u/TravisVZ

I use it when I'm in a hurry, but the number of times I've seen AI outright hallucinate completely false things - including vendors' own AI hallucinating about their own product - means I never trust it. It's a tool that can help speed things along, but can often slow you down by sending you down completely the wrong road and wasting your time.

I'll let AI draft an email (which I'll then edit/rewrite myself), or occasionally use it to help me brainstorm; anything technical, though, and at most I let AI point me in a direction and then promptly use actual searching, critical thinking, and good ol' knowledge to find the answer I need.

Our HR tries to blame us, too, even though every single time we point out that account creation is fully automated straight out of their system - it's pretty much impossible for a name to be spelled any other way than what HR puts into their own system!

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Sometimes I'll skip past a gang hanging out somewhere in the city, or even decide to deal with an assault later (if I come back by). It's not really because of the gang, just whether or not I'm feeling it.

Scavs and Maelstrom, though, I don't care what I'm doing at the time I will stop and put everyone down. And if any of them are still breathing when I'm done? That means I'm not done yet!

Can't really explain my hatred for Maelstrom, to be honest. Pretty sure I don't need to explain my hatred for Scavs!

Having heard so much about it before finally reaching it myself: "Fucking finally!"

Having spent so much time looking for the godsdamned exit: "Fucking finally!"

You'd've thought the LEGO store in Downtown Disney would have had at least one exclusive Disney set, but no. Once I realized there was nothing there I couldn't just order online, it made it a lot easier to walk straight past it every day knowing anything I bought there would have to somehow fit into my suitcase to go to Montana and then back home.

Not an IT issue.

That said, we do help the process out: Our custom ESB spins up a ticket for Facilities to deactivate the badge when an employee is terminated in HR's ERP system.

Just last night I completed an "organized crime" spot where TT was selling body parts (I presume of the technological rather than biological variety) to one of the gangs (I honestly didn't pay attention to which one). Not sure if a stealthier approach would have let me closer to TT, but I messed up and had to go loud to finish the last two and saw TT taking off before I got near them.

But selling parts to gangs doesn't sound like "good guys" in my book...

I asked out my favorite barista.

I crashed the dance class of someone I met at a dance.

I dated an old high school friend.

And ultimately I married my brother.

(We were both members of a co-ed fraternity that had originally been a traditional frat, and as a matter of tradition still calls all members - male or female - "brothers".)

I'd say it's about 70/30 - mostly Monica's fault for raising the stakes in the first place against Rachel's objections (plus she clearly had no idea what Chandler's job title was either), but while neither of the girls knew Chandler's job title they would have won without going into the lightning round at all if Rachel hadn't blurted out the wrong answer to the TV Guide question before Monica had a chance to give the correct one.

I did a spectacular job of managing our response and working with our sys admins to identify the affected systems and get them updated. Still have a couple of stragglers because the servers themselves are too old, but we have a plan in place and in the meantime have mitigated the issue by locking down who can get through the firewall in the first place.

Our sys admins were spectacular too, despite the fact that several of them are fairly inexperienced - and almost younger than some of the servers they were patching today! They stepped up and did what they needed to, including asking for help where needed (a vanishingly rare skill it seems...)

Your conclusion is built on a faulty premise.

First off, you take the results of 3400 years of interstellar expansion, and decide that that's the absolute speed limit of ships. Human expansion has never been done at the speed of the fastest mode of transportation, so why when expansion becomes (literally) astronomically more challenging would that suddenly become a rule? Additionally, we have in-world lore that explicitly disproves your premise by stating that ships are capable of significantly more speed than a "mere" .17c.

Secondly, you assume expansion followed a linear progression, but this makes no sense when you look at the mind-boggling bigness of space. For example, within 5 parsecs of our solar system there are 63 stars in the HabHYG database; go out one more parsec and there's 99 - that's a 57% increase in the number of stars for only a 20% increase in the radius of the sphere. 1 more parsec adds another 42 stars; the previous parsec only added 36, so the rate of increase in stars is speeding up, which makes sense because the volume of a sphere is proportional to the cube of its radius. By the time we reach the "modern" range of human expansion in the year 5500, there's over 33,600 stars - and that's only counting stars above a particular magnitude, there's literally uncounted more within that sphere. Each additional parsec (or light year) you add to the radius of human expansion adds exponentially more stars.

So there's really no basis at all for assuming that our Rimworld is "only" 247 light years from Earth.

Further, while I don't know if it's explicitly stated anywhere, the contrast with e.g. Glitterworlds and Urbworlds suggests the term Rimworld is more about development than physical location anyway, so even if we are just 40% of the way between Earth and the outer limits of human expansion, that's not a basis for declaring our Rimworld isn't a Rimworld.

Not me but a friend of mine had a balloon lamp. Different base though, but I forget what they actually had. I was always so jealous of it!

I have no idea what LangWatch is, but thanks for letting me know never to use it!

Right? "My pet peeve is someone plainly answering the question I just asked."

I got over 700C with this as it is. It's not the walls but the open doors where the heat escapes

the vents around a geyser trick (they multiply the output so it is always at max temp)

Wait, what? I thought more vents simply increased the rate that rooms shared heat, but you're saying that more vents would multiply the heat transferred out of the steam generator's room and heat the passageway more than it cools the geyser?

Also why aren't the fences made from stone ?

Chalk it up to a newbie underestimating how well doubled-up open doors actually retain heat - I did not expect 700C+ temps spontaneously combusting those wooden fences! They're absolutely being replaced with stone.

If there are answers to the OP that are false, respond to those. Suggesting I don't understand my own post even after agreeing it's true is a strange choice, though.

If we accept your premise that the candidate with the fewest first-round votes is somehow the strongest one, and that IRV unfairly stole the election from him - how do we fix it?

Yes, of course I do.

You understand that OP asked a specific question in a specific scenario, right?

Nah, it wasn't getting hot enough when I did that. Even with 30C ambient temps I was only getting mid-40s for brief bursts; in winter it barely crept above the teens!

They do other work, or they sit quietly doing nothing.

Their productivity (or lack thereof) isn't worth jeopardizing the safety and security of the rest of the organization. If the MBAs push you, point out that if this mailbox continues sending suspicious emails like that, your entire domain will find itself on blocklists and then no one will be able to get work done.

Yeah I've mostly given up on trap corridors myself, less because of the cost (I can always chop more trees) and more the time and labor to constantly reset after rats and rabbits and tortoises set them all off.

But won't enemies just walk through them, defeating the whole purpose?

Someone in another comment suggested they would, plus that connecting them through a switch you can turn them off and learn the heat out quickly. I'll experiment with that approach and see if it works as claimed.

Huh, interesting. But I do have a couple of kids who need more construction XP still, so for now I'll stick to the wooden stools.

But yes the passage is going to get an upgrade. I honestly hadn't expected the open doors to work that well containing heat, so I didn't anticipate the spontaneous combustion of them!