I read an article about this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat Thinking about this myself lead to the conclusion that the amount of information that would need to be generated and maintained just for my brain would be prohibitively enormous. All the people in the world and their states and history. The combined knowledge of mankind. I started thinking about quantum mechanics though and that kind of threw off my conclusions because the state of particles is not known until you measure them, which seems like an optimization of sorts. I don’t know, but it is interesting to think about.

What are you referring to? I don’t really understand the whole hexbear thing. What is their beef and why do conservatives get a pass? They are mostly just an annoyance though, I just ignore.

I hope you are right about the left not accepting a Trump win. I don’t even know why he’s a legitimate candidate with the whole insurrection thing. Openly gaming the election? Felonies? I don’t think the US can survive four more years of this guy, so I think the time for passively accepting his shenanigans is over.

Thanks, I work on now somewhat obscure stuff. Hopefully I can hang on for a while longer. AI is amazing but I don’t think it is ready to do my job yet.

100 chickens, how do I choke them all?

Can you be more specific about the software reports. I am in software so I would like to know if my field is dying.

Hearing aids.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I would say that doing this is more for you so that you can feel like you’ve done what you can and wash your hands of it

Maybe have them make a list of shows that are must haves. You map out how they can watch those shows and what it will cost. That should prove both aspects of your argument.

I have hundreds of favorites that I rarely listen to anymore. So, not much money.

So, 500 years from now people will still be doing this?

I can ignore ads on a motherfucking plane just like I can everywhere else. It’s just another insult to paying customers added to the pile.

IBM…isn’t that where things go to die?

I’ve never had Meta (anything) and I gave Netflix the boot a couple years ago. I encourage everyone to also flee. I think both are a waste and they fucking spy on you. I imagine those lengthy privacy statements gave them permission to do this, but sharing private messages is particularly egregious.

With some experimentation, I found this works with SwiftKey keyboard, but is unusable with the Apple keyboard. Not sure what to make of that.

Seems like it’s going to work, then the cursor jumps back to wherever it was. Is there some technique for this to work?

Star Wars sucks.