Watch out. As soon as you retrieve the idol from the alter those blades are going to start falling. If you run flat out down the nave you might be able to slide under the portcullis just before it grinds shut. Don’t forget to grab your hat.

If I have an old Roomba can I hack a new brain into it? I’ve got a Raspberry Pi and a soldering iron and a willingness to break them for science. Never done much hardware hacking though.

I think it’s good advice for beginners. If you’re inside a VPN you get a little more breathing room to figure out how to properly provision and wire up your services without having do deal with all the security and scaling concerns that can come from public hosting. Also, new hosters are really likely to set up their reverse proxy and not patch it and leave it open to known vulnerabilities that get exploited months or years down the line… not that that ever happened to me…

Anyway, I think inside a VPN is a good way to get your feet wet. Setting up a public website is fun but I wouldn’t advise it as a first step.

I think that’s likely; I am American and what I think of when I think “car” is basically the Ford Taurus. It was hugely popular when I first got to car-driving age, and I think it sort of became the reference for “basic car” for a generation. Not sure how well that generalizes to the under 40 crowd.

The next challenge (edit: to the 14th amendment) will be shaped by this very dissent. That’s why Alito wrote it.

Earlier that very day:

“Hey Dromiceiomimus…”
“Yeah, Utahraptor?”
“Have you talked to T-Rex lately?”
“I haven’t talked to him but he looks pretty, uh… down”
“He looks pretty uh down? Well maybe we should cheer him up then!”

In case you were wondering, he’s not planning on leaving at the end of this term.

First, my condolences.

Second, I think something you can do as “head of AI” is push back on the benchmarks your execs are expecting you to measure. They got them straight from whoever your AI vendor is, and if your executive team is even halfway competent they should understand “these metrics are designed by the vendor to make us spend more”, but a lot of exec teams won’t listen. Still, you should institute your own benchmarks around code quality and delivery speed and talk about them with the exec team even if you have to shoehorn them into the discussion.

The next and probably more important thing that comes to mind is managing how your devs use their new tools. They’ll be able to churn out more lines of code than ever before and “complete” some features much more quickly. Your metrics should not incentivize this if your goal is code quality and stability. I don’t really have much in the way of solutions (other than “manage expectations” and “set the narrative”), because that’s about where in my “head of AI” career I got laid off. Once the numbers came in that we only needed 30% of our current staff they crunched the numbers and I was in the 70%.

Good luck. You’re starting from a deficit because your management team probably already has entertained the thought of trimming some expensive devs from the payroll, and that’s a tough thing to argue against.

People hear candidates’ arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them.

Tell me how you get from this to “it’s just a coincidence”

Did you read the thing you quoted? Obviously I don’t think it’s a coincidence.

People hear candidates’ arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them. How exactly do you think this system of yours works? Do you think Americans count how many political ads they see and vote for whoever aired the most? or do they just check the box next to the last name they heard before they walked into the voting booth?

What you’re saying makes no sense. Of course people are going to vote for one of the candidates that wants their vote, those are the only kind of candidates on the ballot. How they choose which one is more complicated.

No, I think it’s because it’s a lazy, facile take. Americans can’t think for themselves and only do what they’re told? Trump’s been blasting shit at us from the country’s largest bully pulpit for a decade, why doesn’t he have 100% approval and support?

People vote for candidates for a variety of personal, communal, and environmental reasons. Some of that has to do with what those candidates say and do, but reducing it down to “Americans are brainless automatons who do what they’re told” is nonsense.

That’s how you do a god damn gritty reboot.

I really love this show. I’ll rewatch it every now and again. After my own mom died, “Free Churro” really hit differently. It’s a really beautiful dive into the thoughts and emotions that can come up when your mom is recently dead but your mom was also chronically an asshole.

The exploration of Beatrice’s and Bojack’s relationship thoughout the series, and the flashbacks to how Beatrice’s own trauma shaped her and her relationship with Bojack, and Bojack’s final acceptance that now, finally, he knows there’s no chance she’ll ever be the mother he wanted or the one he needed, really helped me come to grips with what I was going through, mentally and emotionally.

The rest of the show is also really good. I’m a big fan of Character Actress Margo Martindale.

I’ve gotten critiques that I write in walls of text, occasionally, but that just looks like a single normally-sized paragraph to me. Maybe I’m just old. I am using a desktop browser on a 4k monitor, so maybe that has something to do with it. Just eyeballing it it looks like several mobile screens worth of text, maybe it should be broken up for mobile viewers. I guess there’s a paragraph break for the last two sentences… but it’s seven sentences total. Is that too much for one paragraph?

Yeah, I think of it kind of like protocol negotiation. If I speak a technical protocol my conversation partner doesn’t, my options are either to get them using my protocol, I switch to a common protocol, or we don’t speak. Sometimes, if the topic is important enough, the first and third options are preferable. Other times, particularly in casual conversation, I opt for the second one. I still try to be precise, and that can mean an occasional specialty word and accompanying definition, but it’s costly to the conversation and if I’m not careful I can get bogged down in explaining minutia instead of getting to my point. Maybe it’s more like treating new concepts economically rather than treating jargon as a discrete protocol, though I tend to think of jargons as protocols, you can kind of add them into a common protocol a la carte. They’re just computationally expensive for people absorbing them if they’re also trying to follow a conversational thread at the same time, and too many can blow the budget and cause people to tap out, so I try to add only the ones I really need.

The internet is a place where humans can let there hair down.

My observations: it can be for both reasons, though I think most modern ones will be better than the human average unless you ask them to add typos. Which they can do, but they have a hard time being consistent with it, especially if they’re trying to pose as the same person over multiple responses (e.g. a reddit or fedi bot), they won’t have the same type and frequency of typos that a human would have consistently across posts.

For me it depends on the context. I love words, and it’s a mathematical fact that there are more long words than short ones, and I love using all of them. But, I also love communicating with people, and if I can use a word that most people know instead of a word most people don’t know and it works well enough, I prefer to simplify. I have a tendency to indulge my own vocabulary and I think consciously minding it makes me a better communicator.

I got the SNES Classic just for Donkey Kong Country. The other games were a nice bonus. I have some novelty electronics that I never use anymore but that one gets pulled out on the regular.