A simulation could be hacked, and that’s really fun to think about

I’m confused by the fuck/fight portion. Is it normal to want to fuck or fight every person who maintains eye contact? Have I been unknowingly threatening/coming into all of my work colleagues?

100%. I’m also trialing Copilot at a medium-sized corpo job and it saves me roughly 12-20 hours of work per week.

I use it often in PowerShell scripting. It occasionally hallucinates and makes up commands, so sometimes it takes a bit of back and forth to get it to do what I want, but it’s still a hundred times easier than writing from scratch or tweaking+combining similar scripts I find online.

Probably my favorite part is being able to ask it “Where did I leave off with John on x issue last week?” And it will remind me that I’m supposed to do x and John is supposed to do y. Or even, “I helped a user with this specific issue six months ago. How did I fix it?” and it pulls the exact email and Teams chats outlining what we did, and I can click the link to open those messages and ensure it didn’t misinterperate. Way easier than digging by hand.

Finally, I absolutely hate making PowerPoints so I’ve been having it make all of my rough drafts from transcription notes in meetings. Super nice time saver.

Something I’m concerned about and playing with this week is pronoun usage in transcripts. I’m working with our LGBTQ ERG to ensure that we can make Copilot use preferred pronouns for everyone. If it can’t, we’ll need to pull back certain features.

It’s far from perfect but it genuinely makes my job a lot easier and I’d hate to lose it. I think it will only get better from here.

“Transgenders” is not a word. Please use “transgender people” or something similar.

This is peak laziness, but I installed a tablet mount on my bed’s headboard so when I lay down I can just have the deck screen in front of my face. I use an 8bitdo controller so I don’t have to hold my hands in the air.

I was originally going to get one of those gaming glasses that are advertised for the deck, but this accomplishes the same goal of comfortably gaming while laying down.

You just want an old-school NVR camera setup. These don’t need to be connected to the internet, it just records to a hard drive on the NVR. I’ve hooked up dozens of these at small businesses. Schwann is a good brand. You can probably grab a 2nd-hand setup for cheap on your local marketplace app.

I just saw this for the first time recently. It hit me so hard that I had to call my therapist for an extra session. The look on her face was identical to my father’s when he passed.

This has been an absolute dumpster fire of a year, so I’m trying something different and going to a trans bar in my city. I hate crowds and loud spaces, but I’m going to give it an honest try and can always leave early.

I used this Wallpaper back in the Windows 8.1 days. It’s a great vibe.

Awesome book. The whole series was good, except the last one.

Right, but the vast majority of Masons are Christian even in the Scottish Rite.

To be one, ask one

You have to go through the Blue Lodge before you can go into the Scottish Right, and you must be religious to join the former. So yeah, the vast majority of members are Christians.

OK but are the new nuggets good tho? I’ve been tempted to try them.

And then everyone clapped

I also recommend the Das Keyboard. Been using my Pro 4 for nearly a decade and it just keeps working, despite many spills. I type so hard and much that some of the keycaps crumbled earlier this year, so I got new keycaps for $10 and it just keeps chugging along.

Tryna not drink so much, starting with Sober January. I’ve been drinking heavily after an incredibly rough year of personal BS, and I need a break from it to get my head on straight.

2021 Chevy Bolt. Traded in a 1999 beater for it during the gas pipeline crisis. It’s a wonderful, simple, cheap car. I haven’t had any issues with it - it just gets the job done. I charge it for free at work every week or two, so I don’t even have to pay for fuel. I figure I’m gonna drive it til the bottom rusts through or the batteries die.

Agreed! I use them all day when I go into the office, and the battery life, noise cancelation, and sound quality have been perfect.

It’s my first ever Christmas alone. Still making an 8 lb ham and a nice spread of food for dinner. Will be making sandwiches and bean soup with the leftover ham. Otherwise just wallowing in self pity and doom swiping on dating sites in hopes that I won’t be alone next year.