Nope!

I’m also in Portland - nice to see you!

I don’t know how we will make that far into the future without it.

Glad it’s not just me… I wore contacts from the time I was 18 through my mid-20s. I went back to glasses full time until about a year ago. I’m in my mid-40s now… and man those damn things are hard to wear now.

Interesting, thank you!

I use… some random double edged safety razor I found on Amazon a few years ago. It’s fine, but I have been thinking about an upgrade.

If a guy wanted a Henson… where would he get one?

Well… I don’t know who that is, so… maybe?

Yes! This concern absolutely cuts both ways.

Lawyer-turned-software-developer reporting in! (American, to be clear…)

My concern with AI generated code has to do with software licensing. Mainly…. What is the license of AI generated code??? What if it regurgitates entire sections of proprietary code? Unless I’ve totally missed some legal/tech news, these questions are FAR from settled.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills sometimes, but that seems like something the Linux kernel community should be at least mildly curious about….

Look, to be fair, maybe they are! I don’t follow the kernel mailing list; I don’t know what they talk about. I’m just a humble backend developer/infrastructure guy.

But I know it worries me… personally, I mostly use LLMs in my own work via asking questions about code I’ve already written. Then I look at suggestions it’s made, or potential issues it points out, and decide what to do accordingly. But that’s just me!

It is a warning to the gods that Captain Picard is coming…

Darmok has always been a favorite Picard-focused episode for me.

It’s the same for me. Star Trek has always been a family experience with my dad and my uncle. I watched Encounter at Farpoint with my dad in 1987. I was 5 years old.

I watched the whole series with him. We saw UDC and all the TNG movies together. The crew of the Enterprise D were in my house pretty often as I was growing up.

I definitely understand what you mean when you say it feels like losing a family member. I feel the same way.

Live long and prosper, friend. 🖖