He thought it was “oaf of office” and assumed he was fine.

For a guy that’s always crowing about making deals, he sure seems unhappy about people making deals.

https://nestwatch.org/learn/all-about-birdhouses/

Pausing the woodworking aspect for a second, you might want to take a look at what nesting birds live in your exact area (a bird feeding specialty store can probably give great local advise) and what entrance hole sizes they need. There might be an obvious choice based on what you want to do with the existing hole, and it’ll drive the dimensions and placement of your final birdhouse.

My dad did a similar project years ago but it rarely got any interest from the birds in his yard - I think the bit of stump, hole size, and direction it faced weren’t a good combination.

Cool project!

I thought it was a good speech but damn, I didn’t realize how good it was.

I heard about a Chinese rpg that did something similar. The conversations were wide open, and instead of clicking through limited dialog choices, you had to type your responses. You get some guidance on what the purpose of the conversation is, but that’s it. Like: “cheer this person up!”

I think it’s a cute idea but ultimately too unpredictable using the current generation of LLMs.

IMO AI is better used as a game design tool than something running live in game. I remember running around so many open world games where it was obvious you had left the area you were meant to be in. Suddenly there’s few monsters, no quests or NPCs, and the least thought given to foliage and landscape decisions. BORING. I feel like that’s a great use of AI - create a non-critical landscape players can continue to explore, even if they won’t make any progress on the main quest/story lines.

A game studio isn’t going to pay designers to create rich experiences in unnecessary parts of the world, but they should be willing to pay designer to review a region like that and get it into the game.

Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most…their government took them away. and rights aren’t rights if someone can take em away. They’re priveledges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get’s shorter, and shorter, and shorter.

There’s a longer version of this great routine by George Carlin, as well as recordings from live shows. I highly recommend reading the whole thing - it helps put a lot of this into perspective.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1242679-boy-everyone-in-this-country-is-running-around-yammering-about

It’s 2026 in the worst timeline. You don’t ask that anymore. You ask if any entity faced consequences for doing it.

I pasted in the first half of the speech and it said 100% human.

Captain Picard usually tells the replicator “Tea. Earl grey. Hot.” At which point the replicator produces a cup of hot earl grey tea.

However, in this meme, Captain Picard says “bees” instead of “tea”. Bees are a swarming, flying insect. As a result, instead of tea appearing in the replicator, a swarm of bees appears.

The humour lies in the fact that a minor substitution in the language of the request drastically changed the resulting situation.

This exchange made him start the fire, despite his claims to the contrary.

They should rename it Orangeland.

The only thing people talk about more than AI is politics.

I did a sewage treatment plant tour in my high school biology class. At the end of the second stage filtration, the worker pointed at how it discharges into the ocean.

“So at this point, the water has been treated enough that it’s safe to drink”

We all scrunched our faces at that. Then he added

“But I wouldn’t”

Is that before or after Kupiansk?

Ontario’s economy is heavily reliant on their auto industry that’s pretty tightly coupled to the US. I get why Ford needs to make statements like this. There’s a huge risk of disruption letting Chinese EVs into Canada.

On the flip side, coupling our industry to a burgeoning fascist state that has shown little interest in respecting treaties, trade agreements, and Canada is a stupider and stupider arrangement as every day passes.

So, great, Doug, you’re speaking up for your constituents. It’s just that decades of ghoulish decisions have put Ontario in that position, and something has to give. Being at the whim of Detroit corporations is no way forward.

Too late. He died today.

Aches and pains. New medications they’re on. How things were so much easier when they were younger.

The same conversation that happens everywhere when the people have been around for a while.

This is a good compromise. When I was tight on backup space, I just had a “backup” script that ran nightly and wrote all the media file names to a text file and pushed that to my backup.

It would mean tons of redownloading if my storage array failed, but it was preferable to spending hundreds of dollars I didn’t have on new hardware.

Holy shit, this has every cert I’ve ever generated or renewed since 2015.

Waddaya mean no magic bullet? We just need to add one more lane!