Chinese companies famously ignore patent law and do make copies and try to flood the western market with them.

Most startups don’t have the time and/or money to patent their ideas and big corps do squash them/steal their ideas routinely once they become noticeable.

If anything, startups can’t develop their ideas because some company will hold a generic patent like “clicking a button does something” (or “glide with a pet”) from 30 years ago.

Just a note on landlording: if you do plan on going down this path make sure you research the law and its enforcement carefully for the area. Specifically, if in the future you need to go live in that house but you have a tenant, what can you do to get them out, and will the police actually enforce it if the tenant is refusing to leave?

Also consider the morality of it, e.g. if you suddenly decide you want to live there, how would you feel about evicting your tenant?

It’s probably not a problem if you can give plenty of advance warning (like several months) and such, but if you expect to move in on short notice it may be rough.

Aside from what’s already been said, you can try playing with her as well with toys that keep you at a distance from her. E.g. stick with a cord on it and some toy on the end of the cord or something similar.

Try just moving it around in front of her to get her interest, then let it stay still for 5-10s to see if she’s interested in hunting it (if she goes flat on the ground, wiggles her butt or her head at it she’s preparing to pounce). Don’t let her get it easily but let her catch it before the end of playtime.

Some cats will appreciate it more than food, others won’t - they each have their preferences.

If she doesn’t engage and doesn’t seem to be interested in the toy at all, just let her be.

The last sentence changes this, you can video chat with people on earth and then invite them to your continent as equals. Could just get your friends and family on with you. Could even find new people online and invite them once you know them.

Skeptical that he could write without a single typo, using apostrophes and all but forgot he is married. Not how being drunk works in my experience.

Thank you, I’ll give it a try tomorrow.

I’m in the same shoes about new job having to use teams and I wildly disagree. It is awful.

The best part of it is the noise cancellation on the microphone in calls seem pretty good and having a chat created for meetings is a good integration. BUT…

• voice quality significantly decreases as soon as it’s more than 2 participants… you can clearly tell the difference as soon as a 3rd member is invited.
• annotating on the screen share is extremely useful in slack (not sure if zoom has it too), not a thing I could find in teams
• the channels Vs chats separation in the UI is just weird
• the chats don’t have threads… that’s such a strong feature to contain conversations. I know the channels kinda serve this purpose but it feels weird to use them and closer to sending an email or posting on a forum than directly talking to someone (with having to write a title and bring presented in 1-2 messages per screen due to the size

Compared to zoom, I guess it’s not a big deal really. I’d prefer zoom but it’s oh well. Compared to slack (which has it’s own set of problems, but still) however it seems like a pile of shit in my opinion.

Plex runs relay servers where your Plex server will connect to the relay and your player will also connect to the relay, making both ends of the connection egress type as far as routing and access control goes. https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-server-through-relay/

It’s optional and likely not everyone uses it, but this provides a way for Plex to do remote streaming without the Plex server being reachable directly from the internet.

Separately, it costs money for Plex to run.

The issue isn’t with AI, it’s with how companies position it. When they claim it’ll do everything and solve all your issues and then it struggles with some tasks a 10 year old could do, it creates a very negative image.

It also doesn’t help that they hallucinate with a lot of confidence and people use them as a solution, not as a tool - meaning they blindly accept the first answer that came out.

If the creators of models made more reasonable claims and the models were generally able to convey their confidence in the answers they gave maybe the reception wouldn’t be so cold. But then there wouldn’t be hype and AI wouldn’t be actively shoved into everything.

I followed the advice to not get close to colleagues for the last 10 years or so and regret it. I did it because I thought it’d make work harder when we disagree and I’m balancing friendship vs professionalism. Realistically, all the people I would have been friends with are mature enough to make it a non-issue.

I have started reaching out to some of my ex-colleagues I got on well with but it’s very difficult to rebuild the relationship without the daily interactions. However, I have a job at the moment because I have reached out to an ex-colleague just to catch up.

I’d say if you meet someone you like, try to make friends. Jobs will come and go but finding good people to surround yourself with gets much harder as you get older.

Has this ever backfired on you? While your motive is wholesome, I could see the practice itself seeming creepy. Like keeping notes of someone else’s life.

I usually finish writing it and only then do I realise I don’t care enough to send it.

This triggered a memory. When I went to university one of my flatmates bought a fancy frisbee that you could throw super far, so as a form of exercise we used to walk to a large park nearby to play.

Come spring when the weather started getting better, the park started getting busier. On one occasion it was full of kids (like 5-6 year olds?) and parents who ignored them. We tried to stay away but the kids kept getting lured by the frisbee that flies far. At some point one of my flatmates tried to hide the frisbee under his shirt to get them to leave, but one of the kids saw him do it and ran to him trying to grab it from under his shirt and yeah… as soon as my flatmate realised the kid was going to try grabbing at him at the bottom of his shirt he immediately threw the frisbee on the ground and held up his hands as if he was at gunpoint and walked away.

It was pretty funny from the outside but damn… do I hate parents who let their kids harass other people. It was a much better experience when a bad dog owner was there at a different occasion and we had a dog chasing us around for 20 mins…

I was not aware of this before and this is probably one of the most pedantic things I’ve heard for a while - great answer.

How do you see this in person and resist going outside to say hi…

I think coffee shops would be happy with a regular, if you buy something. Otherwise, maybe mix it up, go to different places?

If the weather permits, park? Either benches or just take a towel to sit on in the grass.

You can also read in bars, they’re probably pretty quiet during the day, but once again you’d have to buy something.

Maybe a weird one but churches are often available to the public and they’re quiet, with seating. Might be worth to check with someone there if its OK.

If they are open to the public, museums or galleries could be a thing.

Encroaching on homeless behaviour, but if the public transportation tickets in the city are valid as long as you stay on, you could try finding a less used line and just go around in circles on something.

I have already forgotten about the copilot key thing and had to search it as from the article it was being mentioned together with requiring an NPU, so I was worried it was something like the CPUs having to include some copilot license key shit… It’s just the new key on the keyboard if anyone else forgot about it too.