I store the fabric ones in the car and the plastic ones in my bicycle panniers. If I’m at the grocery store, I got there either with the car or the bicycle, so bags are always with me.

The reusable bags come out with me when I take the bins out. Throw them in the car, stuff them in the panniers, then take the bins out since they’re in the garage as well.

We’ll be in this state until actually intelligent AI comes along. Some evolution of machine learning beyond LLMs.

Yep. The methodology of LLMs is effectively an evolution of Markov chains. If someone hadn’t recently change the definition of AI to include “the illusion of intelligence” we wouldn’t be calling this AI. It’s just algorithmic with a few extra steps to try keep the algorithm on-topic.

These types.of things, we have all the time in generative algorithms. I think LLMs being more publicly seen is why someone started calling it AI now.

So we’ve basically hit the ceiling straight out of the gate and progress is not quicker or slower. We’ll have another step forward in predictive algorithms in the future, but not now. It’s usually a once a decade thing and varies in advancement.

Edit: I have to point out that I initially had hope that this current iteration of “genAI” would be a very useful tool in advancing us to actual AI faster, but, no. It seems the issues of “hallucination”—which are a built-in unavoidable issue with predictive algorithms trained on unfiltered mass—is not very capable. The university I work at, we’ve been trying different things for the past two years, and so far there seems to be no hope. However, genAI is good at summarising mass outputs of our normal AI, which can produce a lot to comb through, but anything the genAI interpretats still needs double-checked despite closed off training.

It’s been unsurprisingly disappointing.

We’re still at a point where logic is done with the same old method of mass iterations. Training is slow and complex. genAI relies on being taught logic that already exists, not being able to thoroughly learn it’s own. There is no logic in predictive algorithms outside of the algorithm itself, and they’re very logically closed and defined.

I get the same surfing. Especially paddling out, but often just after a set has been, knowing title be a couple minutes of nothing until the next.

First thing I had opening my work laptop yesterday, notification pop-up titled “Open and pin Copilot!”

Fuck…OFF!

Sometimes I want a hug from someone that can afford one, but instead I’m giving out hugs to everyone else that needs it. And that’s just these unplanned days.

In a foreign land, no less.

“We’re gonna build a new Venuzuala and the Americans are gonna pay for it.”

Yep. Cowboy coffee is Turkish brew. The only difference is a lack of any extra implements and it’s usually done in a big camp kettle or pot. The grind isn’t that fine either. But for all intents and purposes, the method is the same. Greek coffee is also very similar.

I’m also a big fan of boiling more tea than normal to get a strong flavour lol. But usually out camping, I’ll have my coffee grind and just tea bags because they’re much easier Always double bag it 😁 Big peppermint fan, but also like a lot of smooth and flowery blends. Like the opposite of the coffee, I guess—cover all bases.

Bloom is the period that the coffee floats and foams out bubbles, because the heat is expelling the CO2 (and other gases) from the grind. Once it’s out, bloom is over, the foam/bubbles settle, and the coffee sinks down to the bottom having no gases to float with anymore. During bloom, most of the flavour is being released from the grind. Think of it like the coffee is “opened up” or blooming.

Because there’s no way to pull out the grind in cowboy coffee, bloom just goes until msx, making strong flavour. But, that’s where pulling it off heat early or adding cold water can control bloom time to weaken the hit. Personally, I just max it out and dilute it in the cup if it’s too strong, but I like strong flavour coffee.

Cowboy coffee is delicious if you do it right.

1. Fine grind
2. Get the water boiling so it’s rolling
3. Add grind. The rolling helps keep the foam and spillage down as CO2 escapes, but feel free to agitate with a spoon to help.
4. Bring off heat after a minute and let bloom finish. All CO2 out, grind sinks and settles.
5. Leave it resting for another 3-5 mins after bloom is done.

Some people like to add cold water, I don’t. Really depends what you like and there’s a few ways to go about it, but basic concept stays the same. Boil, bloom, rest.

I make coffee in the middle of Bumfuck Nowhere a lot lol. A fire, tin, and water is the only coffee machine you need when done right 👍

You can. You just may not. But no one is defending the may and so Lady Liberty is dead.

Well here’s the kicker. You lot can get together whenever you want. It’s a lot easier, enjoyable, and convenient doing it that way too. Most of all, it’s actually your day, so it means something.

Even in my most troublesome situations, they are less frequent and quicker/easier to resolve than my Windows hurdles.

I’ve lost so much time of my life dealing with Windows breaking, blocking, being randomly fucked on basics, requiring insanely complex workarounds to keep the engine running.

Windows is definitely the harder OS. But ya don’t realise it until your first drive of a Linux distro. Then it becomes clear as day and you feel like you’ve been cutting off your foot to spite all the bullet holes you shot into it.

SQL enjoyer?

Every time I use it I feels like I’m going back to the 90s. No variables, no functions; Oh but you can do a CTE or subquery…👍

UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL… “There’s got to be a better way, surely…”

looks up better way

“Oh, what the fuck?!.. Nope, this will just be quicker…” UNION ALL, UNION ALL, UNION ALL…

Join in a table sharing column names… Everything breaks. You gotta put the new prefixes in front of all the headers you called in now. In every select, in every where, etc… Which is weird because that kinda works like a variable and it’s fine…

“When you see this little piece of text, it means all this, got it?”

“Okay. Yep. Easy.”

“So why can’t you do that with expressions?”

SQL SCREAMS MANICALLY

“Okay, okay, okay!.. Jesus…”

And then you try put a MAX in a where and it won’t let you because you gotta pull all the maxes out in their own query, make a table, join them in, and use them like a filter…

I hate it. It has speed, when you can finally run the script, but everything up to that is so…ugh.

We need Lex Murphy on the case.

ring ring

“Hello?.. Sure … Hey NY! It’s 1965! They want their gas infrastructure back!”

Restart to find out.

“Couldn’t reboot because these programs”

9 of them

“Restart anyway?”

That’s any smart device. Unless you’re the one.doimg the updates.yoirself, they will all become obsolete as technology evolves. This is the case here too; sounds they just don’t have enough people using them to justify figuring out how to keep them working as new devices and platforms roll on. 9.5 years is an alright run, comparatively.

No-brainer for them. They’re in the middle of cost-cutting and rebranding.

Much healthier companies don’t want a bar of manufacturing in the US due to tarrifs and countries are already shifting toward a version of globalisation that doesn’t rely on the US. Not because it sucks, it’s just proven how disruptive it can be if it’s unstable.

Nissan is kind of staring down a slow death on its current course, so has started a big radical change including shutting down its own domestic plants. Exfiltrating from manufacturing in the US where possible can just be assumed.

Guys, gals… Just because your brain rips through things faster than a conversation can keep up with, doesn’t mean you have ADHD. Back in the day, this was a marker of intelligence. The source of always being ahead; being able to summon the words perfectly in the moment because so many thoughts covered so many bases before speaking. An enthusiastic, thoughtful, and engaging interaction to anyone interested in the topic.

ADHD is more like, you do that but you can’t pull any of it together because it’s already boring you, so your attention diverts elsewhere.

Don’t confuse enthusiasm with ADHD just because people that can’t keep up say a fast mind or topical passion is now ADHD.

Where we had “nerd” decades ago, “ADHD” and “ASD” are quickly becoming the terms to use by people that feels intellectually vulnerable. Ignore that and keep kicking ass with your super brain. Others can’t be so lucky.

USE JELLYF-

Be prepared for a barrage of “Jellyfin” in your comments.

Oh.