This is why he moved to Texas

Yup, sometime in the next year or two I’ll get laid off, then I’ll just mooch off my spouse.

There’s a saying you might want to get familiar with

“If everywhere you look, all you see is assholes, maybe you’re the asshole.”

https://youtu.be/zsyGRDrDfbI

New math came out of it, they figured out more and more efficient ways to figure out the solution to “is this prime?”

Those same math techniques can be used for other problems, and possibly learn something that solves a problem you actually care about.

Research is important because you never know what weird problem someone is working on might solve. Maybe it will provide a new math solution that creates better CGI, maybe it’ll finally create a technique to solve fusion.

Maybe it’ll just be something that we know now that we didn’t know before. There are FAR FAR FAR more wasteful things in the world than some nerds trying to solve big prime numbers.

Why is anything worth the effort?

Cause research into primes makes computer security stronger. Cause research in general can make new discoveries that can lead to unexpected improvements in life.

Cause we need to know the answer to everything.

Cause it’s better than mining crypto or doing AI training models over and over.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-remove-most-annoying-ads-from-windows

check out how many settings you have to search and disable to turn off MOST of the ads in windows. It’s completely ridiculous.

I would upgrade to windows 11 if it wasn’t full of ads, I had two computers accidentally upgrade after mis-clicking an upgrade prompt and the experience was bad enough I reloaded the whole computer.

Not only that, but it doesn’t make sense to have a task bar on the bottom of an ultrawide display. I’ve been putting my taskbar on the left side for over a decade, and now you just can’t do that for some reason…