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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I agree with the sentiment but not with the advice “commit a felony to avoid maybe getting a felony”. There isn’t a chance you’ll get charged with destroying evidence if they’re already looking at you under a microscope like your hypothetical.

    Anyone that concerned needs to just not store sensitive data on their phone, and use a messaging app that doesn’t permanently store messages, either. That way you didn’t erase your phone, AND they find nothing. Attempting to secure your data from the cops while you’re already under the lens with a warrant is far too late.





  • Honestly I feel this was always the goal (one of several), but R&D is expensive. Shipping an odd phone that people still buy keeps the shareholders happy while the multi-year research process can eventually produce more usable results.

    Single-flip phones were the awkward teenagers, now this phone can be the 18-20 age young adult, fully featured, but needing refinement. Next gen or the one after this will add a lot more robustness.




  • Search engines have cratered.

    There’s a need to skim through all the crap to find what’s valuable, and AI offers to do that.

    I have used it to learn things, specifically how to use Angular. Angular has enough versions, all still used somewhere, that genuinely valid and helpful advice from a few years ago is misleading. AI didn’t so much take the place of a tutorial, it took my whole code and reviewed it, telling me what was wrong. Then I fact-checked its answers because I don’t trust it, and yeah, it wasn’t always correct itself, but it was more than 80% of the time, and even when it was wrong, it got me close enough that I could find the right answer where it failed.

    Also, it does a great job with CSS right out of the gate, no mistakes yet on that front.




  • Well I wasn’t more productive (or less productive), but I definitely feel less guilty. Since I’ve been fairly confident that stress from guilt has been preventing me from accomplishing anything, I’m gonna keep trying and see if that works out.

    Relatedly, do you find you have to make the list the day of? Is it more the repeating out loud that’s helpful? I expect for me, I’d be able to make a list the night before, but I don’t think I’d be able to make one further out than that without me just ignoring it completely.




  • All the things here.

    The method I’ve been having most success with lately is a severe restriction of myself.

    Part of that is because if I don’t wanna do the Thing, it’s so incredibly easy to forget the Thing, my mind doesn’t wanna hold it.

    Currently, the routine I follow when I fail to self-motivate is

    1. Drop my kid off
    2. Maybe remember pills
    3. Maybe remember caffeine (coffee is my goto)
    4. Sit on the couch, think about my day
    5. The remote is close, do a YouTube on my TV.
    6. 4 YouTubes in, now understand the Chinese role in ww2 and the life cycle of 2 different moths, realize I have things to do.
    7. Get up, forget the things, make too much food.
    8. Watch things on my phone/scroll Lemmy/play mobile games
    9. Oh crap I have to get my kid

    I have found that removing individual parts, like telling myself “no YouTube today”, only works temporarily, until I get distracted by something else, then I forget the new rule. So all it really does is reorder the schedule above.

    BUT, I have found that removing all of the distractions, even the important ones like food, until I have begun the important task, helps.

    So based on what I typed above, my rule for the day looks like No YouTube, no social media, no mobile games, no breakfast, no sitting on the couch I have to spell out each thing, I can’t just say “no distractions”, because the me in the moment thinks it’s a break or I’m warming up to doing the thing, some nonsense.

    After an hour of doing the Thing, I get a break for breakfast, it is important. But once ive put that time into doing the Thing, it’s a lot easier to get back to it.

    So the new schedule is

    1. Drop my kid off
    2. Know I need to do something, but the Thing has slipped my mind.
    3. Mentally run through a list of things I could do. Because so much is banned, and the Thing is forgotten, this turns up nothing.
    4. Realize I haven’t taken my pills or made coffee, do those
    5. After those, I remember why those are all I’m allowed to do, and therefore remember the Thing.
    6. Delay a bit because the Thing is boring or hard, but still can’t do anything else
    7. Do. The. THING. (For an hour)
    8. Breakfast, which feels so good, and dopamines the brain, hopefully making the Thing easier in the future.
    9. Do more Thing.

    I hope this helps. This is only possible because of my prescribed Meth, caffeine, and because I’m actually a lot better at telling myself what not to do than to just do something. Good luck, we all need it.





  • Its just an API.

    There’s a few ways they could go about it. They could have part of the prompt be something like “when the customer is done taking their order, create a JSON file with the order contents” and set up a dumb register essentially that looks for those files and adds that order like a standard POS would.

    They could spell out a tutorial in the prompt, "to order a number 6 meal, type “system.order.meal(6)” calling the same functions that a POS system would, and have that output right to a terminal.

    They could have their POS system be open on an internal screen, and have a model that can process images, and have it specify a coordinate pair, to simulate a touch screen, and make it manually enter an order that way as an employee would.

    There’s lots of ways to hook up the AI, and it’s not actually that different from hooking up a normal POS system in the first place, although just because one method does allow an AI to interact doesn’t mean it’ll go about it correctly.