If I had a dollar for the number of times I’ve heard some CEO proudly declare in an all hands meeting that all his CEO buddies just LOVED the latest gleaming turd that we’re trying to speed run towards a failed MVP, I could buy myself a nice dinner. Tip included.

But those people are virtually never the target user. And they don’t really care what the target user thinks. They just think anything that has the remote whiff of dollar signs is a good idea.

If you build a factory someplace, the factory consumes a lot of resources and can be a nuisance. But in return, it provides jobs; at the very minimum. Going beyond that, usually someone in the corporate heirarchy is smart enough to realize that building good will with the neighbors is important and they encourage the employees to give back to the community to that end.

The actual impact may vary but if nothing else, symbolic gestures that say, “we know our presence here has an impact and we want to make sure it’s a positive impact as much as possible.” tend to go a long way in terms of winning support and acceptance from the community.

Data centers consume lots of resources and can be a nuisance. Unlike other operations, they provide very few long term jobs and give basically nothing back to their host community beyond that. They take far more than they give back. If the “geniuses” who run these tech firms spent less money lobbying politicians and instead offered to pay for the college tuition of every student who successfully graduated from the local high school, they would probably get a very different reaction from the public.

Some of the users definitely like to pontificate a bit much and there’s still gaps in reliable clients for some platforms (e.g. Apple TV). That said, Jellyfin, as a service, is solid.

Past me was a moron sometimes.

I was really disappointed when Resident Alien was cancelled. It’s a good show.

That’s what I thought. I don’t get anywhere near the saw if I’m pulling material through it for exactly the reason you mentioned. A roller stand would definitely be a better option in my case. All it takes is to be a little careless for a one second one time. Thanks for the feedback!

never pull a part through from the back of the saw.

If I’m ripping long pieces – long enough that the outfeed end has to be held up – I will stop about half way and pull the work piece the rest of the way through. I won’t do it with short pieces and it’s not necessary for those anyway. Are there any safety risks I’m not accounting for?

I’m fucking terrified of this thing.

Good. A healthy respect for the tool will help keep all your digits in tact. Just exercise proper safety precautions every time and you’ll be alright. I’ve got at least one push stick with a notch in it as a constant reminder of why you never put your fingers near the blade.

I already switched months ago.

Exactly. Voices would have been easy to identify. This lady could pinpoint the source of random noises with an incredible degree of accuracy.

When I was in grade school, we had a music teacher who was blind from birth. If someone was jacking around in class, she knew where all the students sat and could identify the culprit by relying entirely on her hearing. It was impressive.

If you willingly gave money to a two-bit con-artist who is widely known for robbing or defrauding nearly everyone he has ever done business with, then you got what you had coming.

“AI” coding tools can offer some value. The problem is that they often generate tech debt with pay day loan level interest rates. What’s made the interest rate so high is that now, not only do you have the actual code base tech debt. You also have a bunch of code that no one understands and the barrier to entry for software engineering has become so high that fewer younger people are actually learning how to be good programmers. Lots of organizations don’t give a shit about their rapidly growing mountain of tech debt today but they’re sure going to at the end of the week when the payment comes due.

What their “leadership” fails to understand is that any idiot can shell out code. I’ve seen lots of terrible programmers generate millions of lines of really shitty code that somehow, by the power of the dark Lord himself, manages to compile. That’s not what a software engineer actually does though. Software engineers design operational systems with software. Writing code is a secondary function of that. There are currently no AI agents that can successfully design a software system with any degree of complexity because LLM’s don’t actually understand anything.

Land of the fee. Home of the [wage] slave.

Or, you can just setup a forgejo instance and migrate all your repos to it.

To Do:

• Make ToDo List

Well, that’s enough for one day.

True, but Chevy small block’s come with their own “fun” little engineering failures and trying to successfully stop all the oil leaks is a fools errand.

Edit: OP has a Sonoma so not a CSB but the same rules pretty much apply.

As others have said, relationships are the key. The current state of the tech job market is bad. Probably the worst I’ve ever seen and it is still getting steadily worse.

I spent almost a year applying before getting my latest job. I was even getting interviews until the beginning of this year. Then they very abruptly stopped for some reason. Only reason I got the job I have now is because an old business associate happened to think of me and reached out to see if I was looking. I’ve been doing this for years and I’ve got a solid resume but it is tough out there.

That said, I’m not trying to discourage you. Keep at it and you’ll find something. Working on side projects or contributing to open source projects can help give you accomplishments to put on your resume.

They would have to stop wasting so much money on LLM’s first.

Some interested buyers have gotten more creative, offering to sell their home in exchange for Anthropic shares at a valuation above $800 billion.

No way this could possibly go badly.