https://youtu.be/fh8A98zfoKw

I spent an hour today on a webinar about how to optimize token usage with more than 500 other participants from the company I work for. Because billing is about to have its come-to-Jesus moment.

I’m definitely aware now. We’re global and that means even more overhead with multiple regulatory bodies. Our products are several years to their first market, and at least another year for the global rollout.

And I’m just over here writing software and trying to reduce toil for these insane people who hand-roll excel files like they’re databases and applications.

I left the tech world and now work for a medical device company. All I can say is I’m extremely happy to be working from home with the 3 hours of meetings and 1-2 hours of work I have each week. And the director wants to get me a junior because I’m managing so many projects. Hell, I’m actively drumming up work and it takes weeks for anything to happen.

Sure I took a bit of a pay cut, but I’m not on call 1 week a month and I’m not being run ragged everyday either.

Barnes and Noble Nook HD+

I was all in on a 1080p tablet with micro sd card in 2012. And then it just shut off and never turned on again a few months out of warranty.

Then there was a Lenovo yoga tablet in 2014 with windows 8. The Intel atom processor was such a dog it just ended up being a solitaire screen and about nothing else.

Recently bought another cheap tablet for a different specific use case. We’ll see if this one is a POS.

For sure (our Volvo is 1 year too old to have the android automotive system and … It would be better). The Amazon effort that powers the Alexa + Ford sync business isn’t quite at that depth: it’s an API with always online “AI learning” stuff OEMs can integrate.

https://developer.amazon.com/automotive/

Ford has had Amazon Alexa built-in for something like 5 years …

Fried spam with some cheap yellow mustard was a regular Sunday lunch. Usually with some boxed waffle mix topped with watery mapleine homemade “syrup”.

For sure, but good cheese curds are amazing.

Yep, cream of mushroom or cream of celery. A staple for the upper Midwestern hotdish.

“gravy” is a stretch. This picture looks way better than the reality. Cream soup and usually some bread crumbs or noodles to stretch it. If there was flavor, it was the salt from the tots.

Pretty close! Swap the mash for tots and the gravy for cream soup.

The tater tot hotdish I grew up with. … Under the tots at least.

Material themes definitely tend to be softer. I hate them as a rule.

Gruvbox material fg0 definition

Edit:

Surprisingly, this passes a basic accessibility check. https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=654735&bcolor=F9F5D7

“Hard” (high contrast) should use the bg0_h value for the background: #f9f5d7 or rgb(249,245,215).

This is a light “off white”. If you have blue blocking mode or a night color mode enabled, the yellowing effect will be exaggerated.

For what is worth, I don’t think gruvbox makes a good light theme because it’s pretty low contrast especially compared to a lot of more recent themes. I say this as a die hard gruvbox dark user.

Not where I assumed that was going.

That’s basically the story of my desktop too.

3rd PSU, 3rd motherboard and processor, 3rd graphics card, case fans, etc., but I still have the original dvd drive (which is unplugged). All in a BTX Antec P180 case I bought in 2007. The power button keeps falling out now, so it might be time to replace it too. But with the price of ram, it’ll be a straight parts swap.

Bold of you to assume people/companies test backups more than once.

Case in point: I once got instructed to “enable EBS snapshots” for customer deployments to meet a new backup requirement. Disaster recovery was a completely different feature we only kind of got to a couple years later and afaik, remains manual to this day.

As an inveterate imbiber, even a fifth (750ml) of mild spirits (80pf/40%abv) in 15 minutes will get anyone in trouble.

He quit walking the line and dove head first over it.

Well, that explains why corporate is so intent on them. They’re creating the perfect little KPI-driven stooge.

Heck, now I’d like to see a study on KPIs (as a concept) as a reality distortion lens. It would seem like they have inadvertantly created a way to calculate a reality alignment index for a given KPI. Is it reasonable to conclude that using KPIs to measure performance is, in itself, unethical behavior?

To go a bit further: Is there a correlation between the number of KPIs and the likelihood of creating scenarios in which the only desirable outcome lies outside reality? That is, how many KPIs does it take to get sufficient competition between priorities that it effectively requires hallucinating a solution to achieve a sufficiently aligned result?