I’m not a baker. I can cook, but I do not bake.

OK, here’s my unpopular opinion: cooking and baking aren’t that different, and the differences between them are massively overstated. If you can follow a savory meat dish recipe that spends time in the oven, you can make a cake.

I’ve worked in restaurants and as a pastry chef. It’s all the same fundamentals. People say baking has to be “more precise” and I don’t even think that’s true. Plenty of savory sauces and meat dishes require just as much, if not more, precision as baking.

I mean this to be encouraging. I hear from a lot of talented cooks that they don’t bake and I’m always like but… you could? You’re just inexperienced at it. But a passionate cook is also a passionate baker.

Medicare for all will happen once enough Americans figure out that $2000/year in taxes is less than $8000/year in premiums/deductibles. So it could take awhile.

There’s also those in the opposite situation: Stuck unemployed on Medicare because getting a job would make necessary healthcare too expensive. What a country

I love linux (longtime debian user here) but it definitely kinda sucks sometimes and I understand why there isn’t mass adoption. I feel odd talking to other linux users sometimes.

Canteens, animal skin water carriers, maybe water barrels for people with wagons. They had to plan routes with available water from springs and rivers frequently enough that they could carry enough with them in between sources.

The caramel is what makes them Milky! This is asinine!

Generational warfare is counterproductive. I have much more in common with a working class boomer, than I do with a rich person who is my same age.

If you think that your colleagues represent the majority of people, you may be in for a rude awakening.

I live in Seattle. The local trade schools are filling up with programmers learning to be carpenters because they hate AI so much.

The acceptable inaccurate result rate is 0%. I think that’s unachievable by LLM tech.

Then these people aren’t using DDG anyway, so why should DDG be trying to appeal to them?

Anecdotally, according to the internet my ~14 year old graphics card is worth more than 2x what I paid for it. So…

You’re talking about the generation that was literally in charge when American society was desegregated, when women were first allowed to have bank accounts, and when homosexuality was legalized, but go off.

We need a dating app that matches people based on their favorite/least favorite domestic chores

Depends, I think if they’re compostable it might be OK. Plastic or styrofoam would be horrific

My issue is that people have been saying “yeah, it’s a bit iffy, but it’ll get better” since 2022. It’s been four years. When is it actually gonna get better… enough?

Based on my understanding of the underlying tech, it will always have some level of making shit up. That, combined with the fact that all of these companies are spending more money running data centers than they have coming in, implies to me that this tech (at least in the current form of cloud-based chatbots) isn’t staying around long-term. No one is actually making money off of it except the hardware vendors. None of these AI companies are what my grandpa would’ve called a “going concern.” So I haven’t felt much desire to get into it.

I typically like new technology as it comes out, but I haven’t found LLM’s to be very impressive or inspiring.

Read about https://techworkerscoalition.org/ and https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/

Yeah, no car is huge. Also, while there’s obviously very expensive restaurants, there’s also a lot of very inexpensive street food options all over the place that other “less expensive cities” don’t have. One can get extremely reasonably priced groceries in Chinatown. It’s not all bad in NYC.

Okay, but using the interrobang is a perfect sign that the text isn’t AI generated 😂 Genius move!

Agree about the em-dash thing, it’s really not that hard.

Ah yes, five weeks, the legal minimum in France 😭

I love shit like this.

Like. I work for a landscaping company. There is zero application of AI/LLMs/whatever to any aspect of my work. None of that shit is going to help me move piles of dirt, or plant saplings.