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One of your major choices is how much you want to specialise, vs be a general service. I expect you're in the phase of discovering that. Now, with the disclaimer I'm just a random …

As everybody privileged-to-know knows, a long term partner becomes an equal, and you theirs. One of life's greatest blessings. There is nothing like it.

I realised that reference would not be well understood, so edited it out. FYI it was a reference to fictional character Michael Scott from television production The Office (US). Th…

Why even choose a mental health condition as the linguistic pivot point for a zingy social phrase?

The answer is quite patently that, in this brave new world, people with noticeable writing skill will face that false cry on a regular basis from the literary lowest-common-denomin…

I think that highlights one of the reasons why, in this case, hardware has not been hard. (besides the fact that you are very clever) The value you have created is actually more in…

The opposition you face is purely statistical, based on the fact that alcohol is by far the most commercially successful recreational drug. When statistics are so biased, quality o…

While using GPTs to explore my own bias, I liked the re-phrasing "the chemical opens a window so that the profoundly human experience of care, safety, and novel emotion can finally…

It may simply be that the intense disruption of a 5 hour long experience of chemically-induced novel pleasures - in people who'd long forgotten any form of enjoyment at all - while…

We can certainly pick apart any given data point. It doesn't change the overarching sentiment that guns are a subject that attracts considerably larger attention in the USA than in…

>It was a good discussion topic about why adults get so bothered by things that look like guns. I think that's because parent-child is the strongest bond known to humanity, so anyt…

Playing off different LLMs against one another in that kind of manner is a good way to expose some first order errors.

Interesting point. The prompts are the source, in a way.

This task has what I'd call asymmetrical reciprocity. That is, it's probably easier for the development professional to code a pretend version of chopping wood, than it is for the …

As an interesting (and yes, a bit sad) twist on that notion - and, if I may say so, coincidentally a bit of a bridge between my comment-fellow SubiculumCode's two different areas o…

I held the role of (land) surveying draftsman, during the early 2000s years when the surveying profession was partway through the transition between manual drawings and digital pro…

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One truth I've observed from decades of keen hobbyist involvement in guitar music and playing is that a lifetime of music is largely an individual journey. The fact that some playe…

Don't feel too bad - I had to Google what CRUD means. :D

That frugal, creative mindset is also the default for people of modest income everywhere in the world - borne of necessity.

Humanity?

Growing up in northern Queensland (Australia) in the 1980's, our primary school boy's version was : "Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin flew away, Wonder Woman lost her boobs - fly…