Septian

Weird to see Centralia and Chehalis mentioned here. I lived both places as a kid, also Rochester. Can confirm, biggest thing Centralia was known for was a giant flood. Definitely flyover.

I have never before felt so much kinship from a single comment.

https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.jC52jjQnoxcQVERXNWnXLwHaDg%3Fpid%3DApi&sp=1766676135T84a90782420127bfcca174ff887d2e8a98f98b845243704ca7b4943087b5061f These are the graphs meteorologists have to interpret. This is after models have produced the data (which includes fourth order Runge-Kutta error correction differential equations) and interpreted it into a comprehensible form. Anybody working in weather sciences is a magician in every practical way, so far as I'm concerned. I worked an internship doing some of this a while back and came away wildly impressed with the systems and knowledge required to even try to guess how weather will behave over a day, much less a week.

Avenue Q. Basically a stage production of Muppets for adults.

I work in IT with end users who average 45-50 years old. I can tell you where that message came from.

We've got users working with sensitive private information who are starting to use tools like ChatGPT and Gemini because their college kids told them they're helpful for checking writing, or work better than search engines. Our users work remotely and if they decide to take a picture of what they're working on and feed it into an OCR, there's not much we can do to stop it. So we need to provide a sanctioned tool that at least gives us some controls over how data is handled and stored (not that Microsoft provides anything vaguely resembling perfect data transit and analysis into Copilot) so we can try to protect sensitive information and our end users as much as possible. Are we happy about having to deploy AI tools? Not even a little bit. I'd be happier if we all just collectively rolled back a few years. But our options are sanctioned tool and policy or failing audits and here we are.

I see Mullvad's move away from OpenVPN mentioned a lot, but not the reasons for it. So for anyone like me who is reading this and curious, here's a link to why they decided to move to Wireguard

So, I was just at the Microsoft Power Platform conference in Vegas last week for work and while there was still obviously a TON of Copilot push, there was also a subtle tone running through the keynotes and panels lead by Microsoft where they kept saying "Pro code isn't going anywhere" and "People will always be a necessary step in any process". I get the impression Microsoft is panicking a bit about companies adopting their previous stance on AI too hard and promptly imploding. At least that's what I tell myself to sleep at night now.

That's not what science is, though. Science is about pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Science isn't about having a problem and trying to find a solution -- that's engineering, which is informed by science.

Jesus that wiki article got real sad, real quick. From a promising potential career and boundless curiosity to dead at 39 from drug abuse with paranoid schizophrenia. Don't tinker with radioactive elements without a proper understanding of required safety procedures and maximum exposure levels, folks.

I can wait as long as necessary -- just means more time for the factory to grow. Factorio was the best value I've ever had out of $30.

Highly recommend Haven. Has some combat but it's very minimal and it's mostly slice of life focused on the romance of a pair of runaways.

If you're cooking, the strategy that has worked best for me is to measure all calories that go into the product, then divide it by the amount of servings you plan to consume. So if I make spaghetti and I plan on getting 6 meals from a batch, I'll divide the total calories by 6. As long as you're paying attention and accurately measuring out ingredients, it's going to be pretty close.