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Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

Well, some of that is for classes for people who can't see that default 3-pixel wide scrollbar on Windows 11 in high contrast dark mode. :-)

Fair. Just making fun of Windows 11.

Yeah, you're blessed to have one of each. Until they start conspiring against you, which you KNOW is going to happen.
ha!

Hopefully we'll raise them better than that. And let them see us honoring our parents.

Comment Re:I can't even imagine kids after 50 (Score 1) 4

You charge to "upgrade" to Windows 11? How evil are you? :P

For all my pro-life ramblings, we were granted only one child.

Precious. I feel bad you couldn't have more though. G-d has been very generous to us.

Keeping up with two toddlers after age 50 can't be easy.

And yet i wouldn't trade it for anything! Thank G-d, we have a lot of help. Especially, when some neighboring girls come by to take our son for a walk. G-d bless them all.

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Journal Journal: Verbiage: Kids are heavy 4

So, my son is around 20 pounds now. At my age, that's heavy. My left shoulder became sore from holding all the time he wanted to be held. So sore, i slept on my right side the last few nights just so it wouldn't hurt. But not only that, my daughter just had her one-month checkup and is at 7lb 9oz. She's also getting heavy. Sometimes, i want to hold her all day, but after a few minutes, i have to give up. She lying on my right shoulder as i type this right now. :)

Comment Re:Training or No Real Defense (Score 1) 151

No so much corporate, but lots of stuff with various levels of government can simply be solved by policy - simply require anything/everything related to government services to be served up from a .gov or .state.abbr.us domain name.

Why? Well, lets look at your free annual credit report that you can get. Go google/ddg/bing/whatever for "free annual credit report" like most common folk would do, and tell me which of them is the one run by the FTC and therefore sure to be legit? If you search the FTC website, you'll find it is on a .com domain - if the domain policy was in place, annualcreditreport.ftc.gov or acr.ftc.gov or whatever would be an instant indication that it is legit.

Comment Re:Easy fix ... (Score 1) 52

Dunno, I go out on the mud flats and oyster bars of the gulf coast for my fishing just about every weekend, and yes, just walking in the mud or shoving thru it with a paddle, or disturbing bottom with my trolling motor prop can bring some nasty smelling gasses out

I would think though that any channel large enough for a big ship like what you'd want to use to transport goods (as opposed to a 12-18' flat bottom boat or canoe or pontoon) would have sufficient current flow and regular disturbances from passing ships to not have such a build up of silt and organic muck that would let those gasses build up

Comment Re:Useful If Verified (Score 1) 248

I've been using AI like a first semester intern, and it works great and for what I use it for it is much faster than me doing it by hand

boss: "hey, we need to suck this csv file in and store in a DB for the report writers..."

me to ai - "for this csv header row, make a DB2 create table statement, add an auto generated index called row_id, and then create a pojo that uses the @BindByName, @Entity and @Column annotations to import and save it" and then give it the CSV header row. Copy/paste results to my IDE, a bit of clean up and it is pretty much done.

For this type of stuff it is great, but you do need to treat it like a first semester intern and be explicit with your directions and then double check and confirm everything ....

Comment Re:Not a Paradox (Score 5, Funny) 42

Indeed... they left out the 3rd state when starting this whole thing...

âoeIn fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.â

â Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

Comment Re:I found one use for AI coding assistants (Score 1) 121

I do a lot of ETL work, and I'm using AI as a first-semester-intern type worker.

"Make me a Java class that matches this CSV header so I can import the file using OpenCSV"

"Make me a DB2 create table statement that matches this Java class"

etc.

I'm too lazy to create an account and provide any extra training and such, so I do end up needing to fix a few things related to our internal standards on naming and DB table structure, and I have to add the permission grants statements but it saves me plenty of copy/paste time, etc.

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