As required by law.

I generally try not to be outright dismissive of articles/blogposts, but I don't see a ton of value in reading about someone being against opening Pandora's Box after the box has been opened. It can never be shut and we are going to have to figure out how to live with the consequences of it.

I gave the article a chance regardless and it's nothing I've not read before.

Indoor smoking in restaurants used to be legal, we made it illegal. Slavery used to be legal, we made it illegal. Don’t say that it’s not possible to stop bad things that are already happening.

I built one of these recent after Princess Auto had an amazing deal on surplus meters like these. They were under just over 1$ each and I bought a lot of them.

The one I built isn't as nice, but it's a really nice way to display the time and people are mildly fascinated by it when they see it.

>This level of conversion isn't exactly trivial but it also isn't rocket surgery for the kind of person who pulls an engine out for rebuild on a classic car project.

If you saw the "quality" of electrical work otherwise very smart car enthusiasts do you might think otherwise.

And most of the "bad going on" is completely out of your control. People could do with consuming a lot less national/international news.

Telus is completely out of touch. The issue hasn't been the accents of most agents, at least not for years at this point, it's the horrendous quality microphones the agents are given and the noisy conditions they're forced to work in.

It's hard to decipher anyone when you can hear 30 other people in the background and the audio is choppy.

Not Telus, but I was getting an insurance quote last week and actually gave up after five minutes and told the agent they were just too difficult to understand with their poor microphone and background noise.

I am from a Canadian maritime province. I have had Americans (particularly from the south) who at least claimed they couldn't easily understand me, despite me understanding them just fine.

I had a Newfie friend from a Newfie family growing up, all good no problem.

The Newfie barber they introduced me to I had to smile and nod because I couldn’t understand a word he said. And neither could they.

There are accents and then there’s accints.

> Now, dropping off items you're selling?

A place that you could take items and have them packed and shipped for you would remove an enormous hurdle for new eBay sellers. It's easily the most annoying part of the entire process.

Hell, maybe they could even list items for people? Like a massive digital pawn shop.

I could see this really working out for them if they do it right.

Actual pawn shops already do this, though.

Yeah, but now with a brand

Retiring early is the only hope I have for the future, it's my singular goal. I'm not forgetting it because without it I will spiral in a bad way.

I hate working. The sooner I don't have to anymore the better.

You can make AI/LLMs illegal, but other countries won't. There's a real risk as a country you fall behind economically if you ban what turns out to be the next big tech revolution.

Okay. Let China become more technologically advanced than us. I don’t care. Chinese tech companies being able to write software 20% faster than us is a less bitter pill to swallow than having to live in our current LLM world.