Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behi…
In the last three years, I have lost my dad and my mother and father in law. Don't worry, you will leave puzzles behind you whether you want it or not. Taking care of the administrative remains of a modern human being is a big big puzzle.
Just for fun, it would be cool if each of us remembers to take the time to leave at least 1 or 2 little puzzles for our descendants to figure out, as a way to have happier feelings again one last time with you, in a way. My grandpa would totally have done something like this. I remember he showed me a big book of unsolved lost locations of buried treasure, and a related story he read me about a golden key hidden behi…
> I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love. Maybe this is a good way of reframing my mess of a Home Assistant install. Why does the coffee machine turn on at that time? Why does the ventilation system do that?
It gives me great relief to know that we’re still very VERY far from the singularity.
It's BS good enough for the humanities, but not the sciences.
Actually, so far I've seen humanities people discard chatGPT output faster than sciences.
In the humanties there is lots of well-written text of no useful depth, so academics in the humanities get good at filtering it quickly. In the sciences, it seems "this is well written and well structured" is treated as a filter to assume the text probably contains something worth reading -- of course eventually it is found to be nonsense.
> I'd totally love to leave a little puzzle for those I love. Maybe this is a good way of reframing my mess of a Home Assistant install. Why does the coffee machine turn on at that time? Why does the ventilation system do that?
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> 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. Maybe, but she also would not have had access herself to the internet, and so a series of numbers like this would have been related to a book in the house or local library or at worst a TV show that others would have seen, and therefore much easier to find.
Maybe you grew up after the age of the newspaper and the magazine, but this sort of ephemeral content was quite common in disposable media.
Sure, but my point is that mitigating the higher difficulty of finding the answer (as compared to "search the internet"), the possibilities were fewer too. "What had she read recently? Check her library records, magazine subscriptions and viewing habits. Did she spend time in a doctor's waiting room?" Not many more possibilities outside of those. One of your respondents said that finding the answer would have been "almost impossible". On the contrary, it might have been as easy as calling a research librarian with a time range and the relatively small list of possible resources she would have had access to, e.g. "Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, Reader's Digest, Stephen King's The Stand, W Magazine and The Springfield Local Tattler"
Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.
Not only that, but it would have been 20 minutes of a programme on the history channel with speculation about demons, aliens, the sensitivity of cats to witchcraft, and messages from the beyond.