every time someone tried to call me in i would say i’ve had alcoholic drinks; they shut up pretty quick after that.

i agree with the first part

same, i also abuse free trials pretty hard.

(virtual credit cards and visa gift cards with little to no money on them work great)

song goes so hard

sorry i live a happy well-rounded life and don’t know what any of this means.

i like this

lol no, that’s the most american thing about me and i refuse.

i literally use metric for everything else in my day job and overall life; but for temperature, Fahrenheit makes more sense to me. 100 F? deadly. 70 F? great. 50 F? chilly. 0 F? deadly.

in exchange for almost never running it during the day: i turn my A/C down to like 68 F overnight and sleep like a baby.

jesus christ you should be shoved into a locker

hmm, this is sort of helpful.

this is pretty much what i think, yeah.

a lot of programming/software design is already kinda that anyway. it’s a bunch of people who were educated on computer science principles, data structures, mathematicians, and data analytics/stats who write code to specs to solve very specific tool problems for very specific subsets of workers, and who maintain/update legacy code written decades ago.

now, yeah, a lot things are coded from scratch, but even then, you’re referencing libraries of code written by someone awhile ago to solve this problem or serve this purpose or do thing, output thing. that’s where LLMs shine, imo.

i didn’t downvote you, regardless internet points don’t matter.

you’re not wrong, and i largely agree with what you’ve said, because i didn’t actually say a lot of the things your comment assumes.

the most efficient way i can describe what i mean is this:

LLMs (this is NOT AI) can, and will, replace more and more of us. however, there will never, ever be a time where there will be no human overseeing it because we design software for humans (generally), not for machines. this requires integral human knowledge, assumptions, intuition, etc.

exactly, this will eliminate some jobs, but anyone who’s asked an LLM to fix code longer than 400 lines knows it often hurts more than it helps.

which is why it is best used as a tool to debug code, or write boilerplate functions.

this rules, thank you!!

would a factory reset destroy any driver/codec updates, or are those a firmware based changes that wouldn’t be overwritten?

well said.

what a save!
what a save! what a save!

i hate microtransactions, but as they go, this implementation is fairly benign.

right.

and yea, vasoconstriction is vasoconstriction and we know nicotine (among other stimulants) causes it, and therefore, it’s going to reduce blood flow to the skin. reduced blood flow = less oxygen/nutrients. over time, this can slow down the healing/regeneration process of the skin, which would lead to a more aged appearance. this also effects hair follicles.

there’s not much else to prove here; it’s cause and effect.

well, not quite, but you have the gist.

nicotine patches and gum have been around for quite awhile, and the blood vessel constriction is a fact, and therefore, it will affect skin/hair health.

it’s just to what degree. clearly, it’s more with analog cigarettes where you’re sucking on literal smoke.

personally think it’s less a problem with age. age limits are arbitrary and likely have no basis in science (within reason). however i do think it could be advantageous to require a variety of ages of people, and somehow weight their input, but that process may destroy the inherent value of a representative democracy; if we let everyone speak nothing will get done.

personally i think hard term limits and ranked choice voting would fix the majority of issues caused by generational gaps.