And there’s an “✨Ask me anything” bar at the bottom. How fitting 🤣

Manufacturing things in the Wild West means you can get away with anything. The safety of the general public becomes a concern only when you’re trying to do business with a country that has regulations in place.

If it’s likely to come into contact with water, could that water then end up in the cup?

If yes, you need to consider the safety implications of the materials you chose. I expect the manufacturer chose safe materials, while your glue might not be safe under high pressure and temperature. What if something really nasty gets in your cup as a result?

I’ve found some interesting and even good new functions by moaning my code woes to an LLM. Also, it has taken me on some pointless wild goose chases too, so you better watch out. Any suggestion has the potential to be anywhere from absolutely brilliant to a completely stupid waste of time.

Boring standard coding is exactly where you can actually let the LLM write the code. Manual intervention and review is still required, but at least you can speed up the process.

My armpits refuse to talk to me. I’ll take that as a sign that overflow errors are a feature, not bug.

Also depends on your level of expertise. If you have beginner questions, an LLM should give you the correct answer most of the time. If you’re an expert, your questions have no answers. Usually, it’s something like an obscure firmware bug edge case even the manufacturer isn’t aware of. Good luck troubleshooting that without writing your own drivers and libraries.

Hacker News?

Realistically though, asking an LLM what’s wrong with my code is a lot faster than scrolling through 50 posts and reading the ones that talk about something almost relevant.

I used to have a Sony phone. It was so big and thin, that I was constantly worried about bending it accidentally.It had like some super cinematic 21:9 ratio or whatever. Looks good in a movie theater, but feels really awkward in your pocket. Actually, my jacket had pockets big enough for that phone, but It was really difficult to keep it anywhere else. In the bad old days, people used to keep the phone in dedicated belt mounted phone pouch/holster/thingy. I wish I had one of those leather pouches, because that phone really needed one.

Reading, browsing and gaming on it was great though. Having a bigger screen is something I really did appreciate when sitting in the metro every day.

If you need more screen realestate, consider getting a phablet (aka plus sized phone these days). If you can carry a tablet with you, that would probably be even better.

Yeah, that sounds like you’re worried about paradoxes. You might want to check out the Many-Worlds Interpretation to fix that. In the MWI, every decision and event branches into its own timeline. Instead of running into your past self, you would be visiting an alternate you.

If you don’t remember being visited by a time traveler, then your timeline didn’t have that event. That’s ok though, because there are infinitely many timelines. However, you can’t visit all of them. You’ll only have access to the ones where a future you visited an alternate past you. Instead of changing your own past, you’re creating a new timeline where an alternate you got visited by a time traveler.

Who needs a fence when you have land mines.

See also: Finland and the Ottawa Convention

Here’s a random idea: parody ASMR videos.
Focus exclusively on very loud sounds like a wood chipper, angle grinder, chainsaw, jackhammer, shooting range, etc.

Many apps just abuse notifications. When I install a new app, I will allow it to send notifications. As soon as I see something I consider useless, that permission gets permanently revoked. It’s the only way to make notifications meaningful. Otherwise, it will become an endless barrage of junk, just like email. If you’re not very strict with these things, they become completely useless.

Yeah. So much for that automatic channel. Sounds better than it actually is

Scanning WiFi signal strength and channel.
Can’t do this on iPhone, because Apple. You need an Android phone for doing something as “technical” as this. I guess “pro” here refers to people who never touch their WiFi settings.

Who needs this?
Anyone who thinks their WiFi sucks and is willing to put a little bit of effort into picking a better channel.

1. I spent most of the day troubleshooting computer issues. Installed Ubuntu, Nvidia drivers, CUDA stuff, long list of obvious basic dependencies etc. Almost managed to follow the instructions for installing a local LLM. Turns out, this is not a two hour project. Yes, I know Nvidia is my problem. This is a self inflicted wound and I’m intentionally playing this game in the hard mode.
2. Got a haircut. Fortunately my favorite barber shop is run by Iraqi Kurds, so they don’t give a rats ass about Christmas schedules. 👍
3. I also wanted to have the wrist band of my watch adjusted, but all the relevant shops were closed today. 🙁
   Overall, not a bad way to spend my time.

Cooking, baking and other kitchen skills are valuable. Knowing how to prepare your own food allows you to buy bulk ingredients like potatoes and carrots, turning them into delicious meals. However, pre-packaged items often cost more. Instead, choose ingredients you can select individually, weigh them, and then purchase the whole bag.

Food like this is cheaper, comes with a hobby and tastes great.

Girls and grandmas knit wool socks whereas real men forge knives… or at least that’s the stereotype. Same thing is happening with computers too. Building a PC is seen as a guy hobby while riding horses is seen as hobby for school girls.

Why though? That sort of division is just archaic. People should be allowed to have whatever hobbies they find interesting. Who cares how that activity was viewed a 100 years ago. You don’t need to worry about obsolete perceptions in the 2020s.