WYGIWYG

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  • I think I could be creative enough to make myself happier.

    Give me a lavish bunker on a small island with a hill looking over the ocean in the edge of the Caribbean latitude, let me take most of the people I care about. Food, gadgets, internet, maybe a helicopter or a small plane to come back to the mainland for concerts. Enough money to pay for protection.

    But I don’t think that fits linearly into the scale of money versus happiness.





  • Honestly, I suspect limited returns come as you fill in a checklist.

    • Are you and your family clothed, fed and relatively safe?

    • Are you working only one job per person?

    • Is your family healthy and/or getting adequate healthcare?

    • Is your family at least getting an entire high school education under their belt?

    • Do you have safe and marginally convenient transportation?

    • Do you at least have enough money for occasional entertainment outside the house

    • Do you have a second bathroom?

    • Do you have at least a small line of credit?

    • Do you have a retirement? Will you be able to retire?

    You don’t need all that, but once you cross that line, having more money around for things doesn’t make you happier.







  • Wild guess:

    Log everything the user is doing. Have clippy interface prompt the user to take some work off their hands. Do some web searches, start storing a dossier about the ‘project’. Give the user a rough outline to complete their project based on a trained llm and some web searches. Ask the user if the outline looks good. Ask the user if they’d like some help completing some of the steps. Burning through tokens the whole time, storing telemetry with 100% knowledge of what they user does/wants to do. Selling that exact data to project management software companies and companies that write middleware to do this work. Bind everything together into a virtual notebook where users can return to any content at any step.



  • At a minimum, It has stealing, privacy, wage theft, power comsumption, and hardware scarcity issues.

    Taking a couple of those away would help. A large part is the fear that it’s taking away our livelihoods, and it’s not even really good at it. It’s also polluting and running on enough pirated data that we’d be sent to prison forever if we, as individuals tried it.

    It shines at assisting professionals in specific fields, reading things like body scans, blood tests, and patient histories, and finding correlations. It’s good at helping DevOps/IT people who have to rarely maintain a bunch of oddball systems. It’s decent at finding inconsistencies in code documentation and documenting code that isn’t documented.

    It’s bad at art compared to an artist It’s good at art compared to an average electrician.

    It’s good at taking work from artists, making side money on Fiverr. It’s great at marketing to CEO’s.

    There’s a lot more there than social issues.





  • A billion years ago, I worked for a place that was using Cold Fusion.

    There was this one project that had a loop with a break condition, but the devs kept accidentally putting errors in the break logic. The project was pretty processor intensive. I got calls 5-6 times a day to reset the CF server because stopping the HTML page wouldn’t do #$%^

    Can you guys please just add a second break module so you can just load another page and cause the project to abort? hell make it dump a file in /tmp, whatever…



  • thought: Find something strenuous or stimulating for the youngest to do an hour before bedtime, could even be learning. Sometimes the right amount of exercise before bed wears them out enough to stay sleeping.

    thought 2: noise maker, ocean sounds or rain playing in the room can keep them from popping out of light sleep when they hear sounds from the rest of the home.

    Wife and I split AM/PM duties. I do 6am and drive the eldest to school, then come back and prep the youngest before I go to work. but my youngest is order than yours, that mercifully tends to improve with age.

    It’s better if the house duties are shared as well, but some people have different situations. If your partner is able but won’t meet you in the middle, there’s counseling. What often bites you in the butt is if your partner is depressed. Depressed people fail to engage; it becomes almost contagious as you try to pick up the slack and fall to it yourself.

    Finding a better job with less hours can be part of it. Sometimes you need to look outside your familiar area for work that pays better, that’s assuming you can afford to move or find a job willing to pay you to relocate. There’s also more WFH jobs out there than ever before.