3. Thoughts…

    1. The Nintendo Meme might be true. Reminds me of “The Simpsons” episode when Bill Gates’ thugs shook down Homer after he went into “The Internet” biz.
    2. “…roiling in his grave??? Obviously no English major.
    3. Portsmouth, OH. Birthplace of Leonard Slye. He later changed his name. Nice small town that’s seen better days.
    4. What happens in Vegas, doesn’t stay in Vegas. Amazed that wasn’t featured on “On Patrol LIVE”.

    Have a happy weekend, TBPers. Here in the Carolinas, we’re finally getting break from 3 weeks of almost daily rain.

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