Alan Miller  πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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Small biz IT support/consulting in Chicago's NW burbs; software dev before that; BA-CS before that. Tries to make tech understandable and not overwhelming for clients. Desperately in need of a haircut. Known associate of felines. Probably ascended once in Nethack many years ago.
"The long-term consequences of this war were not fully considered. The disruption this will cause to energy markets and other macroeconomic measures will be significant. The unpredictable nature of the current administration makes business modeling near impossible."
"Uncertainty is problematic in the oil and gas business, and this administration is the definition of uncertainty. I expect to see material demand destruction come over the longer term as many societies will come to see hydrocarbons as no longer a certainty"
Pitch perf.
@bsides312 did you know that your visible profile on Mastodon/Fediverse omits little things like your website (except social media accounts from Meta, etc) and the actual date of the conference?

I've seen many of my #identirati friends share their replacebyclawd results of how "replaceable" they are by AI, mainly for fun.

Interestingly, the results don't show how many tokens it would consume each month to replace them. Might be even more fun to add that to the tool.

And then all my friends should go ask for a raise. πŸ™‚

#AI #OpenClaw #ReplaceByClawd #CostOfAI #Agents

Argh. Needed to be in an area of Chicago's western suburbs and was going to drop in for a sausage roll at an Australian restaurant.

They're closed for April.

Daily reminder that there are tons of lovely, brilliant, kind Jewish people in the world who aren’t Zionist - the two things have next to nothing to do with one another - and that even as a simple nerd I can make an effort to boycott and refuse to amplify Israeli cybersecurity software and tools.

Seen perusing #MeFi today: #Cheese! https://cheesemap.netlify.app/

Grids for milk vs texture, rind treatments, molds both internal and external, processing techniques, aging durations, etc.

And notable gaps where particular styles are feasible but don't exist yet.

The Cheese Map β€” Charting the Combinatorial Space of Cheesemaking

An interactive reference mapping every intersection of milk, texture, rind, aging, and technique in cheesemaking β€” revealing where cheeses exist, where they're rare, and where the gaps are.

YouTube knows me too well. It took me from "the sonorous war cry of a *very* angry frog" to this: https://youtu.be/nAwCcBMQBrc
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I don't know which of the Alton Brown and Babish videos I like best. #altonbrown #babish #gatorwine

For reference, in release order over the last couple of weeks:

Bonus Babish at Alton: https://youtu.be/0CcNxTkwrxE

Alton at Babish's studio: https://youtu.be/bR9vQvupLr4

Babish at Alton (Kpop Demon Hunters): https://youtu.be/W8kIAgoqDAI

Cocktails and disturbing news about how much Alton Brown likes Luxardo cherries: https://youtu.be/H3XN-jHzUp0

Alton Brown Cooks Food | Bonus Episode! (With @bingingwithbabish )

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