I used to keep a library of PowerShell admin scripts so I wouldn't have to rewrite them when I needed them again. Now I can ask ChatGPT to write them for me faster than I can find them in my library.

As you say, though, small chunks. When I've tried more complex tasks I end up spending more time debugging the AI's code than the task is worth.

Canada needs to be economically independent of the United States but we've spent decades chasing prosperity by integrating with a massive English-speaking, similar-culture, geographically convenient economy on our southern border. It's going to hurt, and it's just a matter of time because the US is going to continue to turn the screws until they won't turn any further. Even if everything went perfectly smoothly, we're not going to be more prosperous by sealing off that border and attempting to trade around the world. It can be done, but it's less efficient so less profitable, and there's always the risk the US will simply take what they want by force anyway. We're one propaganda campaign away from invasion if we try denying them access to whatever resources they decide to claim are critical to their survival.

We have a similar problem to an educated American citizen. You can identify the issue, you can see the clear solution to the issue... but the immediate pain involved in applying the solution seems disproportionate to the future potential pain of not doing so. There's a lot of motivation to put action off.

The US has been putting off fixing their issue since 1865, Canada's new to this. Give us some time.

In the shorter term, it doesn't matter if suppressing this gene is correcting an age-related overexpression or if it is forcing an underexpression to correct for some other age-related failure.

Even if the machinery keeps falling apart and it doesn't offer a single extra day of life, it's one less symptom of a failing body you'd have to deal with when you're older.

With the current economic war being waged on Canada by the US, and the disruption to our auto sector which is a huge economic component in Canada, it's probably a good idea to back off for now.

Cars are expensive enough as it is, and we've built cities that basically require cars in order to work and live for 99% of the population. The environment's going to have to take a back seat.

You might say, "let China in", but while we'd get cheap EVs we'd also lose our auto sector overnight. They can build a factory here whenever they want, allowing them to flood our market from outside would be near-suicidal.

Zigbee's safe, it is not routable across your network, it requires a Zigbee hub. Devices typically don't have any kind of registration process other than putting them in pairing mode and telling the hub to look for them.

Now the hub, that you're going to have to be careful with. THAT can call home.

I think you're misunderstanding the plan. Pavlovian support for policies that are presented as righting perceived wrongs is the reason for those specific policies. They'd do anything that could cause economic swings because they're taking full advantage of every swing.

They do not care if they destroy the country so long as they personally end up wealthier and more powerful. The extremely wealthy are insulated from all the possible effects they care about.

Why would I give my money to a state that is waging economic war against mine, with the explicit goal of conquering my country and making it more like theirs?

I like my social safety net, universal healthcare system, and drastically lower gun crime thanks.

And here you are, continuing to present yourself as an expert while giving bad advice to people about how to treat their children.

What kind of pathology drives a person to that? Are you getting off on the idea of children not getting the kind of medical care they should have available to them?

ADHD is not just a behavioral problem, and pretending it is can condemn children to a lifetime of being treated like they're stupid misbehaving fuckups.

Bluntly, you should STFU. You do not know what you're talking about, and you're helping people confirm their incorrect beliefs.

Jesus! I guess I better report the specialist who treated my kid then. /s

You're an ill-informed idiot.

Besides, the best way to confirm an ADHD diagnosis is a test dose of the drugs. If you have ADHD, they help. If you don't, they'll make you worse.

It's not like you can give people methylphenidate with no effects, so I'm not sure what the issue is if the effect is beneficial to the child.

Trying to get through early childhood needing meds you're not given can set you back years in your education and social skills.

They no longer have to pay for actors to pretend to be fans, they can AI-generate them to try and convince you they're still beloved.

If I understand correctly... their innovation is using stronger magnets than anyone has before.

To me that doesn't imply any better control over plasma, just that the current level of control will be confined in a tighter space. IANA fusion researcher, though.

I've never run into it on public transit (though there are people with their headphones so loud it feels like you're the one wearing them).

But that's public transit. Put someone in a car and a great many of them feel the need to have entire neighbourhoods listen to their choice of music.

Politics will always ultimately lose to fundamental economics. If there's an economic unit big enough to provide for its own needs, you can't force them to depend on you for them. You can reduce their efficiency a bit by refusing trade so they have to do it themselves, but unless you're willing to go to war you can't stop them from doing it themselves if they have the will to do so.

The Chinese are not stupid, they have more than enough population, and they have the natural resources. They've also spent the last several decades having the world hand them technological advances and they've been making their own additions to those for some time.

The horse is out of the barn, you cannot dictate to China what technology it can or cannot have. It won't be long until they will regularly be producing novel improvements before others.