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We should stop them too?

Seasonal Affective Disorder - a mood disorder triggered by serotonin/melatonin regulation issues, normally caused by not enough sunlight exposure.

That’s why I read on my phone. I can quickly pick up a book where I left off, wherever I happen to be.

Latency, also known as ping time by gamers, is the amount of time it takes for a signal to get from one computer to the other. Bandwidth is the total number of signals that can be sent over a given amount of time.

Eg: a bus has more bandwidth than a Kawasaki motorcycle, but also more latency (from a people moving perspective).

In answer to your second question: it depends on what you find depressing.

I love being snuggled in by dense cloud cover, and I love the rain. I’m not susceptible to S.A.D.

I like evergreen trees and mountains and water and moderate temperatures. So the PNW is like a perfect vacation experience for me year-round.

Other people are used to the prairies with wide open clear skies and hot hots and cold colds. Other people prefer equatorial climates with lots of sun, humidity, and storms that rush in and rush out again.

They probably wouldn’t do so well in the PNW.

The device in your pocket connects to an ISP, who is also your cellular carrier. And it connects constantly, advertising itself to the local transmission towers, even when the phone is “turned off”. Your ISP/cellular provider always knows where your phone is, unless it’s disconnected from power or out of range.

There are “Internet cables” across the ocean; there are also “Internet satellites” orbiting the earth. The cables are good because they provide low latency. But that is not the most desired feature of all Internet packets; sometimes, bandwidth or range are higher priority than latency, and in those cases, a wireless transport layer may be preferred.

AI is as useful and necessary as 3D video, cryptocurrency, NFTs, The Cloud, and all the other fads. Note that all the fads have stuck around in one manner or another. LLMs will too.

As a manager, I want all my reports to be familiar with AI. I want them to know how to use it, how it will fail, but most importantly, how to recognize if something they’re working on has been touched by AI and what processes need to be followed if it has.

Because the thing that’s worse than junior devs not knowing what their code does is when they slip it into production and someone attempting to make updates doesn’t realize the code doesn’t follow human logic and may not do what they think it does.

I hope they start with the T.

Well, I think Adam Sandler could be droves all by himself.

At first I thought this was the Israeli company run by “ex” Mossad that owns all the VPNs. But after going through the website, the company is called Privacy Inc. and appears to be run by a bunch of rich ex-US intelligence people.

They do a really good job of hiding their staff and company name and physical location, revealing only what’s legally required. That means they at least have the chops to do privacy right… but it always gives me a funny feeling when a company doesn’t stand behind its own brand but instead depends on third party promoters.

And they call themselves a global private telecom, but appear to be very US-focused, with two US locations (but no addresses available).

They certainly have lots of claims and appear to have thought about company structure, but this looks really similar to a Langley shell company to me.

I thought they were going to go with “Shame Month”

How does it interact with EM radiation?

Annihilation.

Yeah; crows have mating songs.

But it’s all about two things: attracting a mate and avoiding predators.

Some birds use sound for that. Other birds use visual displays, aerobatics, sheer viciousness, or other physical traits. Some use combinations of the above. Like everything else, what works will survive to be used by the next generation.

For the most part, bb guns and pellet guns have been replaced with nerf guns.

Nerf darts are designed to bounce off eyeballs.

Growing up, I had a compact pneumatic dart gun that fired actual darts with needle tips. Those could definitely have taken out an eye, and are likely a controlled weapon today.

I see what you did there, you hacker.

There’s a difference between remembering your training and being in proper physical condition.

In fact, if your film training involves different martial arts for each film, you probably would suck at actual fighting due to having to think about each thing you plan to do before you do it.

If you know one way to take someone down, if they come at you, you’ll reflexively do it.

If you know 30 ways to take someone down, you’ll either use the one you’ve used the most, the most recent one, or you’ll have to stop and decide which one makes the most sense in the situation—and that hesitation will mean you’ll lose against anyone well trained in a single discipline.

Do you have experience with AI dev environments? That’s generally the differentiator right now. Claude Code replaces managing a junior dev team of 5. Anyone who can demonstrate the ability to leverage it is not short of work.

Those 5 junior devs are, though.