Powell tried to do his job rather than be a yes-man. There were some incidents where the two made conflicting statements at press conferences, and Powell didn’t recant his statements.

Depends on the season. In winter it’s a vintage 1980’s shirt-jacket thing that I found in my dad’s storage closet: red/black plaid, soft flannel exterior, thinly insulated. My parents had matching shirts and dad’s old one fits me perfectly.

Pretty soon my favorite will be a thin blue cotton-linen button-down that’s perfect for hot summer days. And it goes well with my big straw shade hat.

Thanks for asking. 😁

Bring a decent bar of dark chocolate and compliment my shirt and I’m yours.

But every once in a while it briefly changes to It’s Not Unusual.

Fun fact: The disease is named for Lyme, Connecticut, USA. That’s where it was first identified as a unique condition.

It’s common enough in the northeast and north-central US that my public schools taught everyone basic prevention and symptoms as part of the regular curriculum.

This has worked for me for years. The only thing I would add is to try to position your bike such that it’s harder to disassemble. Wedge it between a signpost and a parking meter, or a bike rack and a bush. Anyone with a couple hand tools and easy access can strip off components quickly and quietly. Make their task a little harder.

Medical device industry here. Some of our software and electrical engineers are using Claude as a sounding board for ideas, or as a starting point to find possible paths forward when they get stuck with a hard problem. Nobody trusts the model to give an accurate answer. Nobody is being encouraged to use AI models. At the end of the day, all work committed to a project is done by real humans with the normal review processes.

Management is cautiously looking at potential uses for AI in our products, but there is a healthy dose of skepticism all around. If your machine is displaying diagnostic data to a doctor there cannot be any question as to whether the machine is hallucinating.

Zing zing!

El Salvador made BTC legal tender in 2021, and backtracked in 2025.

Pardon my ignorance, but are you talking about liberation theology? Or does “Christian liberationist” mean something else?

My parents had an old car with a manual transmission, no power steering, no power brakes, and no steering wheel lock. My dad and I had a game where we would shut off the engine about 1/4 mile from home and coast all the way into the garage. Whoever could coast the furthest without speeding or needing to restart the engine would get bragging rights. If you did have to restart the engine, you got points for putting it in gear and clutch starting rather than using the key.

No one hits like Gaston,
matches wits like Gaston!
In a spitting match, nobody spits like Gaston!

I’m especially good at expectorating!

[Spits] Ten points for Gaston!

https://youtu.be/pC7aPpY6jPQ

Hell yeah! Bikes and happy kids are a great combination.

Also, front mounted toddler seats ftw. I loved our iBert when our kids were that size.

That hits the nail on the head.

I’m at a point in life where money isn’t the issue. The bottlenecks are always time and energy. Someday I’ll have time to focus on music (and skiing, and backpacking, and drawing, and …).

I have a tangent related to 90’s social skills: I wish I had attended university before the high-speed internet era. We collectively replaced so much face-to-face interaction with stupid Flash games and scrolling ebaumsworld.

I would trade my accumulated engineering training and skills in order to be a great musician. I’m done with office work, staring at a screen all day, and coming home mentally exhausted. I want to be able to go to a jam session and shred with the best.

InDesign is on subscription licenses like the rest of Adobe’s products, unfortunately.

My wife does book layouts and miscellaneous graphic design work, and she’s been using Adobe tools for so long it’s like muscle memory. Using anything else that’s slightly different is akin to someone rearrange your kitchen while you are away. The tools you need are still there, but now you have to go hunting for every little thing.

For various reasons, my family is tied to a small number of programs that don’t have 1:1 equivalents on Linux. So far nobody is willing to deal with the inconvenience of switching to alternatives. I’m trying my best to convert them, though.

If GIMP and Inkscape looked and felt closer to Photoshop and Illustrator, that would help greatly. Also, if I could find a good alternative to InDesign that wasn’t tied to a cloud service or a subscription license.