@XSGeek
I'm also about to start learning about NoSQL databases. Probably going with MongoDB.

@XSGeek
I'm deconstructing the sequence of LLM prompts that will build an SOP for wildfire mitigation.

The really interesting process is designing the QA procedures to minimize the impact of LLM hallucinations.

@Render
So....a high-stakes exercise of telephone tag?

Rainbow off our new bevelled mirrors at sunset right now

@Oma_Trisha
Great advice.
And, something I personally need to do.
The hard part for me is to consider the scenarios. Then decide what I want to happen.
I made it clear to my wife, just last week, that I value my brain over my body. But, that doesn't answer a lot of questions many scenarios will spawn.
Work to do!

@th3j35t3r
Nobody gets mad like that without a lot of unrelated baggage fueling the fire

Father in law had successful surgery, but now we know it's cancer.
Prognosis still TBD.
Next big question will be: Do you want to go through chemo and feel like shit for, potentially, years? Or, live out your last days with a slow decline.
At 88, these are already the bonus years of life.
I think we all need to consider that we will, one day, face our last day alive. That's ok. It's nature doing what it does. Maybe the more we consider it when we are approaching that day the easier it will be

@EileenKCarpenter
He did!
My wife is at his bedside.
Life is a journey!

More family medical issues:
Father in law checked himself into the hospital. Too much pain. He's going into surgery at 4pm (90 mins). Hospital is in Southern California. We're in Northern California. Wife considering flying down this afternoon.

We just did this in February with her brother going into surgery.

I'm fine, btw. Wife is a bit shaken, but steady.

@Maude @Render

My implied point is that 'protests are messy'.

@Maude @Render
I believe that any movement is never 'pure' in intent.

I believe that the better metric is: Is it sufficiently pure in its intent to achieve a moral outcome....
AND
Are the means of achieving it ethical.

Protests movements are usually lead by people influenced more by their internal, emotional issues than by their cause.

@th3j35t3r
Can you make that randomizer screen a button on the main screen?
Sometimes I just want to look at that and drink vodka and listen to music, but I forget the url.

@Maude
He's at least started that experiment.

Doing network management for the home network on a Sunday night is boring, thankless and innocuous.

Not having internet on Monday morning is the initiator of WW3.

@th3j35t3r
Patterns upon patterns.
All is just pattern.

@00pi
I think these scenarios are the most compelling evidence of the existence of The Devil.

I believe it's worth considering that there will always be a large group of people who never learn from their mistakes or recognize that their opinions are thoroughly refuted by new facts.

There is a sucker born every minute.

Most of them remain suckers their entire lives.

#israel
#hamas
#studentprotests
#maga

What a morning.
Internet down.
But was it?
Modem reboot (X5).
No service-outage in the area.
Passive switch unplugged & replugged 2X.
Hardline computer into modem.
Hair falling out.
Wife bitter and missing meetings.
All now fixed. Magically.
I have no idea wtf was causing it.

Now I'm going to go down a rabbit hole to offload the routing and DHCP to a separate device. That may not have even been the problem.

Definition of insanity.....

As a young person I never thought that changing the world would mostly involve lots and lots of
- tedious tasks
- dead ends
- late nights alone
- constant doubt

The petty challenges are what hold back progress. Rare are the heroic actions that make a difference.

I just spent 4 hours of my life debugging a problem that could have been solve by simply rebooting.

Fuckin' rabbit holes.....