In culinary school they had a Halloween pumpkin carving event for international students and I signed up IMMEDIATELY thinking it would be the culinary school take and we'd learn to do some sort of ornate vege centerpiece. But NO it was AUTHENTIC and we each got issued a pumpkin carving kit.
LLMs take away all the terrible "writing new code" that devs hate to do and turn all projects into "fixing someone else's undocumented code" which is the part of programming everyone loves
This is the cause Efeso was running for, raising money for fresh drinking water in the Pacific. I reckon sending some donations this way would be a wonderful way to do something with the sadness you're feeling. childfund.org.nz/childfund-wa...
Since this site is open now, have a greatest hits thread of #linguistics takes on the Roses are Red meme: Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too
My nephew and niece have a big pile of pristine exercise books and crisp-edged glue sticks and unopened pens in their living room and I am so. jealous. Not of the going-to-school bit, you understand. Just of the stationery.
PSA for NZers like me who have never used it before and forgotten it existed: heat pumps have a setting for cooling.
I didn't think anything could top the time I found my husband eating smoked salmon on a petit beurre, but here we are in the Worst Timeline. ("It's a cracker, isn't it?" was what he offered in his own defence.)
Laser Kiwi is building birb army
