My local ace is friendly. They have a store dog, too. It’s great.

Thank you for your insight. I had logistical questions I thought you might could answer, but I see now that I was wrong about that.

So, say a tower block fire happens at 2 am. You’re getting 50 calls a minute, 20% from residents and the rest from people calling to say they see a fire.

How long would it take for your trained staff to spring into action compared to an on demand AI? And are you paying your on-call staff to wait, or only when they’re on the phone?

edit: I’m thinking about the Grenfell Towers. I listened to the BBC’s coverage of the enquiry, and it was rough. Gave me a new appreciation for what emergency responders do.

My aunt was pissed when she found a hospital satisfaction survey addressed to her mother, a few weeks after her mom died at that hospital.

I’ve used one before and it gave me useful feedback. Turns out 2 bowls of raisin bran will spike my blood sugar, which feels bad. (ok, not an Earth-shattering revelation, but near real-time feedback with numbers was neat.)

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This matches my experience. My college archive digitizes a few yearbooks a year (for whatever classes are having as big reunion) and it’s a pain. For modern yearbooks (70s and later) we have a dozen or more copies, so we take one apart and feed it through the feed scanner, which works well. We then store the loose pages in a folder, in case we need to rescan anything.

Older yearbooks (where we don’t have so many copies) we use the flatbed scanner and the pages come out warped, so we hand fix each page in Photoshop.

Vivian is pretty chill from what I can tell.

They’re giving “did they die of it or with it?” vibes. (actual thing I was asked about my father’s COVID-19 death. Apparently since he was immunocompromised his death didn’t ‘count’.)

Libraries are where many folks go to to access government resources. My local DMV (department of motor vehicles) restricted services to by-appointment-only a few years back and, if you needed help making an appointment, their call center directed you to the local library. Note: they did not warn the local libraries they were doing this.

Anyways, you should have seen this asshole come in to get assistance. My co-worker helped him and was polite about it, but told me afterwards that he’d been spearheading the local “defund the library” initiative. Turns out we are good for something even if you buy your own books. Dickhead.

I’m on Windows 11 for work and am not happy about it. They took away my 2-level taskbar, among other regressions.

kagi at least tries to remove ai slop and gives you the means to report it.

What I don’t understand is YouTube showing me constant ads for something I’ve already bought and like. I’m not buying more earplugs, compression socks, and sports shorts any time soon.

I’ve taught more than one college student how to Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v.

Depends on the state or municipality. My last few states charged an annual car tax. My current one charges it at the town level.

My steam family polycule has one person that streams games and gets given many, many steam keys. Highly recommend, I have access to a wide selection of mostly queer cozy games.

I mostly buy multiplayer games so we can all play them together. I also buy the dlc for things I really like. Shout-out to Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, which tbh is more of a soundtrack than a game.

Solid example. I could pay Lyrasis to host an instance of Archivesspace for me. They’d control updates, backups, etc, I’d just use the web interface to manage my archival collections.

OR I could rent a server, install Archivesspace myself (it’s open source), sysadmin it myself, take on all that headache and control.

They’re both in the cloud, but one’s software as a service (SAaS) and the other is just a Linux box on someone else’s machine. The second is cheaper in my experience, but only if you have someone that can sysadmin it. Otherwise you’ve got a learning curve ahead of you.

(it’s late, so feel free to tell me I’ve misread the thread).

In unrelated news: isn’t the USA looking into using AI to assist air traffic controllers in controlling air traffic?

Vivaldi also has tab groups.