That’s a reasonable use of a chatbot, to my mind.

Except, consider that the user just browsed to the vacation page to find that information previously. One click. Easy peasy.

Now they must interact with it by typing commands, like they’re playing an old Infocom game: “ASK PAYROLL BOT FOR AVAILABLE VACATION HOURS.” And sometimes it’s hard for humans to know what to ask and how to ask it. It’s much more user-friendly to just have something to click.

Can we stop calling them “License Plate Readers”? Basically they are cameras with A.I., and they slurp up everything visual they can see.

Well - I don’t think this is healthy or possible in 2 months.

Last year, I weighed in at 242 with high blood pressure and decided to get serious about weight loss. I started tracking my input and output to my system. I have a watch that measures approximately how much I work off. I use apps to track how much I’m taking in. The one factor that is missing is your BMR, your basal metabolic rate. This is how many calories you burn just by being alive. There are special scales or devices that can measure this for you. You will need this to figure out the math.

Food calories eaten - BMR - Exercise calories spent = Calorie deficit or excess

So, if you exercise more, or eat fewer calories, you’ll lose weight.

So, a pound of fat is 3500 calories, so if you have a deficit of about 500 calories a day, that’s about a pound of fat per week. If you have a deficit of 1000 calories a day - that’s a lot! - then you might lose 2 pounds a week.

Using this formula, I managed to lose about 45+ pounds in 6 months. I worked up to a walk+jog and managed to cover about 3+ miles per day. Unfortunately, with the cold weather of winter, I’ve not been able to exercise much, so my weight loss stopped in December.

But what you’re talking about is losing 5+ pounds per week. That would require a 2500 calorie deficit! That would be a super-heavy workout every day. And then eating very sensibly. Even so, there is danger that some of your weight loss would be muscle and bone loss in addition to fat.

tl;dr - Don’t do this. Also, talk to a doctor.

That’s some spicy Cantonese!

Except for Microsoft Teams, because they don’t need that now, right?

Something like liquid smoke?

why do you yuck someone else’s yum?

“That is a fucking idiotic idea.”

Attacks the idea, not the person. Probably will be the same result, because they probably were a fucking idiot to believe that stuff, and they are very attached to stupid ideas.

“Finally, a nipple!”

In related news, PeerTube just achieved its funding goal - including all of its stretch goals.

As it turns out, being stupid is expensive!

Right. People with a gun in the house are more likely to be injured or killed by a gun, not less.

The money the couple saved for a down payment on a home has evaporated into attorneys fees and savings to pay a bond for her release, if she’s given that chance.

That’s a real shame. Please pass the popcorn.

“Epstein Visa”