It's a very common and useful thing if you're trying to get pregnant. People used to do it on paper. An app is much easier. And the app should respect your privacy.

I have three kids thanks to one of these apps. And then I continued to use it to know what days to avoid being at home.

And considering it's $150/hr to talk to a meatspace therapist, a lot of people just can't afford it. I've had some pretty good 'conversations' with ChatGPT about mental health issues. It's pretty good, and more compassionate than a human.

You can only claim what you can defend. So far getting there and bringing some rocks back is about the best humans can do. I personally don't think there will ever be people living on the moon. Or anywhere else other than Earth.

My company's legal department did a deep dive into GitHub Copilot's EULA and approved it for development use. At the same time they also said we can't post code into ChatGPT.

So if I let my kids watch videos on my YouTube premium account, I'll get locked out.

Anybody else remember the Sierra Online adult game Leisure Suit Larry? It had a quiz at the beginning that was supposed to determine that you were over 18 before letting you play the game. 13 year old me had to brute force my way through it, and then face the disappointment that there wasn't much in the game that was more spicy than the JC Penny's catalog.

A developer building 1000 homes would pay $10 million for water and $50 million for sewer. I don't know what those facilities cost, but saying "everybody pays the costs" is false. My $10k got me a slice of existing extra capacity. The developer would be paying for an expansion.

It should be that way for data centers as well, but I've heard that is not the case in Virginia, which is why we're the data center capital of the world. They would save immensely on real estate costs to build elsewhere, so there must be some motivation.

Home builders pay proffers to local governments to pay for new schools when they apply to build subdivisions. They also pay hookup fees for public utilities to fund expansions. I had to write a $10,000 check to my water utility just for the right to connect to public water (and another $50,000 if sewer was available).

I'm hoping that those of us who made it to senior developer level before AI coding will be in a good spot. We have resumes that prove we actually know how to code, can use AI tools to boost productivity, and have the experience to fix things when AI goes off the rails. But I wouldn't want to be starting as a junior developer in this environment.

I wouldn't say 100x, or even 10x, but Copilot has certainly more than doubled my productivity. Fortunately I'm at a company that is choosing to ship twice the features rather than stay the same with half the headcount. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

If cancer doesn't get you, it'll be COPD. It's not even a roll of the dice, like cancer. It's accumulated damage. Both of my parents died from smoking related COPD. Leonard Nimoy died from COPD decades after quitting smoking.

I can't believe that states are banning kratom because like 5 people OD'd on it, and 480,000 people in the US alone die every year from cigarettes. Smoking is bad.

Paid accounts, 300 requests per month limit for advanced models. Unlimited for GPT4.1, but that model doesn't work for anything beyond simple tasks.

The first hit is always free.

Anti-smoking efforts and alternatives have been very effective in the US. Everybody smoked in the 80's, and now I can't remember the last time I saw someone with a cigarette. While not cancer, both of my parents died from smoking related COPD. Cigarettes are bad.

GitHub Copilot just imposed a 300 transaction per month limit on advanced reasoning models for professional accounts. Of course, you can pay for more.

Surely they'll save the answer and not call a second time for the same question. How many questions could there be for a dry cleaner?

Don't forget spark advance and a hand crank.