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I'm a retired computer programmer so this is spur of the moment, but it occurred to me reading this thread that I'd like to help anyone using AI in the sobriety and recovery commun…

I used a program called Monkey extensively in 1986 while performing final testing of Microsoft Works for the Macintosh to shake out the last bugs in the program. I found a quite a …

Good to know. Thanks for the info.

They're doing that outside the city limits, in Live Oak for example, but inside the city limits, the Beach Flats is the only place I can think of until recently, when they started …

But where? Therein lies the rub. Would you go up the North Coast? There's plenty of farmland there. Would you go into the forest, requiring felling a lot of trees? Please don't say…

I'm not aware of any such plan. The plan was always to preserve open space such as Lighthouse Field and the green belt around Santa Cruz. I'm grateful for both of those. Property v…

I feel a certain kind of sadness about it. There's not a word for the loss of your home town in English that I'm aware of, but there's a song that comes close to it. Pretenders - M…

You forgot to mention that UCSC sits on a huge tract of land that they refuse to build student housing on for reasons I can't fathom.

I'm 66, born and raised in Santa Cruz with family there and it's bizarre when your sleepy surf town turns into the hottest real estate market in California, which might make it the…

There's probably millions of tons of unused copper wire formerly used for telephone land lines nailed to poles unused. I wonder when we're going to start taking that down instead o…

Microsoft doesn't have to send an employee to represent them on the board. They could ask Bill Gates.

This one goes deeper into the thinking of Ilya Sutskever which I thought was interesting

https://archive.is/fwynq

It's also the title of the best album by The Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q73LMKKxbc&list=PL6vwnon3sI...

I served on a US Nuclear submarine and my wife at the time served at a deguassing station demagnetizing submarines. I understood the purpose at the time was to remove any magnetism…

This is great. I really like the lead track on his Salad Days album, which is all good with a nice laid back vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQqXllXpfQ

William Gibson gets credit for it, but he tells people he retweeted it from one of his followers according to the story I read. You're welcome.

Great! Have a good day.

I agree. Sometimes getting away from certain people can be beneficial. As William Gibson said "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that…