Too specific. Needed at least a quick refresher on all ocean life first. Gotta let them get warmed up before you hit them with the good stuff.

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.

Disease-light might be the best medieval equivalent, actually.

I’d personally translate it to the closest word they have.

If I decided they didn’t have a word that was directly equivalent, in this case I’d use the closest word, “light-emitting”.

There’s a law that you have to be dead first.

Obviously that’s not a hard barrier to him, but it means he needs to take more effort. He’ll get to it, I’m sure.

Yes but that doesn’t seem connected directly.

Tweet was from last year. It’s saying “it’s time”

The tweet was from last year.

So they’re doing pretty good, all things considered.

The canary is very dead.

I never used them that often. A standard “-” tends to do me just fine.

But it’s always a shame to be able to convey less in the same amount of characters.

Definitely it’s best attempt to match Donald trump.

Well, its best given the shitty prompt I’m sure it was given. “Be Donald trump, but make sure you’re understandable and don’t start unnecessary fights”, or something like that.

Right? He doesn’t even know what they are, and while an Em Dash isn’t a guarantee of AI, anyone who is at all concerned about people thinking their writing is AI now avoid them.

So if this isn’t AI, its someone who failed to think things through. (But its AI.)

Sidenote: wouldn’t be surprised at all if Em Dashes leave our human lexicon altogether, given the negative association they’ve received. Like spelling changes, AI might just make our writing drift away from them altogether, until AI does get exclusive use of it.

Being willing to pay extra for extra sounds fine in my book, he even knew the owner might not be able to do it all and asked at the end for a list of anything he wouldn’t be able to provide.

But the biggest thing is he didn’t demand it, he requested it, and then asked what it would cost.

Cool thanks for the info.

Also didn’t know bjs was donating lije that. Terrible.

BJs offered us a deal so we took it.

Almost every product there (all name brand) costs the same as buying the generic brand at Walmart. Cereal, yogurt, Mac and cheese, toilet paper, I have compared all of it while we have the one year membership.

Sure, I get name brand, and Jif is better than great value, but I have saved nothing. Won’t be renewing when they actually expect me to pay the membership. Sam’s club beats Walmart by a little bit but not a lot, and I dont have a Costco or Aldi’s near me. How does Aldi’s stack compared to BJ’s?

Thats part of correctness to me, delivering an order that taco bell actually would make is important.

Semantics aside, though, we agree. That’s very important.

They do, my concern is more about if that JSON is correct, not just well-formed.

Also, 18000 waters might be correct JSON, but makes an AI a bad cashier.

No, they haven’t. Wikipedia is still on the right side as of now, and I dont think they have plans to change that.

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.

Thats not an “until”, it’s a winner

I certainly wouldn’t trust him either, but fact is, he told the cops about the drugs he planted.

He could’ve just not done that, or drugged ice cream from a tub at home, or told the kids they’re sprinkles or something.

To be its pretty clear that he didn’t intend to directly harm the kids, and was “just” willing to put them into a stressful situation where an accident could have resulted in harm, anyway.