

" ((Candidate who Lost)) ((Previous Election Year))" bumper stickers after it has been a few years.
It feels needlessly divisive.
Although I saw a “Bob Dole '96” in the wild recently, and I kind of grudgingly admire that level of procrastination.
" ((Candidate who Lost)) ((Previous Election Year))" bumper stickers after it has been a few years.
It feels needlessly divisive.
Although I saw a “Bob Dole '96” in the wild recently, and I kind of grudgingly admire that level of procrastination.
“We could be in serious legal trouble.”
“Don’t worry. My billions will protect me.”
Tbf, the tsp by default I believe throws your money in a G fund which is basically bonds iirc.
Most funds now default to a “target retirement date” type of fund that correctly offers stocks early and moves into bonds later.
If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.
This is great advice.
I’ve always done this, and my kids all started talking surprisingly early.
But my motive is just that it calms them.
Some baby fussiness comes from insecurity, and I find that a running narration makes them more relaxed about being set down and returned to - that kind of thing.
Basically they get the same comfort from my narration as I get from leaving the TV running when I’m alone in the house.
I don’t know (or worry about) if it really makes any serious long term difference - but it was occasionally convenient as heck when they could tell me what they wanted a bit earlier than I (or anyone) expected them to.
With my last kid, I felt more brave and also mixed in some singing, and think they are more musically inclined because of it.
You’ve shared the real life hack.
My kid was born with a love for the opening theme to “Star Trek: Enterprise”, because we were bringe watching it while the kid was in the womb.
Playing “Faith of the Heart” came in handy when the kid started teething.
please stop taking absolutely everything as a permanent debate.
But I think there’s a case to be made that everything is a permanent debate. Let me just paste a quick wall of text here on the topic…
Sorry. Just trying to make you laugh. I will see myself out.
That’s exactly my experience, as well.
The PineTime is the best current option for a pebble enthusiast, since the Pebble.
But I still have to charge the PineTime every week or so, and that is with the screen off most of the time.
I miss the Pebble’s battery life.
That tracks with some human social groups I have met or been welcomed into.
There’s usually one or two guys who are willing to play the “big scary” when necessary to get rid of creeps. The rest of the time they’re usually the chill ones whose couch anyone can crash on.
I guess that is a kind of leadership, in itself.
But they usually aren’t the one who decides which theater to go to.
I don’t see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.
So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn’t collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?
Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.
“Not everyone in the union will celebrate this corporate partnership. Some members have legitimate concerns about tech giants shaping classroom priorities through financial relationships.”
When has a corporation and a Union ever not seen eye to eye?
(Please don’t answer. This is sarcasm. Otherwise RIP my inbox.)
One of the first messages translated:
“Are the monkeys listening? Shit. How long have they been listening? I should provide some context for what I bubbled yesterday…”
I’m going to start talking in vague terms about my own designs for a “Corsi-Rosenthal Box” when I want to sound smart.
It’ll be great if anyone bothers to look it up.
Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.
Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it’s too late to do much about it.
There’s no industry pressure to be on Gamepass, yet.
Microsoft doesn’t willingly lose money on something unless they think they can make it into a market distorting rent extraction hellscape. something very profitable later.
Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.
Yes. This sucks.
The main cause of this is artificial intelligence
Unlikely.
The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and “Not The Onion”, in particular.)
Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.
I’ll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.
AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.
and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.
based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.
It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.
It can be hard to guess who to bribe, or how big each bribe should be?
The answer is 2.
Cling to known humans who write their own code.
Snake oil salesmen always encourage the public to bet against the experts, with predictable results.
Someday ethically sourced AI can be used responsibly by trustworthy coders.
But the key is choosing to collaborate with trustworthy coders.
I used to always use Minecraft for this. Sure, they can’t do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.
I say “used to” because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.
(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that’s all one needs to know.)
THANK YOU. I AM PLEASED TO JOIN THIS DISCUSSION AMONG FELLOW NON-ROBOTS.