earleybird

And then there's New Yankee Workshop "and now let's go over to the xyz machine for <next-step>".

Also absent: Smoot's[0] :-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot

There are no ethical businesses. A lawn mower can give you a nicely manicured lawn or a trip to the ER. The lawn mower doesn't care.

In IT, when ever I hear the phrase "we don't have the luxury of planning" I know with a high probability that the project will fail.

Then someone discovers you can add a reed. Et voila, the woodwind section appears :-)

Alternate ending: "suddenly jazz appears"

Was that a Minecraft reference?

anecdata - E/Rs in my locale are 6 to 8 hour waits with total time spent with triage/nurse/physician totalling maybe 15 minutes (20 if they decide you need an x-ray). Since the queue seems to vary very little it just seems weird.

Due to this wait, I've been conditioned to treat it as a last resort. Perhaps that is the desired effect.

Not for the folks north of you. I'd be happy with a form & a pencil but for the past year plus I've been told by the less than helpful dr office assistant to "Go to our website and make your appointment" which then makes me fill in various screening forms.

The trade off - clerk doesn't have to spend less than a minute looking up and giving me a time for my next appointment and I have to setup yet another id & password to use their crappy appointment/medical forms app in a cloud somewhere.

Parrots parrot parrots?

Until you find the devs take on why the SQL query is slow is a hallucination in the LLM sense.

And throwing snakes; not a reserve currency but apparently a useful talent.

+1 for CUPS/docker. I've been running a Brother 1018 (circa 2012) off a Raspberry PI 3 over the home network so everyone in the house can use it. It just keeps on ticking with the odd toner cartridge change.

Is there a connection to https://htmx.org/?

To add to sci-fi examples, Surrogates https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986263/

Absolutely this. 3-4x? Sibling of mine just had a minisplit installed where the unit was probably $4-$5k and the total was north of $24k.

A sealed water loop where any plumber and most DIYers could manage would be miles ahead in both reliability and accessibility.

Personal experience, once received a notification from CRA to the effect: "6 months ago we refunded you incorrectly, you owe us, oh by the way we're also charging you a penalty for our mistake.". The amount was not inconsequential but not a problem to remedy. The insult was "we made a mistake and we are punishing you for it".

Upvote for the chuckle while reading. Yes, we can very much have a blind spot from using whatever our current toolset is.

We need your help.

For context, a gallon of gas carries about 33.4 Kwh, a Cessna 172 has a fuel capacity of 56 gallons. Topped up at take-off it's carrying the equivalent of 1.87 Mwh. That will take you about 1,200 km.

I expect short range electric commuters will come first - similar to cars.

Also Okotoks Alberta[0]; Drake Landing Solar Community

[0] https://www.dlsc.ca/

My all time favourite[0]

I recall getting a recall notice from GM that included "until repaired, remove key from keychain".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_ignition_switch...

Ah yes, imprecision in specification. Having worked with some Avalanche folks, they would speak of weather observations and weather forecasts. One of the interesting things about natural language is that we can be imprecise until it matters. The key is recognizing when it matters.

Great, now I have to read a bots meeting notes to confirm "that's what I meant".

I expect it is analogous to scannerless parsing - there's still a scanner, it just recognizes individual characters. It may be more about where you draw the line and how important it is to your understanding (or ability to convey the idea).

I believe it has an analogue with Heinlein's "there are two kinds of jokes; funny always and funny one time". Subsequent uses are a bit cringe in the same way that a subsequent telling of a funny-one-time joke is.

In my locale, trades like plumbing (including gas & hvac), drywall, roofing etc range from 1 to 1.5 what contract developers from NTT, IBM et al are billed at. In absolute terms - 110 - 140 for contract devs and trades are often "to busy" at 170.

You must be thinking of OnStar :-)

For comparison, a gallon of propane is equivalent to 27Kwh[0] so that 20 lb cylinder contains about 124 Kwh equivalent. Now that's not something I'd keep inside the house but it's not too far away.

[0] https://www.blossmangas.com/knowing-the-numbers-propane-vs-e....

Here's Stefan Gotteswinter giving a talk about his Deckel G1L pantograph engraver.[0] For the side load on a 3D printer it probably would work fine but as others have mentioned, 3D printers are already relatively precise. 0.04mm/step on my ender 3 as I recall. (about 1.5 thou)

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYtJyebx83Y

Well, in theory they'll be sober voters for at least two years :-)