There are, but I don’t have experience in the differences between them, either.

Third Wave Water is what I use. I like it, haven’t tried others, so I couldn’t tell you if its better than others.

Its a bit pricy, I wouldn’t say overpriced, but luxury, so I dont use it for every cup I make, but sometimes you just wanna be fancier about it, and I use it then.

Definitely for ease of use, it’s gotta be store bought gallons of distilled water and premeasured mineral packets.

Get a gallon, dump in the packets, store your gallon of coffee water. One jug, no liquid minerals to be finicky with, and you’re done.

Plus a gallon of distilled water, at least in my area, is about $1.50.

For me, the gallon jug lives behind my coffee equipment, it’s hardly noticeable unless I need it, and mineral packets sit under my filters.

There is in fact a “what these options mean” at the bottom of the page that does that.

Oh man that works so well.

See, to me, there’s two philosophies that battle here, with me. I can treat employers as companies, as logic machines, that calculate what revenues they can make and every other business decision. With that framework, I agree, whatever I do in my off hours is my business, they shouldn’t (but do) have the right to meddle with me in that way. Deny the corporate machine access to that info.

But the other framework, where your employee is a person managing a business, I don’t agree. If I am a human business owner, trying to run a good company with standards and practices as guidelines, get told by a potential customer I’ve lost the sale because of the actions of someone I employ, if I see that as a recurring pattern, I gotta weigh if they’re worth keeping.

Now, for me, these two frameworks aren’t exclusive, neither is right or wrong, they just show up in different places. Corporate McDonalds firing a minimum wage employee, that gets the company-as-a-machine model. Small business with like 5 employees? Company-as-a-person. Firing a C-Suite of a large company? Company-as-a-person.

This is company-as-a-person to me because they’re a face of the company. C-suite people get hired because of who they are, whereas minimum wage in a company get hired because of the skills they have.

And good for the credit union, they did.

Now she’s unemployed.

They’re sentient if the child thinks of them as such. Andy’s etch-a-sketch was used in play as a character, so it gets thoughts. The Lilypad, with its decorative face and hands, gets the same thing.

Really, the only gap in this logic I can think of in the toy story universe is the shipping crate of buzzes that no child has even seen yet, but besides them, toys tend to wake up and be alive when interacted with, either by a child or a toy that has itself come alive from a child. S Even sitting on a store shelf, a child will still see the toy and imagine on occasion, so this still works for Stinky Pete.

Perfect for a custom build, yeah. Share updates when you do it!

Did something similar, and in my experience the vent probably won’t be enough. If I did it again, I think I’d do a watercooling solution, instead. I haven’t actually done watercooling myself yet, so verify first, but I see no reason you couldn’t route the tubes through the back and release the heat externally. The cooling could be attached to the back of the drawer, so that it all stays together. That’d also reduce the size of the holes since you’re trying to preserve the look of the desk more.

Yeah it works great they don’t even need to register, the system says they already did.

Heck of a credit card bill, for that one guy. I wonder if theres a sneaky line in the TOS about how “best effort” is good enough and sticks him with the bill anyway.

I feel AI definitely has a place in more specific fields of learning.

For instance, I’ve played with a local model and used it as a more intelligent search for an hours-long D&D audio transcript, I could get useful shortcuts to things like “make a list of items the group used today, and include an exact quote when it was used”, or “Here’s this name, find every word in the log that could be that name spelled or transcribed incorrectly”. The second is very handy when there’s names like Vlaxor and the transcript includes things like “flax ore” and “blaster”.

It really is a decent unpaid intern. It’s just unpaid interns need specific instruction and need to be checked, but people treat it like they’re experts. Your friend could also get a similar understanding in beginner forums, or, if it’s a common issue, even YouTube videos going over it, but posting on a forum isn’t as convenient as asking the unpaid intern who cannot think less of your skills as a Linux user.

Only if those firms smell a profit, which apparently means selling them, rather than renting them.

Unused property makes no money.

I see hope, but likely the government will need to continue to support this.

Same.

I’ve just gotten to Aquilo with a higher SPM in every other science than I’ve ever had before. This time it won’t just be a kludged together base that always locks up, it’ll be a functional one with a reasonable output.

Then imma streamline all the bases into big base blueprints to try to get all the speed achievements.

Play d&d

I would, when I’m printing out a D&D map. Taping pages together isn’t the worst, but only needing to line up prints in one direction would be great.

But it’s optional, either way. Odds are I’d have sheets in most of the time and switch to roll for that, specifically, but having the option is nice, it also lets me print smaller without wasting a whole sheet.

Nah they can get context and summarize web pages as they presently are. Not all do, and I’m not up to date on what ones do, but the expectation was Claude would find their schedule on their website online, would summarize it, and use that summary to answer the question and any followup ones that would’ve occurred.

That’s still the difference. I also feel spent and use the battery analogy in my day to day life. My “capacity” is pretty decent, I can afford things, but I have to manage it, and yeah, so much is a cost, even things you’d never expect.

If we say a party costs 50 and your battery is at 20, that sucks. That relative I mentioned has been suicidal over this, and its entirely possible that their inability to manage that battery is directly caused by their mental health struggles, too. I’m not claiming they’re a bad person, when I say they’re a bad friend. I’m saying they aren’t going to be there for those that call them “friend”. It has absolutely been a lifelong struggle for them, and that sucks, but they cannot do it. I cannot power a laptop with a standard phone charger, even if they’re both USB-C, and this person I know isn’t a good friend outside of a very small group they have.

I don’t mean to sound like a dick when I say that, everyone’s different and we have different struggles, different things take a different amount of battery or take more or less spoons.

The issue of “how do you tell if someone’s running on empty or just not willing to put energy into it?” is a whole separate issue than “this costs more battery than I have when fully charged”. The solution to the first, is managing your charge. The answer to the second, I dunno. To me, that feels like the mental health equivalent of asking if this mole looks cancery online, and if I was in that situation, I’d be seeing a therapist or a med manager about it. Not saying you haven’t tried or anything, I’m just saying I don’t know the answer to that, and I have the feeling the answer is way deeper than someone on the internet will be able to go. I sincerely hope things go well for you, though.

The difference is what you do around it.

Friend’s birthday is coming up next week, and they care about you and you wanna show you care about them? Well the day before (or whatever timeline you need), you don’t do anything that drains your batteries, or do things to recharge them, so that when it’s time to go to the party, the battery is full.

If we’re gonna treat social as a limited resource, then being a good friend means spending that resource on them. If we give it a number, then let’s say a birthday gift costs 50. It doesn’t matter if your battery holds 100 or 100, save 50 for the party.

I have a relative who does the battery thing, and the key thing that puts them in the “doesn’t care” category despite a mental disorder that absolutely qualifies them for the battery analogy, is they just don’t spend their battery unless it’s a benefit to them. They won’t spend it on one of their friends unless it’s one of like, 2 specific people, so it’s an excuse.

They both offer that, though.