I recently purchased an incredibly shitty hand truck for a move.
Apart from the not unexpected need to beat a part into shape with a hammer, it also included a “wrench”. Really just a vaguely wrench-like shape stamped out of a piece of 1/8" thick sheet metal.
There were three different sizes of nuts and bolts required for assembly, and the “wrench” didn’t fit any of them.
If we scream into the void, how will we hear it when it calls?
Not arguing you’re wrong, but I’ve been witness to the other side of that sort of conversation.
The item was ketchup. Always needed to have ketchup. Then:
Child: “I hate ketchup!”
Mom: "What do you mean? You put ketchup on everything.’
Child: “I’ve never used ketchup. I’ve always hated it.”
[Jump forward a few years]
Child: “Where’s my ketchup?”
Mom: “I thought you hated ketchup?”
Child: “Since when? I use ketchup all the time.”
As the dad, I’m tempted to point out that mom doesn’t need help losing her mind, but as the dad, I also know better than to be involved.
We have guinea pigs, so the definition of “good box” has changed to something that is just the right size and shape to be made into a hidey.
As soon as we put in the new box, the girls start destroying it, so we need a constant supply.
Also: someone took the picture.
TIL I have the same treadmill desk as Linus.
Edit: and he also appears to ignore the safety clip.
They should check in with Doc Hopper. Kermit isn’t the easiest frog to catch!
Now ICE is going to be going after Kermit!!!
Try to separate the AI hype from AI.
AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.
Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.
It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.
Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.
I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.
I do that.
It’s the team I previously managed. We all still work there (so far), but I’m no longer a manager. The team was disbursed for various reasons.
We didn’t want to say goodbye, so we set up a discord so we could keep shit-talking. We still get together every few months for dinner.
My wife lost an inch, then had to have a vertebrae fused in her neck and she got the inch back.
Pissed off my daughter as she had just outgrown my wife, only for my wife to pass her and force her to do it again.
They measured my height the last few times I was in for a physical.
I think it’s because I’ve reached the age where they want to see if I’ve started to shrink.
“Come on, officer, I couldn’t do that even if I was sober!”
It’s called “advertising”
She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.
She has the job because she’s on their side.
They’re fishing for answers in the answer pond,
Except, they’ve actually dropped their lines in the stupidity toilet.
Scribbled on the whiteboard in the office.
jk
My oldest has no children and works fully remote.
When the pandemic started, his company decided to have everyone work from home. They very quickly discovered that they were just as productive, and the owner decided it made sense to dump their office space.
A group of employees decided to go on vacation together, while still working. Since they are all remote, they didn’t actually have to work from home. They got an Airbnb with good Internet, worked during the day, and saw the sites and had fun together after work.
If you’re remote and you miss that sense of community, reach out to your coworkers and ask them if they want to hang out after work. It’s possible they don’t and you’ll be disappointed. It’s also possible that they feel the same way but didn’t know they could do something about it.
Either you’ll be the hero that saved everyone from their solitary existence, or you’ll have to accept that they don’t want to hang out with you.