What began in 2022 as broad optimism about the power of generative AI to make peoples’ lives easier has instead shifted toward a sense of deep cynicism that the technology being heralded as a game changer is, in fact, only changing the game for the richest technologists in Silicon Valley who are benefiting from what appears to be an almost endless supply of money to build their various AI projects — many of which don’t appear to solve any actual problems.

It depends on if you’re going back to school for career reasons or personal enrichment. For the latter it really is never too late. For your career, though, too late will depend on when you’re hoping to retire, when you’ll complete the extra schooling, how much the school will cost, and how much more money you’ll expect to make with your new degree.

Without any info, assuming you want to retire around 65, I would think it would be normal to want to use your new degree for at least ten years, so whatever schooling you’d want to do you would want to be finishing by the time you’re 55. But those other variables come into play. If you’re borrowing $100,000 to pay for med school, your cutoff date will probably be earlier because it will take a longer time to pay off the student loans. On the flip side, if you’re paying $5-10,000 for a 6-month programming boot camp that will boost your income by $10-20,000/year then you might even consider doing that at age 60, especially if you’re already bringing a computer science background where your experience and new skills will keep you in high demand.

There’s not really a one-size-fits-all answer to this question.

Funny like a Woody Allen marriage, not funny like a Woody Allen movie

I don’t have advice to give you beyond looking at !ubiquiti@lemmy.world and !ubiquiti@lemmy.ml

It’s the Hanford site in the state of Washington.

Vitrification is a term I learned playing Portal 2!

I feel like Rat Race was an underappreciated movie

I run subscribed on Hot, mainly because that is or was the Mlem default. But sometimes I go to Top for the past 24 hours and it gives a different impression, and I’m still surprised by what posts I hadn’t seen with a huge amount of activity

Gives a nice overview of the state of alternative mobile OS and devices, too

Handyman thinks lack of use in the basement lead to a clog that built up over the years. Years before Airbnb they were renting out the apartment through the local tourism department because there aren’t a lot of hotels here but it’s a scenic area. But they stopped as they got older so now it only sees use for a couple weeks twice a year when we come. But when we come with 3 people it puts more pressure on the waste line and starts backing up, and finally became a problem tonight.

He thinks there’s a drain in the floor of our bedroom and somebody just put down laminate flooring overtop of it. There should be a drain somewhere but he doesn’t see one, and given the water intrusion there as the other drains were backing up that’s his best guess. Won’t know for sure until he pulls up the floor this week, though.

We rushed up to my in-laws about a week-and-a-half ago because my mother-in-law seemed to be dying (it seems like she turned the corner this week and I think she will recover). Tonight, though, I ran to the bathroom in the basement apartment we use at their house with an upset stomach. At the bottom of the toilet was paper, a telltale sign of a toilet that was clogged but has since drained without flushing. Feeling like there was no time, I went ahead and used it, figuring I’d use the plunger after.

While I was there I could hear my wife in the kitchen on the other side of the wall. When she ran the sink the water in the toilet started gurgling, which is not something I’ve experienced before. Before adding any paper I figured I should try a “courtesy flush” to see what happened. It was clogged. Fortunately I didn’t end up needing much paper, but I was still surprised to find the toilet had already drained by the time I had finished.

I decided I should try to keep running the water into the toilet, figuring that maybe it was draining too fast but if I could keep the water pressure up it might clear itself and I wouldn’t need the plunger. I tried it for a couple minutes but then heard a sound and noticed that water was filling through the drain into the bathtub. At that point I figured this was probably not a plunger problem and instead time to call a plumber.

I told my wife but she still thought it was worth trying the plunger first, so I went to go through our room to head upstairs and get it. As I entered the room, I had the sensation that the laminate floor was floating, before it sank down into a puddle. I was wearing socks. I told my wife, so she went upstairs to tell her dad. When she came back down she came back through our room, also wearing socks. It was while waiting for the emergency plumber that I saw this post.

My father-in-law (85) is the worst for feeding the dog from the table when we go to visit them, so then she spends the meal trying to get in his lap or at least putting her front legs on the table next to him

It seems so, or at least all the kids under a certain age in the restaurant would go wild when that order was called

Article says they also skip order 69 in their system

“Happy WiFi Happy Life”

Maybe not a blacklist, but I know a house I lived at previously (back in the era when landline telephone was fading out but still common) one phone company didn’t offer residential service at my address but did for neighbors’ addresses and kept telling me I could only get business service. I assume a previous resident had used business service and the address was then in their system as the location of a business. Perhaps something similar is happening to you.

I think it’s a projector

Slate sounds great, I love the concept, but I have no idea if the company will last long enough for me to be ready to buy a car again whenever they finally launch.

This feels as much like a story about Google’s policies as it is about bad AI training data. Also a good reason to not use Google or do your dev work on a different account than your personal account, especially if you’re working in a riskier area like nude images.

Is he still on TV? Twenty years ago I worked a part-time job doing data entry at a small local brokerage. One of the assistant brokers used to complain because they had a client who would call in almost daily wanting to buy a stock he had a hot tip on, which was invariably whatever Cramer had featured on his show the night before.

Not just the odds on the screen, there are entire networks with sports books in the name. When Disney bought Fox they were required to sell off Fox Sports and the Fox Sports Regional Sports Networks (RSNs) because they already owned ESPN. Sinclair Broadcasting bought them for way too much money (and formed a joint broadcast venture with Allen Media Group) and sold the naming rights to sports books, first Bally Sports and now Fan Duel Sports. ESPN also has their own gambling service that they heavily promote, often with their own on-air talent.

Meanwhile players and coaches are getting arrested for their gambling activities. College athletes—teenagers—are getting threats on their social media when they underperform or overperform because some random gambler lost a prop bet on the player.

I was not happy when the sports gambling was legalized in my state a year or two ago. A colleague reminded me that historically prohibition has not ended a problem, but it also doesn’t feel like the rampant promotions are something that should be allowed. At its core it’s a business largely built on taking people’s money and giving nothing in return except a slight hope that they might get more back. A slight silver-lining: I read an article a while back about how the explosion of legal sports betting in the U.S. brought a lot of startups and foreign companies in thinking they’d make a bunch of money on American gamblers losing, but the gamblers haven’t really been losing enough and the companies are hurting. Most American casinos have offered sports betting for decades but they don’t put a lot of resources into them and largely haven’t pushed as hard on the online gambling because it turns out that’s a hard business to be profitable in; there’s no inherent advantage for the house. There are professional gamblers who can actually make a living on sports betting. Often they end up getting banned by the casinos or bookies.

It seems like a really immoral business when they build it on people losing money and ban anyone who doesn’t lose money.