Other than the basic cooking lessons we had in school I did a lot of trial and error when I moved from home.

Mum and dad did cook and I sometimes helped in the kitchen but that only gives you confidence to try, you don’t actually learn until you fuck up and bite into medium rare chicken.

If you suspect it you should request it. It should not be mandatory.

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I don’t think it’s a common enough issue to do mandatory testing.

Yes, improperly on qwerty before I switched to (a cursed subvariant of) dvorak. Now I do it with proper form.

7/10. Nice weather but stuck at work. Making slow but steady progress towards my life goals.

Name+Surname.

I’ve got a policy of always having that pattern since I had 5 Michaels, 3 Daniels and 4 Davids with no way of telling them apart.

Why on earth would I want my tax money to go to that?

So far crypto currencies. So far they seem to expend a huge amount of electricity and used mostly for speculation.

My 60 something year old neighbour lady who is a mix of a Karen and some kind of new age Hippie depending on what mood she wakes up in thinks her mum haunts her apartment.

I miss my motorola phone. Maybe it’s because I forgot how annoying it was but my fucking god I hated my samsung phone for weeks until I had beaten it to submission.

You’re probably right, it checks out with the 4% rule. My number was pulled out of the murky depths of my memory.

Tldr: I think current AI hype is trying to go to get to the moon by building a better ladder. It’s useful but for a few select things.

I’ve managed to automate some boring tedious task (get measurements from a dozen different wikipedia article, do simple maths with them), something that would take about an hour to do manually took 15 minutes to argue with an AI and fact check after.

Creative stuff (stories, pictures, music) is amusing for a while but I suspect they are stuck in the same kind of uncanny valley robots have been in for a long time.

I can’t say I’ve been paying close attention. If I were forced to guess I would have said the opposite: men have stronger jawlines.

I’m left handed. I’m used to driving on the right side of the road. I have driven on the left one week in Namibia.Fairly easy to adapt to finding the stick shift with your other hand. Bit harder getting used to the driving on the other side of the road but still not that difficult as long as you’re not tired.

No, it does not matter where you put the wheel or which side your drive on. It’s a matter of what you’re used to. I use the computer mouse in the right hand, and I shoot right handed.

1-10 then 8.

I’m where I want to be, or making progress towards where I want to be in life.

Roughly 20 something times your annual expenses.

There is a whole movement on the Internet called FIRE (financial independence, retire early) if you want to go down that rabbit hole

What do you want your life to look like in 10 years and what are you doing to get there?

Short version of my answer: Same as today but with a house. Saving money and renovating current apartment.

No. Someone more knowledgeable than me was paid good money to think about if we should do it and I’m happy to go with whatever they say over my afternoon on wikipedia level knowledge.

Just like you the thoughts would bounce around in my head for the rest of the evening.

He was probably just having a bad day.

If you want distraction from the thoughts bouncing for a while I’d love to hear about a pleasant interaction you’ve had with a stranger. I talked to a lady the other day and we shared stories of what furniture our puppies had eaten. Feel free to elaborate as much as you like.