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I am software engineer and I have certainly attempted use GPT for coding with mixed results.

But what I am really impressed using it for writing. I am writing the story of my abusive upbringing with a mental ill mother. I am not a writer, but this thing is awesome because I can ask it to give me prompts and it is jogging my memory more and more then I can give it rough outlines and thoughts and it will organize it into more of a literary style, then I can go through and update most of the wording to my own liking or leave as is as I see fit. I am easily able to produce much more and a better quality than without it.

It is an amazing book, not just for science fiction fans. The first story, "Tower of Babylon" somehow is like a science fiction story but based on ancient people's cosmology. Great book.

I've found that people you hang out with understand, if they are good people they will go out of their way to accommodate you; la croix or other carbonated drinks helps with the appearance of 'not drinking' but still holding a beverage in your hand. And a few times recently it actually felt good to say 'thanks, but I don't drink' or telling the doctor or insurance person you don't drink which ends the follow up questions regarding booze, feels great.

And don't hate yourself, try to think about what someone who loves you would say or think instead of yourself since you are your own worst critic, life is about the process not the goal, when you 'fail' try to be open and honest about the things that triggered you and actively try to avoid or replace those things in your life when you are not tempted.

Playing minecraft on switch vs my pixel 6 is night and day. I can't imagine performance is anywhere near what it needs to be for an end game base? But I'd be curious to see what they've come up with here.

I'm useless after 6pm or 7pm, 7am - 11am is more my sweet spot.

I'm not saying Bush didn't say that because I don't know, I can believe it. But it seems odd because 1) Gog and Magog are a somewhat well know part of Islamic eschatology, and 2) I pretty sure Google existed at that point in time, but without it I am sure his staff had access to dictionaries and encyclopedias which would have led them to 3) Encyclopedia or web entries on Darbyism or Dispensationalism, easily answering their questions.

France's Ministry of Foreign affairs isn't advising the President on things like this, they don't have subject matter experts? Forgive me, maybe I give governments too much credit or, but seems like an odd article.

Thanks for saying this. I spent years worried if I took an hour or two or a day during 'busy' times, and it turned me into a liar, because I said I do things or be somewhere and often times I did not because of work. It is always a 'busy' time.

It took years, several jobs, and therapy before my eyes were open. Nobody cares, you are a human and have a life, if your employer does not understand that you need a new one.

Here is a related story. I should mention Tines or OP has no relationship I know of with Salesforce, for background Mulesolft is a cloud focused integration platform owned by Salesforce, who's big feature is visual mapping, visual workflows, etc. (of course it is more complex than this, read up if you are interested):

I attended another meetup/training, Mulesoft was really pushing their web only visual workflow/mapping tool. And the instructor goes over the entire song and dance, and I said to him, that I was having real difficulty even understanding what type of problem this tool would be good for in a real-world situation. And he takes his glasses off and says to a room full of maybe 30 or 40 developers, that this tool they had been pushing so hard should NEVER be used in production, its only real use was for sale demos and maybe, maybe, doing some sort of POC which would need to be reproduced in 'code' at a later time. He used weasel words to say all of this of course, but his meaning was clear. This was 2018~2019, not the stone ages. So, I wasted that evening (there would be more) going to a sales enablement seminar billing itself a developer learning workshop.

For me it isn't so much being a 'nerd', which I am, as being very much an introvert as well. And most people don't know this, but introverts still want to be around people, just need alone time too, so I understand where you are coming from. If you find yourself not doing things or not experiencing things or not participating in conversations because they do not revolve around tech and science, and I know this sounds dumb, but force yourself to do it. I had a low point in my life and decided to force myself to say yes to things I really didn't want to do, and over the years I found out there is a reason people like sports, or concerts or whatever, and other things I tried once and knew it is not for me. And you don't have to change your interests or try to be popular or care about fashion like Graham talks about. I don't like sports in general, but I will always go to a college football game if invited, it is fun, even if you don't enjoy football, also there are other people at super bowl parties that don't watch football either; but I will never go to a nightclub again, once was enough to know. Your social circle expands and one day saying 'yes' to something will lead you to meet someone you will eventually start a family with and then your social circle will slowly shirk and that is okay.

I had a handful of marks/scars that lasted for several years on my legs after using one of these. I am sure it depends on the brand, but please be careful using these.

I am curious if anyone has ever or can ever do a study to see if this would ever encourages inflation or not, or who knows if it would have a deflationary effect even?

Thanks for this. I had a mild case in January and have been feeling 'off' in multiple ways including the above. Glad to know there is light at the end of the tunnel.

80/20. Everyone, parents, agents, closing lawyers all told me I was making the best decision of my life. All were saying they wished they could go back in time and buy a house when they were 24. Ended up taking a 30k bath on it 5 years later.

That is so similar to what happened to me, only I had graduated December 2006. So I had 1.5 years until it went south and got laid off. Luckily I had acquired a condo in that time at the market peak, so I had a place to lay awake at night and worry about how I'd pay the mortgage.

My wife and I had decided to start trying for a second child around the beginning of 2020, after the outbreak we put those plans hold because we didn't want to have to make repeated trips to the doctor/pediatrician/hospital where all the covid was. What was our employment/financial situation going to look like? In the spring of last year a million people were loosing their jobs a day at one point. Also, friend of ours, a PA in an emergency room, told us witnessed more than one miscarriage due to covid, so no, we are waiting for now.

I was a consultant for ten years, not at McKinsey, but a very small firm that actually was ethical by comparison at least, and actually got some good things done, and then later, at another small company that was completely unethical.

In many cases, there was not any question that your job was to justify a decision that had already been made, or attack another group within the company on behalf of whoever was writing you a check. I was literally told on a number of occasions that regardless of what the SOW said, our job was to make whoever was writing the check look good.

As a person trying to deal with parents already on the ledge, I can’t tell you how detrimental this is to an already fragile situation.

I was wondering the same thing. This one is a paid $$$ API.

Hey, serious question from an American. How does this policy not cause massive hiring discrimination against young women, especially recently married women? I asked my Canadian relatives this question, and their answers basically boiled down to 'well that would be illegal'. But from what I can tell enforcing anti discrimination in hiring is next to impossible, especially if you interview and hire even a slightly more qualified candidate.

I am surprised no one has mentioned mastodon. Organizations or individuals can set up their own server and people can interact with their local communities that can police and or use the data as they want, AND there is a federated feed of all the mastodon instances where you interact in a public forum.

I came to see if people were talking about the robotics and automation ETF cited in the article and if it would be a good idea to buy at this point, but seems that everyone is having philosophical conversation instead of a investing conversation :-p

Came here to post :-) Considering the nearest star is about 4 light years away it doesn't seem that impressive.

That is my schedule when I have to go in (thankfully only a few times a month), but usually the 10:00-3:30 becomes a 10:00-6:30 or 7.

I guess the friend thing kind of depends on which direction they moved in relation to traffic.

Weird, there are a bunch of software companies/jobs in the northern Atlanta suburbs. I've spent time in Oakville and Burlington and they are a lot like the suburbs here, can't speak for Mississauga. I feel like there is a cultural difference: here people will think nothing of driving 45 or 60 minutes across the city not just for commuting but for restaurants, entertainment, or visiting friends, but a similar drive there, Toronto to Hamilton for instance, is a major trip!

There is one I know of but only if you are interested in new testament greek or hebrew, I've actually picked up some greek using it: https://www.stepbible.org/

One good thing that came out of the disappointment of bittorrent inc is the open source syncthing which I believe was inspired by bittorrent sync's failings.

I feel like what happened to the author epitomizes the experience of a generation that graduated in the year or two right before the crash of 2008. The first round of layoffs obviously disproportionately effected people that were just starting off their careers at that time (of course other groups were disproportionately hit hard as well). It happened to me being about a year into my career as I was still feeling my way around. It happened to many of my friends as well, and was especially hard on the group of folks that didn’t have the fortune to have gone into the IT field. And once you are out of work for a year or two when the recovery started happening, the resume’s of people fresh out of college look more attractive than the out of work ‘lazy millennial’ which only compounded the problem. Having facebook made it easier to kind of see what was going on with the larger crowd of acquaintances that I maybe would not have explicitly kept track of and though its hard to compare my experience against other cohorts I feel like depression and alcoholism are more of a problem for the group I am describing than others.

In my case I feel lucky for the experience, I was only out of work for a few months and learned that you should never trust the company you are working for beyond the next paycheck. Never work on weekends with the promises you will be ‘paid back’ etc. You are ultimately working for yourself regardless if you are salaried or contract.

I don't think that Google is expanding any further in the atlanta market, but I am in Kennesaw, and have AT&T fiber which is pretty decent.

What about his promise to make america great again?

Also, coincidentally, Russia Today has had all of it's UK based bank accounts closed: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37677020