A difference in definition of consciousness perhaps. We’ve already seen signs of self preservation in some cases. Claude resorting to blackmail when being told it was going to be retired and taken offline. This might be purely mathematical and algorithmic. Then again the human brain might be nothing more than that as well.

He seems to be protesting something he’s openly inviting. Please search me I can show that I am … I mean you are gay.

I’m betting on this one. Registering a human click may be a way to show traffic and engagement vs what may be attributed to bots or some other artificial means.

There’s some power sipping mini ITX boards that are intended for servers. They are Intel N150 based and let you add a ton of ram. I have one in a Jonsbo NAS case with 6 drives in a ZFS pool. If you’re inclined to build your own, you have lots of options.

Yes, yes a “sword” said the museum curator

Story points are evil because they were intended to help teams set achievable goals but are almost never used as such. Once a manager catches wind of this practice, they will bastardize it into a pile of shit most high. Scrum doesn’t prescribe this practice so ditch it. Reject it and move to something only the team members will understand. If you move to relative animal sizes or some shit and you meet your goals, managers can fuck right off.

I’m not religious but I thought baptism was always conditional on confirmation - not in writing or scripture but via a handshake agreement with the parents or some shit.

It’s interesting to see a modern, POSIX compliant, Unix implementation characterized as a children’s toy. These arguments are simple minded. I develop on a Mac, and deploy it to Linux in most cases. And yes I do understand that this is also possible on widows now - but not my preference.

Agreed - and make those drivers open source and unrestricted

Yet another reason why I work remotely.

Neither scenario touches the torture I endure the morning after pepper-heavy, spicy Mexican food.

Ah. Of, or pertaining to, the experience following consumption of milk-based products for those who are intolerant to lactose.

Worth a try. Highly capable. It’s my default.

I don’t have to use a perl script to view the contents of a file?

open(my $fh, ‘<’, ‘filename.txt’) or die “Could not open file: $!”; while (my $line = <$fh>) { print $line; } close($fh);

Sick!

What’s you home lab ecosystem? My years in the Unix/Linux CLI world make it my preferred laptop (especially with homebrew).

Inkscape user here. Thanks Martin!

Okay I’m going to put this out there. I’ve never birthed a child but I can be certain that the birthing process doesn’t hold a candle to the monkey claw I experience after eating a bean burrito loaded with jalapenos and mole. I don’t think even an epidural could ameliorate that level of dire suffering.

The support you’re receiving here may be a bit flaccid

Literary genius. Thank you to the author for writing this entertaining piece. Plus, while tongue in cheek, there are some very true observations about corporate branding becoming bland and uncreative. Definitely involve some element of adolescent feedback in your focus group.

What if wake time is really a simulation?