Who says humans even need a life purpose? What if I just want to eat pizza, play Fortnite, and die of coronary disease?

I've gotten a fair amount of short-format videos shoved at me on social media that shall remain unnamed. Driven by a load of psychological bulldustery-driven exhortation. Be a better version of yourself. Be more socially engaging. Speak better. How to dress better, walk better, exercise better, eat better, sleep better. Make more money, rise up the career ladder, "win" at life. First world issues.

Some of it contradicting some other.

Enough, I say. Or rather: already too much. Leave me be. Because humans are not a one size fits all psychology. If I want to be better informed regarding some topic, I'll go search out information on it. I'm fatigued now by The Push. I certainly do not want to be pushed by another slopcial medAI monetization engine.

I don't care about Ruby one way or the other, but I'm baffled that people still consider Stackoverflow usage relevant in the LLM coding assistant age (which parasited off of Stackoverflow et al, acknowledged). SO gradually lost its utility to me, and with it my contributions to it, long before Copilot, what with outdated and ignorant answers and the skewing caused by gamification.

Well, it's a woman. But it seems a lot of us still subconsciously attribute such a cold and calculating stance to the traditional masculine role... She also has a D in law. Makes one wonder if to company plays so much in the legal field that they need a lawyer to (co) head it. Apparently so, she's responsible for policy while the co-CEO does tech.

Well, I like products that also work together simply and seamlessly with products from OTHER brands. (I mean, it's still an ideal in many cases, and unfortunately big brands all would like to have their own walled ghett... I mean, garden.)

I have a few-years-old Garmin, in my setup the charge lasts about 10 days. It warns you when you have roughly 2 days of charge left, so you can plan a charge session. It takes 2 hours to charge, slow charging only. I usually do it when I am at work in front of my computer: I've got the time on the screen and nothing important is happening (like sleeping) that I would want stats on. Yeah, I started wearing it during sleep when I got it, due to some medical issues I would like to keep tabs on. Usually the overnight HRV (heart rate variability, which you can read up on if unfamiliar) scores are my best indicator that I should slack off a bit and give the body more leeway to recover, that an infection or other issue may come to the surface, etc. (Sleep scores don't tell me much that I don't already know.) I about just take it off when showering; if the shower is post-workout, it goes along in the shower to get cleaned of sweat.

At least someone can walk "into" your office. For many, it is open office, with constant chitchat and video calls, people movement, billboards outside the window flashing, air conditioning never reaching a comfortable level and staying at it, and the incessant "fun" or "educational" activities to presumably sweeten the return to office roster. In our "modern" office they even played "relaxing" background music over the speakers, but on loop - day in, day out; thankfully that has now stopped. I'm grateful I'm on a hybrid roster, on office days we have all but given up to get anything urgent or deep done, and we go with the flow of having lots of coffee with colleagues and "networking" and "collaborating".

While another comment mentions The Italian Institute of National Physics (I don't know why them specifically), I believe it is just as plausible that we will be spätzleified, kartoffelpuffer-mit-apfelmusified, or even racletted.

It is named after Lee Child's fictitious ex-military investigator with a penchant to beat bad guys up, because of the camera: nothing escapes its keen observation.

So maybe the Orca word for human translates to something like "dumb kitten that can't swim or hunt very well".

The ones that got caught. Sampling bias and all that....

I'd be interested whether Americans are more dense or less dense than the rest of the planet's population. But I can't imagine a uniform density planet wide.

Wait, new "stuff" will come with documentation??? That is actually informative??? I thought the way these days is to make a long winded and rambling Udemy course that only touches the most basic and common theoretical use cases.

On a more serious note, LLMs will probably be able to take said material, either written or audiovisual, as training input.

But I guess in the end it will be just machines talking to each other, so they will make up their own "stuff".

Nicht mein Bier.

Reminds me of the humorous dictionary entry for "Infinite loop: see loop, infinite", while it says there "loop, infinite: see infinite loop".

Why do you think sex and food triggers dopamine?

Glad for you that your solar panels still work after someone used them for shooting/rock throwing targets. Also glad that in your locale, the populace is so well behaved that they won't see all those nice panels exposed overhead for everyone to admire as an invitation to help themselves to some when they are cold, dark and hungry.