That sounds exhausting. Draining. Incredibly difficult. What you’re doing is impressive and admirable. To me it sounds like you’re checking off the “good mom” box. You didn’t ask a question so I won’t offer advice. But I wish you all the best. I hope you at least feel heard.

100% agree OP. The utility bills here are insane. And more highways so we can continue to have insane traffic but in new, different places instead of, ya know, the lightrail that was approved by voters and shut down by the legislature. It’s all a clusterfuck.

The fact these cowards are allowed to wear masks is riot-worthy.

Imagine doing your job and you need to put on a mask specifically to hide your face—and not questioning whether you’re one of the bad guys.

I got some Spring of last year! I have ‘em outside. Not terribly impressive but a fun novelty.

Strong “pls respond” vibes

Assuming they didn’t fix it, add Intelligence drain on self 100% for 1 second and get your full mana back afterwards. But you can’t alter your intelligence above 100 or it’ll stop working.

Discovered it way back in Morrowind days. OP as hell but plenty of fun. Doesn’t work in Skyrim, can’t remember why, they probably got rid of intelligence drain on self.

Nah, you’re safe to run it locally. You’re downloading the specific model, that’s right, and it’s not an exe. As you ask questions of it, the inference step, that is sent directly to the model on your machine by the ollama interface. Nothing goes over the network after you download a model and there is no scanning involved; that’s just not how it works.

Here’re my two cents. I’m in the US with nearly two decades in engineering for experience. And I started programming young, like you; it’s very much a passion for me.

There are great places out there. Look for the roles that are going to expand your skill sets. More money is nice, but long term you’ll benefit more from pushing your boundaries. Ask lots of questions about the team when you’re interviewing—that can give you plenty of insight. And get comfortable with AI programming. That’s a seismic paradigm shift happening right now and embracing it can help you leapfrog others. Right now I like Windsurf AI.

And I get how this sequence of events you laid out is dispiriting—it would be for most imo. Personally, I think it’s worth the pursuit if it’s something you’ve enjoyed since such a young age.

Happy to answer more if it helps.

It does doesn’t it? It’s like a weird mix of a potato camera and AI

Mammut is top notch. I love their gear. I never see them in the US.

“Mackie estimates he ‘put in 10,750 hours of training’ before landing that life-changing job. He was proactive, too: He wrote letters to executives at Disney’s Marvel Studios over a decade ago in the hopes of landing a role in one of the studio’s popular superhero films…”

That sure sounds like hard work to me. What do you think luck is, my guy? It’s putting yourself out there, building connections, and making things happen. That’s how it works. If you sit on your couch all day a studio exec isn’t going to ring you up for a staring part in a marvel movie.

In fact, I might go so far to say his flavor of “luck” exists to prop a person up as a standout above others—destined to be so.

The glove joke is that only Steamboat Willie is in the public domain. Wearing the gloves makes him Mickey Mouse, which is why he should absolutely not wear them as his copyright hasn’t expired.

The other doors look like Donald Duck, Superman, and I guess James Bond? I assume their copyright expirations are coming soon—in that order.

This guy was appointed during Trump’s first term. Back then I remember this gutting/privatization of the USPS being a topic of discussion. I kept expecting to hear that Biden had replaced him; I wonder what made him keep him.

Well, plastic’s already in our brains and testicles so we might as well get whimsical with it at this point.

I can’t properly put into words how useless this appears to be. I run git from the command line so maybe others do it in a way where a dedicated button is more useful? I can’t fathom that.

Oh yeah? I’ve definitely noticed how slow GR is. Maybe I’m more willing to cut the little guy some slack on that front. I don’t use the paid tier since none of the features appeal to me. Though I have been thinking of getting it just to support them.

I’ve been using this for maybe two months? I like it better than GR. The only thing I wish it had were my notes/highlights from my kindle reading. Even without that it’s a much better experience than GR.

I love Megyn Kelly’s all caps vitriol beside the admission that she barely cares about football. What a life. The smoke signal goes up and you jump online to shit-stir—transparently so.

Yup. Plenty of us sure do! It stems from bogus autism research by Andrew Wakefield like 20 years ago. There are a myriad of reasons for people to buy into it. We’ve even enabled them with religious exemptions at the state level (i.e. it’s against your religion to vaccinate).

Louisiana has even stopped promoting them, https://abcnews.go.com/Health/louisiana-health-department-stop-promoting-mass-vaccination/story?id=118819674

And we have a particularly nasty outbreak right now in one of our states because of vaccine avoidance, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8yvg5359po

That’s the kindle app. At least that’s what it looks like on my iPad.