... but now Jira has an AI that summarizes the entire ticket into bullet points at the top, and it's fairly accurate and really useful. Claude when fed documentation that I don't understand will clarify it and summarize it for me as well, it makes my dysfunction less dysfunctional.

We built a philanthrapic startup and did exactly that, we had every 503C on record in a database and built pages for all of them to take donations on their behalf, let it sit in our bank for a bit and then send it their way. Then the 2008 collapse happened and well we our little startup fell apart...

so how do I install npm packages I need for development?

call us Americans stupid. All this push from EU to limit food naming. So dumb.

How is SQL even on a list of "programming" languages. it's a query language not a programming language.

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Just keep all the belts plugged in all the time

I've been coding for 30+ years. I lost the joy of programming 15+ years ago fighting the ongoing battle of shitty documentation. AI has actually made things better because often the answer that isn't in the documentation is in the AI.

I know every time my iPhone software updates it requires the passcode. I am sure that's all this is, and the police are making a big deal out of something that has been a stock feature in iOS for years.

I live in Nagareyama, I had no idea they had declined the datacenter. I wonder what the scope of it was. I use to work in a datacenter 20 years ago, I wonder how they have changed and what the issues were. In Nagareyama, we have all kinds of logistics buildings right next to each other next to the highway, I could see a datacenter going in there fairly easily...

LOL, tou'che

" With the rise of the smartphone and social media, genuine human interaction has dropped precipitously. Today many people, like Cypher, would rather spend their time in the imaginary realms offered by technology than engage in a genuine relationship with other human beings."

I didn't want to engage in genuine relationships before social media either... People sucked then as much as they do now. Just now it's more in your face...

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I live in Japan and have for the last 12 years. I was there for the 2011 quake, and following the quake, this functionality was available in all Android and iPhones natively, with no need for an app. I get alerts fairly regularly just before a fairly sizable quake hits now.