When given two options.

1. Use comcast.
2. Get tied down and cream pied in the face.

Which is the better option?

One thing that drives me crazy is that there is a large contigent of people who think the accelerator and the brake are part of a binary system. That when they stop accelerating they must touch the brake. Especially when you are following them on long highway drives and it's just brake light, accelerate, brake light, accelerate, etc.

Learn to control the acceleration so you do not need to touch that brake except to actually stop!

Not every dealer, just the shitty ones. When I bought my BMW I was not asked to buy tire protection, gap protection, or anything else. We negoitated a price for the car. I walked in, signed the paperwork, declined the white glove "BMW experience" and drove off.

I've worked in this industry for 30 years. I've worked for FAANG, I've worked for major insurance companies, major finance firms, huge healthcare clearing houses, consulting firms, and even companies that manufacture tightly controlled equipment for the military and/or firearms.

What is a competently secured IT system? I've never seen one.

I wear a GMT watch. I set the watch to UTC and the GMT hand to local time.

Then if I need to keep track of another office or where I am I just move the GMT hand to the local time I care about.

I love music. My whole life has been playing in bands, going to see concerts and as a child of the 80s standing in long lines to get tickets or disapointment.

The prices of tickets is out of hand. The scalping is out of hand. So I just quit. I see local shows by local musicians or at venues in small towns. I don't care how much I like someone's music I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for the cheap seats to see them.

I mean I wouldn't advise a student to go to college for a career with low pay and college debt. So we either need to reduce the education requirements for things like mental health workers, nurses, and teachers or we need to pay them more.

Exactly. I was shopping recently for a high value item. I found one vendor who had it for sale with a 3% credit card fee. Another vendor had it for sale $1500 less. I asked him if he charged a credit card fee. He said no, that was the out the door price. So I bought it from him.

So the 3% was already in the lower price, but the other vendor was trying to double dip on fees.

Worked great for tons of children in the 90s signing up for columbia house and getting free CDs. 10 CDs for a penny and then collection letters that are unenforceable ? Sign me up!

My generation is really good at technology because it was new and there was a hacker culture to support tinkering. Then technology got easy. Now kids are pretty tech stupid (yes they can use it, but the struggle to troubleshoot anything). This could bring a resurgence in hacker culture.

Most stores in my area actually now scan your ID at the register. No ID scan, the system will not allow them to ring up the booze. I'm 100% sure that is being datamined.

Are we not using TDD with AI?

I write tests, AI writes code to pass the tests. When I find a bug, I write a test. Repeat.

I'm not on the engineering team at my company, but I do a little bit of coding as part of my job.

My company has a good AI coding policy: "You are responsible for all code you check in. You are encouraged to use AI responsibly, but you must check it for errors. If you turn in code that is bad, you can't blame the AI."

Plus, while we are trying out a few different AI platforms, we have token limits (I don't know what they are, because in my role I never come close to hitting them - but company-wide I know our budget is lower than one engineer salary.) And different platforms are allowed for different things. Any company-proprietary information is only allowed in certain AI platforms; and nobody is *EVER* allowed to put sensitive information (API keys, passwords, even user names) into any of our AI platforms.

In my role, I often interact with customer data (customer logs, customer integrations, etc,) we have exactly one AI platform we're allowed to put "customer data" in to, because it's the only one we have 100% control over the data for. That platform does have multiple models available, though.

As for what I personally use it for when coding? Debugging. "Crap, this shell script isn't passing through this environment variable properly over SSH, figure out what I did wrong."

Or "A customer wants to integrate our API with - write me a Python script that does " and have the AI look up that other company's API info and get me a starting point. I never directly use any of the code generated this way, I use it as a starting point for my own code. An "Oh, that's how that company's API works", which I then verify on the API documentation link the AI gives me, to make sure it was actually telling the truth.

Think about the Irony.

Money is backed by violence. As in if you donâ(TM)t give the government its money, even from the value of your bartering, it will use violence on you. That alone gives it value.