Even in this day and age, when furniture is being mass-produced, there is still a niche for those who create furniture by hand, without the use of assembly lines and CNC.

The same goes for software development.

The downside is that you need to become the creative, the “ideas man” that can come up with that bespoke solution that AI can never truly provide. And you likely have to do it on your own, or if you are lucky, in a small company whose entire identity relies on bespoke solutions and high-quality, high-cost work.

The vast majority of software developers will never be able to make that jump, just like how hundreds of thousands of furniture-makers in the early 20th century, across North America, were also unable to make that jump. Those turning out bespoke furniture today represent an almost-unmeasurable rounding error compared to the same numbers of craftsman a century ago.

But they still exist. They can still make a living. And so can software developers with the right skills and attitudes.

Cave bears used to make polar bears look small.

Oooooohhhhh…

Thank you for the patient explanation. No, I am about as Cis as can be, a full Kinsey zero. But I thought that my time of running across strange phrases I completely fail to understand would come when I am considerably older. Not in my sixth decade. While I am not “with it”, to spindle grandpa Simpson’s quote, I do try to at least keep my head above water. At least I know what this euphamism is all about, now.

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I’m a service top

Sorry, a what, now?

Don’t you mean a foodie?

Can’t fleece us enough with stupidly-expensive junk food, now they’re also cramming advertising down our howling pie hole

the planet will live on and heal.

Unfortunately, this line of thinking ignores the elephant in the room: inertia.

There have been prior climate change events that have gotten up into the +8-12℃ range (which, BTW, means palm trees at the poles and the extinction of any land species over 45Kg/100lbs), but the difference there is that they have taken many hundreds of thousands of years to get there, allowing whole ecosystems to migrate across entire continents while continuing to sequester carbon.

Our changes to date have - when compared to the very-next-fastest event in history - compressed over 150,000 years of climate changes into less than 75.

This means that not only is there a massive amount of inertia involved with our changes - several orders of magnitude greater, which will force CC to continue on well after humanity completely ceases adding to the problem - but ecosystems are just going to die in place. They simply aren’t being given the time to migrate or adapt, leading to significantly unoptimal/degraded CO2 sequestering, compounding the problem.

Or, in other words, this inertia is destroying the brakes that could slow and eventually reverse CC.

Finally, as the sun ages over the millennia, it throws off more and more heat. The global average needed to cause a runaway Venus Scenario has slowly been creeping down over the last few billion years, and may have already crossed the +12℃ level.

Which means that, even if humanity just ceases to exist today, there may be enough inertia to kick off sufficient feedback loops (methyl hydrate eruptions, permafrost eruptions, etc.) to push the planet into that Venus Scenario, extinguishing all life on Earth.

Sweet dreams.

Source: BSc in Physics & Math, former classmates in the CC & biology fields. I read the pre-print evidence they are collecting and can see where it points.

Don’t sign in with Google or Apple or Facebook. They get data out of it and lock you into their platform.

This is why I have never used some services such as PushBullet. I mean, this service would be absolutely useful to me, but without a direct user login it’s persona non grata.

I get frustrated by summer.

I have a core temp that is pretty much a full degree cooler than normal. Apparently this is very much on the outside of the typical range for humans, and my last GP (now retired) thinks it came about due to a heat exhaustion event when I was 18 that shut down my kidneys and did a bunch of other system reset things.

So when the temps get anywhere above about 20-24, my ability to work outside starts to crater. Not only do I sweat like a mofo as my body desperately tries to cool itself - think totally drenched and physically dripping like a leaky faucet by the time most people start getting moist on their foreheads - but that sweat pours off of my head and into my eyes, forcing me to stop what I am doing and towel my entire head off every 5-15 minutes.

And yes, this happens at 25℃. Like, fuck me.

And even though I’m all the way up here in Canada, I’m in it’s only semi-arid desert. You know, the one that nearly cracked 50℃ in that PNW heat dome a few years back. Summer temps - thanks to climate change - have gone from 28-35℃ heatwaves for 3-5 days at a time in the 80s, to 35-45℃ heatwaves for two to three weeks at a time today. And they frequently come back for encores.

Which means that I am stuck inside, where there is AC to keep me alive, for a large proportion of the summer. When I want nothing more than to get outside and get shit done around the house while there is oodles of daylight available to get it done in.

Climate change is going to be hell on me over the next few decades, especially if the scientific modelling/projections of total civilizational collapse (World2 models, especially the 2021 & 2024 confirmations) by about 2040-2050 actually come to pass. RIP electricity for AC likely also means RIP my ability to be alive in the summer.

Fun times.

Said software resides in ROM - Read-Only Memory - and cannot be modified unless the chip is extracted from the phone and installed in a special EEPROM reader that permits/has the capability to write to the chip. The phone’s hardware literally lacks the electrical connections needed to write to that chip. Plus, these chips nearly always had so little extra room (as a cost-saving measure) that something as simple as saved phone numbers needed to be offloaded to the SIM card’s storage - from which it was impossible to run additional apps because, again, that functionality just didn’t exist.

And in many of these older feature phones, the in-memory footprint of actively running software was also well known, so RAM was limited (again, to save on costs) to handle only known apps, thereby leaving vanishingly little headroom and making an in-RAM exploit to piggyback in extra software equally difficult. Finally, most true feature phones didn’t have data connections, making it almost impossible to introduce data into memory.

About the only way data could get in would have been via SMS, and a feature phone has none of the SMS capabilities of modern phones - they could only display an SMS payload as raw text, they had no functionality to interact with that payload in any way, making zero-click exploits equally impossible.

Your concept of the term does not meet the industry definition:

Ultra-processed foods are highly processed through industrial techniques, have little or no whole foods and tend to have lower nutritional value. Their ingredients may include added sugars and salt, artificial colors and other manufactured additives such as high fructose corn syrup. Because of their industrial processing, you cannot make them at home.

That alone means that French fine cuisine is massively different, and wholly inapplicable.

And cutting down starches and sugars is one of the best first steps anyone can make. Especially bread, at least in North America, because there are massive differences between flour here and elsewhere like in Europe.

And a crapton of foods - that you would normally never associate with starch - have an extremely impactful super-starch that goes under many different names, most frequently “modified food starch” (often listed as “modified starch”, “modified corn starch”, or “modified tapioca starch”). Another highly prevalent industrial starch derivative frequently added to highly processed foods as a texturizer and filler is “maltodextrin”.

It is almost impossible to avoid super-starches unless you go on a near-perfect whole-food keto-style diet of 80% fruits and vegetables and 20% meat. And that gets expensive, fast.

the nitrates/nitrites in cured meat.

This flies in the face of many “blue zones” such as Italy, who consume massive amounts of cured meats in their diets. It’s usually for lunch every day of the week in smaller towns.

Granted, luncheon meats over here aren’t the healthiest. But IIRC they’re also not far off from European standards. Choosing European imports is likely a better bet, but IMO avoidance is overkill.

I’m sorry, students are protesting?

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Yo, government chucklefucks, you wanna try listening to them? Because otherwise they’re gonna take your jobs away once they become old enough to vote. These are legitimate claims. So buckle down and do your fucking jobs.

The worst part of capitalism is that it is violently coercive. You need to be profitable to someone else, least you become destitute, starving, and eventually homeless, and likely even die on the streets.

And the real bitch of it is that cheap homes are in those places that generally don’t have jobs (of any kind, really), and good jobs are in those places that generally don’t have cheap homes.

And this wouldn’t be such a problem if “good jobs” still provided an annual income of more than ⅓ the cost of a “good home”. But they aren’t. They’re much, much less these days.

So we can’t even really use the second half of that aphorism anymore.

I feel really sorry for anyone younger than GenX. Unless you’re a nepo baby of some kind, you got seriously shafted.

Eating the vast majority of food found in supermarkets.

Aside from raw veggies and plain cuts of meat, about 80% of any food you can buy from any kind of store is classified as “highly processed”, and is therefore complicit in obesity, endocrine disruption, Type 2 diabetes, dementia, and a whole host of health issues that were rare in ancient times.

And yes, pretty much all “healthy” foods are also considered “highly processed”.

It likely will only work for that sub. Betchya Redit will still block users from subs you don’t actively moderate

Conservatism is corruption. Conservatism is poison. Conservatism is evil.

It runs Android, so it’s just as hackable and vulnerable to authoritarian systems as any other smart phone.

Now if it was a true feature phone… good luck sideloading spyware. You’d have to disassemble the phone and mount the chips in an EEPROM reader to get anywhere, and that’s not an effective remote exploit.

I had AI enabled on my iPhone.

Oooohhhh… maybe that’s where the problem is coming from.

I work in pretty much all sectors of IT, and while I am cautiously optimistic about AI, it was a steaming pile of bullshit when it was first included and it’s still largely unusable/untrustable now. So I have always had it turned firmly OFF for myself, my family, and strongly recommended it for everyone else I helped.

Besides, I’ve noticed that not many people outside of the techbro scene actually want AI. It’s invariably crammed down their howling piehole without their desire or consent.