That last part would be of the biggest impact to me. I’ve had two major bone breakages in my life - my arm when I was seven, my ankle when I was thirty-four. Even over that time period, the treatment seemed to improve a great deal, though neither ever fully healed, which is why my mobility is limited even now. Even putting aside things like infections, I can’t imagine getting a broken bone treated without painkillers and hope I never have to. Resetting a dislocated shoulder without was bad enough.

Also though, when I broke my ankle I was alone in the snow. If cell phones weren’t a thing, I’m not sure I would even have been able to get treatment and it’s possible that exposure could have made things much much worse.

Fortunately, I had my cell phone and we weren’t in prehistory, so things went significantly better than they could have. Now I just have to worry about the future.

Along similar lines, I think about this for any post apocalyptic scenario that disrupts supply lines. Even if things are okay in terms of food, I regularly take medication that one would presume would be hard to get without modern society. In that situation, if I broke or even scratched my glasses, it seems very unlikely I would find functional replacements. I’m not physically disabled, but I am very limited, so in any real conflict I would lose. Quickly.

In prehistory or any future environment like that, I wouldn’t last long.

Happy anniversary!

Are you a veterinarian?

https://youtu.be/GNOZhAc26I8

What is B&H?

I’ve recently bought a series of 24TB drives from both Amazon and Newegg. Each one I got was either DOA or shortly thereafter. I just gave up but I would love to have a better source.

You stole my cat.

These are all network addresses that refer to localhost - how a computer addresses itself.

Your code may suck, but your reviews are fantastic.

In Ross’ video, IIRC, he said 110% was good, 120% was pretty safe, and 140% was very safe.

edit: Correct autocorrect.

Is that what you saw in your dreams?

And I hear tourism is going down, so it might be less crowded.

This reminds me of my dad, who shared Redd Fox with me because we both liked George Carlin.

Hey, just be happy you’re not in ICQ.

On Thursday I attended a company-wide meeting wherein several coworkers tried (with mixed results) to persuade the rest of the company to start using AI. The primary way they did so was by listing incidents in which they’d found it useful.

One of the examples was (mildly paraphrased) “our other coworker is old, so he knows things like Tom Sawyer. He said he thought I was pulling a Tom Sawyer, trying to convince him to paint the fence.”

I respect the person who was giving that speech, they seem very knowledgeable, but hearing that they had to ask AI what that meant was just upsetting.

That said, I guess one use for AI is deciphering idioms?

it can happen if you alot of parasites or a tumor

There seems to be a word missing there and I usually don’t criticize for that kind of mistake, but in this case it seems REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT.

One time I introduced someone to Linux then left them to their own devices.

I returned to them hours later to find out they had gotten annoyed with permissions errors and run chown -R ${THEIRUSER}: /.

The results were not what they wanted.

You must be a lawyer.

Like I said.

Awesome dad.

See? You sound like an awesome dad, as predicted.

I was homeschooled. Once my mom brought me to visit a couple of geologists at their home. They had a collection of stones at their house and opened a few of them for me; at least 2-3 of them were geodes, rather than simply stone through, as they expected. Apparently this was unusual, so the trip stuck with me. I bet your son learned at least as much about rocks (and, to be fair, other stuff) through you!