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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • I have have not had luck getting my kids to read consistently.

    My two tricks for this are leaving out comic books (easier read, but same number of words, if they read long enough), and reading to them at bedtime (because it’s just time and attention, and they love that.)

    On the bedtime reading, beware - they will interrupt constantly at first, because they want the extra attention more than they want the story to move along. Lol.

    Edit: Oh! And weekly trips to the library. They get a dopamine hit from choosing and checking out books, and then they revisit that hit by reading the books later. I also let them pick something for me to read to them, if they’re interested in it, but afraid to try to read it.

    Also, most libraries have comic books, often sorted by age appropriateness.







  • So these guys in the trades jobs haven’t got long.

    I too have incredibly sensitive hands.

    But I pay a plumber because his track record of flooding my house is 0%, while my own flooding track record is… not 0%.

    I learned that the 0% rate of flooding is the most important thing, to me personally, when it comes to plumbing work.

    Don’t ask me how I learned that. It is neither interesting, nor hilarious, nor deeply embarrassing to me personally, or anything. It’s just my lived experience of doing my own plumbing.

    There’s currently no credible evidence that the hallucinating problem in AI can ever be solved, at all.

    AI does quick shoddy work. Some quick shoddy work by AI is easily fixed by a human (or fixed by a second AI for those feeling frisky and risky.) But some quick shoddy work by AI is instantly tragic, leaving no time for fixes. (As shown by any quick search for the words “AI” and “database”.)

    I do agree that we will have robot plumbers available, soon.

    If their work matches the quality of work done by AI coders, some houses are going to burn down.

    Yes, I said “some” and “burn down.”.

    Many houses will flood. That’s not the interesting bit. A few will manage to burn down. That’ll be novel and interesting to watch, for those of us not trying to live there.

    I plan to stick with skilled human trades-people, myself.

    Edit: And I want to point out that it’s a privilege to hire skilled humans, that I appreciate. We know some landlords are going to send in a bot with the words “fuck you, you flooded my home” graffitied on it, at every opportunity, because it’s slightly cheaper.