health not pocus

Story of my life.

Did that start recently for you, too? I used to come home with 60% battery on my 15 Pro Max and now I’m at 30% with the same daily usage.

Ultra low speed limit signs always make me laugh.

My car has an analog speedometer and the first number is 20. The best speed they’re going to get from me, especially driving up a ramp in stop-and-go traffic is “less than 20”.

I used to live in an apartment building where they just posted a speed limit sign that said “DEAD SLOW”. My friend got a complaint letter from strata that he was speeding. He replied that “dead slow is a nautical term meaning a ship must travel in such a way that they don’t lose the ability to steer. I was not operating a boat and my ability to steer was never in question.” They gave him a “warning” and said the actual speed limit is 10; though that wasn’t on any sign nor ever written anywhere.

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Replaced by AI, ironically.

This feels very adjacent to “we don’t do this because it was easy. We did it because we thought it would be easy.”

restrain yourself

What’s that?

Why does Doug have to do anything? Donny is an autocrat, right? Can’t he just phone the American broadcaster airing the ads and demand they stop airing it.

Big Strong Men shouldn’t just go crying on their pet social network when another country is being mean. They should be Big enough and Strong enough to deal with it themselves.

I feel like admitting that would have led to him getting a bullet in the head.

The machines obviously aren’t interested in reconnecting him - they grow humans by the thousand in their facilities. Like you’re not going to hike for a day to pick up lost carrot when you have them growing in your garden.

The only way the machines would consider reconnecting him would be as part of a deal for something significantly more valuable than one human. If Morpheus is on the table? Sure, now that’s worth it. Which isn’t to say they wouldn’t have betrayed and killed him once they had Morpheus anyway. Our only assurance that they would honour an agreement is a throwaway line from the Architect at the end of Reloaded.

And if there’s no going back, what does a terrified resistance do when one of their fighters starts talking about joining the enemy? He’s too dangerous - he’s gotta go.

I always think of this when someone tells me to water my plants regularly and not always let them dry out and subsequently overwater the shit out of them to compensate.

No, motherfucker, we live in uncertain times.

I see way too many EV owners online being very blase about cheap third party adapters they grab off Amazon or the like. For the amount of current coursing through these things, people should probably stop and think for a second what corners were cut in the one they bought for half the price of recognized brands.

That game is too memorable. I tried replaying it a while back after not touching it in 15 years.

Five minutes in and nope, this whole story is seared into my long term memory and there’s nothing fresh yet.

I’ll try again when I’m 80.

This happened on my car after an oil change (not at Canadian Tire) and they did the same thing. Zap straps to reattach the bottom (plastic in my case) because the old bolts had rusted through. They never mentioned to me either, but fortunately I still had 4/6 original bolts still in place.

I get that an oil change customer doesn’t want to hear “uhhhh we found some broke shit that’s going to cost extra to fix”, but it’s not an acceptable alternative to half ass a shitty fix and not tell anyone. It’s like opening up the walls in your home for the first time and discovering the insanely lazy job a plumber or electrician hid behind a wall.

“When you see one cockroach, there’s probably more,” said Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan’s chief executive, on Tuesday.

Heh. I agree, Jamie, I agree. But we’re probably talking about different things.

On topic: I wonder how many people financed vehicles outside their buying capacity but felt the need to stretch themselves in order to drive an enormous SUV or extended cab pickup because that’s what’s cool.

Ross, if our lives ever go sideways and you find yourself needing a roommate, I think we would get along just fine.

Sierra’s glory days as the champion of adventure games were awesome. This was one of their finest.

Man, I still get some MIDI songs stuck in my head from those days. The soundtrack to Conquest of the Longbow was so good.

Half my visits to Wikipedia are because I need to copy and paste a Unicode character and that’s always the highest search result with a page I can easily copy and paste the exact character from.

They have (had?) a fairly generous free tier that works well for people starting out.

I ended up buying a license after evaluation because the UI provides everything I reasonably want to do, it’s fundamentally a Linux server so I can change things I need, and it requires virtually zero fucking around to get started and keep running.

I guess the short answer is: it ticks a lot of boxes.

I love how chunky it is. It looks like it would be fun to pour.

It’s just begging for some super loud and bright glaze.