If I search for what type of oil to use in my car, there will be pages and pages of forum posts of people bickering about who's wrong answer is the best. ChatGPT gets it right the first time, and that's amazing considering it's trained on so many wrong answers. And I'd say its WAY more than 90% accurate.

For me, coffee is only a medication. I don't get why people pay that much for it instead of just using the office coffee maker. On the go, 7-11 has far better coffee, IMO, and you don't have to pay extra for flavors.

Tron and the Apple 2+ launched my career.

But I think now we're heading more towards 2001 A Space Odyssey.

When I was a kid, I dreamed about someday writing accounting applications.

Obama bombed more countries than any president since Truman.

And he got a Nobel Peace Prize on his 2nd day in office for being Not-Bush.

The average human driver would have been texting while speeding and would have run the kid over.

That's $2700 more than I'd ever pay for a phone, and I don't even want a foldable.

I recently noticed that GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio has "checkpoints" where you can restore the state from past chat history. That's pretty cool. I've been using a script to back everything up each time I turn Copilot Agent loose.

Elasticity of supply and demand. Tax cigarettes and the consumer pays the tax because they're addicted. Tax apples and people will buy oranges instead, so the producer pays the tax. Everything else is somewhere in between.

So if you raise your prices and people keep buying, then your prices were too low.

I'm an American and I really wouldn't care if China gets there first. Good for them. We were there in the 60's. It's a dead rock. Nobody will ever live there. There's zero point for a moon base. Same with Mars. Nothing will ever happen to the earth that will make the moon or Mars a better place to live. Not climate change, not even nuclear war.

We need some massive innovation in propulsion to make it worthwhile. When we can get 1G sustained acceleration for an entire mission, then it might make sense to send humans into the solar system. For now, let robots do the science.

I don't get what the race is about. The U.S. did it more than half a century ago.

The summary doesn't mention which category the "Plus" tier (which I have) will be in, but TFA says no ads. I was considering cancelling it because I don't use any of the extra features and I signed up when I wanted to support what they were doing. They don't need my money anymore. Honestly, I hate ads enough and use ChatGPT enough that I might keep it. YouTube Premium is the best $12 a month I spend.

But really, if you're paying anything for a service, there shouldn't be ads. Putting ads in the $8 tier is a dick move.

I'm a gray beard developer, so I've been coding WAY longer than AI has been around. I don't vibe code in any way, but when I'm coding in VS Code with Copilot enabled, I'll be typing a line and AI figures out what I'm doing and completes the line. TAB. Next line, AI figures out what I'm doing and completes the line. TAB.
I'm getting used to it and maybe a little dependent on it. Put me in a coding interview without AI, and it might be harder than it used to be.

Honda has a factory mechanic do a job three times in a row, and the shortest time becomes the book time. It's a brand new vehicle, no corrosion, tech knows exactly what to do, all fasteners have been broken loose at least once, and all tools on the bench. No paperwork. No bringing the vehicle in or taking it out. No waiting for parts / getting the wrong parts. It's totally unfair. When I did it for a living, the shop charged $65/hr and I only got paid $12.50/hr. All the guys I worked with who had families to support worked two jobs. And if you ask for a raise, the response is "Turn in more hours".

I worked my way through college as an auto mechanic. It's the shittiest job on earth. Is there a shortage of auto mechanics? Yes. And there's a reason for that. It's back breaking work, almost always without heat or air conditioning. You bleed on the job every single day. I had to buy thousands of dollars of tools. Long term techs end up with six figures worth of tools, all paid for themselves.

But the worst part is the pay. Flat Rate. There's a book that says how long a specific repair should take, and you get paid that. If it says 3 hours, and a rusted bolt breaks off and you spend an extra 2 hours extracting it, you don't get paid for that. If it's a slow day and there isn't work to do, you don't get paid for that. If a customer doesn't pay their bill, you don't get paid for that either.

The only way to make money as an auto mechanic is to rip people off. Cut corners. Recommend unnecessary service and then don't actually do it. If you feel like you get ripped off at the repair shop - it's Flat Rate. No honest mechanic can make a living.

There's no freaking way a "service advisor" makes $120k. That's the guy at the counter you talk to when you walk in, and they're the dumbest people in the whole shop.