Right? Drives me crazy.

but using it as a tool as a professional can very much improve your work and how quickly you do things.

Maybe it’s just my 20 yoe, but that has so far not been my experience with it. It is improving, but definitely not there yet. Even standard boiler plate I can typically bang out faster than asking the AI to do it and then needing to double check it’s work because it somehow still manages to screw that up occasionally. Sometimes it does manage to be better than one of the juniors, but using it that way also cuts the legs out from under the career development pipeline which will result in an intermediate and senior dev drought down the road.

AI will make money, it’s currently in the make users happy stage which is the least profitable but most important lock in stage.

Stage two comes post IPO when they shift value from users to businesses. They will start printing lots of money at this point.

The problem is, they’re starting to run out of real money. They’re having to start jacking rates up already, before the IPO stage. They thought it would monetize more than it has, and they didn’t have enough runway to make it to stage 2 before they started enshittifying.

Swappable batteries would be cool, though it would be a significant redesign from our current EV designs. Not insurmountable though. Do it propane tank style maybe? Put your drained battery in a receptacle, pay, get charged battery, continue. That would definitely solve the main area where ICE currently can’t be beat by EVs.

Big issue with EVs as daily commuters are with apartment / condo dwellers. Typically there is little to no charging infrastructure available to them for overnight charging like a home owner can. Again though, not insurmountable, though I suspect harder to get uptake on comprehensively than the swappable batteries would be, and the swappable batteries would already solve the issue anyway.

But yeah, I’m a big supporter of public transit and alternative transport. Sucks that we spend so much time and money investing into car centric planning. Love the 15-minute city concept, with everything walkable within 15 minutes of a passenger rail stop where the train comes regularly and often. It’s more complex than that, but yeah.

I guess my point was, better for what?

Travelling? Definitely not. Hard to beat a minute or two to fill your tank and get back on the road.

Daily commuting? Probably, I’d say this is probably the sweet spot for EVs. Charge overnight and you’re good for your commute.

Fun? Definitely better options available, and even when sticking to cars while the EVs tend to have better acceleration, pumping fake engine noises through a speaker is just fucking weird lol.

I could see them taking the fun vehicle spot if people don’t care as much about the fake noises, but the long distance one is gonna be a tough nut to crack without significant increases in battery tech to either get to the point where charging is absurdly fast or battery capacity is capable of going 8+ hours along with much more widespread charger access.

Sure, but sometimes people will drive for pleasure, particularly in the summer with sports cars and the like. But typically those people have never ridden a horse or motorcycle, which are, imo, far better suited for pleasure riding.

Depends what you mean by “better” I suppose. Riding a horse is more enjoyable for me. Car is more efficient for long distance travel. I pretty much never drive a car for pleasure though.

He, uh, lived up to his namesake as a kitten lol. Feisty AF.

Bike go vroom, makes the happy brain chemicals :)

No, I really think you are and that meat eaters resign themselves too quickly to this attitude to resolve the cognitive dissonance and avoid feeling hypocritical.

Oh no, I recognize the hypocrisy, I just enjoy eating meat and I don’t care enough to stop. I would be willing to switch to plant based alternatives that offer similar eating experiences at comparable pricing, but we aren’t there yet, although I do like the beyond ground beef, it’s just too expensive for me on a personal level.

Basically, I’ll stop when there are viable alternatives in taste, texture and price. Don’t really care about the moral arguments tbh. I’ve accepted that in this aspect of life I am a bad person.

In this context “humanely” refers to killing them with as little suffering as possible, generally meaning to do so as quickly and painlessly as possible so the animal does not need to live in pain any longer than necessary before dying.

It does seem strange to me to do this with whales, but I also eat meat, so I’m in no real place to judge.

happy polyamory noises

Can confirm. Am struck by egg brain every time I see my little guy Wulfgar. So. Freakin’. Cute.

Honestly, propose to me with a new Akrapovic Slip-On exhaust for my Hornet 750 and a small ceremony near the water in the country with a moto camping trip as the honeymoon and I’d be in biker girl heaven.

Could get away with the whole shebang for under $10k

To be fair, that exhaust probably costs as much as most wedding rings anyway lol.

I like to just call it the Alphabet Mafia, considering how many places around the world that our existence is still illegal.

Also because it gives the finger to Google’s parent company’s trademark lol

“what about the camera on your laptop?”

My personal laptop does not have a camera, and my work laptop has a physical camera blocker.

I was more thinking of it from a character relationships standpoint. If you drop season 1 you lose a lot of that character depth.

Not a unique problem. Farscape has the same issue. Most of season 1 is kinda mediocre, but you need to watch it for the good stuff later to make sense.

Farscape Season 1, Episode 19, the one which introduces Scorpius. That said, you really do need to watch most of the preceding episodes or else nothing is going to make any frelling sense and you’ll think you’ve gone fahrbot.

SMplayer is not available for Android, which is where pretty much the entirety of my listening takes place (car or motorcycle).