I’m really into IoT automation - wiring up Arduino & ESP devices and programming them - but tbh it’s hard to think of much to automate IRL. So I haven’t automated anything yet. I want a few ourdoor lights to sense motion more elaborately than just having a motion sensor built in - to light up when approached from opposite directions. Also to add switches indoors where I didn’t think to put them when I wired the house. So like, have several ESP32 wall switches tell a room light to turn on or off without running new AC lines through the walls. That would be super useful. Another one is subtle night lighting on stairways for safety, so my eventual cause of death isn’t falling downstairs after tripping on a cat.

Only if I think I set it for too long.

Even as a nongamer I appreciate the stylistic aspects of gaming computers, but tbh if I were going to buy one I’d probably put the money into better specs and a plain case.

Walk me thru how the tariffs will work on that, will ya taco boy?

Only half kidding now… the way morality and ethics get extrapolated now by the perfection police, this must mean anti-AI = misogynist.

Yeah I do a lot of keyboard shortcuts. My computer career started before I even had a mouse, it was all keyboard editing. Doesn’t bother me a bit to leave the mouse just sitting there. In fact after typing a comment here I just tab to the Post button and hit Enter.

Not me man - before I had kids and responsibilities I would do a 6-month contract job and take the rest of fthe year off to do theatre. Good times!

No, the greehouse effect involves the atmosphere trapping the sun’s heat, and at the distance of Neptune the sun just looks like another bright star - too far away to provide enough heat even to keep an atmosphere in a gaseous state. BUT… if a faraway planet (I’m just gonna go ahead and use that word) generates enough internal heat to keep its atmosphere gaseous, it wouldn’t need a greenhouse effect, or even a sun. It could roam around between stars and still maintain an atmosphere, and who knows… living things could evolve that get all their energy from heat instead of sunlight.

I was lucky, my worst childhood injury was breaking a toe on the bottom of a swimming pool I jumped into.

GingTFO isn’t actually a huge problem for Americans. I’ve looked into it and the only reason I’m still here is that my wife refuses to leave and I love her too much to leave her. Dozens of countries will give Americans residency, although citizenship is usually a lot more difficult and/or takes years. There is usually a minimum income requirement, but you don’t have to be rich. I’ve seen it in the $1200-$2k/mo range in multiple places. Of course this has to be income you can still make while you’re in the new country, not a US job you’re going to give up. Makes it pretty sweet for “digital nomads” tho who can work remotely.

A few countries highly rated by expats are Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay (esp good environment for LGBTQ+), and Thailand. Vietnam doesn’t even have a visa limit - technically it’s 3 or 5 years but all you have to do to reset it is go away for like 30 days. There are lots of others. If you want to get started google “Americans moving abroad”, there are tons of helpful videos and articles.

Very good analogy. They’re also ignoring that getting faster and faster at reaching a 50% success rate (a totally unacceptable success rate for meaningful tasks) doesn’t imply ever achieving consistently acceptable success.

It was on a sign where I once worked, but that was almost 10 years ago.

They wouldn’t push to main at the same time tho, they would push to the branches they’re working on. Unless their organization is very badly run, and then it’s probably already happened before just because it was Tuesday.

My bad, I quoted their yearly “at risk” not their monthly premium. Fixed it.

Very affordable! 170 euros is less than typical US Obamacare insurance, which isn’t top-grade and I don’t think includes dentistry.

Sounds pretty good to me. If you lose your job and are still unemployed 3 months later, what happens then?

IN CASE OF FIRE

1. git commit
2. git push
3. exit building

Wanna know an even wilder franchise? Spaceballs - first movie in 1987, second one coming in 2027. Mell Brooks will be 100!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsK-KPi_w3w

I’m confused - by Abbot do you mean Gov. Abbott of Texas, and are we talking about the same issue? Cuz the 99-1 vote was about a senate bill regarding AI. Greg Abbott can’t vote on senate bills, and there’s no senator named Abbot.

Return of the Return of the Living Dead?