Do you just do CAD though? Our Mech Es do a lot in CAD but not solely. Even our drafters do a lot of things not in CAD. If anyone ever asked me what I do for work, “CAD” would not be my answer.

I categorize it as a tool, not a job. And personally, I would find a job that is, say, 75% or more CAD to be boring as hell.

The two nuclear developmemts I’m watching closest are the test molten salt reactor in Oak Ridge, TN and just recently heard about a new permit to build one for Abilene Christian University in Texas.

I was at my company’s booth at a career fair earlier this week and it felt like every other student was looking for an internship in “machine learning”. When I asked follow up questions about what sort of experience they’d had or projects done or what they wanted to do with it in their career, crickets.

To be fair, 2nd most popular was “CAD” which is also not a job.

I’m not entirely sold on the argument I lay out here, but this is where I would start were I to defend using chatGPT in school as they laid out in their experiment.

It’s a tool. Just like a calculator. If a kid learns and does all their homework with a calculator, then suddenly it’s taken away for a test, of course they will do poorly. Contrary to what we were warned about as kids though, each of us does carry a calculator around in our pocket at nearly all times.

We’re not far off from having an AI assistant with us 24/7 is feasible. Why not teach kids to use the tools they will have in their pocket for the rest of their lives?

Nope, I work in STEM but not IT nor software.

I’m a serial hobbyist and actively pursue projects outside the scope of my job and education background.

FlightAware shows their departures looking pretty typical for on-time 🤷

So will people pay to have Nicolas Cage in their dreams, or will they pay to not have him in their dreams?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Scenario

Careful there, bud, you’re singing the siren song of bank bailouts.

Could one just swap the credit card and email associated with the Pelaton account, and transfer the account to the new owner of the used machine? No “reactivation” fee needed if it never goes idle.

Caution needed if handing it over to a rando from Craigslist, ofc. But if I were selling to friend or family, I’d be willing to put in a little effort to save them $95.

The few people I know who are into the Pelaton community do it for the competition/gamification element. They watch their status against global leaderboards and are highly motivated by it.

For those that it works for, great. I am highly motivated by competition, but those prices are too rich for my blood.

Maybe there are also people into Pelaton who are like those who pay a monthly gym subscription even if they have space at home? And could buy a home setup that saves them money. The monthly pay makes them commit financially and motivates them to go to the gym consistently.

I interpreted it as you don’t heat the pot while the frog is still in the pond. You only apply heat slowly once the front is already in the pot.

Don’t load up the ads until the users are already on Threads. Wait until they are active on Threads, then crank up the ads when it’s more difficult for the users to leave.

Public library.

Not Ello!

Jk, I was the only person I knew with an Ello account. I know more people on lemmy and mastodon and fediverse stuff than I did on Ello. It didn’t take much to predict it wouldn’t work out.

Defensish. Close enough that we overlap some and have a lot of intense rules to follow.

These people throwing company private information into chatGPT are absolutely wild to me. I’m waiting for someone from an actual defense company to get busted and make headlines for putting like missile defense system specs in, and then it’s part of the dataset used to feed answers to everyone else.

I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We’re technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one’s not really enforced, thank goodness.

Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you’re entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we’ve been designing.

It’s difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you’ve got a problem.

Semi-serious answer. Greeks like Homer and Euripades and Virgil, the bible, Shakespeare. Lots of Western pop culture is a rehash of old stuff.

Answering the question more as you likely intended. Pokemon. Harry Potter. Star Wars. The MCU.

From what I suspect is due to my personal bubble, Star Trek; ST pops up several times per week in my life. And Twilight, I’ve got a group of friends who are queer and will jam a Team Alice or KStew reference in at every opportunity. It seems like the rest of the world has moved on from Twilight love and Twilight hate, but this group is keeping the discourse alive.

Couples going through a rough patch can open-source their marriage.

Aw man, the six-figure salary alpha dude bros are still going to be the only ones getting girls because they’re the only ones who can afford multiple subscriptions.

There were earlier games, but the earliest I can name is Drip on an Amiga.

I was given one of those. I tried the app once and immediately uninstalled it. It’s worthless. The “let’s put AI in your computer mouse, toothbrush, and toilet scrubber!” of ten years ago.