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How do you better tolerate caffeine?
  • Half caf is great if you can deal with it. The older you get the harder time your body has processing caffeine. I've gotten to a place where I can't drink almost any caffeine except early morning (due to the longer half-life in my body) or I can't sleep, which sucks because I love the flavor of coffee, especially French roast, which is highly caffeinated.

  • How often do you have conversations with an LLM AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc?)
  • Absolutely. With code (and I suppose it's of other logical truths) it's easier because you can ask it to write a test for the code, though the test may be invalid so you have to check that. With arbitrary facts, I usually ask "is that true?" To have it check itself. Sometimes it just gets into a loop of lies, but other times it actually does tell the truth.

  • How often do you have conversations with an LLM AI (ChatGPT, Gemini, etc?)
  • asking them factual questions is a bad idea

    This is a crucial point that everybody should make sure their non-techie friends understand. AI is not good at facts. AI is primarily a bullshitter. They are really only useful where facts don't matter, like planning events, finding ways to spend time, creating art, etc..

  • Amazon is bricking its Astro business robots less than a year after launch
  • you can’t convince me everyone is recycling their used electronics.

    Amazon bricks your expensive new-ish device and now you have to pay to have it recycled? Hell no people aren't recycling them, and that too should be illegal. Amazon should be legally required to take responsibility for recycling those devices, and how the device is recycled should be part of the device design process.

  • There is no red in this picture
  • This is a lesson white balance. If you white balance on the bright color in the non-can section, suddenly the can has more red than blue or green. So relatively, there is more red in the can area of the photo than the other area of the photo, and your brain is adjusting to the tint of the image.

  • 72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
  • What you describe is common. If you see a drone, you call your police and tell them you feel threatened or harassed. They will deal with it.

    FYI all drones are required to broadcast a remote id that is registered to the drone device which is registered to a drone pilot. Your phone can receive that remote id signal, which you can give to law enforcement so they can find the pilot. Not having remote id on a drone is a felony, because once again, drones operate in federally controlled airspace.

    https://www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/remote_id

  • 72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
  • Harassing people violates local law, and reports of harassment and such are the only way local law enforcement can respond to drone issues since local law enforcement does not have the jurisdiction to enforce the federal statutes where the FAA regulates drones.

    Drone law is crazy. There are lots of unintuitive things about it. It needs an overhaul.

  • 72-year-old Florida man arrested after admitting he shot a Walmart delivery drone
  • FAA controls airspace from the blades of grass up. Airplanes are legally allowed to fly over private property, and drones are legally allowed to fly over private property. This is the current legal standing in America. I'm not saying it's right, but that's what it is.

  • Guidance from experienced pilots

    One types of content I'd really like to see here is guidance from experienced pilots on how to get started. There is a lot of conflicting information and deferral to non-cited authorities online, and even those authorities sometimes have ambiguous and conflicting information. I'd love to see posts like "I am a part 107 certified pilot in X jurisdiction and here are my top 10 do's and don'ts, and my preflight checklist."

    One particularly confusing aspect I've encountered is all the differences on drones 250g and above. It seems to me like so much FAA guidance is written with complete disregard for drones below 250g, so much so that I'm not sure if I have to be licensed, if I have to register my drone, if I need to label it, if I'm allowed to fly in various circumstance and times, all because they appear to write a lot of their documentation as if all drones weigh more than 250g. As a result of this ambiguity and confusion I'm considering getting part 107 certified just to cover my bases, but even then, I wouldn't feel confident that I understood the laws and regulations.

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