We should stop them too?

Seasonal Affective Disorder - a mood disorder triggered by serotonin/melatonin regulation issues, normally caused by not enough sunlight exposure.

That’s why I read on my phone. I can quickly pick up a book where I left off, wherever I happen to be.

Latency, also known as ping time by gamers, is the amount of time it takes for a signal to get from one computer to the other. Bandwidth is the total number of signals that can be sent over a given amount of time.

Eg: a bus has more bandwidth than a Kawasaki motorcycle, but also more latency (from a people moving perspective).

In answer to your second question: it depends on what you find depressing.

I love being snuggled in by dense cloud cover, and I love the rain. I’m not susceptible to S.A.D.

I like evergreen trees and mountains and water and moderate temperatures. So the PNW is like a perfect vacation experience for me year-round.

Other people are used to the prairies with wide open clear skies and hot hots and cold colds. Other people prefer equatorial climates with lots of sun, humidity, and storms that rush in and rush out again.

They probably wouldn’t do so well in the PNW.

The device in your pocket connects to an ISP, who is also your cellular carrier. And it connects constantly, advertising itself to the local transmission towers, even when the phone is “turned off”. Your ISP/cellular provider always knows where your phone is, unless it’s disconnected from power or out of range.

There are “Internet cables” across the ocean; there are also “Internet satellites” orbiting the earth. The cables are good because they provide low latency. But that is not the most desired feature of all Internet packets; sometimes, bandwidth or range are higher priority than latency, and in those cases, a wireless transport layer may be preferred.

AI is as useful and necessary as 3D video, cryptocurrency, NFTs, The Cloud, and all the other fads. Note that all the fads have stuck around in one manner or another. LLMs will too.

As a manager, I want all my reports to be familiar with AI. I want them to know how to use it, how it will fail, but most importantly, how to recognize if something they’re working on has been touched by AI and what processes need to be followed if it has.

Because the thing that’s worse than junior devs not knowing what their code does is when they slip it into production and someone attempting to make updates doesn’t realize the code doesn’t follow human logic and may not do what they think it does.

Interesting to see that even apologists are covering this.

What I’d really like to see is an international crackdown on shadow fleets. That would clean up a LOT of shenanigans really quickly.

Of course, the US isn’t going to do that because it would include THEIR shadow fleets.

…to what?

I hope they start with the T.

Well, I think Adam Sandler could be droves all by himself.

I’d say that Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” speaks the lie to this in a nicely subversive way.

It paints medieval politics as being devoutly religious, and the people… not so much.

How does it interact with EM radiation?

Yeah; crows have mating songs.

But it’s all about two things: attracting a mate and avoiding predators.

Some birds use sound for that. Other birds use visual displays, aerobatics, sheer viciousness, or other physical traits. Some use combinations of the above. Like everything else, what works will survive to be used by the next generation.

I see what you did there, you hacker.

There’s a difference between remembering your training and being in proper physical condition.

In fact, if your film training involves different martial arts for each film, you probably would suck at actual fighting due to having to think about each thing you plan to do before you do it.

If you know one way to take someone down, if they come at you, you’ll reflexively do it.

If you know 30 ways to take someone down, you’ll either use the one you’ve used the most, the most recent one, or you’ll have to stop and decide which one makes the most sense in the situation—and that hesitation will mean you’ll lose against anyone well trained in a single discipline.

Do you have experience with AI dev environments? That’s generally the differentiator right now. Claude Code replaces managing a junior dev team of 5. Anyone who can demonstrate the ability to leverage it is not short of work.

Those 5 junior devs are, though.

Because they can’t afford the AI subscriptions AND the humans. Something has to give, and AI doesn’t unionize, take holidays, have centuries of regulations or sue.

At least, not this financial quarter.