IIRC, the girl at work was going boiled rice with boiled chicken while the guy at choir and his friend went the steak & salad route. I don't remember the details, but I guess the bland chicken was the high protein variety. Another friend went the salad & boiled pork leg route, so definitely high fat. Or maybe she cut off the actual greasey parts like skin and fat layer... but as I said, I never went into the details, but made a vow that I never want to become such a miserable person by going that low carb. cause that's what I noticed in all of them.

Except everyone I know who decided to go on a low carb diet....

Another fun fact: Everyone who did that became moody and grumpy to a point where I started avoiding them. Sample size with n around 5 may be small, but big enough to notice. And they were Independent.

He didn't blame it on the Department or the current administration. Other way round: There is a long standing trend of anti-intellectualism, and only in that climate (and in a visionary movie like Idiocraty) would such offices be given to Pro-Wrestlers.

But that whole thing started way longer.

Yes, but it's in line with what cinemas said since the advent of TV: You're not paying for the movie only, but for the experience of a night out. And - for people who enjoy that experience - it makes sense to not only watch new movies (read: uninspired sequels or unnecessary remakes) but classics, too.

And with the time frame for exclusive theater distribution got shorter and shorter with discs and streaming services, you can't charge anything anymore for seeing a movie two weeks before it hits the streaming services. If you tried to fill that gap with more and more new movies, you would end up producing nothing but B-movies and worse.

And third: technology made it possible. A 35mm copy can cost as much as a car and has to be hauled around from cinema to cinema by big trucks. For digital movies, you put a few SSD into a UPS box and can ship it out for a night or two.

A cinema here has a surprise classic movie every other Thursday. Alternating a dubbed and original versions. Tickets are 6 bucks each, get a beer with it for 4 more. And the target audience is people who like movies more than annoying other viewers.

Yes. Think it through. Where are old files stored? In Cold storage. That's usually still tape. Or some device not currently running. My 5 year old videos don't use any power or water or anything but physical space in a rack if I just leave them there.

However, Moving it to hot space, processing and deleting it, creating a changed copy for backup or cold storage... Consumes Power energy and water.

"is it stored in a data center and what do data center use" is the same logic of "witches swim and what also does swim"

It's hard to believe that after 25 years of Bluetooth, he is the first one to come up with a Bluetooth chat app.

Yes, it's impressive to write that over one weekend, so yes, his status as Rockstar developer is probably justified, but what's new about that app? Even with a mesh, bluetooth range is not that impressive to be useful for anything where privacy/secrecy would matter as the recipient could probably WATCH the sender typing the message on his screen.....

Is there any promise that bitchat has that goes beyond what Meshtastic or Briar have to offer? Briar offers to use Bluetooth as an alternative to "classic" internet and with Meshtastic you even get to build your own long range network.

To me, this looks like a cool coding exercise that's hyped for its celebrity developer, but has limited practical use. Like people going crazy over some famous piano players finger warm-up sessions. But I guess what was good enough for Chopin works for Jack Dorsey, too....

Thank you.

That was neither my question but is your assumption. I used to work as a dev, and I want to see if I can use it so generate all that boilerplate code not only at the start of a project where an old fashioned template might get you started, but also at a later project stage and adjust it to the existing code, how often it works, doesn't work or makes stuff actually worse than before. Learn how fine grained the instructions for each step need to be.

In short, I want to give it a try. So, any serious tool recommendations?

That's the premise of "idiocracy"

But all common sense aside.... How would I start "vibe coding"? Any recommended tools?

OK. I did some research.

In 1990, Richard Gere offered Julia Roberts $3000 for a week. And that was

a) 35 years ago and
b) in an aehmm... more price conscious oriented market. (but not low budget either)

So as a conclusion: If you pay $500 for food and sex, at least one of that will not be classy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman#Plot

I'm not an expert in that field, but I dare to say that escort services for people who pay $500 for dinner have long left that price mark behind.

A really good developer did a weekend project and came up with a working prototype of a knockoff/alternative to Briar and/or Meshtastic. (Briar can use BT, too, IIRC) That's greeat and he may have been 10x faster than any other dev I know, but so far it's just that: an interesting work in progress. He hasn't opened a new company selling selling crypto snakeoil.

This is interesting. Not more, not less.

Exactly. And the "hundreds of laymen" were out of probably millions of users who saw the altered picture und insterbook or wherever.

There is no judge unless that's what you now call the regular social media mob.

If no one knows that alterations beyond adding a logo have been made, it's not "gaslighting"