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Maybe this service can just be replaced by a journal. Or email the letter now and put it in folders with names like "do_not_open_till_2040".

> If an AI views it, and is inspired by it, again, no harm done.

You had me till that^ line. In your example if "inspired" human start competing with you, then there is harm. If the inspired human is replaced by an AI, then it also harms. By harm I am referring to competition.

So instead of saying "no harm done", then maybe its more accurate to say "same harm as a other humans being inspired by your work".

This game is so much fun. Amazing.

You are missing the point. Finish what you doing, but then start the next item, and leave it unfinished. Whatever you do, leave something unfinished for you to finish tomorrow.

This has happened to me. The CEO of a startup I was working for asked me for something. I recall that he did not provide many words to the ask. Maybe one or two sentences. This lead to a 14 page report I put together. I spent several hours doing it, and did most of it on my own time. I sent the CEO the report. Never heard back from him after that. Nothing came of it.

I created a new rule for myself after this. The cost of the ask, should be proportionate to the cost of delivering that ask. Now if I get an ask that is very costly, I will wait and delay and request escalations and such. The person asking should show that it is worth the cost by doing their due diligence and getting approval from people higher up the food chain. If the ask is a bunch of BS, then I will never hear about it again. If it is worthy, I will do it and also I get the added bonus of the effort not being done in secret without the appropriate visibility.

I thought you were going to say, "I live in northern Ireland, and I can hear Spain from there."

OMG I didn't know there were two more books in the series. Audible is doing a bad job at recommending books. It does not recommend the next books in series I follow.

I didn't know the Hugo Awards has so many award. I naively though it was just best sci-fi book because I would see lists of Hugo award winners by year and see only one book per year and they were all sci-fi.

Who is correct?

Unpaid burden is the worst type of burden.

I notice the definitions for Moot are contradicting.

definitions: Open to debate (adj.). Having no legal significance (n.).

And even when searched in Google I get...

1. subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty. 2. having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.

Am I wrong here? I always looked at moot as not mattering. But if it is open for debate, then does it not still matter? To me, moot means no worth debating any longer.

A large asteroid hit the Earth and lead to rapid unprecedented change. Yet here we are.

I suspect that the more intricate/technical the skill is, plus the bigger the ROI of that extra technical know-how then the more likely a role will exist for this. So for example, if any person can get the same results as a dedicated prompt eng, then the less likely a prompt engineer role will exist. Also, if the prompt eng can get very different (and higher quality results) than any person, but the results are not that profitable, then less likely a prompt engineer roles will exist.

Bonus points for the likelihood of a dedicated prompt engineer role if the engineer can apply their wizardry across many aspects of the company. This kind of reminds me of the OSS (operational systems support) team I used to be part of, and still miss. In this team we applied mostly custom software solutions to any team that needed it. We worked hard to find customers within the company to earn our keep, else we would get laid off at the next convenient chance. I imagine prompt engineers, if given the chance, should work hard to find value and not just wait for the work to come to them.

If there is a story here, it's that the employees have access to their own badge access history.

I strongly agree. The makers of the treatment recoup their investment once the treatment goes into prod. But while in beta, it should be free to the patient. Without this rule, I can imagine a world where businesses make a living selling treatments that are never intended to get past the FDA's certificatuon process.

Why do you say it is trash? I use it regularly. I use it primarily to test and code (e.g. inspect and tweak styles) a few web apps I code. I really like some of its features.

What I didn't like was how it kept asking me to make it the default browser every time it upgraded.

There is an plant app I use thar will identify plants. Just take a picture of it. It tells you what it thinks the plant is and some other similar options. You get to select the winner by "adding to your garden" button. it tracks the plants in your garden.

One of the pieces of information the app gives you is what is the plant considered every where in the world. The types of categories I've seen on it are native, cultivated, exotic, invasive, and potentially invasive. The app is called Picture This. I do not want to endorse it, cause it is annoying to use sometimes. But I cannot lie that it has been extremely useful. I am very close to paying for it, since as a fellow programmer I understand the people making this need to make a living.

Some of these weeds help the soil. They grow in areas where other plants can't grow. But I understand that if you are trying to grow specific plants, for food or aesthetics, you will need to remove the plants that will kill them (vines or fast growing weeds that take the sun cover). I think dandelions help move calcium to the top soil, and loosen hard soil, is an example of a weed that helps.

I am adding more areas to my yard where I put a small garden fence and let whatever grow (minus trees), which will be mostly weeds I presume. This will help the local bees and insects and birds. I think there is a movement to do more of this, but don't recall the name of it.

After we destroy a piece of land, its gonna be weeds that will bring it back to life.

This is pretty cool. Though IMHO, the card Peanut Butter Jar that their AI generated should be 0/1, not 1/1.

Does the US gov make a profit on the deal? Does some or all of the proceeds go to pay back victims?

wow, that is a good point. just cause your patents have loot, doesn't mean you are getting helped by them.

Nailed it ^^^

I wonder if IBM can offer a mainframe in the cloud. Its everything a mainframe provides but all off-site and priced for my size.

Before we even get to the costs of a migration, what is the reason for the migration?

You say individuals cannot solve this, then go on to show how the problem is with individuals turning their yards into grass wastelands. Well if its individuals causing the problem, wouldn't it mean that individuals can solve it? Seems like your comment is contradicting itself.

I'm a big fan of jOOQ. I've been able to implement the most complicated SQL expressions in jOOQ. Though there is one particular use case that it cannot do, but my memory fails me. There is an open issue in Github for it that's been open for years. Luke, the creator of jOOQ, is not able to figure out the solution to implement it. But no worries, it's still my favorite way to access my DB.

This topic of testing techniques is fraught with extreme points of view. The way I see it is that unit testing, int-testing, mocks, stubs, and now fakes are all techniques and tools in your toolbox. Do not throw out a tool in favor of always using one of them. Instead, I implore devs, to try and use the *best tool for the job at the time for a specific test. Understanding that "best" is based on opinions and current constraints at the time. I would implore exploration, and experiments to try these different tools to get a better understanding of their pro's and limitations.

In the lists of most popular languages, SQL always to seem up at the top.

I'm so jealous that Java does not have its own LINQ.