If I had you and you allowed me to pay you so I don’t have to learn every home repair and maintenance task myself, I’d hand over my life savings. Slight exaggeration, but not by much.

I am learning enough skills that I could eventually quit my day job and become a contractor tho…

It’d be a pity if their homeowners insurance company received a date-stamped photo of their actions.

…just a pity.

Don’t forget BetaMax, MiniDisc, ATRAC, LDAC (which I’m sure is just ATRAC over Bluetooth 😂 ) - amazed they won BluRay, honestly. They also won the 3.5" floppy format, which the kids only know as “the save icon”.

Is Docker caching some file you need instead of the changes applying? Raaaage!

But! My context!!!

Truthfully, it’s amazing how often the next morning, with a fresh brain, it becomes an easy fix.

I’ve quite literally drank Flint water. Not for a humble brag (far from it) but I really hate that they became some kind of trope. They have needed help for decades and could have recovered faster if America ever cared about people. Good people there. Shitty America management. It’s like they keep them down for the Internet points.

As for municipal water. Stop by Altoona, Iowa sometime and drink their water. It’s just so terrible. Ground water full of stuff they can’t filter at scale. I don’t hate them for it, it’s what they can suck out of the ground, for maybe a few more years before it becomes brine.

It is hard to produce drinking water that is safe, and also tastes good. Is my global point.

Personal filters can improve that. Otherwise, buying water just leads us to a human future that is by far the worst reality we could ever impose upon ourselves.

Edit: TL;DR: bad tasting municipal water isn’t a conspiracy. It’s just the reality you have to work with at the time.

Have drank tap water across the US for decades. Some municipalities are crappier than others, but a fridge filter tank takes care of those places.

Reverse-compression!

How about drinking water from the tap? Much cheaper, not wasting cans, and healthy. If you live in a community with bad tap water, write a letter to your local water board, and buy a filtration tank you can put in your fridge.

If you must really have flavor, buy some of the powdered dehydrated lime or orange powder packets.

Season 1 still feels great. 2 gets a bit weird and feels more like a B show. 3 is like shark-jumping, but seeing a timeline jump that shows the now-very-near future is good for some “whoa” moments like, “this is what the continents will look like with sea rise,” but probably feels more like having to work your way through season 1 of TNG.

Didn’t mind spending exercise time watching all three though.

He also apparently watched a lot of SeaQuest DSV, and is trying to make it a reality. Hyperloop: SeaQuest. Electric cars: SeaQuest. Big car dashboard screens: SeaQuest. Magic Space Science: SeaQuest. CyberTruck…Apple Mouse ADB gen 1-ish wrapped in aluminum foil. I guess what I find most fascinating is that I have similar mental maladies to him, but I learned instead of just being perpetually dumb. It is actually disappointing that he chose to not learn and just ride the walrus instead. No idea why anyone worships him.

Just think of it this way. Less digital neurons in smaller models means a smaller “brain”. It will be less accurate, more vague, and make more mistakes.

Have you seen the web lately?

They likely have an algo running to do this just like how they offer random coupons to entice you to buy items in your cart, and all the other tricks around shipping manipulation.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-disable-windows-thumbs-db-files-from-being-created this kills that.

.Trash-999 was already taken by a metal band.

Metadata that’s a holdover from the 1980s MacOS behavior. Hilariously, today, NTFS supports that metadata better than Apple’s own filesystems of today. They can hide it in Alternate Data Streams.

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Helps a bit.

Had a friend’s dead parent receive a text from the ambulance service asking how they did.

KPM surveys need to go away forever.

Almost like yet again the tech industry is run by lemming CEOs chasing the latest moss to eat.