Haha, yes I actually did get those back then. Didn’t work. Turned out the wiring between floors was really old and there was a lot of noise. Place was also a rental, so I couldn’t drill big holes into floors and walls to draw ethernet.

The thing that ultimately solved it was mesh. It’s worked pretty well since then and on to the new place where wiring is even worse. With mesh repeaters, we can even reach far corners of basement storage.

Nature is healing.

A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.

Trying to solve wifi dead spots across my then house. It didn’t have wired conduits, so no ethernet between floors. Went through a series of range-extenders, multiple routers, everything from cheapo no-names, to TP-Links, Netgears, and Apple Airports. All sucked. Terrible reception in all the places that people hung out.

Then mesh routers showed up. Got a 3-pack and never looked back.

Edit: runner-up was an HP Inkjet printer. Every time someone needed a color print, one color ink was either out or dried out.

“OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift. Greg Brockman, the ChatGPT-maker’s president, is helping fund Republicans’ congressional fights:”

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trump-donor-21273419.php

We have several family friends who do this regularly. What helps is there are no direct flights to their destinations. They leave with their US passport, and if they have to exit the terminal, go through customs with their US passport.

When it’s time to board, they use their other passport. At the destination, they go through customs with their local passport and don’t have to stand in long lines.

The only situation I’ve heard of is if they stay in the other country and make money while there, those may incur US taxes as foreign earnings.

White, the Austin police official, said Waymos can get stuck when they’re forced to interact with people. “The human element is what’s killing them,” he says. “The moment you introduce the human element, [the vehicles] lack that social awareness of what to do, and they freeze.” Freezing creates “a significant danger to public safety,” he told federal regulators.

Nothing to see here. Carry on.

Goddamit. Shouldn’t be surprised, but still.

Dare you to try explaining all this to your elderly relatives.

These are ceremonial, organ-harvesting sites.

Best to stick to the main roads.

Canadian ‘Express Entry’ program for those with Skilled Trades: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/who-can-apply/federal-skilled-trades.html

Is this Vegan?

Says so right on the box.

A U.S.-made Robot, designed to play sports.

There’s a Mister Polybius on line 2. He sounds very annoyed. Says the Association of Veterans of the Punic Wars would like to have a word.

RUD: https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/rapid-unplanned-disassembly-rud

Remembered I had an unopened Pi5-8GB on the shelf.

Disappointed they didn’t embed cryptomining. Leaving money on the table.

Obligatory /s