bluGill

The best gifts are the ones where I get something great that I didn’t even know I wanted. Or something you make yourself because that knowledge you made it is part of the gift.

For a kid a great gift is something they know they want but cannot afford. For adults though if we want it either we buy it, or it is outside your budget as well. (if you are filthy rich and your target is poor you can perhaps afford something they could never afford, but this is rare - but even then be careful not to show off your wealth)

Sunk costs are sunk and don’t count. It doesn’t pay to build a coal power plant but is already there so you only pay for fuel to run it. This the ammortized costs and current costs are different and so it pays to run the old plants.

Good point, put a hat on the ground in front of you can you can make a buck or two… (this isn’t legal in every city, but it should be)

I have noticed that too, which is really odd because they well know I’m the center of the universe not them. \s

They probably have a good cease and desist on Broadcomm for automatically installing updates on their system against the contract.

If you are releasing regularly - MWF, or every Sunday a monthly subscription works well. However if you are the type that makes good content but can’t release often you want pay per episode. If you sometimes release twice a month, and sometimes go months between a release it isn’t fair to ask your viewers to subscribe in months where they get nothing.

A lot is all I need to know. Since others have allready pointed out we have ways that work that use much less energy I don’t feel a need to estimate deeper.

At standard pressure. high pressures can make it liquid. I can’t find charts that go high enough with a simple search but it looks like you need to get to 4000-5000psi. industry does go that high for some operations. It needs special design to toeit safely though.

Find some one who is into fishing and have them bring you with. You probably already have a friend. Fishing is mostly a quiet activity, but there is some socal aspects. Someone to show you how is often much better than books or youtube for learning and there is always someone near any fishing hole that will help. Don’t ask for their “secret spot”, but there are plenty of not secret spots that work just fine. (and secret spots are overrated in general unless the real secret is how you got permission to fish there)

It is very common in manufacturing for removing a process step to save a large pile of money even if more human labor is needed.

As others have already implied there is always the possibility for technology to get better and thus the inspections not be needed, or perhaps automating the inspections.

Accounting is often weird. It makes no intuitive sense why just-in-time should save so much money, but it does.

They don’t have to replace themselves. If LLMs can do the job (which is an open question) it will be outsiders who use LLMs to replace them.

The ambulance crew is part of first aid. As is the box on the wall. As is the non-medical person who uses something from that box on the wall to help. For all of them their primary purpose is to triage, and and then render get people to the correct needed care. Sometimes (often) the situation is minor and they can handle it, however their primary purpose is to get someone in trouble to better care fast. The ambulance crew has a few more tools to get you to the hospital fast, and some tools to solve emergency situations that most of us do not, but their primary job is still getting someone to a hospital.

I would call the ambulence crew first aid. The hospital emergency room has a lot more equibment and staff. Sure the ambulence has more than you but their goal is still the same, get you to real help fast.

Every few months I turn it on for a few days just to see if it is better.

Then I go back to the old AST based autocomplete that actually knows something useful about my code.

Talk to your manager. There are - or should be - processes in place to monitor AI. Who is allowed to use it, what are they allowed to use it for. It should not be a free for all, it should be we are letting a few people do this to see how/if it works. As such you need to give your feedback on the AI responses to whoever is studying AI for use in your company.

Self hosting will always remain a hobby thing. Most people won’t give the time need to properly admin their own system and an improperly admined system is a risk that you don’t want to take with your precious data. I can’t blame people for not doing this - there are ball games to watch, saw dust to make, kids to raise, and millions of other things to do with your free time such that you cannot do everything you might want to. Sure most people could learn to do this, but it isn’t a good use of their time.

What the world needs is someone trustworthy and cheap enough to handle data for people who have better things to do. Which is why I have fastmail handle my email. I self host a lot of other things though because I don’t know of anyone I can trust to do a good job for a reasonable price.

Ubuntu has gone downhill a lot in the last decade. I no longer can recommend it. Yes there is a large community, but they make too many questionable decisions and so doing anything “different” will be hard.

Not doing back office work is stupid.

the rest is a good thing as technology would just cost money for no gain. The old ways work. Pen and paper is cheap and it works unlike the expensive advanced gadgets you seen to think are automatitally good without any critical thinking.

None yet. Electric trucks haven’t been available long enough to reach that price point. It will come.

How big a trailer can it tow, and how big of an optional battery can I get? Those are my two questions.