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Well, I had a nice week with my sister (who came home for her birthday). We saw my grandma; then saw one of our friends; then went to a garden, and finally, had a birthday dinner at our favourite Indian restaurant.

She went home earlier today, which was a bit sad - but, I was glad to have her here!

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On 8/24/2023 at 4:13 AM, Grungie said:

There’s one in Nottingham, tho I think it’s the only one.

I think if Hooters wants to bring in more customers, they should better the quality of their food. It’s like a meh Applebees

There's one in Liverpool too, although they certainly aren't common here! 

On 8/19/2023 at 1:52 PM, ZandraJoi said:

That's how I view things as well. If I don't like something, I just don't go, see, read it. I'm just amazed at how much times have changed. Back in the 50's, people dressed up to GO to the restaurant. Now, you see anything & everything!

I have to admit, I don't often dress up to go a restaurant (only if it's a particularly fancy place). But I do try to look presentable, at least!

Just run a forum full-time, I suppose 😛 !

And now, wildfires are raging across the Northwest Territories - and the entire population of Yellowknife (around 20,000 people) has been told to evacuate:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/canada-wildfires-yellowknife-evacuations-flights-queues-cars-photos-b1101511.html

I sincerely hope they get everyone out of there in time - but even if they do, I fear this will cause immense damage to homes and property 😞 ...

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On 8/11/2023 at 11:45 PM, Uncrowned Guard said:

It looks like so much love and pride went into making that locomotive.  

 

Also, 120.

Indeed, it would have done! The original 119 was used at the ceremony to mark the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 - and, this replica shows the same level of love and attention 🙂 . 

Anyway, back to the counting: 121 🙂 . 

I mean, the entire 'breastaurant' concept does make me cringe. But I'm not bothered all that much by their existence... if you don't like them, just do what I do, and avoid going to them 😛 . 

On 8/5/2023 at 1:00 PM, ZandraJoi said:

It's good Utah is stepping up for more security like this. How can they verify it however? I've went to sites & says "Click here if you are over 18". Anybody can click on it! So how could sites verify to make it safer? Is there a way? I've always wondered about that.

While I don't think the idea is bad, I do agree that it'd be very difficult to implement.

Every method of age verification that I can think of is either useless, or invasive of privacy 😞 . 

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Or, in locomotive form: 

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On 7/29/2023 at 7:15 PM, Uncrowned Guard said:

I guess we will have to see how the future goes, but I still see coders and devs being a career.  I personally picture AI in the way Microsoft is pushing it and adding it as a tool or "co-pilot" as they call it to existing programs.   Essentially having the same long-term effects as stuff like the grammar tools in Word for writers and smart tools for graphics editors.  Teams might get smaller as now the AI can do the "small tasks", but no CEO is going to start AI prompting their website or app from their office and will still have coding teams involved.

Yeah, software development jobs aren't going away.

Although, I do think the skill set required is likely to change - as knowing what to ask the AI becomes increasingly important 😛 . 

From what I've heard, women are slightly more intelligent on average - but male intelligence shows more variance (so you'll find more extreme intelligence in men - but also more extreme stupidity 😛 )

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On 7/25/2023 at 4:50 AM, Uncrowned Guard said:

Absolutely!  I feel like AI Promtper will be a major career going forward.

Yeah, probably. 

Indeed, if I want to keep my job as a software developer, it's something I'm probably going to have to get good at myself!

I don't use it... when my friend share TikTok clips with me, it's usually just mindless clips that are a few seconds long. 

I much prefer longer-form content that I can find on YouTube.

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Well, this sounds very good on paper. In practice, though, I think it'll require some skill in knowing which questions to ask the AI. Furthermore, there will probably be all kinds of details that the AI will struggle to get right - and will still need to be edited manually. 

Still, the AI-generated site looks like it'll be a good starting point!

On 7/10/2023 at 5:01 PM, Heatman said:

There's even another one which is when I'm chatting with someone. There are some then tend to type their chat long and it's going to look like a text. I don't find it easy reading them. 

I like it when one sends chat bit by bit. It's going to make it easy for me to reply each point in the chat unlike when it's all packed up in one long chat. 

Well, provided the 'bits' aren't one or two words at a time... I had a friend who was like that, and it got super annoying!

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Let's go!

Speaking of themes, I've always used the dark theme on here, but I accidentally clicked the button to switch to the light theme. And I have to say, I rather like it! Very clean and simple... I think I'll use it from now on 🙂 .