MagicShel

Nurse, ready a syringe of propofol.

Are the quality goods and services in the room with you right now?

As in WArehouse Luigi.

Sex is too important to me to leave to chance. I can wait for the second or third date before sex but if someone is that precious about it that we aren't banging by then, I know we're not compatible.

That being said, I think it's perfectly fine to feel differently about it. Be honest and true to yourself because if someone is precious about it but gives it up because they feel pressured because I know what I'm about, that's just a lie and a relationship can't be built on a lie.

Sex is just sex. It's not magical or spiritual, it feels good and makes you feel connected. Do it. Enjoy it in whatever way your wish.

They are useful. My teams are seeing modest productivity gains by self reporting, but I'm going to give it another six months to see if it shows up in actual metrics.

I'm enthusiastic about AI but I remain skeptical. I don't mean to always be contrarian but I'm dead in the middle and everyone who says they are great or terrible I tend to offer my experiences in the other direction.

They are not to be trusted to handle customers directly, but they can assist experts when they have to step out of their expertise. For example I can't write Python, but I've been coding for 30 years. I can certainly write some good directions on what needs to be done and I can review code and correct it. So AI has let me write a bunch of complex Python scripts to automate minor parts of my job to let me focus on the hard parts.

For example I can execute GDPR delete requests in a few moments where doing it by hand with Hoppscotch or Postman probably takes me 5-10 minutes. We have a multiple systems and sometimes I have to delete multiple profiles for a given request.

It's great at rubber ducking as long as you think critically about its proposed solutions. It's fine at code review before sending it to an actual person for review. It flags non-issues but it also flags a few actionable fixes.

The important thing though is to never trust it when it comes to anything you don't know about. It's right a fair amount of the time, depending on what you ask, but it's wrong enough that you should never, ever rely on it being right about something. The moment you put your life in its hands, it'll kill you with nothing to say to the survivors but, "Your right about that. Sorry, that was my mistake." And it isn't even sincere. Because it can't be. Because it doesn't think or feel anything.

Check this guy out who doesn't get it. Someone let him know because I sure ~~can't~~ won't.

When I was contracted by the military we weren't allowed to use hosted foss fonts because they were considered a vector for attack if the font server were compromised. A font you host yourself is safe in that respect. One might suppose a commercial entity would be safer, but I wouldn't say that is necessarily so.

I probably get 6-7 on average. Up to 10 or so on weekends. Rarely as little as 3-4.

I'm tech lead for two off-shore teams who work 3-11AM my time, plus lots of daytime meetings and planning. So when I wake up in the middle of the night as I often do, I check to see if there are any issues that need my attention. And then I go back to sleep or sometimes I can't. Today I probably fell asleep around 10. Woke up at 4 and had to send a message and await a response. Got on here while I wait. Got the issue resolved. But now I'm up because in a few hours I fly to vacation.

Exactly.

Claude:

Hey, you didn't have to make it personal...

I 100% agree with this take, but I think we need to be realistic about the impact of the reduction in status and lifestyle for Americans. I think when there is a rapid decline, people are going to become angry and reactionary and looking for someone to blame.

I think we will be more vulnerable to right wing take over, especially if it coincides with a Democrat administration. The situation might limit the global impact with US powers reduced, but internally it could become a real hellhole.

The friends we made was also Claude, though.

Wouldn't that imply that political differences from the president are criminal? Some folks really are all in on king Trump.