I thought that Musk and Trump kept their wealth as cash in vaults for swimming purposes.

Now now, he’s not lying lying, he’s just really into “alternative appraisal and accounting methods”. Kinda like that aunt who does her own research and swears by essential oils and homeopathy, but with money.

Let me give you an example. Let’s say that I have a truck load of coarse sand, like 25 tons. I manage to sell a single 10mg grain of sand for 1 USD. By appraising my sand based fortune on this single data point, I could claim that a gram is worth 100 USD, thus I have 2.5 billion USD tied up in sand. We both know that I obviously can’t liquidate my sand for that amount, but that doesn’t matter, because all I need is to convince a bank that my appraisal is sound and then use the sand as collateral for a 100 million USD loan. Some of that loan I’ll further invest in the sand business, after all it’s booming. More sand equals more collateral, and seeing as one bank was satisfied with my collateral, then I will be able to get other banks in on it too. And now I can live like a billionaire, all because I have invested in coarse sand. And if the banks figure out that I’m full of it, then what are they going to do? Take me to court and look like idiots for buying into my sand appraisal? And risk bankruptcy as it’s revealed that the collateral the bank has for its lending business is worthless? Better to keep quiet and prop up the sand mogul.

Great, just what we need, an even louder Trump

Nah, I heard that she ran out of tictacs, and had the nerve to ask Trump to start washing occasionally, instead of popping a mint before going down.

Limbaugh’s dead? I guess it’s been years since I thought of him last.

Tja hvad er ledelsen? Er det ikke mf’erne? For hvor meget ledelse kan der ellers være? For var det ikke halvdelen, der selv havde sagt op og de resterende tre, der er fyret? Jeg ved godt at det er djøf’er, men de kan vel ikke have mere end 8-10 ledere til 6 medarbejdere?

9+1 = 10, therefore 91 is divisible by 10 and is not a prime … QED, I guess

Are we eventually gonna get more fusion […]

Either you mean fission, or the “more” could be omitted.

Dayam! That notice is fine

How do they vote? I mean can you bring a person into the booth with you? You can’t where I live.

If you think this is bad, then you haven’t tried navigating the MS academic offerings. Over the last 10 or so years, I think it’s been called “dreamspark”, “imagine”, “MSDN Academic Alliance” (I liked this one, it actually made sense), “MSDN AA”, and now “Azure Dev Tools for Teaching” or “adt4t” when talking with support.

rant mode ON

Everytime the name is changed, it seems something else changes (OK it’s a new product) and the way to access installers and activate it differs. I just want to teach, but every couple of years I have to spend days trying to figure out how to get my iso’s and how to renew the subscription. A couple of years ago, and mind you this was after I had had an active academic relationship with Microsoft for 8 years, and my predecessor even longer than that before me, we had to submit invoices proving that the school owned the domainname for our emails and website, as well as a letter from the ministry of education that we were licensed to teach this course.

The support staff is very professional and helpful, and we’ve always been able to resolve renewal issues. But each year we have to go through the process of getting through a maze of support pages linking to chatbots, to find the correct form to contact support. I think the link to support form had the text “Beware of the leopard”.

Som sagt, så var det ikke en holdning…

Det er her dog: hvis man har en aftale med regionen, om at regionen ikke vil betale mere end 3,9mio pr år uden at regionen får rabat derudover, og man samtidig med det, har potentielle kunder stående i kø for at give en flere penge end regionen ville give i første omgang (ok, det er et gæt). Så kan jeg ikke få ondt i røven over at den enkelte psykiater tager betalende kunder ind. Hvad jeg dog kan få ondt i røven over, det er regionerne, der ikke vil tildele flere ydernumre for på den måde at styre økonomien.

Det kunne godt være en dansk “The thick of it” møder “Dalgaards Tivoli”. Det ville faktisk kunne være ret sjovt. En moralsk korrupt og verbalt overfaldende dranker, der forsøger at opretholde det image, hans cirkus er baseret på. Samtlige medarbejdere er klovne, der skal udfylde alle roller, men falder igennem, uden at det er meningen at være et “stur stur nummer”.

Måske Adam Price kunne trække på erfaringerne fra Borgen og skrive serien.

Tag fritstillelsen og skriv en bog under pseudonym. Hvis enhver er sin egen lykkes smed, så maksimer profitten.

Disclaimer: Det her skal ikke tages som udtryk for nogen som helst holdning fra min side. Den har jeg ikke tid til at formulere.

Det er 3,9mio i omsætning ikke personlig indtægt til psykiateren selv. For de penge skal psykiateren betale en sekretær, husleje, forsikringer, licenser til journalsoftware, efteruddannelse og temmelig sikkert en masse andre ting som jeg ikke har en anelse om. Men, igen: ikke en holdning til om 3,9mio i omsætning er meget eller lidt, ikke en holdning til om psykiateren burde tage flere patienter ind og betale penge tilbage.

Ah snap! Nåede at se fejlen inden svaret poppede op, troede at jeg kunne rette den i tide. Termen “begavet til søs” ville dog nok næppe blive brugt hvis jeg blev matros.

Why not just stick to what we’ve always been doing?

1. wget something.tar.gz
2. tar something.tar.gz
3. man tar
4. tar xzf something.tar.gz
5. cd something
6. ls -al
7. ./config.sh
8. chmod +x config.sh
9. ./config.sh
10. make config
11. Try to figure out where to get some obscure dependency, with the right version number. Discover that the last depency was hosted on the dev’s website that the dev self-hosted when it went belly up 5 years ago. Finally find the lib on some weird site with a TLD you could have sworn wasn’t even in latin characters.
12. make config
13. make
14. Go for coffee
15. make install
16. SU root
17. make install

Superb overskrift. Hvis jeg engang ender med at blive begavet til søs, så håber jeg på noget lignende.