I find AI very frustrating. I had a script I wanted to turn into a systemd service which I've never done. I searched the web, didn't find quite what I wanted so I asked AI. It gave a great answer to exactly my question and explained what every field was doing. It got me there faster than searching and browsing forums would have.
So great, I also wanted to set up a watchdog on the pi to reboot. It tells me to get watchdog package from apt then edit a systemd conf file. An hour later with nothing working right gave up and found a tutorial in about 30 seconds of web browsing that made it clear AI was mixing up instructions from 2 different methods.
So it saved me 5 minutes on one thing, cost me an hour on another. I feel like the internet and search engines of 10 years ago were much better than what we have now.
Eh just kind of stopped caring. Had a bad breakup a decade ago and moved to a new city, went on tons of dates and had a handful of semi successful relationships the first few years but nothing that ever clicked or felt right long term.
Then I went back to school, started a new career and was generally too busy until COVID hit and I realized I was kinda happy being alone. Certainly happier than being in a bad relationship like the last few. So I've just been doing my own thing since then.
They are talking about the low NA EUV tool which is quite pricey in its own right at $200 million. They are working on hyper NA EUV next... At $724 million.
I'm just happy I work on trailing edge steppers and scanners. Those are complex enough that reading about the EUV machines makes me sick to think about having to perform any maintainence on them.
I've used oat milk for like a decade in my coffee. Some brands are more watery and no good. Look for ones that say barista blend, they are thicker and creamier. I use califa farms as that is what is at my store but I think oatly has one too.
I'll still drink half and half on occasion but stick with oat milk at home because it lasts longer after opening and I only use a splash in my coffee.
I do this at home and work. My running joke is "its about the journey, not the destination." I've gotten my coworkers to believe in that approach too, so now everyone says that about a failed project. At the end of the day you probably learned something failing and that's a win in my book.
I listen to NPR or most of my driving I can get a tiny local station Cavern FM which plays obscure rock music from around the globe. You can listen online here. https://www.cavern.fm/
Know anything about a kinda dull pain in the sternum that comes and goes, which lasts a week or month, then is gone for a few weeks or months before it comes back. Has been going on for a few years at this point. Got all kinds of scans and tests done the first year but everything showed normal. I at least don't think I'm gonna die anymore but it sucks.
I'm not sure how it got implemented in LA or Hoboken but vision zero in pdx is so poorly thought out. I think we have ~50 traffic fatalities a year. I think ~35 are homeless related and they don't give a fuck about anything when they cross the road. Traffic calming measures aren't fixing that. More resources to help the unhoused might. The next ~10 are cause by poor lighting and street racing which can be fixed but aren't addressed well if at all in our plan. The last 0-5 are ones that would legitimately be solved by some traffic calming. We've spent all our money trying to implement traffic calming when that would only fix 10% of the fatalities and nothing on addressing the root causes of 90% of the fatalities. So since implementing vision zero deaths have gone up and traffic has gotten worse.
Edit. I guess I haven't looked at the data in a few years and it has gotten better since 2023. The first few years of the plan fatalities were going up each year. Unhoused deaths in particular have gotten much better going from accounting for 74% of the fatalities down to 20%.
Comrade elephants fighting the good fight against the haute bourgeoisie.