Of course they do.

@Jodi said in Testing AI coding tools: The more of an expert you are about coding, the better it will work for you. I suspect this is the case for most AI tasks. If you are already an expert, then you can use AI in ways that boost productivity, and probably creativity as well. The problem is, if you are not already an expert, using AI is probably going to prevent you from ever becoming one.

Bari Weiss was installed at the behest of the state of Israel. Is anyone really surprised? Tik Tok bad because of China. Bait and Switch. It was bought by an American Zionist billionaire. Bari Weiss is an im imbacile. Bari Weiss has always been an imbacile.

@wtg said in The Chicago kidnappings have begun: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented. What a surprise. Not.

Link to video When we had a power cut a few weeks ago I recorded this in semi darkness.

The odds of being charged when you are without fault are much higher when you use the self checkout. I avoid it if I am purchasing more than three items.

“Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Not sure that is something I would want to hear from a friend.

+1

As I put it next door, we’ve seen this movie plenty of times. 1 - select your desired opinion 2 - look in the Bible for supportive phrases 3 - declare your desired opinion biblically correct 4 - tell everyone there can be no other Christian opinion on the matter, since you believe in the infallibility of [your interpretation of] the Bible. The part in brackets is unspoken but implied.

It has rained here literally every day in December since we've been dogsitting. Imagine four dogs running round the lawn and then coming inside. Six times a day. We bought three extra washable mats but it's a losing battle. Thankfully two dry weeks are now forecast so I just hosed clean the back yard concrete and fingers crossed the muddy patch that used to be grass will drain or freeze. Oh for warm summer evenings.

I've noticed this with some expensive places, some only advertising with a handful of photos. It's either they really don't need to show everything, and/or a privacy thing.

Crumpets keep getting delayed...went with buttermilk sourdough bread. The perfect sandwich bread for toasting. [image: 20251222-154855.jpg]

This is disturbing. Very.

Donald Trump has sparked a fresh row with Denmark after appointing a special envoy to Greenland, the vast Arctic island he has said he would like to annex. Trump announced on Sunday that Jeff Landry, the Republican governor of Louisiana, would become the US's special envoy to Greenland, a semi-autonomous part of the Kingdom of Denmark. Gov Landry said in a post on X it was an honour to serve in a "volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US". The move has angered Copenhagen, which said it would will call the US ambassador for "an explanation". Greenland's prime minister said the island must "decide our own future" and its "territorial integrity must be respected". https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgmd132ge4o

Re: "Create a stethoscope" ... I came across a science fair project where a student built a system that (1) inserts a microphone into a cut-off stethoscope, (2) uses a smartphone to record the sound from said microphone, (3) is accompanied by his software with an AI model that can do some initial analyses of the recorded sound, and (4) packages up everything and sends to a human doctor. We awarded that project first prize for its category. Re: "Help yourself get to sleep" ... it need not necessarily be playing sounds of "white noise [or] ocean waves [or] crackling fire," it can be set to really boring podcasts, old TV reruns, lectures, sermons, audio books, etc. Re: "Control your phone with your voice" ... it occurs to me that maybe I use the word "cheese" to trigger the camera "click" function, that way I will be naturally saying "cheese" when taking a selfie. (OK, maybe double it up and use "cheese cheese" as the voice trigger to avoid accidental triggering of the "click" function.)