I don’t think there would be much of a pressure change. All the outies would become innie lowering the pressure and all the innies becoming outies would bring it back up.

Maybe your ears might pop.

The one silver lining I guess is that when people say “you really should read the book” with PKD stories they end up being so different that they really feal like a different story. They tend to not have the Green Lantern Effect where the movie ruins the original story for you.

It always bugs me when they make one of his books into a movie because there never is a reason to cut the important parts out. I would understand if the books were long, or had concepts that are too difficult to bring to the screen. Instead its cut because no one wants movies you have to think about.

I’ve always thought how ridiculously on the nose it was for her to star in a TV show where she was breaking out of a religious cult…and that she was in one IRL. Especially that her IRL cult has been linked to murders, silencing witnesses, and a miriad of other illegal acts. She just swapped roles apparently.

The “problem” is that I will play on my retropi on my TV put when I am out somewhere and have my handheld my saves don’t automatically transfer.

Pesonally I use syncthing between all my devices. Save on my TV and I can load the save game on my handheld.

got two handhelds and a console on my TV syncing to my VPS so I can go from my home to portable with no effort

I was thinking about something similar. Generate a lot of source code that is pure garbage with comments so that they are learning nonsense. But at the end of the day I don’t want to waste more CPU cycles. This is enough to waste their time on my sites with no real blips on my machine.

The honey pot lists a dozen randomly generated links that all point back to the honeypot. Then I have a script that runs nightly and if your IP clicked on a honeypot 100 or more times in a day the IP gets blocked. That way people can stumble on it and not get banned.

Looking at the logs I easily get tens of thousands of hits daily by dozens of bots. A few business sites, personal page, hobby page, and my GitHub replacement. Not really a big target. But still a lot of bot traffic.

What the mob was doing was keeping all the different parties oblivious of what each other were doing. If you ever hear “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing” that is where it comes from. What RICO did was say as a group you all committed a crime. You can’t curtail the law by having 10 people do 10 different steps and then say they are all innocent as no one individual did it all.

Those laws got stronger as criminals got smarter. To the point where using an unsuspecting 3rd party could implicate the 3rd party. If I wrote a letter to a hit man and then put that letter in another letter and sent it to you saying “can you please mail this for me but don’t open it” you and I and the hitman could all be charged with the killing. They can make the case you should have recognized this was shady and not helped.

After MS started down the AI path I updated all my licensing for what I hosted there excluding it from all AI training. Yeah I know they won’t listen but if we ever have a tech based class action lawsuit I am ready.

I then archieved all my projects posting a link to my self hosted git solution. The new solution again constantly states AI has no business here.

Last step was setting the guards and traps. I have a robots.txt file setup and my nginx is configured to send 444 to all requests who report as bots. All methods that they should obey. But if they don’t every page I host has an invisible link to a cgi script that creates an infinite loop of links. The bot falls down this rabit hole and I eventually ban their IP.

What I have noticed thispast year is that higher ups aren’t really understanding the total cost of AI solutions. They go use sites to have conversations with the most powerful LLMs not realizing that your company is not going to afford that level of tech. Your current IT infrastucture can’t add a few dozen high power/high cost systems to train the model for your business’s nuance. It is never a build it and forget it problem.

Additionally there is a skill of humans being easily retrained for other tasks. Creating a Jack of All Trades will net you a great workforce with people filling roles when you have medical leave, turnover and business pivots. AI isn’t general enough to make this change without major redesign.

The only “problem” with this amazing skill is that companies no longer run on the idea of employee retention. You get promoted by jumping ship. Working harder doesn’t make the headway in a company like it used to 25+ years ago.

Actually there is a substantial amount of RICO case law. You can’t walk in and then claim you only broke the law because someone in th org previously did something making it illegal. These people are often the ones that flip and turn state’s witness.

Heck, most of them don’t know anything about anything and are just repeating talking points. I had a super conservative coworker go on a rant once which happened to be 100% false. It was so wrong that had they written it down they would most definitely have used the wrong your/you’re.

But most people aren’t malicious. Rather, most are dumb and incompetent which causes most of the issues. They don’t think about the sequence of events required to get a multi-person project completed. They don’t think about how many people are behind them and that when you are slow or late to get your job done or you do it poorly that it affects others.

I can think of numerous times when the first few people in a project took their sweet ass time getting their part done while not working after hours causing me to have to stay late because I was the last step and had a hard deadline. This type of shit happened regardless of our proximity.

You are commiting a category error: Work is not recreation.

I want to get to know people in similar hobbies so yes I would want to see them face to face. I don’t care to interact with my coworkers beyond what I am paid for. For the coworkers I do want to interact with socially, can do that outside of work.

I have never found that face to face interaction caused people to act nicer. If anything all of my face to face jobs I have had coworkers drop the ball countless times where the next person in the chain gets screwed over. It was more demoralizing when you confronted them because they don’t give a shit unless THEY are geting screwed.

we had a massive no wall cubical farm. To get rid of noise they hung active noise canceling speakers above our cubes. There were times you couldn’t even hear yourself breathing. Was TOO quiet.

Instead of drowning, you learn to hold your breath. Doesn’t mean it is fun, just keeps you alive.

Yeah I think we all get the concept. The issue comes down to time and resources. My “free time” starts around 1AM after all my adulting responsabilities are done. At that point a movie or a book and sleep is all I have time for. Next week is a mild week with 5 days of kids activities, 2 birthday parties, and hopefully finding time to mow the lawn.

We use it at work and I now have disabled it for all the typeahead stuff. Far too many times it guesses what I am doing incorrectly and it made using my TAB key (which inserts the propper two spaces) impossible.

The only place I still use it is for reading and identifying compiler errors. Even then it is only about 50% correct as most times it falls into the “Oh you are right, X isn’t the solution. Have you tried X?” I have had few bad interns and even they were smart enough to not forget what they said in their previous sentence.