Eh anyone can Google to get to the next step, and the next step, until their hodgepodge project is complete (eg, most of my projects), but not many would take the time to learn how to best optimize the code, keeping in mind the low level fundamentals of the operating system. Those courses actually do provide a nice minimal level of understanding of concepts to ensure the programmer understands what they are doing to a level that can build larger projects, and hopefully work well with others on a team.
Fear. The insurance is not for "oh what if I break an arm and don't have much cash in the bank" it's "if I get cancer, or need to spend even a week in the hospital, all my life's savings will be taken by this. Better give boatloads of cash every month forever to protect what I have against this."
Then the insurance company does its best to wriggle out of paying anyways.
I don't think the freedom part is accurate, but the propaganda certainly is. The news tells them what to think and they don't try further. They are convinced the United States has the best healthcare in the world, so nice, it cannot be put into a more affordable model without becoming unusably bad. They believe the Magic Market has created the absolute best and cheapest option out there, and the government can only mess that up. Individually, to those who use it, you almost always get complaints as we find ways to make it MORE inaccessible and MORE expensive (eg, concierge doctors), but even those people believe this is the best and cheapest way to do it. They themselves just got unlucky for their personal and not unique situation. The news told them so.
The hype does kind of die out since it's a bit inconvenient to get it going vs just sitting on your couch. I have not played my quest 2 in a while, but when I was I would add to your list:
11 table tennis (great ping pong. Still prefer the real thing but it scratches the itch if you just want to play and no one to play with)
Demeo (board game. It's a bit limited in levels but it was great to keep in touch with my brothers who both live in different states.)
Thrill of the Fight (look up boxing videos first to know how to correctly throw a punch, then try to apply that here. Surprisingly good workout shadow boxing a virtual opponent. You are just like "okay maybe I will play one round, not get too into it" and the next thing you know you are pouring sweat trying to win)
Real VR fishing (just nice backgrounds while doing essentially nothing with probably a bit too much action of fishing)
3D or 360 videos (however you can get them to play): it's kind of cool that I had a (really low quality) video feed at my wedding. Someone set up a small 360 camera and I can drop back in and feel like a mouse at the table at the reception. I also wanted to rewatch Avatar in it too but I never got around to it.
If my memory serves me correctly, there was Adam and Eve (the first people), then they gave birth to Cain and Abel. Then after Cain kills Abel, he gets sent out to live as an outcast amongst "the other people of the world". .... Who? I think someone said one belief is Adam and Eve kept having kids and they became the rest of the people. So yeah, Cain was old.
It's a rundown of the programs you need to run to make an Alexa replacement with Home Assistant connected to these smart speakers. You speak the wake word, and these speakers listen, then what? The speakers then send your audio file to your PC running Home Assistant, and that file gets sent to a program called Whisper, which parses your audio into text. Then you can have it either verbatim do commands (eg, "turn on the kitchen lights"), or run that text through an LLM, which you can run locally on a program called Ollama (it runs a few different flavors of local LLMs from Google, etc). Once the LLM generates a response, you send that text to a program called Piper, which turns the text into an audio file to play back through the smart speakers.
My experience is that the local LLMs are too hard to run unless you have a PC made for them. My Mini PC, which I use to run Home Assistant, had to run such a low quality model the hallucinations made it unusable. I gave it it hour by hour weather data for the day and it for some reason hallucinated temperatures that did not exist and told me to wear a jacket for my 95°F day. They do make LLM ready PCs though.
It's the krebs cycle. If you look at how sugar is broken down by the cells to make atp, the actual energy your cells use, it takes C6H12O6 (sugar) and makes it into a few CO2 and H2O, getting energy (atp) from breaking it down into the components. That CO2 is then exhaled, which is I think what OP is referring to.
Note: it's been a long time since I learned that in class so it is most likely somewhat incorrect
Yes, but the barrier to entry is much much higher. Also, we should trust licensed MDs, and if they are a public nuisance (eg, "vaccines cause autism!" nonsense), they should lose that license, and thus the trust.
One thing I've noticed about boomers is the constant TV on in the background. Very commonly FOX news, or newsmax these days, cnn, etc. Their world view is absolutely shaped by their media diet.
Meanwhile, our generation has always had the Internet. We view the world through that lens, which has a bit more of an expanded view, especially since people from those "scary" countries can come on places like reddit and post. Which is why I think the push for AI has been so strong. Now the Epstein class have some sort of means to taint what we read online, slowly moving our own worldview to the one the boomers have had from their own propaganda. It used to take owning the news stations to push their agenda, but now they had to pivot to now posting via bots to get their messages in.
All this to say, I think we had a nice gap where a kinder worldview emerged for some generations, but I worry that the generation growing up with the internet how it is becoming is going to slip back into the boomer thinking if it continues this way.
I was actually kind of successful in responding to the "our power grid can't HANDLE EVs if everyone switched!" With "you're telling me the power companies don't want more business, and are unwilling to support it?"
They were not fully satisfied, but they didn't have a response.
The AC situation in Europe is a little rough. I stayed in Paris in a niceish hotel and the AC could not keep up with the heat when I was there. It was maybe a 10 degree difference inside vs out, and the humidity did not drop much. This was 10 years ago so maybe more places have better ac now, but I don't think every place had AC then.
That was my first thought too. But really he is getting too old to enjoy those atrocities and has moved on to new and somehow worse atrocities instead.
Not entirely. If it's pumped from the water table, it can take many years for it to filter its way back in through the bedrock.
My dad had a house on a mountain and when his well went dry, I celebrated when it started raining. But then he said it wouldn't matter, as that rain wouldn't hit the water table for years, and it would just run off and away mostly.
Maybe, maybe not. If there is space in the panel, you could still install a Tesla charger and go into the settings and rate limit it down to what your panel can safely provide. I installed one on my garage and moved it down from 48 amps to 40, but I am pretty sure it can go down much further if desired. Even 24 amps charges the car overnight, so it isn't a big deal at all unless you drive a ton.
I think the hunting part is kind of fun. Going camping, learning the habits of the animals nearby, finding a place to take advantage of those habits, etc.
It's the actual killing part I wouldn't be able to do. But since I do eat meat I can't fault hunters. In fact, I suspect a lot of hunters who do eat the animal actually have a lot of respect and sadness for the actual kill, and try hard to make it as humane as possible.
Eh anyone can Google to get to the next step, and the next step, until their hodgepodge project is complete (eg, most of my projects), but not many would take the time to learn how to best optimize the code, keeping in mind the low level fundamentals of the operating system. Those courses actually do provide a nice minimal level of understanding of concepts to ensure the programmer understands what they are doing to a level that can build larger projects, and hopefully work well with others on a team.
Hmmm with this logic I could have super strength or something if there is a livable planet with 0.1x gravity. Hooray I could be a super hero!
Fear. The insurance is not for "oh what if I break an arm and don't have much cash in the bank" it's "if I get cancer, or need to spend even a week in the hospital, all my life's savings will be taken by this. Better give boatloads of cash every month forever to protect what I have against this."
Then the insurance company does its best to wriggle out of paying anyways.
I don't think the freedom part is accurate, but the propaganda certainly is. The news tells them what to think and they don't try further. They are convinced the United States has the best healthcare in the world, so nice, it cannot be put into a more affordable model without becoming unusably bad. They believe the Magic Market has created the absolute best and cheapest option out there, and the government can only mess that up. Individually, to those who use it, you almost always get complaints as we find ways to make it MORE inaccessible and MORE expensive (eg, concierge doctors), but even those people believe this is the best and cheapest way to do it. They themselves just got unlucky for their personal and not unique situation. The news told them so.
The hype does kind of die out since it's a bit inconvenient to get it going vs just sitting on your couch. I have not played my quest 2 in a while, but when I was I would add to your list: 11 table tennis (great ping pong. Still prefer the real thing but it scratches the itch if you just want to play and no one to play with)
Demeo (board game. It's a bit limited in levels but it was great to keep in touch with my brothers who both live in different states.)
Thrill of the Fight (look up boxing videos first to know how to correctly throw a punch, then try to apply that here. Surprisingly good workout shadow boxing a virtual opponent. You are just like "okay maybe I will play one round, not get too into it" and the next thing you know you are pouring sweat trying to win)
Real VR fishing (just nice backgrounds while doing essentially nothing with probably a bit too much action of fishing)
3D or 360 videos (however you can get them to play): it's kind of cool that I had a (really low quality) video feed at my wedding. Someone set up a small 360 camera and I can drop back in and feel like a mouse at the table at the reception. I also wanted to rewatch Avatar in it too but I never got around to it.
If my memory serves me correctly, there was Adam and Eve (the first people), then they gave birth to Cain and Abel. Then after Cain kills Abel, he gets sent out to live as an outcast amongst "the other people of the world". .... Who? I think someone said one belief is Adam and Eve kept having kids and they became the rest of the people. So yeah, Cain was old.
It's a rundown of the programs you need to run to make an Alexa replacement with Home Assistant connected to these smart speakers. You speak the wake word, and these speakers listen, then what? The speakers then send your audio file to your PC running Home Assistant, and that file gets sent to a program called Whisper, which parses your audio into text. Then you can have it either verbatim do commands (eg, "turn on the kitchen lights"), or run that text through an LLM, which you can run locally on a program called Ollama (it runs a few different flavors of local LLMs from Google, etc). Once the LLM generates a response, you send that text to a program called Piper, which turns the text into an audio file to play back through the smart speakers.
My experience is that the local LLMs are too hard to run unless you have a PC made for them. My Mini PC, which I use to run Home Assistant, had to run such a low quality model the hallucinations made it unusable. I gave it it hour by hour weather data for the day and it for some reason hallucinated temperatures that did not exist and told me to wear a jacket for my 95°F day. They do make LLM ready PCs though.
It's the krebs cycle. If you look at how sugar is broken down by the cells to make atp, the actual energy your cells use, it takes C6H12O6 (sugar) and makes it into a few CO2 and H2O, getting energy (atp) from breaking it down into the components. That CO2 is then exhaled, which is I think what OP is referring to.
Note: it's been a long time since I learned that in class so it is most likely somewhat incorrect
Yes, but the barrier to entry is much much higher. Also, we should trust licensed MDs, and if they are a public nuisance (eg, "vaccines cause autism!" nonsense), they should lose that license, and thus the trust.
One thing I've noticed about boomers is the constant TV on in the background. Very commonly FOX news, or newsmax these days, cnn, etc. Their world view is absolutely shaped by their media diet.
Meanwhile, our generation has always had the Internet. We view the world through that lens, which has a bit more of an expanded view, especially since people from those "scary" countries can come on places like reddit and post. Which is why I think the push for AI has been so strong. Now the Epstein class have some sort of means to taint what we read online, slowly moving our own worldview to the one the boomers have had from their own propaganda. It used to take owning the news stations to push their agenda, but now they had to pivot to now posting via bots to get their messages in.
All this to say, I think we had a nice gap where a kinder worldview emerged for some generations, but I worry that the generation growing up with the internet how it is becoming is going to slip back into the boomer thinking if it continues this way.
I was actually kind of successful in responding to the "our power grid can't HANDLE EVs if everyone switched!" With "you're telling me the power companies don't want more business, and are unwilling to support it?"
They were not fully satisfied, but they didn't have a response.
The AC situation in Europe is a little rough. I stayed in Paris in a niceish hotel and the AC could not keep up with the heat when I was there. It was maybe a 10 degree difference inside vs out, and the humidity did not drop much. This was 10 years ago so maybe more places have better ac now, but I don't think every place had AC then.
Won't this be related to the humidity/wet bulb temp?
I like my Apollo air 1. I have an alert set for when the air quality is poor for over 30 minutes, but mostly it just shows up after I made toast.
It's two fold: ads are annoying, and they actually work to slowly make you less happy without the advertised product.
That was my first thought too. But really he is getting too old to enjoy those atrocities and has moved on to new and somehow worse atrocities instead.
Did he lose a fight to her or something?
Not entirely. If it's pumped from the water table, it can take many years for it to filter its way back in through the bedrock.
My dad had a house on a mountain and when his well went dry, I celebrated when it started raining. But then he said it wouldn't matter, as that rain wouldn't hit the water table for years, and it would just run off and away mostly.
Maybe, maybe not. If there is space in the panel, you could still install a Tesla charger and go into the settings and rate limit it down to what your panel can safely provide. I installed one on my garage and moved it down from 48 amps to 40, but I am pretty sure it can go down much further if desired. Even 24 amps charges the car overnight, so it isn't a big deal at all unless you drive a ton.
I think the hunting part is kind of fun. Going camping, learning the habits of the animals nearby, finding a place to take advantage of those habits, etc.
It's the actual killing part I wouldn't be able to do. But since I do eat meat I can't fault hunters. In fact, I suspect a lot of hunters who do eat the animal actually have a lot of respect and sadness for the actual kill, and try hard to make it as humane as possible.