In my country there was like 10 wonderful years when almost nobody smoked.

In the last 5-10 years all that got reversed by vaping, it’s everywhere now. Not as bad as smoking though.

I want to buy an old police cruiser (crown Vic) and chop it up into a rally car, and do the gambler 500.

Why do they think it’s necessary to fill every area with music

It should be ok for places to be quiet. If employees want music they should wear headphones. That way they could listen to what they want too.

You could spend 100m in a day on real estate where I live. There are multiple 40-50m parcels available all over the place.

Radiators? Nah, open loop. One end to the faucet, other end to the drain. If you’re on well water it goes right back down to where it came from.

I actually never thought about it until now. I hope it evens out since people who I like can use it too, and I like far more people than I dislike.

I hear you, but I disagree. My people are great at slacking me or each other when they need stuff. We have a great collaborative atmosphere. They set up meetings with each other and with me as needed, and I’ve heard over and over that they really like that. I have weekly 1:1 meetings with each of them, and usually we hang up after 15 minutes because they know what they’re doing and can get back to it.

Imagine actually going to daily standup, wow

I made a daily meeting invite, and told my team to never show up to it. Lets them show up to work an hour later since I put it in the calendar for 930-10.

Also my fav OP :)

Rcpp is probably the best thing to ever exist.

I reject tidyverse though

It took about a decade to undo the conditioning I gained in college and grad school to wake up every day at noon. Now, ten years later in my early 40s, I’m able to wake up at 10 am.

How come people use sql instead of just using text files? I just use text files for everything

I do, exclusively

Getting rid of caffeine (decaf still has a little) has been amazing for me.

I use it for “damn I just ate a ton of tacos” 🫃🌮

Moving in with my parents, saving, buying real estate and then renting it out.

Dude what, replace all of those with me skiing while my mouse jiggler keeps my slack status active lol

Let’s say I read Harry Potter, and decide to use stylistic cues from that book to write my own kid fiction best seller. Is that bad?

I may be able to recite text from Harry Potter verbatim; in fact I can: “fancy seeing you here, professor mcgonagall”. That’s from the first chapter of the first book I think. Obviously I shouldn’t use that in my book, but the fact that I can recite it doesn’t prove I did a plagiarism. Even having all of JK’s works memorized would not be evidence.

So when a LLM does the same thing, I think that’s the sort of test that will come up in court. Whether a human would be guilty of plagiarism having done the same thing. And the answer will be no, because it IS a human using a tool.

But the browser can’t handle other languages? That seems a bit silly

I don’t work with web stuff, why is js so weird? Can you write a website in other languages, like c# or python?

All d4s are abominations that shouldn’t exist

Another house

Gotta build passive income for retirement