I suppose if you *know* you will get exposed, then you could have a window where you could be in a state of inflammation, get infected, and come out the other side with a durable immune response and discontinue.

Problem being that if you don't know when you'll have been infected, hard to say when it stops. As we saw with COVID-19, it can be a *long* time of active pandemic to try to get through. I guess if this, hypothetically, worked as promised you get to get treated, then have something like a 'COVID party' like they used to do with kids and chicken pox to be more confident about getting infected...

That's fine if it's something actually important, or even 'officially' important. However the vast majority of the time was just the manager wanting to ramble about whatever they were thinking on such important subjects as the new boat they got.

Note the 'for days'. This doesn't sound too promising.

Sounds like they would achieve this by making people 'pre-sick' by having their immune system in a sustained inflammatory state, for a while. This points to both an inability to keep it going, and likely not a very pleasant experience for the relatively short while it is effective. You'd have to know within a few days when you are *going* to get exposed to a virus..

Practically speaking, any pandemic will be bouncing around long enough for this likely to be unsafe to keep going. Even if you did ship out doses, the inconsistency of usage will prevent you from squashing it in a short order.

I remember before COVID, I had this manager that would for whatever reason or another hold an hour long meeting most days.

Now it was pretty much universally a waste of time like many meetings, but at least usually I sit on my laptop doing real work even as I'm in the conference room. Not ideal, but workable. However with this manager, the first sentence in every meeting was "ok everyone, laptops closed, phones in pockets". The manager felt it a sign of unforgivable disrespect to look at any screen while the manager talked about whatever stupid thing they were thinking that day.

At least COVID does seem to have killed off conference room meetings for me, even if I'm in the office sometime.

I am signed up for my employer's 'optional' AI subscriptions and have even enabled it so they can see that my environment is touching the LLM.

However, the more I tried to use it, the less confident I have become in it being a particularly good help.So I get the suggestions and make my employer thing I'm a good little LLM user, but pretty much discard the suggestions. For some very very boilerplate stuff, it can help, but even for tasks today that I thought "oh, this is boilerplate, the LLM can whip this up no problem", it totally botched it.

So while the hiring managers say "we need LLM use by our employees because they are more productive", they end up getting lied to by those of use that are told you'll be laid off if you aren't using LLM. The fact that they can't tell except by taking our word for it speaks volumes to me..

Speaking as someone who works with a large python codebase and everyone prepares for the annoyance of migrating when we decide to support another python release, it's kind of the opposite.

Every python release breaks backwards compatibility in a few ways. This is why people run old versions, this is why a number of pypi modules get abandoned as python revs.

There's broad agreement in the organization over time that python was ultimately not the best choice. It might have been pretty good, if not for the core and ecosystem changing things and driving a non-trivial amount of our effort to just be on a treadmill.

Particularly aggravating because we have users demanding python 3.6, 3.9, 3.12, 3.13, all at the same time so we have to curate things with a broad level of compatibility. It took *forever* before the users stopped demanding python 2.7.

By the way, baiting trolls is consider fair game and let's not forget that you started it and I'm just defending my position while setting the record straight. It's unethical to let disinformation stand unchallenged. Another clear example of you projecting your behavior unto others. Ever thought of looking in a mirror of self-reflection? Just asking.

another rhetorical tactic, blame your opponent for your own behavior. Yet you claim I'm the one projecting. Now that's classic trolling alright. Talk about textbook. You are consistent, I'll give you that. Nothing better to do then defend your self-justifications. They must be foundational to your way of thinking. Just saying.

and again you're repeating yourself here. "...getting The Last Word in a debate is crucial, as it is the only proof of your argumentative success over competing editors. The following is a useful collection of suggestions on why and how to obtain your right to have the Last Word, however tenaciously your opponent may be trying to rob you of your privilege." ~ https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Now we're in competition to see who can get the last word and win are we? Look, even if you do get the last word, it proves nothing except your desperation and the fact you're trolling. I've exposed the fallacy of your argument and clearly demonstrated that you don't really understand the issues we've been arguing about. But go right on doubling down on being mistaken. I've got time to waste and this keeps me amused

No, I'm more than willing to discuss the issues, even though it's be well covered already. Perhaps you could point out a flaw in my reasoning with an actual example rather than more empty rhetoric and insults? No? I didn't think so. Tag team trolling now, let's see if two can do what one could not. Please, even one real claim so we can 'discuss' it please. I'm patiently awaiting your next reply.

Sure, if you say so. Well, we can see the trajectory of this 'conversation', can't we. Here you have it folks, a troll run to ground and hoisted on his own petard. Sadly, the damage that greed and pseudo-conservatism is doing to the USA is no laughing matter. Real lives being destroyed by evil people because of selfishness, greed and irresponsibility. Exploitation and immorality are destroy our society because of people like you. Just saying.

Wow, you have run out of steam haven't you. Good to see you're finally getting tired of going around and around, you must be quite dizzy by now.

So now who's repeating themselves. Yes, this is what trolls do. Endless accusations in the hope of dragging a discussion down to your level. Since you don't understand the argument, you can't really respond to it, can you? You've only painted a perfect picture of yourself for the rest of us to see. Thanks for providing me with a wealth of material and allowing me to get my message out at length. Not to even mention how much fun I'm having baiting you. Just saying.

Again with the empty rhetoric, well, I suppose that's predictable. No, we're still talking about how you neither understand socialism and how you're contemptuous of it. We're also discussing your pseudo-conservative statements. Not to mention your abusive behavior towards others you disagree with.

Care to explain how that's projection?