That can be an effective tool, if done correctly. It sounds like you’re on the right path. Use the LLM as a mirror to your own speculations and guide the discussion to the finer details. You are in a way talking to yourself much like someone would be writing in a journal, however it’s more organized and faster. Just be wary of the hallucinations. I’ve found modifying the system prompt for replies to be short and direct unless asked to go into detail along with a short summary of your overall goals to be helpful in keeping it on track. Also regularly summarize the current session once it gets long and start a new one with the summary to avoid context wandering.

I also found Claude was better for me than Gemini and ChatGPT, but it could depend on the subject (I’m doing fiction).

One example for the detail work is something I did recently. Hammering out the technology and physics aspects of the novel’s universe. We went back and forth, played with ideas, until I had a much better picture of what I want it to be like. And I had to steer Claude away a few times from diverting to other things, even with my system prompt to stay on topic. It’s just what LLMs do.

At some point step away from the LLM and finish the writing yourself. It’s okay to use it even for revision work, but at that point have it develop lists and suggestions for you to work with, not write the text. You’ll avoid a lot of headaches later trying to “humanize” it.

Let time determine that. It’s right to wait, I see too many people try to get a new dog, and while they mean well, that dog is first most a replacement, and that should never happen. A new relationship should be about it alone, and not a past one.

My son lost his dog a bit ago, and while they haven’t decided if or when they’d do another, what they did do is offer fostering for other dogs on a limited (few days) basis. They miss the routine, I think.

Know that no matter what you do, it doesn’t downplay what you had, that will be forever.

It’s not going to automate itself.

I don’t know if I’d use it as a drink coaster, as it would hold moisture, but as a pot dolly it would make cooking and serving hilarious.

Their situations were a bit different. Had Anakin stayed stuck on that planet would he have gone very far? And though he was “too old”, he got his first training long before Luke, so at 22 he ought to be pretty powerful.

As for who is the strongest, I think it would be close to even as compared to other Jedi. Luke as his prime (post-RotJ) looks damn powerful, harnessing even questionable things like the Force crush, but with a better temperament than Anakin. If you had an Anakin who saved his mother and was recognized by the Council, then maybe he’d be stronger, as he wouldn’t have his flaws. Hard to say.

Yes, screw the working part, but anything else they get from it that they want to pursue I’m all for it. And sure, if they want to do some sort of work, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t have to.

Part of the loading process now. Sometimes I’ll open a video at work and be reminded how having adblocking isn’t a default thing.

Firefox is a heavier browser, so there are other options to use when RAM is an issue. There are tradeoffs in features though, so pick what works best. The default RAM I had with the Macbook (2GB) was usable but barely, I had to stay away from something like Youtube or it would crash. But I was able to bump up to 8GB which opened up doing a lot more.

The only thing missing is water pooling up from the leaks.

Good luck with the effort. I have a Chromebook that I was considering to do the same after messing with using it as-is but running Forefox under its Linux wrapper and seeing how painfully slow it was. But then I dived into Google’s efforts in locking them down and decided it wasn’t worth the effort (yet). I turned to an old Macbook that couldn’t be updated anymore and discovered the exact opposite. With a bit more RAM and a swap to a SSD, it runs current Linux Mint with little issues. I may explore the Chromebook again when I have extra time, as it’s doable, just a PIA.

Anakin as a good father and Jedi would have wanted Luke to build his own saber, as that’s part of the rite of passage. Not some hand-me-down. Obi-Wan is so full of it in so many ways, all because he was afraid of Anakin/Vader and Palpatine figuring things out. Fear leads to some things, Obi-Wan, thought you knew this stuff.

Lots of families are dysfunctional.

The amount of panels has been. Unfortunately as always our demand also keep increasing.

France should ask for it back.

I don’t know, it’s 30 years in the past. Maybe something as simple as lazy handoff of info to the next shift, the staff not noticing how long she’d been there or her lack of progress.

I’ll take the blame, I shortened the statements maybe a bit too much, assuming the references would work. But they were explained well by the other replies.

I was learning in the 90s from lessons on AOL how to sanitize inputs and salt passwords along with HTML 1.0. It baffles me how corporations let stupid things happen now.

Well timed. Got to the end text, had a half second of “wait…”

The poor mother. Hopefully it wasn’t lengthy and just a quick reaction to being stuck. My wife failed at her first and only after 36 hours of labor did they decide to go in. Probably should have followed up with what bad decisions led to that, but we were young kids and didn’t know better then.

Sanitizing user input for the Moon landings.

Meanwhile in 2026, ask AI to change an authentication phone number and it says, “Sure thing!” And is ABLE to do it.

I remember seeing a presentation by no other than Bill Gates on such an idea. A long time ago. It had merit, it was the feasibility, safety, and cost that kept it from being a thing.

A related side note - I returned a gift once that was a ceiling star projector. Was pretty cool, but I quickly realized that to get the proper spread on the ceiling it had to be low, which meant anyone looking at it in passing would get hit by the LED light. I questioned if that on a regular basis was safe, since the same type tech in scanner has warnings not to look at the emitter. In the return I left a comment on that point, especially such a device would be attractive to get for kids. The connection - friendly fire from a laser that’s strong enough to fry a mosquito at distance is probably not a great thing to have in the house if you’re home.

This is brought up in the article with the programming detecting other things around and stopping the firing if seeing something. But knowing how well vision can and can’t work, and the creep of AI to such things, I’d rather not try it out.