You may want to think about a progression plan. Since you’re already putting together pasta and sauce you have a great base to start expanding from.

Stage 1: Start by just fine-tuning that recipe. Add a little salt, boil the pasta for a minute less, adjust the amount of sauce. Stick with the version that tastes the best to you. Consider writing that down.

Stage 2: Add pre-made ingredients. Parmesan cheese is obvious. Try different cheeses.

Stage 3: Prep your own additions. Fry up some meat or vegetable, chop it up, and toss it in your sauce. Try other additions.

Stage 4: DIY sauce. Pick your favorite sauce and imitate it.

Advanced: DIY pasta. 3 ingredients; eggs, flour, salt. The hard part is rolling it. If you don’t have a pasta maker, you need a rolling pin and you’re getting a workout.

Cook for your friends. Few things bring people together like food.

Start with one or two close friends. They’ll be tickled pink. Repeat every week or so.
Try your food experiments out on them.
Chanced are they’ll get into it too.

That feedback can be great motivation and it lets people know to buy you cooking gear for holidays.

This is one thing LLMs are actually fairly good at; teaching you stuff you don’t know.

While AI’s are much worse teachers than humans are, they’re far better than trying to figure out complicated things on your own.

I’ve gone through many iterations of “Hey LLM, teach me how to do XYZ.” Then I try it. If it works, I ask for more, if it doesn’t I tell it to fix it.

That’s not always a viable path (eg don’t try to learn medicine or stunt driving that way) but when mistakes are safe and cheap, it’s great.

It’s interesting that users on the Kagi forums report different answers. It seems that both US and Canadian customers may see either Lake Ontario or Lake America.

That would suggest that pulling from MapBox is orthogonal to the decision of what to show the end user.

I wish it did but that doesn’t really help me.

I’d rather a few services are good rather than that every service sinks to lowest level.

I was sadly surprised to find out that Kagi maps follwed Trumps lead on misnaming both the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario.

I’m likely to ditch them over this. It’s not just a matter of principal. If I can’t trust them to stand up to Trumps temper tantrums on this, how can I trust that any of their other results haven’t been tampered with?

It has some grains of truth but it’s mingled with too much personal opinion.

There are studies on how much water humans really need. If you want to calculate it the scientific way, you need to factor in at least lean muscle mass, total mass, surface area, ambient temperature and humidity, activity levels, and diet. There’s no magic number of ounces that’s correct for everyone.

Fortunately we’ve evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.

So if you want to stay properly hydrated, drink whenever you feel even a little thirsty.

I like summer and if that racist shithead Michael Richards disagrees I’m doubling down.

It takes work to turn them into useful search engines. Set up librewolf. Drop in at least a search and a fetch agent. Wrap it in a some prompts to make sure you get actual links.

On my extremely non-scientific scale I’d rate that setup somewhere between barebones Kagi and pre-enshitified Google in terms of results.

I’m hopeful that an actual agent framework will do a better job that’s significantly more work. If you just log onto a SaaS LLM you’ll get very unpredictable search results.

It would be pretty messed up if the punishment came before the crime.

My point, in this case is that the crime has been ongoing. Bullying and harassment aren’t new. What’s new is that we now have a lot of it recorded. This gives us an unprecedented ability to prosecute a class of crimes that people have been committing with impunity.

The biggest downside is that it would likely be short-lived. If there were a bunch of headlines about people getting giant civil judgements, bullies would probably learn to be more careful about generating evidence of their crimes.

That would likely initially focus on attempting to hide the videos from the general public but I suspect they would eventually learn that doesn’t work; courts can compel discovery. They would probably also try to modify their on-screen behavior so it doesn’t technically qualify as a crime but I expect they would mostly fail at that.

That said there would likely always be some cohort of dumb criminals who continue to record their misdeeds. We still see cases where people discuss their crimes over unencrypted email and we still see cases of criminals taking selfies with their crimes

Sort of.

I am making an assumption that there are some people who are likely highly motivated to take action. Parents often care about bullying of their own children, even when the rest of the school doesn’t. We wouldn’t need all parents to care, just a few of them.
I’m not assuming that lawyers are generally willing to work for free but I do assume that they like money and are willing to take cases on contingency, if they think the case is strong enough.
I’m also going on my understanding that video evidence tends to be fairly strong and that this translates into a higher probability of a favorable judgement with less work on the lawyer’s part.

So it’s less that I’m making an assumption than that I’m asking where the gap in the above reasoning chain lies.

Can someone explain why this isn’t actually a solution to an old problem? We used to have issues with various forms of harassment that were not addressed because they relied on unreliable testimony. Now we actually have people creating hard evidence of their actions.

The behaviors described in this article are banned in every school I or my children have ever attended. How difficult would it be for the parents of any of these victims to hire a lawyer to absolutely wipe the floor with these people? Don’t these videos basically put the perpetrators heads on silver platters?

I just headed over to .ml and did a local search for “mamdani”

I see a bunch of the more conservatives Democrats and their supporters complaining about him and conservatives of all stripes are really hoping he’ll fail.

I’ve been called a tankie several times and I rather like Mamdani. I see him, AOC, and Sanders as the best hope for the future of the US.

Where are these tankies that hate Mamdani so much? What do they hate him for?