darkmarx

Yeah, why learn a new skill rather than letting a machine do it for you half as well, while also destroying the environment and tanking the economy?

In US, life insurance will not pay outwithout a death certificate. Going missing will never allow one to pay out, until someone convinces a court the person who went missing is dead.

Some policies, primarily Whole Life policies, have a Terminal Illness Rider. These allow up to 70% payout prior to death if someone has less than a year or two to live. Alzheimers is probably not on the list, but each company is different.

Better option is to get a lawyer and put every asset you have in a trust with your beneficiaries as thr trustees. Set up power a of attorney as well.

I'm a slow reader and have trouble sitting down with a book, though I will if the book is good enough. For folks like me, I'd recomend starting off with an audio book. You'll get the story and it might get you interested enough to eventually pick up a book. It's a good transition from movies or tv into reading. I know multiple people, along with myself, who've gotten into reading by starting with audio books.

As far as books go, you might like one of these:

• Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinnamon

I recommend this book to everyone! If you like video games and humor, this is the book for you. It's a fantasy / sci-fi about a guy forced into a type of game with a sidekick (who I wont talk about due to spoilers). It's fantastic. Quick paced and very funny. Highly recommend this in audio book format.

• The Heist by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg

FBI agent and con man forced to work together, buddy action style. Similar to Rush Hour in tone and silliness.

• The Intern’s Handbook by Shane Kuhn

An assassin beomes an intern in an office. It's dark, but funny, especially if you work in an office type setting.

• Razor Girl by Carl Hiaasen

Detective and con woman team up. It's funny and fast, and kind of weird.

Most likely it's because you haven't found the types of books you like, or at least the writing style you like to read. Modern writing is much more condensed than it was even 20 or 30 years ago.

What's your favorite genre of movie or show?

Exactly!

Price is one thing, but this is the deal breaker for me. I want something I can fix when broken. Something with components that can be replaced with typical shop tools. Give me physical buttons over a touch screen. Give me hydrolics, link and pinions, and belts over electronics. There is zero reason for a door handle to be electronically controlled. There is zero reason for the manufacturer to have any control, or knowledge of, where I go or what I do. I want a vehicle, not a fucking tablet on wheels.

Humans invented war? Tell that to ants, birds, bees, wasps, wolves, and millions of other animals. We just happen to be very good at it. If there's one thing to be said about humans, it's that we are ridiculously good at killing things.

Lin-Manuel Miranda would be able to do it as a musical.

Scrape, fill, prime, paint.

Scrape the raised area with a razor blade. Block sand it with 80 grit, hitting more than just the bad area.

Cover with a thin coat of wood filler, using heavy pressure to force the filler into the fibers. Once that dries, block sand again with 120 grit, then once more with 180 grit. Make sure you sand beyond the patch to blend the repair into the rest of the sill.

Thoroughly clean the dust. Apply two coats of primer to the full sill. Once dry, sand lightly using 220 grit, without a block.

Clean up any dust, then paint.

You'l have a smooth sill with no signs of damage.

I have ADHD, so hobbies, mostly. And 3/4 finished projects that I'll totally come back to and finish one day.

Friday.

I have over 25 years of development experience. My current role is vice president of development and architecture where I lead a team of 80+ devs, QAs, and architects. By any measure, I am one of those "engineer level" developers you speak of.

Yes, LLMs are a tool, but it's a tool one should use sparingly. LLMs are pattern recognition machines and are great for routine, been-there-done-that type development. For anything that deviates from the norm, LLMs will try to force everything back into common patterns... even when those patterns are not correct. A well designed system can be mangled into junk because the LLM doesn't have enough context or because something is new.

Be skeptical of the rave reviews around coding agents and the use of LLMs for development. Much of the hype seems tied to developer skill. Less capable developers can use LLMs to appear more capable than they are. For good developers, LLMs seem to erode their skills as they rely on the tool instead of their own knowledge. I have seen this first hand.

Overall, it seems LLMs raise skills of bad developers and hamper the skills of good developers. It's creating a bunch of middling developers who are incapable of handling anything novel or complex.