I get a good 100 yards range with that one.

Keep it simple.

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It's just a popup notice indicating you have free Sirius for two weeks. There isn't even a "Subscribe" button. I don't see why people are so worked up over this.

I'm not an important enough person for Google to care what I'm watching on their platform. Take my data. Use it to recommend videos I might like. Show me ads for things I might want to buy. I'm totally fine with it.

The Chinese motorcycles you can buy on Amazon are 70 year old Honda technology.

When I dry brine a couple racks of ribs and cook them in my smoker, does that make them ultra-processed? It's probably not the healthiest of foods, but I started with fresh ingredients!

I needed a wetlands permit to put a pipe in a ditch because it had a 4 inch trickle of water flowing through it. The federal government made me pay for an archeologist to search the ditch for shipwrecks. Fortunately there weren't any. Also needed an archeologist on site during all ground work because it was within 10 miles of a Civil War battlefield (all of Northern Virginia is within 10 miles of a battlefield - doesn't seem to bother the data centers).

The process took two years and cost $30,000. Good thing they didn't find any spotted owls.

I forget the terminology, but there's a classification where FEMA determines flood risk by a topographical map, and they overestimate. If you buy land in that category, you can pay for a boots-on-the-ground survey and typically get the flood zone size reduced somewhat.

Like the warbling all EVs do at low speeds. It's louder and more annoying than a regular car.

When I'm helping my kids with their homework, and there's a concept that I know well, but I just don't know how to teach it, I turn to ChatGPT.

"Tell me how to teach division by sharing to a 2nd grader."

I get back a simple, straightforward, step by step set of kid friendly instructions. It's really great! Use the tools!

My kids (in the US) have school laptops and the only thing they do with them is worksheets. Nothing interactive. It's just to save paper and check the box that they're using computers.

On the flip side, one of my kids had a paper take home test with some questions where the answers were drag and drop. The teacher just printed out an online test and didn't even read it first.

It's thought to be 80% hereditary. It's also thought there are from 2 to 4 distinct types of autism, like how ADHD has 2 types.

Lots of scientists and inventors throughout history had autistic traits and would probably meet the diagnostic criteria today. The book Neurotribes by Steve Silberman goes into great depth about the history. Good read.

I bought a new Windows 11 laptop for my kid and it came locked in "S Mode" and would only install software from Microsoft. I had to jump through flaming hoops to get it turned off. How do they get away with that?

I'm having a hard time helping my kids with their math homework because every concept has some weird trick to get to the answer and they have to repeat that trick on the tests to get credit. So first I have to go and learn the trick myself and then help them.

I do remember my own Dad having the same issue from time to time when I was a kid, but it's gone to an extreme today.

To be honest, the first thing I did was go to ChatGPT and ask it to list alternatives to Google heatmap. It gave a list of several and a chart comparing all of them. I picked one and had Sonnet implement it. It's like having a team of junior developers working for me that never complain about anything.

What AI can't do is to take a whole feature off the backlog and implement it. Yet.