Neat.

It’s never too soon, really.

Yes. These might become my last words.

Which is bad, since I’m sure I’ll just keep repeating them every few hours, just in case.

The research also found nearly half of organizations have rephased AI deployments when costs have outweighed the expected value.

Nearly half are capable of basic introspection and some simple math. Honestly, a bit higher than I expected.

… but AI is still pretty great.

Ok. Buddy, CEO. Hang in there. Some folks will probably get stuck paying for continued tokens, anyway. The ride might be ending, but maybe they’ll be a long tail on the biggest suckers.

I guess if that’s the society you live in, you would never realise it until you travelled.

We know our food is shit. We know our “leaders” are shit, too.

I’m guessing they’re talking about Open Office, while you’re comparing to Only Office.

I’m starting to think open source may not win the “great job naming things” trophy, this year, either.

What’ll get really bad is when the hardware OEMs become insolvent due to high prices killing consumer demand for their products, and then we are left with few to no options for PC parts.

They’re certainly on their way. The Raspberry Pi foundation, and many clones give me hope for a future for personal “hobby” computing, at least.

It’s also a thinly veiled attempt to land at tax other than 100%, and overseen by courts that we suspect he has influence over.

I like the confidence. I imagine things could still go that well for him. Everyone should get a chance to dream of nice things.

For someone who has taken so much from the rest of us, a mere tax could be a pretty nice outcome.

Honourable mention is NCIS Dual keyboard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

Top hacking scene of all time!

Yeah. That reminds me of my friend.

She was embarrassed about it sometimes, but she was also at the heart of our friend group. I think those are related.

I think it sometimes, maybe often, made her feel small and vulnerable.

But she liked people quicker and better than I ever could. And she often did a better job than I could of telling people how she felt.

She was a warm person trying to fit into a cold culture.

I think she realized her own warmth was a strength, eventually.

Now I try my best to let go and feel and show love the ways she did.

Edit: To be clear - she would crush hard on someone new very quickly. Then she would share it and sometimes get ingored or hurt, or sometimes date for awhile and break-up.

But whatever happened, if they didn’t turn out to be total assholes, she chose to be an irrepressible friend toward them, afterward.

She was always self conscious about the whole cycle - but we all admired her.

We were pretty honest about that, but some people have a hard time accepting compliments.

I learned a lot about how to be a better friend, from her.

I wonder sometimes how her eventual husband (now widow) felt about her fan club of exes. I figure he must have been pretty confident - he would have had to be!

I don’t think it’s possible to ban drive-by down voters, but I wouldn’t worry about it.

The vote counts don’t mean nearly as much, here.

Places like Beehaw simply disable the downvote function, and I barely notice it’s gone, when I’m there.

I find downvotes most helpful as a warning that someone asking questions is actually arguing in bad faith. Beehaw is much more tightly moderated, and that sort of sensitive discussion just isn’t welcome there, anyway.

Which, I think is fine. The Fediverse is large and growing. We have enough room for lively discussions in some places, and an enforced chill vibe in others.

Liking or loving easily makes a person vulnerable so it feels like a weakness - but the ability (or just tendency) to do vulnerable things is actually a kind of special strength.

I had a dear friend who said similar to what your posted - how she liked anyone who showed her attention.

She said it was a weakness.

But I always saw it as a strength. I always wished - I still do - that I could learn to be more like her, in that aspect.

I’m too afraid of being hurt, so I hide or suppress my feelings by instinct.

My friend couldn’t do that, but through that she blessed everyone around her.

She always worried how it made her look - her close friends could tell how quickly she would grow affection for someone. She thought we looked down on her for it. But we admired her for it.

Sorry I’m talking in the past tense because she got really sick, and we all still miss her terribly.

But ways that she impacted my friend group live on.

I like to think we all make new friends a little easier and show affection to those new friends a little more quickly, because of her love for us.

now I like anyone that shows affection for me.

This comment reminds me of people I have found really inspiring. I hope this becomes a source of pride and joy for you, someday, if it isn’t already.

I would just ban folks who drive by with negativity in a positive space.

Lemmy is the best forums on the Internet, because of bans.

We have lots of room for diverse opinions, but losing input from someone who drops by a random space to spread negativity is no loss.

I hope that Lower Decks goes on to be as un-killable as Futurama.

Near perfect summary.

I just want to tack on that Tawny Newsome looks destined to be Trek’s next Jonathan Frakes - dipping in and out of Trek projects and leaving entertainment excellence in her wake.

(P.S. Dear Tawny and Jonathan, please don’t have done anything deeply horrible to someone while I composed this. Thanks.)

I want Miles x Bashir to be cannon so bad.

Miles x Bashir is canon. It’s just the exact details that are left to the imagination.

That is so speciesist that i’m reporting you to Humanoid Resources.

I miss that department before it was just Odo disguised as the table.

Bashir sighs with relief that nobody’s caught on

He’s just fascinated with frontier medicine!

Gay assassin spy with daddy issues who is also an excellent tailor.

Many of these points are merely allegetions.