Yes — and the term to read more about here is “growth mindset.”

Bought a lifetime pass, switched to Jellyfin after way too much Tidal promotion on my server.

I just downloaded the .deb (unless it was an AppImage) and it ran without further tweaking.

Yeah. If I stayed in the right lane, every couple miles I’d need to change lanes to avoid an exit only, or free up space for entering traffic to merge. But that leaves one of not two open lanes to my left.

Also changing lanes is stressful for me: the situation changes quickly, and even after checking blind spots I’ve almost sideswiped someone a couple times. (Also honked to keep a pair of cars in front of me from picking the same moment to shift into each other.)

So, I get the principle, and I also am annoyed with slow traffic in the left lane. But if there’s room to pass on the left, that’s what I see as necessary.

I guess this is probably safe. /r/dashcamgifs makes me want as much space as possible between me and the other 2-ton projectiles.

If driving were a sport where you got points/safety for being right, I would drive very differently. I have right of way over that person parked in the intersection? Back to a save point for them!

I forget where she got it, but my mom sometimes quoted a nursery rhyme ending with “he was just as dead as if he’d been wrong.”

It’d be interesting to have an AI look for recurring boilerplate from StackOverflow and suggest new libraries or language features.

I agree, and I think it’s closely related to something else I dislike about AI — art or other media. The best it can do is interpolate among other, generic, mediocre training data. There are a few cases (novel go strategies, optical illusions) where a human has carefully guided it to a new creative output. But on its own, it’s missing that obsessive need to render some internal idea into the world.

I run into this in programming. I can add the AI agent to do some administrative tasks, like factoring out a React component. But it’s never yet been able to solve a problem I got stuck on, where a teammate quickly identified the extra aspect I needed to take into account, or the way I needed to shift my approach.

AI is great at the instinctual, pattern-matching part. I wish we would use it to eliminate the redundancy in our writing and art, rather than amplify it.

I think that’s supposed to be him popping out of the future.

Cute — though the visual gag fits a little better with infinite recursion that infinite loop.

A few hours, would’ve been faster with a bigger compressor.

Yes, N95, earmuffs, and goggles with side protection. The needle scaler actually sprayed the enamel chips around less than the drill brush though. Still a lot of glass dust to wash out of my hair though.

Thanks!

The thumbnail doesn’t seem to be showing after I click the post, not sure if it’s a client issue but here’s the progress photo again:

Software union? (Where?)

Less greater bang 'postrophes hash Carat quote backtick dollars en-dash Bang star equals at dollar …

Nope, I’m not getting this one to work. Different joke?

Summary of studies for anyone interested.

Still holding up fine after 4 months stored outdoors + periodic use.

I recently learned it’s the larvae (little black and orange alligator looking things) that do most of the eating. We ordered ladybugs this year, most of them flew away, but they left little orange oval eggs on the back of a few leaves. When the larvae hatched, they demolished the aphids.

Similarly, in the US Northeast, I learned about the civil rights movement as a solved problem, and that slavery was basically the only (and long gone) system of oppression we’d had. “Black and brown people have their equal rights now, carry on!”