ChatGPT alone has 800 million weekly users of which the vast majority are normal people - not companies. The demand is there despite it not being able to increase company profit margins the way people expected. I don’t see this computing infrastructure needing to run idle anytime soon.

My Leatherman Wave and my olive green Shemagh scarf are both close to 20 years old now so would be quite a bummer to lose either one of them. The Leatherman already almost got stolen once.

Andrew Camarata

I bet this guy gets sponsorship offer after another and he refuses all of them. He has multiple videos in progress all the time. Some take years to finish. He might do a job and then at the end of the video he revisits the site half year later or for example waits for a rainy day to shoot video of how the new drainage ditch works. I challenge anyone to find a more authetic YouTuber.

I don’t think they serve any other purpose than to signal that the person wishes to come across as considerate.

If it’s gore, porn or such then yeah but if we’re speaking of just text then no.

I’d say “fuck’em” is the correct attitude if someone hates you because of the car you drive.

Definitely looks much less worse wrapped. That matte olive green is kinda cool.

I genuinely don’t know. I only know what makes me momentarily forget about the lack of happines but I don’t think that’s the same thing.

In this particular case I’m okay with it but I don’t see it as stealing. Human artists are influenced by the art of other artists the same way. It’s only stealing if you’re selling copies of the original piece as your own. I wouldn’t have any problem with someone copying my entire photography portfolio to train an AI to generate pictures with my style because it takes nothing away from me. Just sell them as your own then instead of claiming they were taken by me.

I hope you didn’t bet much. Just goes to show how one shouldn’t make assumptions based on tiny bits of unrelated information.

Where do you draw the line on what counts as property? Surely people can have some things that are theirs?

I didn’t - I created it.

I’m a self-employed home improvement contractor. I got laid off from my previous job as a plumber and I didn’t want to just find a different company to do the same thing for, so I instead took this decade-long vision of a better alternative and turned it into a business.

In my personal case, especially among the people I hang with here, my positive attitude toward generative AI seems like one of the major ones. Many people really don’t seem to like it when someone mentions enjoying using these tools.

TWD zombies ofcourse.

Two halves of rye bread, toasted, butter on the bottom half. Gouda cheese, cucumber slices with salt, and mettwurst.

I eat 4 of these every single day.

For people confused about the naming of Li-ion batteries: 18650 batteries are have 18mm diameter are 65mm long and cylinder shaped. 21700 have a 21mm diameter are 70mm long and cylinder shaped.

When I learned this they went from confusing to really intuitive.

YSK: Nitecore makes USB-C rechargeable AA batteries that are 1.5 volts like a standard alkanine batteries and not 1.2 volts like your typical rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries.

If we focus on negative emotions, the ones like irritation or anxiety are more sneaky. I don’t tend to notice them the moment they arise, and when I finally do, they’ve already poisoned my mind and it’s much harder to get rid of them. Anger, on the other hand, is such an immediate and strong emotion that there’s nothing sneaky about it. It won’t go undetected but rather acts as this kind of mindfulness alarm. The moment anger arises, my mind shines this spotlight on it and it loses meaning and kind of just vanishes. If I, say, make a big mistake or break something, the anger does arise, but I immediately realize that it already happened and getting angry over it is just additional negativity on top of an already bad situation, and I then just let go of it. It’s not that I repress it but rather I simply just don’t feed it. You can’t really stay angry for much longer than seconds unless you start telling yourself a story to maintain that anger. It’s mostly optional.

It’s probably not that I’m surprised by myself - because being me is my normal - but rather other people acting differently that surprises me, as it highlights the difference between us. The first thing that comes to mind is my seeming incapability to get angry at things or people. I just don’t tend to feel much extreme emotion, and it’s so odd seeing other people lashing out. Online it’s different, as I just assume that those people are kids with undeveloped brains who write those angry comments on political threads especially, but I often see adults acting that way in real life too, and it just boggles my mind how someone can get to that age and still completely lack the ability to control their emotions.

Not really. It’s mostly old age I worry about - not dying.

I’m however slightly optimistic that I might be able to reach so called longevity escape velocity during my lifetime due to advances in medical science and life extension therapies.