This post is very timely because I was just introducing some new people to Mongo earlier this week and led off with "Now you might still hear people say 'mongo is trash, it's not even ACID compliant!' but those people are dumb... it's had that for years and years and is just another DBMS at this point (but not relational)"
... the last part also answers the other reply to this post. Yes.
Quotes I highlighted from Wolff's book on trump's first term, most of them quotes from trump or people in his orbit that came up in interviews for the book.
“I don’t get it,” Trump said.
Of course the United States manufactured things, but reality did not match the vision in Trump’s mind.
“I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years. That doesn’t mean they’re right,”
It was clear Trump had no clue what that was or who Porter was.
As far as Porter was concerned Navarro was a member of the Flat Earth Society on trade deficits, like the president himself.
No answers were forthcoming. But Trump soon forgot his questions.
“I don’t want to hear that,” Trump replied. “It’s all bullshit.”
Trump seemed not to comprehend the value and the necessity.
The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire.
“He’s a fucking moron,” Tillerson said so everyone heard.
Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards.
It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views
"I can’t sit around and listen to this from the president. He’s just a moron.”
It was clearly Russian propaganda, McMaster said. He and the NSC and intelligence experts had concluded that. But the president had picked it up and shot it out.
Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.
“The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.”
Trump had no understanding of how government functioned.
Trump liked signing. It meant he was doing things,
The president thought special assistant sounded a lot better, not realizing it was an even lower position.
Kelly said of the president, “He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in crazytown."
“Can we change the libel laws?” Trump asked
He had told the West Wing staff and even some on the Hill that the president didn’t understand what DACA was, that he was ignorant of both the policy and the mechanics.
The president can’t do this on his own, he’d told West Wing colleagues, because if he does it on his own, he’s going to screw it up.
“He’s a professional liar.”
“Mr. President, I cannot, as a lawyer, as an officer of the court, sit next to you and have you answer these questions when I full well know that you’re not really capable.”
He could not say what he knew was true: “You’re a fucking liar.” That was the problem.
Somewhere out there is a person with a single folder named "music", with zero sub folders, containing thousands upon thousands of tracks with names like "1.mp3" and "1 (1).mp3" and they're totally okay with it.
Something I found today - ask it for the lyrics of your favorite song/artist. It will make something up based on the combination of the two and maybe a little of what it was trained on... Even really popular songs (I tried a niche one by Angelspit first then tried "Sweet Caroline" for more well known). The model for those tests was Gemma3. It did get two lines of "Sweet Caroline" correct but not the rest.
The new gpt-oss model replies with (paraphrased) "I can't do that because it is copyrighted material" which I have a sneaking suspicion is intentional so there's an excuse for not showing a very wrong answer to people who might start to doubt it's ""intelligence"" when it's very clearly wrong.
Same place for me I'm betting, but three weeks on a longer "choose your own adventure" route. We chose to hike most of every day and cover as much ground as possible instead of stopping at the more "comfortable" areas that had facilities.
I forget the exact distance but pretty sure it was over 225 miles.
I've got family that is on their third pet raccoon. I'm not sure where the last two came from but the first was a baby when they got it. They cut down a tree that had a family of raccoons in it and that one survived so they just... Kept it.
It was very entertaining but could be an asshole when in heat.
O, and I worked with a lady that had one too. Apparently they can survive a massive opiate overdose because it ate an entire bottle of painkillers (oxys? Hydros? I forget) while she was at work one day. She said it was stiff like rigor mortis for about 36 hours then eventually just got up and continued on like nothing had happened.
I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things "user friendly" with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn't do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.
25+ years later, I'll use a gui if it works and it's easy, but I still have trust issues that I don't have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it's going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying... And I appreciates that.
That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however... No gui, no problem.
I'm old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.
I'm also in Arkansas.
But, not a kid so I guess it's okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.
Yeah... I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P
Life hacks. Get on board.