The Farmer's Dog pub is listed as fucked, maybe this site could get a shout-out on Clarkson's Farm. The difficulty of doing business in the UK is a common theme on his show.
From observing my parents and other elders, it isn't "work" in the job sense that we all need. It is feeling needed by others. This can be accomplished by being an active grandparent, charity(active volunteering not just allocating money), open-source contribution, mentoring.
It can be something other than a job. It just can't be done alone.
We are social creatures and need to be needed by each other. Luckily there are plenty of people in need.
My grandmother said it like this, "sometimes people need to help more than people need help" in the context of a much younger me asking effectively why she bothered (I forget the context). That has stuck with me for years.
This is a common misconception. I’m quite happy not being social and have absolutely no need to be needed.
I FIREd 3 years ago and don’t miss working one bit.
I think leaving work becomes more difficult for those who do need to feel valued and especially if they don’t have interests outside of it. There are many people like that.
Totally, it's "work" in the sense that you're doing something to contribute to the world, even if it's something small or mostly unimpactful. Those kinds of things provide internal fulfillment, in my experience.
My perspective on these things have changed when I saw a successful old friend of mine thank his friend for asking his help. I feel like being asked to help by a friend might actually be a privilege sometimes.
I think it definitely is - simply because it means you are approachable enough (and knowledgable enough) that people feel both comfortable enough to ask and see you as a reliable resource.
Exactly, the prevalence of the word "work" in this conversation is such a telling indicator of what 'western' culture-at-large has been taught to focus on
>> We are social creatures and need to be needed by each other.
I think this was illustrated well in the movie I Am Legend with Will Smith. He creates artificial situations where he is interacting with mannequins in order to fulfill this very basic need.
Its interesting that this part of the movie was missed by a lot of friends and family until I pointed it out to them.
Market forces are what cause different jobs to pay different amounts. Welders don't get paid high wages out of charity or respect, they get it because welders with sufficient skills are rare, so if you don't pay up you won't get your welding done.
If service jobs can be differentiated (e.g. by training and licensing) then scarcity can be created.
For best results buy a political or ten and then enjoy the profit of having government violence chase away much of the "maybe not just as good but good enough for a lot of the demand that's out there" competition that doesn't have your training or license or belong to your professional group or whatever.
And the best part is the public pays for the privilege of having supply be constrained because the state forces that constrain it are not paid by those who benefit but by the taxpayer.
I don't do the year thing, I just keep a single, ever-growing playlist of any song that triggers a memory. I use it as the default while driving, and take "phoned in" requests like a radio station to allow my kids to override. Some days they do that a lot, other days they ask questions about what memory each song means to me. I love it either way.
I think you're right that heavier elements can be made, it's just energy negative to do so. But without a nova they would never leave the inside of the star to find their way into a new planet.
But they do leave. Stars not large enough to go supernova do still form planetary nebulas when the more gradually lose their outer layers to space. Only the core is left behind to form a white dwarf. This will be the Sun's eventual fate.
No, gravitational segregation like that is a very slow process and would be overwhelmed by any convection. In Earth's atmosphere, for example, it doesn't occur until very high altitude (80 km or so) where diffusion is fast enough to overcome mixing.
"By definition, during a dredge-up, a convection zone extends all the way from the star's surface down to the layers of material that have undergone fusion."
"The third dredge-up brings helium, carbon, and the s-process products to the surface," (emphasis added)
In the early universe, stars had so little in the way of "seeds" for the s-process to act on that the few seeds that were there absorbed large numbers of neutrons, eventually producing weird stars highly enriched in lead (the end point of the s-process). These stars have been detected from lead (and bismuth) in their spectra.
s-process elements (including radioactive ones like technetium) are detected in the spectra of the stars where the process occurs, which means they are right out at the "surface".
Since the initial response contains the (correct) current year, it must have entered the context at some point, most likely before the first (wrong) output token was generated.
GFW does indeed have man in the middle capabilities per the recent leaks of Geedge tech used in it. Your laptop might throw a warning for the fake signed cert, but devices in China that trust Chinese root CAs would not.
I think this is true but I don't feel like atrophied Assembler skills are a detriment to software development, it is just that almost everyone has moved to a higher level of abstraction, leaving a small but prosperous niche for those willing to specialize in that particular bit of plumbing.
As LLM-style prose becomes the new Esperanto, we all transcend the language barriers(human and code) that unnecessarily reduced the collaboration between people and projects.
Won't you be able to understand some greater amount of code and do something bigger than you would have if your time was going into comprehension and parsing?
I broadly agree, in the sense of providing the vision, direction, and design choices for the LLM to do a lot of the grunt work of implementation.
The comprehension problem isn't really so much about software, per se, though it can apply there too. LLMs do not think, they compute statistically likely tokens from their training corpus and context window, so if I can't understand the thing any more and I'm just asking the LLM to figure it out, do a solution, and tell me I did a good job sitting there doomscrolling while it worked, I'm adding zero value to the situation and may as well not even be there.
If I lose the ability to comprehend a project, I lose the ability to contribute to it.
Is it harmful to me if I ask an LLM to explain a function whose workings are a bit opaque to me? Maybe not. It doesn't really feel harmful. But that's the parallel to the ChatGPT social thing: it doesn't really feel harmful in each small step, it's only harmful when you look back and realise you lost something important.
I think comprehension might just be that something important I don't want to lose.
I don't think, by the way, that LLM-style prose is the new Esperanto. Having one AI write some slop that another AI reads and coarsely translates back into something closer to the original prompt like some kind of telephone game feels like a step backwards in collaboration to me.
Wouldn't this be a great use case of any agentic AI coding solution? A background agent scanning code/repo/etc and making suggestions both for and against dependency updates?
Copilot seems well placed with its GitHub integration here, it could review dependency suggestions, CVEs, etc and make pull requests.
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