Depends on the person, I think. I hate my phone, and keep it as a requirement to stay connected in a modern world.

The knock-on effect of that is that I’m constantly overdrawn, and have little energy for the ppl who reach out to me, nvm the ppl I’m now supposed to reach out to.

Just my experience but I don’t think totally invalid

If I remember from my degree, its a quality of depth/focus issue. Your brain settles into a task and unpacks that task (with all kinds of consideration for mental load, familiarity, etc). This takes about 20 minutes to get properly focused.

Switching the context pops you out of that task, and then your brain has to resettle into the new one. You don’t get a bonus for switching between only two tasks, it takes about 20 minutes each time.

So multitasking is effectively ruining your own focus everytime you switch, which is why they’re slower - you restart the 20 min clock every time you switch. Ppl doing familiar tasks can switch a little faster, and sometimes there’s a level of quasi-multitasking where you can work on automatic - but it has to be below conscious processing to happen (e.g., driving and then not realising how you got where you’re going, or you’re already intimately familiar with a file at work). It doesn’t quite count because your conscious processing doesn’t come into play, so it’s not really switching

This is actually a pretty good use case: one off, inconsequential, wouldn’t exist outside the scenario (or would even be considered to ask an artist), and adds a massive amount to a small party.

I use the term “animal byproduct” with a great deal of reluctance here

Unfortunately, a quirk of gravitational lensing resulted in a very unpleasant bowel movement for said dog. When asked for comment, the veterinarian involved could only offer, “I don’t envy him”.

P.S. my physics is shaky at best, so don’t know if it works from that perspective, but it felt “Hitchhikers” enough to try!

I fear there are heavy “lunch is served” overtones to this, and I don’t mean a catered meal 😬

I have a friend who defines his gaming existence by black flag. He’s bought it, multiple times on multiple consoles out of sheer love for the game.

Skull and bones came out, I expected that to define the next 6 months of my life. Not a peep. Mentioned it and he just shrugs and goes: they had something good, and ubisofted it (this is after they’ve lost all consumer goodwill). I can’t help but agree

I just finished it today and it truly is a grind. I’m a middling gamer at best, but that series has held my attention in a way few have in over 15 years. Persevere and it’s worth it, but you’ll absolutely throw down your controller in frustration more than once. Reminds me of the old Mario games for difficulty at times. Happy struggles!

Fun fact: Sable is French for sand. I feels that adds an amusing layer of… grittiness to your commentary. But also irony that they never fixed it

I knew there was a mechanism but not the name for it! Thank you!

I find myself wondering if you can stop payment on your credit card? You’ve attempted to work with the company, so I assume that meets the cc provider requirement of attempting to resolve. Not sure, but worth a shot

True, but clearly you’ve never slashed a chicken in Zelda. Unleashing hell’s fury is also pretty powerful

I love this post explicitly because it is so absurd. What!? 😂

Mmm not that I’m aware of. Different provinces have different ages of majority (ie. 19 in Ontario and BC, 18 in others), but I haven’t heard of no cigarettes until 21. Granted, haven’t been paying attention, that’s in the rear view 🫠

I’ve never thought about it this way, but yeah that’s actually pretty accurate. I lived on a farm and my entire family answered calls if they felt like it, so we never felt any social obligation to answer either

This would absolutely be my title if I was the head of Pros Piracy. Captain Hundredbuccaneer. Avast ye scurvy shareholders, shudder at me redistribution of gold to me mates 🏴‍☠️

I recently completed a fairly complex implementation training in government for a team of non-technical users, including agents, agentic workflows, some RAG, and small-scale enterprise app deployments.

I find it a very cool technology, but it is dumb yet. When unbounded, AI does some cool stuff. But building for complex workflows, I find, has resulted in a mixed bag of results. Very specific functions, such as mining data patterns, it is not bad at. But add gray area and it kind of takes stabs in the dark, much like a badly defined Web search.

Even our technical teams sell it as a 10-20% increase in efficiency, not a firesale position replacement. And they’re mandated to adopt and distribute it as widely through govt as possible.

In short, I think this is a fair assessment lol AI may replace us one day, but the models are far too new yet

Only if you use it as a smart tv - I just never signed the user agreements, and now have a big TV with OLED. I switch to the source I want - off I go. Television can still just be television!

Perhaps paradoxically, this might have turned out to be an advantage rather than a drawback

Alternative pro tip: forget to go to the gym, have towel