Paid in cheese

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardassians_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine_episode)

I was getting the episode number for a joke I was doing in Ten Forward. 😹

If part of your coworker’s job is answering questions for coworkers, it’s disrespectful (not to mention a career-limiting move) to outsource that labor to an LLM. However, your coworker may be in a situation where they feel overwhelmed by coworkers not using available resources or they may have some other reason for “outsourcing” their work to an LLM. Or they could be underpaid, disgruntled by workload, or a bunch of other different things.

Without more context, it’s hard to know what may be going on there. I don’t think a constructive conversation with your colleague is possible without getting more information from them. I would recommend being pretty direct. Maybe something like: “It seems like you may not have read my question. This isn’t a question that I can get a usable answer from an LLM for. Is there another resource you think I should have used before contacting you?”

If this still feels too confrontational, you could take out the second sentence.

Hard to pick just one but I’ll go with John Titor.

For my full desktop, I turn it off when I’m not using it. It basically exists to do heavy compute tasks. I basically do that a few times a week. There’s no reason to leave it on if I’m not in the middle of a job. That would be true regardless of the O.S. I’m using on it.

My main computer, I suspend. Usually, I try to make sure that happens on purpose because Ubuntu has this impossible to troubleshoot behavior¹ that seems to happen more often if it falls asleep on its own.

I would be more inclined to shut it down but I’m particular about my windows and it takes what feels like an hour to get everything just so after reboot. I can’t deal with that every day. (Nor am I thrilled about how often Ubuntu LTS wants me to reboot for updates. My desktop needs Ubuntu Studio LTS but my main computer doesn’t. When I get time and energy, I’m switching it to Mint so I can deal with someone else’s obnoxious choices for a change without learning an entirely new distro.)

¹ The behavior is not recovering video on wake. It does seem to be working but following the commands I have memorized to shut it down from inside a virtual terminal don’t work. The only way to get it down is to hold the power button for “4 seconds” or pull the power plug.

Pedro the Lion (like Priests And Paramedics and A Simple Plan), the Sixpence None The Richer album This Beautiful Mess particularly Love, Salvation, the Fear of Death, some of Rich Mullins like much of A Liturgy, a Legacy, & a Ragamuffin Band.

I think the ethics mostly come into how you raise them, religion or not. It’s ethical to teach kindness and empathy. It’s ethical to allow your kids to explore while asking them questions that help that exploration. You can do those kinds of things no matter what faith (or non-faith) you practice.

Speaking as someone who was raised in an environment that gave lip service to kindness and empathy but was really very harsh, judgmental, and rigid, only one of my siblings kept something reasonably approximating my parents’ faith. The rest of us are mostly some variety of pagan. Each of us had a painful journey out of our parents’ faith to something. No matter how you raise your kids, they are their own people and will come to their own conclusions. You can make the path much more difficult than it needs to be or you can set them up for a much less traumatic journey.