Each thing gets washed once, with the appropriate chemical if needed.

Generally for the toilet bowl, something with bleach.

For surfaces like the toilet and sink, especially in a bathroom, I usually swap between using just some vinegar and Fantastic all purpose cleaner. Vinegar is fine most weeks, Fantastic once in a while to get some of the stuff Vinegar may not have got properly with those extra chemicals that it has but I could easily go months without needing it.

I use water and a microfiber cloth for the mirrors and the faucet, a drop of dish soap if there’s something on it (like dried toothpaste spittle). This also works for walls most of the time if you wipe those, but I don’t wipe my walls very regularly, maybe once a year.

Hot water is fine for the tile floor too, maybe it gets something stronger a couple times a year.

You don’t need a lot unless someone in the household is sick with something that could be transmitted through a bathroom. Then hit it with harsher chemicals.

One thing to note may be that in certain warmer climates, there are other considerations for mold and bacterial growth that I do not have to worry about where I live (in a cooler climate)

It’s a fucking struggle right now, and It’s not supposed to be like this.

You shouldn’t have to work a full time job, and take care of the house, and take care of the kids. Neither should the wife/partner.

The fact that it requires two working parents at this point to afford life is the problem. There’s enough to go around even if just one parent was participating in the economy, if it was distributed more fairly.

The pendulum has swung too far on capitalism, and it’s sucking the vast majority of people dry just to feed itself. There’s a reason why birthrates have jumped off a cliff.

So there’s an answer, and then there’s a problem.

The easy answer is that Home Assistant has Voice Assistants now, and you can use Ollama, Whisper, and Piper to do that all locally.

The problem is that it really only talks to Home Assistant, there’s no ability to have it search the web, or make a phone call, or really anything else outside of Home Assistant without significant addon stuffs.

It also requires a reasonably significant amount of RAM on your computer to run the VM for Home Assistant while supporting Whisper and Piper and Ollama.

Agent voice response

It’s even mostly open source.

That’s neat.

Why does that article contain no references more recent than 1806 though. Is it called something else these days? It seems like there should be more modern information on the practice.

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That does not apply to humans who are capable of intentionally avoiding certain breeding problems, and also who have medical knowledge that can apply even if it does happen.

Hockey, started in my late thirties, couldn’t even stop at the time.

Great exercise.

What do you need to purchase? Gear.

British Columbia, $0.12 canadian dollars for Tier1 rates

The simple answer is most desktop PCs will not come even close to that at idle. Even just having a few case fans may draw more than that, without involving the CPU at all.

Laptop devices can do that in some cases with their extra power management features.

That being said, do the math to see if it matters. The difference between 10w and 40w is 0.7kwh per day, at least where I live that’s about 7 cents or about $25 per year.

In my case it would be more expensive to purchase a dedicated low power device than it will save me in 4-5 years compared to just using something I already have laying around.

In terms of time investments, working out may be one possible consideration.

It’s definitely not 50/50, there would be a negotiated amount (Fixed or percentage) less than that. The ghostwriter may be employed by the publisher and just receive a salary too.

Never again?

China unfortunately. I enjoyed the country the last time, but I see no future where I go back in my lifetime. It’s not safe for me.

Not till they clean up their act a lot more?

The US, I live right next to it, I’m the right colour and gender to not get harassed, but I’m not crossing that border anytime soon.

That question is fine here in my opinion.

I mean, the same could have been said for computers when they first came out. Most people had no idea how to improve their workflow by using one, and only as training and new software was developed did it manage to get reproducible results across the population.

The AI companies are definitely a bit ahead of where they should be right now, these last couple of years have happened too quickly for people to adapt their thinking.

There are specialists (myself included) that are implementing some absolutely transformational automations using these things. That being said, my job for the last 15 years has been automating and streamlining business processes, so this is just an extra tool in my kit to boost those automations to new levels.

I built a simple one the other day using a basic prompt integrated into an existing longer work automation process that’s probably going to eliminate an entire FTE worth of admin work for that task, and it only took about 3 hours to implement.

The question then becomes, are the remaining staff on this task “using” co-pilot because the process they support has it integrated? They’re not typing or pasting things into co-pilot themselves, they’re not developing prompts, but if you removed it, the workload would go up.

If you had to re-invent everything that came before you, there would never be any progress.

Humans achieve progress by learning from other humans.

I actually learned O notation from an interview question for a job I applied for, I’d never actually had a program run too slowly before that.

Repetition doesn’t improve programming in many situations. Even when you get stuck. I could write a bunch of nested if statements every single day, and If they work, I wouldn’t get stuck and ever learn that there can be better ways to do it in many cases.

Especially for people like me, who self-learned and didn’t take any courses, I simply don’t know what I don’t know.

Everything from O notation to Object oriented programming is abstract in a way that you can’t accidentally learn it. I had to find these concepts and learn them, and not because I got stuck.

Companies and workers are both scared of these systems, trying to figure them out, and yet completely uneducated on how to use them.

If you want to sell it at $30 a seat, you need to teach every single seat how to make $30 or more in gains a month by using it.

And a 1 hour lunch and learn isn’t going to fix that.

These systems shouldn’t be priced per seat, and regular users shouldn’t be doing almost anything with them until they get trained.

“For essay writing task”

I’m not using it to write essays. I’ve been programming far beyond my normal capabilities.

My daily use of said tool disagrees with your assertion.