I've tried making similar functionality in Python to add visual effects to the screen, but the only way I found is to use one of the packages which leverage the Screenshot functionality.

But this causes recursion since my app's window will be in the screenshot (unless I put my app on a different monitor or a different area of the monitor). How do they avoid that?

https://www.folhadelondrina.com.br/geral/pf-multa-e-da-oito-...

That creates distrust in me, so I swapped to BitWarden and haven't looked back.

I've always been good at conjuring images in my mind, but I also skip the drawn out visual descriptions.

I could never enjoy Lord of the Rings due to Tolkien's love of describing trees (of the wooden and familial kinds)

* https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15734706/

Do you mean the American Electric "Suicide" Computer?

Yes I've been zapped by it numerous times.

Zapped by shower heads? Don't know anyone.

Almost died from a gas heated shower because of a leak? I know one person.

Yes, this is anecdata.

No longer are developers bound by physical media, or have to force clients to troubleshoot, manually download updates on their website and install them.

... and as others said, LLMs impact is greater on junior developers, and at that, more on speed than quality. For experienced developers, the impact is greater on speed.

I have no data, only sense to make.

Actually, 203 million. The 2018 estimate was 214 million, which was corrected in the 2022 census. Kinda crazy that it was overestimated by 11M.

While I get the difference between creators vs users, in the end we're all users in someone else's perspective.

Maybe you've built your own tools, but that's just applying someone else's library.

Maybe you've built your own library, but that's just using someone else's OS and IDE.

Maybe you've built your own OS, but you're still just applying a language that an actually smart person developed.

Maybe you've developed your own language, but that's just an abstraction of actual hardware activity, which the actual geniuses who tamed silicon built.

Maybe you've built your own hardware, but you're really just applying physical and chemical discoveries that actual smart humans made.

Maybe you've even discovered physical and chemical discoveries yourself! But that's nothing, you're just observing the laws of nature.

Maybe you've created laws of nature yourself, but you're nothing next to your mother, who gave birth to a god.

See also:

1. Exxon's "Advanced Recycling"

2. Phillip Morris' "Smoke Free"

> The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.

There are some new entrants.

Just got a plan with 10GB data for CAD$29/month with US+Canada coverage.

$2 more adds another 10GB

People do whatever they want here.

I lived in South America in the 1990s, but every now and then Toronto manages to shock me in worse ways.

At some point, a tool was made to signal if you drilled far enough.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/live/RyW0lXnoFOA