Holy shit. I’m going to have to pay attention to the next time I print a bunch and headaches…I’m beginning to think there might be a correlation that you just solved for me.

I mean I pay like…$15/yr which isn’t bad and I can nearly cap my 5gbit line and not have to deal with seeding.

What movie?

Replace torrenting with usenet, but absolutely yes.

The hero we need.

Wow, it’s that bad?

I live in rural Pacific NW and just upgraded to 5gbit symmetric fiber.

That’s funny because everyone I know at AWS recently said there was this big memo or meeting or something and they straight up said demand for some of their services and/or upsells has decreased because of prolific access to AI.

I was more poor back then, certified mail cost extra, also getting to the post office during business hours was nearly impossible.

But I understand the logic (maybe moreso now…) - but poor me was too busy just trying to get by day to day and survive.

I had a landlord that would let you mail checks to get around it. But the leasing docs explicitly stated there was a 6% fee for every day rent was late and rent wasn’t considered received until the check cleared.

So we had to mail the check like 2 weeks in advance in case it didn’t arrive quickly enough and then sometimes he’d deposit it 1-2 after receipt and then it’d be a nail biter if it fully cleared in the 24-72 hours necessary for him not to consider it “late”.

I hate that guy and he’s like 90 now and still not dead despite cancer and two heart attacks.

I read that in his voice and it worked perfectly. You nailed it.

True story. I started studying for a final basically the night before the final, but quickly realized I just wanted to play video games instead.

So I spent an hour and a half pulling up all my previous scores in the class, including two copies of the syllabus from two places just to be sure. I made a spreadsheet (in OpenOffice at the time, haha) laying out the scores and weighting them a few different ways per interpretation of the syllabi.

All models basically indicated I could skip the final and sleep in and, worst case, still pass the class by something like 1.2%. I checked, double checked, triple checked my figures.

…and then I spent the night playing video games and purposely didn’t set an alarm the next day.

I was very relieved to have passed the class by the 1.2%.

I was not a good student. I do not advise this. I think I graduated by like 0.1 above the minimum required GPA.

This was in the US, west coast, about 7 years ago.

I’m not entirely sure the company did it purely for ADHD, I think possibly because they knew 8hr meetings 5 days a week were a boring, slog for anyone and they at least acknowledged that one could fidget and still pay attention.

edit: Sadly as with most things in the US, they got acquired by some megacorp and went to crap. Bunch of people I knew laid off. I don’t even think the office exists anymore.

I grew up with people saying, “happy as a frog on a log” or something.

No, it isn’t.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, after having gone in expecting it to be a flop.

It might be my favorite Superman movie during my lifetime. Haven’t decided yet.

It isn’t the focus of the movie and as such, wasn’t the focus of the movie. So, yeah, I guess?

Feel free to message me, maybe I can help. I create web apps and other tools for companies as a career, so the only caveat is that I’m pretty booked right now so my ability to take it on would really depend on the complexity.

I worked for a company that had Play-Doh, pipe cleaners, scratch pads, and colored pencils for meetings like this. Could you bring things like that?

I fidgeted and made all sorts of stupid things with it, but it worked.

I do work for an AI centric company and we’ve used almost every major model in some way, shape, or form.

Grok was so bad on all fronts that we ceased using it completely.

So I don’t believe this for one second. I don’t even find ChatGPT to be useful for code. I’d probably put Claude first and versions of Gemini second, with no current third.

Fucking lol