I agree with what you’re saying, I actually asked the guys at work if they’d ever heard of it, and they hadn’t, and we were out with one of my wife’s Japanese friends and I got told not to mention that we went to this thing, but I asked anyway. She had no clue. She called her parents while we were at the restaurant and didn’t say much about the conversation but said they knew about it.

So my wife’s Chinese and her company donates money to this Chinese Peace Organization. So they get free tickets to some event and my wife gets them because she’s actually Chinese and it looks better if a Chinese person attends than a bunch of white people. So I get dragged along.

And it’s for the anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. Which I’d never heard of, but I did know her father has a hatred for Japanese people. And this is the reason why. So lots of PR bullshit, speeches, and boring crap. And then they invite some PRC guys up on stage. And in a room full of mostly Cantonese people: starts a long winded speech in Mandarin. He talks extensively about Taiwan and then talks about Japan and how they’ve spent more money on their military this year than in the past decade, and how Imperial Japan is rising again.

And then we watch a movie that I found entertaining but far too long. And its about the massacre. So my wife’s crying for awhile and I guess she had family including her father that were around for this incident.

And I kept trying to imagine the Japanese people that I know and work with… in the movie. There’s no way, I dont think its possible for the Japanese people now, to ever be or want to be like those portrayed in the movie. But the Chinese consul dude really believed it was going to happen again.

I had the pills, but I take so many pills I usually forget. Switched to the gummies and they were much easier l don’t buy the metamucil ones, they taste great but are way overpriced. One day I woke up in the middle of the night and was peckish, and had a bunch. Ohhhh boy did I pay for that mistake.

The longer the project the more stupid Claude gets. I’ve seen it both in chat, and in Claude code, and Claude explains the situation quite well:

Increased cognitive load: Longer projects have more state to track - more files, more interconnected components, more conventions established earlier. Each decision I make needs to consider all of this, and the probability of overlooking something increases with complexity.

Git specifically: For git operations, the problem is even worse because git state is highly sequential - each operation depends on the exact current state of the repository. If I lose track of what branch we’re on, what’s been committed, or what files exist, I’ll give incorrect commands.

Anything I do with Claude. I will split into different chats, I won’t give it access to git but I will provide it an updated repository via Repomix. I get much better results because of that.

I think it really depends on the user and how you communicate with the AI. People are different, and we communicate differently. But if you’re precise and you tell it what you want, and what your expected result should be it’s pretty good at filling in the blanks.

I can pull really useful code out of Claude, but ask me to think up a prompt to feed into Gemini for video creation and they look like shit.

Having used both Gemini and Claude… I use Gemini when I need to quickly find something I don’t want to waste time searching for, or I need a recipe found and then modified to fit what I have on hand.

Everytime I used Gemini for coding has ended in failure. It constantly forgets things, forgets what version of a package you’re using so it tells you to do something that is deprecated, it was hell. I had to hold its hand the entire time and talk to it like it’s a stupid child.

Claude just works. I use Claude for so many things both chat and API. I didn’t care for AI until I tried Claude. There’s a whole whack of novels by a Russian author I like but they stopped translating the series. Claude vibe coded an app to read the Russian ebooks, translate them by chapter in a way that prevented context bleed. I can read any book in any language for about $2.50 in API tokens.

I don’t know how that happens, I regularly use Claude code and it’s constantly reminding me to push to git.

YouTube made changes, and the YouTube reps who deal with creators have given them marching orders that they need to follow or else no money. Every one of the creators I sub has dedicated a video to how things have to be now, and they know we hate it, and they hate it. But there’s nothing they can do because YouTube is their source of income.

Centerfire ammo needs a strong precise hit to the primer to set it off, I think that’s statistically unlikely for a loose object like a screw or a zipper to set that off.

Rimfire ammo has the primer inside the rim of the base. I suppose it could be possible for a heavy tumble against a sharp metal ridge in the drum being enough to discharge the round.

Maybe a really hot commercial dryer, but nothing at home or coin operated is likely to set a bullet off. Most dryers operate at under 200F, smokeless powder ignites at 300-350F. Also when not in the confines of a barrel they generally just pop as explained in this video:

https://youtu.be/3SlOXowwC4c

That explains alot. I have both PyCharm and RustRover open as I steal convert stuff from a project I found. Anywho I was typing in discord and I was typing faster than it rendered and I thought that was strange

Oh my god, this gave me flashbacks to French class in the 90s.

Not a Nazi salute, it’s called a benediction. Once only performed by “Charismatic Christians” it’s become more mainstream nowadays. Usually they’ll wave from side to side. In person you wouldn’t mistake it for a Nazi salute, it’s just a bad picture.

I don’t have buds, I have actual breast tissue. Like I said I’m a big guy so they blend in quite well. But I’ve seen some XXY guys who have very large breasts. My body doesn’t produce T at all. When I was tired all the time my doctor sent me in to get my T tested, it barely registered on the lab work. My body does however produce ample amounts of estrogen, which is why I have to take estrogen blockers so my body will not immediately convert the available T into estrogen.

As someone with kleinfelters syndrome, don’t lower the T too much, it’s very important. I didn’t find out what I was until later in life and the addition of testosterone has made life better in every way. I got insulin resistance along the way and being fat was a good way to hide the breasts. Since starting estrogen blockers they’ve reduced in size a bit and that’s been nice.

I updated my Cachy install last night and some packages needed to compile… It wouldn’t end, I wanted to go to bed. It just kept compiling. Which tells me I will never try Gentoo

Was it? Huh

Canada stopped using bills for $1 in like the 80s, then dropped the $2 bill in the 90’s. We have the “loonie” which is a $1 coin, and “toonie” which is the $2 coin.

Carts depending on how premium the chain is, will either use a quarter coin ($0.25) or a loonie ($1.00).

A few years ago we dropped the Penny, our 1 cent coin ($0.01). All purchases are rounded to the nearest 5 cents.

We have those in Canada… At least in my province. They also sell special 3d printed coins that are large enough to unlock the cart, but thin enough that it can’t trap the “coin” inside. It stays on my keychain. we have one for quarters ($0.25) and one for dollars ($1) different chains require different coin deposits.

Oh that’s handy, I set group policies on my wife’s Win10 computer, but I guess InControl automates that process. Nice.

I switched to Linux last year, but the wife has no interest in any of that. So I set the group policy and haven’t seen a single thing about Windows 11 popup on her computer… yet. But I have Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC flashed to a usb stick taped to her computer in case they find a workaround for that.