RecursiveParadox

We have those in NL. A few other European countries as well.

Thank you for the explanation.

Getting downvotes (and bots were here etc) but this is essentially true, if delivered a bit mean.

Don’t buy ceramic knives; they dangerous as hell and will fail catastrophically at the wrong time. And never put your cutting knives in the dishwasher, as you amended your post to say.

Good knives don’t have to be expensive, but you’ll have to so some research or buy second and learn how to sharpen them. They will burn me as a witch, but there are other methods than a whetstone that are just as effective and that do not significantly damage your blade.

Can you elaborate on the social security thing? I have lived most of my life outside the States and hope to never need SS, but, well, best to know what’s going on just in case.

Your dad is indeed quite selfish.

But I think we will start to go back to the multigenerational housing. Young folks can’t afford a house, so live with their folks, have kids, who help with the kinds …and then their folks need care as they age.

Could be a virtuous circle or a vicious one depending on your family/situation.

Gotta back him up on this point, and I think every parent will agree - from the time they are toddlers until late in high school you WILL catch every disease all the other kids at school had that week. Among most parents it’s a running joke.

Mine are grown now but still living at home and I STILL catch shit from them going around their unis.

Double plus good talking to your boss. One of my people had this exact same thing happen to her. I went to the other dude and told him any requests for my people to do work outside my department had to come though me, end of story.

Nobody pulls that shit on my people.

The thing is we still need carbon heavy fuel for fertilizers, medical plastics, chip making etc.

Not to mention oceangoing ships and airplanes. There is no battery on the horizon nearly energy dense enough to make that kind of transport work.

And the absolute greatest part of his cover is that when it comes to the guitar solo at the end you think either he or Belew (whomever was on that tour) are about to shred Jimmy Page’s solo they do not.

Instead he does a homage by having this horn section cover Page’s solo note for note.

Slight thing, Campbell didn’t write Withita Lineman, but it was written for him.

Fun fact, Jimmy Webb, who wrote it, hated the “And I need you more than want you / And I want you for all time” line and begged the producers to change it when that plus the ambiguity of the key its in are arguably what make the song.

Red, totally red and somewhat bright.

Thanks for the very detailed reply! I’ll check into it.

I didn’t get any fucked up things about neurodivergence, and my son is way on the spectrum.

(But, yeah it is kind of a shaggy dog story - but with some interesting philosophic experiments along the way, the main one of which is directly relevant to LLMs now).

But I hate how much metadata that Wire leaks.

This is the first I have heard of this - can you point me to any sites?

About that: https://www.rifters.com/blindsight/vampires.htm

Very cool, thanks.

You’re getting a lot of downvotes - I think it might be helpful if you explain you are using a different sort of AI rather than LLMs or gen AI.

If there are any fellow Dutch people here do not bring Gevulde speculaas. It looks like bombs to them. Ask me how I found out at Schiphol…

Ok, so I am considered somewhat of an “expert” in my rather narrow field. Fine, but anyone my age who’s worked in this field as long as I have would equally be an “expert.”

Somehow two years ago I got onto some kind of list. I had five or six “expert” panel companies pay me* to talk their consultants for an hour. I’ve been offered about 30 of these and done about half.

But here’s the kicker: none of them ever vetted me beyond looking at my seldom to never updated LinkedIn profile. I could be making all this shit up and no one would know. No references checked, not even a cursory background check.

So I guess you could say someone is an expert if someone else calls them that?

• I have the companies donate the payment to charity, but not because I’m a good person but because I do not want any additional USD nexus.

@iamahab@feddit.org Jinx!