I love the QFP packaged chips being clearly visible, how delightfully 90s

Hot boiling magma

The time before last I went to the dentist my regular dentist wasn’t available, so they called ahead and asked if I would like to reschedule or just see some other dentist from the same clinic instead. I was fine with another dentist, as I have very good teeth for an old man and nothing special going on.

He asked me if I flossed, I said I used those little poker things that work well, except for a couple of teeth on the bottom that are too close together. So he poked at those teeth a bit and told me I should try harder, a poker could easily get in between those. So he got a poker and wanted to demonstrate, but couldn’t really do it. He started trying harder and harder, really shoving it in there with force, getting a new poker if the previous one bent over. I started bleeding a bit, so the assistant refreshed my catching cloth. Until I started bleeding a lot and a nice line of blood splat all over the dentist.

He was wearing full protection and it’s part of his job, so he didn’t mind. We looked at each other and started laughing out loud. The nurse just sighed and went to fetch new protection for the dentist and something to clean everything up. He said he got why I didn’t try poking in between those teeth, it didn’t work very well.

Luckily I’m not afraid of the dentist or mind pain all that much, or that visit would have put me off going next time.

I don’t think this is a very good argument. Because AI is all encompassing in scope, where the things you mention are not.

Sure most people would just use a library to handle TLS and not worry about it. But the library is there, it was written by humans that understand it, people created it for you to use. And if you feel like you can go in and explore it yourself and many people do so. For people brushing up on their assembly skills: Yes many people do that and I would recommend it a lot. For work it’s a more rare thing, unless you are in highly specialized fields, but for hobby programming assembly is used a lot. People love making romhacks or even whole new games for old systems. Z80 assembly is still very much alive and kicking due to the GameBoy. Just like doing recreational mathematics, people do recreational assembly programming.

But where your argument falls down the most is because of transferable skills. Whenever you do any kind of programming you are building up your skills. Your expertise might be NodeJS for example, but if you were to try some C programming, it would take some getting used to but you could easily do it. Because a lot of the skills are transferable.

With AI you get the issue OP described, actual programming skills atrophy. It’s like muscle that needs to be worked. Specializing in a field and simply using a library for another field still works that muscle. With AI you stop working the muscle at all and lose the skills. So presenting AI as just another level of abstraction or automation, like a library or just another tool like a compiler is a false comparison.

His wife will be getting paid tho, getting out at around the absolute peak.

Yes I’ve been playing almost every day. This game is a real gem. I’m running around all the time, trying to find all the secrets and the game is taunting me all the time. Look at this loot, you want this loot right? Good luck finding out how sucker!

All the wandering I’m doing it’s very confusing what is actually progression and what is just finding neat stuff. Then I do this crazy shit I half remembered seeing earlier, thinking it was some kind of obscure secret. Nope that was actually progression, lucky I found it. Then you fall down a hole and get ganged up by a bunch of enemies you’ve never seen before. You hit one and the health bar barely moved, Game over! Now how did I ever get there?

I love this game, I love the graphics (have the retro filter on), love the music (shop music = best music) and love the challenge. The game sucks you in and you just want to play more of it. I feel like this might be my GotY for sure!

Dr. Collier <3

A lot of the AI industry is powered by VC money at the moment. Which means a lot of the services offered are using very low fixed billing. This loses a ton of money, but is seen as an investment. The idea is to get a lot of customers and lock them into the service. Then slowly raise prices, enshittify the service and thus gain back the money lost in the beginning.

However what we’ve seen in this AI bubble is everything is moving too fast for that to be a good option. VC money is running out fast and the price of AI from the large providers is getting higher by the day. This means a lot of those AI startups that were trying to get customers are losing money much faster than expected and either have to raise prices or shutdown.

Especially in sectors where there isn’t a lot of money to be made. Customer support for example is one of those areas that costs money and doesn’t make money normally. So corners get cut, people don’t get paid much and stuff is outsourced to India for example. When the AI solutions are offered at the low fixed price, it’s a good idea for companies to use it. But when the price goes up and pricing becomes unpredictable if token based billing is involved, suddenly it isn’t as good an alternative as the older solutions were.

This is a large part of the AI bubble when people talk about that. It isn’t just the circular investments, way too high spending commitments and overpromising of the tech. It’s also the huge amount of VC based startups and investment programs that can’t economically exist without that continuous injection of funds. Now that the real price of AI is showing up, it looks like a lot of those startups will go bankrupt and large projects funded by investment will stop. With a lot of the market price of the larger tech companies being based on this huge demand that might evaporate in short order, the fear is a lot of them are way overvalued. When the market corrects for this, the impact will be pretty big and the fallout felt by everyone.

You have been misinformed about fluoride in toothpaste and water. Please take the time to inform yourself and trust in facts, not propaganda.

Not meaning any disrespect or negativity towards you, just a heads up.

My aunt and uncle, double suns

And sippin’ blue milk

My aunt and uncle, double suns

I’m sick of blue milk

No it was a joke, the dishwasher was over 20 years old and I had maintained it properly. I had repaired it many times, replacing or repairing components, improvising fixes where needed. I am remodeling the downstairs, so I removed the kitchen. I made sure almost all of the cabinets got a second life in a garage somewhere (helped move and install them). The dishwasher was still functional, even though it was old, so I gave it away for free and somebody was happy to have it.

In the end all that actually went to recycling was one cabinet which was totally rotted, it fell apart as I removed it. Some wood trim that was made to fit exactly this kitchen and the hood which was broken beyond repair (needed a new motor, which is almost the entire thing and I couldn’t source it).

I plan to re-use the fridge and the hob. The oven has been nothing but trouble since I moved in, with a post-it on the electrical panel for how to reset it when it goes into failure mode that looked like it had been there for decades. That might need to go to recycling. I re-used part of the kitchen counter as a workbench, but part of that has gone to recycling as well.

I’m all about reduce, re-use and recycle and wouldn’t just buy something new when I don’t need to. I’m still waying my options for the new kitchen, if I’m going to go sustainable or recycled materials I’m going to have to build it myself. Which is in my capabilities, but perhaps not in my time constraints. So not sure on that yet. For now I’ve uncovered a world of hurt with very questionable and dangerous electrical and plumbing. How this house hasn’t burnt down yet is a wonder, and I have uncovered evidence of multiple fires in the past. So that’s a big job that takes priority for now.

Technology Connections told me about the filter in the bottom of the dishwasher, how cleaning that out can do wonders for the performance. And he said if you hadn’t ever cleaned that he felt sorry for me when I would open it up and find out what’s inside. I was afraid to, so I sold the dishwasher and got a new one. Checked the filter, clean as a whistle, disaster avoided.

Oh no, he ded

Gen Z is addicted to vaping: https://www.chestnet.org/guidelines-and-topic-collections/publications/chest-advocates/gen-z-is-hooked-on-vaping Gen A is a bit young, but the older Gen As are included in the stats and follow the exact pattern as Gen Z.

As for how bad vaping is, is a bit more difficult, as it’s a more recent thing than smoking is. But indications are it’s better than smoking but it’s far from safe. This site had a good overview with sources: https://www.healthline.com/health/is-vaping-worse-than-smoking-cigarettes

Gen Z/A are heavily addicted to vaping, which is a little better than smoking, but only a little.

Jami?

On the other hand, I do feel like I connect to Mr. Bucket on a spiritual level.

I said Hey! What’s going on?

Never slop