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"You'll own nothing and be happy." - Ida Auken

It's also very expensive, for an indie bookstore, to get book metadata legally since Baker and Taylor was acquired by Follett and to drive online traffic in a cost effectively.

This. I have never been a fan of watches but after seeing the other 3 people in my house adopt and actively use, year over year, I believe they can produce and market about anything successfully even in crowded market. They truly are good/best at usability.

Population decline to accelerate shortly afterwards.

This was the #1 lesson I learned from 2000 and the first dotcom bust.

Started with ChatGPT, migrated to BingChat, now onto Bard...added Copilot at the same time as I started using ChatGPT. Settled on Bard (has gotten increasingly better towards the end of the week) and Copilot

Using Copilot as a better intellisense...but don't use it for big templates. Bard to find/summarize stuff I figure is probably in stack/SO somewhere.

Boilerplate I think I have seen a 35% increase in speed. Individual edge cases (like porting Azure AD v1/Identity 2.0 to Azure AD v2/Identity 2.0 authentication) maybe 10-15% improvement. My day to day is C#.

> I’d likely move jurisdictions if the U.S. cracked down on AI progress

This is my overriding concern. This is a wave crest that if you don't ride it, it may well crush you or take the ocean with it and leave you in a desert. It is as interesting as fire as a tool for civilization going forward.

Power is my biggest concern too. Essentially taking 8B fairly efficient human machines and replicating their power consumption to care for them will be massive.

Not so in the Atlanta area. Mostly thanks to Tyler Perry. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/douglas-county/lionsgate-in...

Yes, moved to semi rural GA (Carroll County), work for a state government, fiber to the door. I get to work on things important to actual people...feels like 1998-1999. I get time to solution properly and when I leave work I actually leave and work on fence or our garden. We have cows, horses, and chickens...a small 25 acres farm. I get to spend time with my kids, work on their cars, work on my own house...it just feels more real.

...a guy I knew growing up gave me this advice "Find somewhere you want to live and figure out how to make a living there." Boring, simple, evident but it took 20 years to sink in.

Which is less than the increase in the deficit under the last president (7.8T) or the one before that. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/biden-economy-facts-...

I was pretty decent early on. Now I just use it to augment copilot...generally when I don't have a specific "start" but just an idea...works better than dumping a comment into copilot. I was hoping with the 3 tabs creative -> more exact it would be a little better but I haven't seen any difference. It isn't quite as interesting as when it was regularly hallucinating. I found the hallucinations to bubble up inspiration...forgotten facts, unused paths, etc.

Companies and smaller government entities encourage people to BYOD. It's cheaper and gets access to people 24x7.

Its available. Have been on 1G Spectrum for about 2 months now. Love it. They are competing with CarrollEMC/Crossbeam to get in first and sign up as many as possible before CarrollEMC is done with their rollout (which has a 6 year rollout plan).

I wish you could provide a "reverse" challenge. In Carroll County, GA Spectrum/Charter provide or are rolling out underground rural fiber. CarrollEMC/Crossbeam are rolling out "on the power pole" fiber in the same rural area. Neither show up on the map to the extent they are provided. It would significantly help my neighbors to know these are options.

Some of that is starting to change in the rural South. Georgia changed laws to allow electrical coops and cities to run their own loops. Alabama is also pushing money into local rural fiber builds.

An example, in Carroll County, GA I live outside of Carrollton, GA and have 2 fiber options 1) Charter/Spectrum which I use 2) CarrollEMC/Crossbeam which looks like they just dropped fiber on our power pole within the last month. If you look at the FCC map of Highway 5 it correctly shows ATT DSL availability, incorrectly shows Comcast coax availability, and does not show either Charter/Spectrum or CarrollEMC/Crossbeam. There is only a process to challenge availability on the FCC map, like Comcast...that incorrectly shows availability, and no option to add new providers to the map. It is left up to the provider to claim availability.

If large corporations or governments were actually trying to reduce hydrocarbon dependence they would bend over backward to promote work from home.

We argue about who has to take social and fiscal responsibility for answers (posts, etc.) but this is an instance of who takes responsibility for the question.

Good wood for fence posts, bad fruit for cows choking on (no upper front teeth) and can swallow them whole.

There is a local rumor that Chris' Hotdogs in Montgomery, AL has never changed the hotdog water. https://www.chrishotdogs.com/ Probably not true.

With the exception of education for children is still looks slightly cheaper than living in the rural Southeast in the US.

With 4G the problem has been "what lane are you in?". One of the things that can be done with that data... If you can figure out what lane a user is in, you can target (visually) digital billboards to that lane, covering all lanes with different images/ads, through some weird refraction. I knew of a company that was working on that problem 8-10 years ago out of the South. No idea if they solved the problem.

If you ever look in old barns that have been there before the Great Depression (few but there are some) you will see rat traps with holes drilled in them. They were used to hang on trees to trap squirrels. Apparently this worked well the first year...not so good for the decade after that.

Yep. Just got the email. Still worth it not to see ads on youtube at work. You never know what will pop in there.

I don't understand why people don't want to do WFH to reduce carbon emissions. It seems like the quickest way an individual can reduce their emissions.

Love Brave for the simple fact that it blocks most of the ads on Hulu+. Not all but most.

Same. The value for me is there. If nothing else to have a "window" in my cube where one monitor streams 4k outdoor videos. The tipping point for me were when visually nsfw ads popped up during these outdoor videos representing a men's deodorant. I didn't want to offend anyone and the direct content I wanted was worth paying for. I appreciate google for giving me the option of going ad free.

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