TomMasz

I never had an LLM tell me my question was already answered and imply I was stupid for not finding it. SO dug its own grave and jumped in.

Social media isn't "social" anymore. It's algorithmically designed to keep you scrolling. Burnout is inevitable.

As the article points out, CPR really is oversold. I was a volunteer firefighter and did CPR multiple times, none of those people survived. I watched (and listened) as firefighters did CPR on my wife after she had a massive heart attack, hanging on to some hope but knowing deep down it was futile. But they transported her to emergency anyway.

I watched my father slowly die from sepsis that began with an infection in a toe. Surgery to improve leg circulation failed and his toe was amputated. The antibiotics not only induced the sepsis but led to a C. difficile infection. His mind deteriorated almost overnight. My mom couldn't make the decision to end care and place him in hospice, so the decision was passed to me. He had made his care wishes clear in writing, so while it was a hard decision, I knew it's what he wanted. He died less than a day later.

I'm working on my own care directives so my kids know exactly what to do when it's my time. With luck, they'll be able to ensure those directives are followed.

The LinkedIn post pop-up has an AI button at the bottom. It's no wonder people are using it.

I was around when blogging started and I've seen a lot of blogs come and go. The web was a much different place then and it was easier to attract and hold an audience than it is now. It's still possible to have a successful blog but it will never be as easy as it was in 2000.

I was able to fly business class in 747s to Japan back in the 90s (it was coach to Europe, though). That meant the upper deck and amenities like a sandwich and snack cart that you could just help yourself from. By the 2000s, it was coach everywhere, regardless of the plane.

Back in my running days in the 80s, the people who did the timing and race results had a van with a PDP-11 in it that I assume ran off a generator. I wish I had asked them more about it but I was too busy worrying about running.

I am shocked, shocked I say, that the head of a ransomware as a service group is based in Russia.

Homebrew has been a gamechanger for me, thanks for all your efforts!

The university I work at is heavily dependent on Google and its products, so I use Vivaldi for work. Otherwise, it's Firefox. I've been using it since the beginning and see no reason to change. If a site doesn't work with it, than I don't visit that site.

I've worked on skunkworks projects. It's all fine and dandy until it becomes a product and the main company takes over.

I am currently in that situation, and I can tell you it's a battle to keep the darkness away when you suddenly find yourself alone. I'm managing, with help, but not everyone can.

Isn't this been what some (so far) unnamed Trump administration people have been doing?

It's interesting to see things from a senior manager's viewpoint, especially in comparison to what I experienced as a mid-level manager. But it's funny to see that they also end up in meetings that seem to have no reason to happen. We all laugh at "this meeting could have been an email", yet we experience it on regular basis and that's just how things are done.

I was going to say the exact same thing. The only thing you might be able to count on is GMail, and I'm not sure even it won't go away someday.

I certainly teach that. When we work problems involving money, I always recommend students use integers for cents and only convert to dollars and cents when they have to print them.

My wife had the Costco membership and had a tendency to buy in quantities that were a bit much for the two of us. Our freezer was always packed. Now that she's passed, I went and got my own membership (and requisite Visa card), just for the things available there I can't get elsewhere. My goal is to try to avoid the allure of buying inappropriate amounts. We'll see how that goes.

Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?

The "no one at Microsoft, not a single soul, could articulate why up to 173 agents were needed to manage an Azure node" really stuck with me. You have to wonder how many other parts of the code lack ownership and are in there just because no one knows what will happen if you take them out.

Having worked in food service, I learned that restaurants are low-margin businesses that will cut every corner they can. Paying to have their grease taken care of when there's a convenient drain out back is a non-starter. It wouldn't be surprising if they also never cleaned their ventilation hoods or the grease trap in the drains. When you see a mention of a restaurant fire (that isn't arson), it's likely because of dirty hoods.

I did this years ago with a site whose name I can't recall. I still use the results for certain things, but it's certainly not a font you can use for everything.

Change for the sake of change.

KC2TCK since 2007.

This is fine, though somewhat belated. But it does nothing to deal with the public's growing distrust of science in general, and medical science in particular.

I was wondering this, too. There's no mention of OS support, but I assume Intel is working with the usual suspects on it.

There's a really small form-factor Mac clone based on the pico-mac on a Pi RP2040. Only available in kit form after Apple complained.

https://blog.1bitrainbow.com/pico-mac-nano/

Isn't this the same sort of thing that the Nazi's did?

This sounds like one of those laws that get used not so much to force compliance, but to punish noncompliance as part of a larger case.

I would use something like this. My wife most certainly would not, which would defeat the whole purpose.

Isn't this the sort of thing editors are supposed to catch before publication? It's good that they retracted the article and apologized to the person who was falsely quoted, but it still managed to appear before someone caught it.