Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@leadore

I have a toaster oven that does EVERYTHING I'd want an oven to do. I have not used the thing for two years.

@jaystephens

Thank you for making me feel a little less freaky. Part of me thinks "it's not that complex, ordinary solutions should be fine" but

I don't think that's really true if I'm honest.

@biogeo

Same. Let's start a gang.

@danlyke

I don't know will people want to waste time with the test because of this?

Here is a little taste from the story.

"Was it really necessary to render every single human life in all of this detail, all of the time? So many of the thoughts in the computation-heavy human minds had almost zero impact on the physics of the universe."

I've been feeling shy about tackling the SF topics in the story head on, but I've found an angle to have some fun with it.

#writing

@catmisgivings

I don't see ads very often. So when I do I'm kind of astonished.

@ptoothfish

These people are experts about "smarts" clearly.

@ramsey

It has the AI stink to it. If it's not AI the person who made it should be insulted people think that's what it is.

Well before I saw this ... graph? Ad? Assault on reason? I *thought* I was pretty smart, but now my brain is running out of my ears.

I don't know what's worse... the pointless levels, the not-a-pie-chart format, that percents don't add to 100?

Why is it a circle?

It's like someone explained the concept of "multiple intelligences" to someone incapable of understanding that concept.

Anyway, I'm told this kind of 'content' is "the future"

I bet the numbers are made up. From nowhere.

:: “was she a real person or was she an ad?”
“don’t say ‘real person’ like that. Ads are real people. They are just… working.”
“ok jeez well then was she ‘working’ ?”
“I don’t know.”
“your software can’t tell?” Lilly was astonished at this.
“oh, normally it can, but— this was different.”
“Are you in love?”
“NO.”
“Bailey’s in love!” she bounced and sang “Bailey’s in love with an AD” she giggled. All I could do was glower, she was right! #microfiction

@microsoft no

make the grade five’s learn linux! turn me lose!

Today I explained what “cloudfire” was to the 6th graders (can’t do our design work because of the failure point of cloud computing) and I also gave several shamelessly smug knowing looks to the IT head who fights with me about having them code in compilers that run on their chromebooks (I do have some sympathy for his position, but I’m still the pure and moral one in this debate)

@pumiquxt

depends on the books .. .

@MxVerda @benh

The secret of kettles has gotten out and more Americans are ... learning

If you don't have a kettle the things to know are:

* It's not "just for tea"
* It is only for water, never put anything but water in it. Do not make instant coffee I beg you.
* Think of it like those taps fancy places have with on-demand boiling water.
* The ones with a base, cordless are worth it. Easy to fill.
* If I come over and you don't have one I will judge you a little.

@darkling @MxVerda @benh

They expect us to wait SEVERAL minutes for water to boil. I do not have time for that. NO.

@MxVerda @benh

I sometimes use the kettle to boil half of the water when making spaghetti. Only fill the pot halfway and also half-fill the kettle. Turn both on. Then add the kettle boiled water to the stove when it's ready.

Can you tell I'm impatient?

@IngaLovinde

I have been trying I promise. I feel like I'm swimming upstream.

My big take always from the excellent comments on this thread are:

* Do not get a stove with touch controls. DO NOT.
* Maybe give induction cooking a try? I guess I could try it and see if we could just get rid of the whole stove?

We have a "landlord special" stove and it's huge and very ugly. Since I don't need to worry about "resale" or moving why should we keep it?

@lyda @b0rk @alper @jt_rebelo

Does a stove really need a microprocessor? I love them but. Is it really something that is needed for the stove?