It is good that this gives you some happiness; my joy for such things has significantly declined. Making the agent hellscape cutsey seems fruitless and somewhat macabre to me.

Could just be middle class retirees; with the cost of housing 200k truck + 150 trailer is pretty competitive.

But a demographic they all were and most will one day not be. Yes, there are overly parented kids; and yes our system makes the stair step function of responsibility incredibly steep. But there will be plenty of time for scrolling and phones, screens in general in classrooms are not the curl all we thought they were.

Or just merge it

If you have enough density people can become relays; which expands the area. Plus you can always meet in a general location in a mall or some other public space without making de-anonimizing actions.

I’ve said this before, but I’ve come to regret it. As a phrase it requires a sentiment that is false and grounded in the notion that the market is efficient at dealing out worth to people rather than dealing out perceived profitability.

Teaching can be incredibly rewarding; research can be incredibly rewarding. To teach things well you must have a good grasp of material. It is a sad thing that such a worthy endeavor doesn’t pay more.

I mean the host can always remove your repo. We’ll see how they handle it; but I would assume it won’t be without care. But yet another reason to host your own as well.

And we still can’t have offices?

I love the idea of open courseware but I find I need a class with other people to focus/stay committed to a particular topic long enough.

How many licks to get to the center of a sodium lollipop

I don’t understand why this happens; why would you ever be working with a live production DB in the first place? Why would’t you do all your development and testing on a mock? If it’s data which is too large to store the schema can still be mocked; and if it’s data it should be backed up and generally read only. If you’re having to manually fuss with user data you’re doing something wrong.

It’s a big problem space, sometimes there is nothing to be done, but often times there is. You maybe have had an anecdotal experience, and I can understand your frustration and distrust. But this is science, it’s better to know you don’t know than to offer false conviction.

Well it’s hard to ban that without the other without making a fuzzy line anyone can argue they haven’t crossed.

Yeah probably, some will keep a grudge, but people nowawadays have very short memories, so will probably forget in a decade

With wood? No burns too fast; volume to surface area differences. But maybe with some sort of high density slow burning fuel. You might be better off with some LEDs though

Aww I think it looks cool. I get that people don’t like change; but it’s not like they’ve stopped making the other ones. Feel bad for them; I don’t think its the best use of collective action to punish new ideas that are way down the totem pole of evil in this world.

Welp i’m one year into my SWE job and attempting to hang on until I’m tapped out by external forces. Living with in laws, luckily partner had a job, so save all of my 85k each year. Minimum Viable retirement is 10 years away if we don’t buy a house.

Watched with older sidter when I was 7 those things gave me so many nightmares

It will depend on you as a person. I will tell you things that helped in my experience:

• Buying things isn’t the same as starting. Although ordering is seductive false substitute for it. Don’t buy things until you need them. If you want to sculpt clay start with some dirt and a fork. Only when your 10hrs in do you buy things. (Obviously caveats abound but generally use the imperfect things you have)

• it can be overwhelming deciding what hobby to invest in; they pile up and each takes a little mental effort to sustain even in purgatory. This tends toward guilt in the long run. When new things arise, write them down, don’t start them, there is time. Even if you have to choose randomly, all are valid, commit to it for at least enough time to do something.

• planning can become an all consuming task. If you find yourself on your phone during the weekend; just get up and start. If you want to do wood working; just get up go collect some sticks and start making a chair. It will be shit, it may not even be functional, but begin, and you will learn more from that and be more energized than a month contemplating.

• Know the difference between something you enjoy watching, and something you want to do. It’s ok if you just like watching people make sculptures, there are plenty of other hobbies, it’s not a black mark on your creative ego.

• Don’t immediately seek external validation or comparison when you do start. Odds are you will be shit. And thats ok. If your interest wains without external validation; it might be that you crave the validation of being good at something and not a hobby. You can still succeed with that being your aim; but it is a long road to walk and the validation you seek will be hard won. You chances of success increase if you can find a hobby which you enjoy, and that you could happily perform in isolation after a ling day. If you find that then external validation will be a sweet and unexpected reward before you know it.

• if you have projects that have been abandoned, and weigh on your soul. Be willing to set them free. Value them for the experiences they gave you. Give them to someone who will use them. It might be bittersweet but much of their value is in memory. If you ever decide to restart you will be surprised how quickly you reach the same level of completion.

Uhhh no? This is machine vision not generative and not at all related to OpenAI….