Fire damage on the forks to sear your mutton while eating it. Frost on the spoons to keep your ice cream frozen. Admittedly, cold soup is a major drawback. But a fire butterknife would be great.

Scrape, fill, prime, paint.

Scrape the raised area with a razor blade. Block sand it with 80 grit, hitting more than just the bad area.

Cover with a thin coat of wood filler, using heavy pressure to force the filler into the fibers. Once that dries, block sand again with 120 grit, then once more with 180 grit. Make sure you sand beyond the patch to blend the repair into the rest of the sill.

Thoroughly clean the dust. Apply two coats of primer to the full sill. Once dry, sand lightly using 220 grit, without a block.

Clean up any dust, then paint.

You’l have a smooth sill with no signs of damage.

My degree is in Computer Engineering, dipshit.

You made up this fantasy that somehow I don’t know what I’m talking about based on nothing other than you wanting me to be wrong so your world view isn’t challenged.

I stared out with the assumption that you were having a good faith discussion. It’s now clear that you’re a troll, tech bro, AI lover, or all of the above. At this point, I’m done with you and encourage others to be as well.

Friday.

I have over 25 years of development experience. My current role is vice president of development and architecture where I lead a team of 80+ devs, QAs, and architects. By any measure, I am one of those “engineer level” developers you speak of.

Yes, LLMs are a tool, but it’s a tool one should use sparingly. LLMs are pattern recognition machines and are great for routine, been-there-done-that type development. For anything that deviates from the norm, LLMs will try to force everything back into common patterns… even when those patterns are not correct. A well designed system can be mangled into junk because the LLM doesn’t have enough context or because something is new.

Be skeptical of the rave reviews around coding agents and the use of LLMs for development. Much of the hype seems tied to developer skill. Less capable developers can use LLMs to appear more capable than they are. For good developers, LLMs seem to erode their skills as they rely on the tool instead of their own knowledge. I have seen this first hand.

Overall, it seems LLMs raise skills of bad developers and hamper the skills of good developers. It’s creating a bunch of middling developers who are incapable of handling anything novel or complex.

I still say it to mine.

It’s a creased area that doesn’t get a lot of attention. Creases such as elbows, armpits, knees, and groin are places where sweat and dead skin gather and should be cleaned. Behind the ears, especially if someone has long hair, is another, but tends to be forgotten, especially by kids.

I can confirm. I have the family plan and got ads when I was listening earlier today. Contacted support. Got no where. Canceled my subscription.

I’d nominate him for one if he resigns.

I’ve had a few Samsung appliances. They are, by far, the worst appliances I’ve owned. I will not be buying another from them. If they want to make life more convenient, they need to make better devices, not shove screens, wifi, and AI into their crappy products.

I’m holding out hope that it was George Clooney going full Danial Day Lewis for the next Ocean’s movie.

Not at all, it was an explanation of the goal post, not moving it.

My assertion (goal post if you like): The first question is weird as the founding principles of the united states are vauge and vary depending on points of view.

My explanation (which was somehow construed as moving the goal post): The founding of the United States had conflicting goals, principles, intentions, and ideas; many of which are still debated today.

My conclusion: It would be difficult for the average person to give concrete examples of meeting those principles as the constitution is fluid and the most common thing people call a founding principle is “freedom.”

As far as the declaration of war part. “We hold these truths…” is from the Declaration of Independence. Where as “We the people…” is from the constitution. The former says all men are created equal. The latter says some men are only worth 3/5 of others. I mentioned it as another example of the contradictions in the founding of the country. So, if you are to answer a question about founding principles, which do you choose?

All this to say, the first question is meaningless unless the answer is just surface level.

That’s from a declaration of war, not the principles of the government. At least use “We the People” as that’s the constitution. Even that isn’t the same as the founding principles as it has been amended. The first 10 coming soon after writing.

Small independent governments that come together in times of need or one centralized government that handles the needs of all states? Thirteen independent economies or one for all thirteen states? Religion? Guns? President for life? A large percentage of the population being counted as on 3/5 of a person? These are principles of the founding of the country, many are debated to this day. And you will find many who agree with each side. There is a large portion of the population that argue the government was founded on Christian values. So no, I don’t think most people can adequately explain the founding principles of the United States other than “ma freedum.”

Number 1 is a little weird as most people wouldn’t be able to name many founding principles of the united states. It’s something that’s still debated. Hell, the founders weren’t even in agreement on them.

Number 2 is worded strangely, but isn’t too bad. It’s like asking how you made concrete improvements at your last employer and how you can utilize that with the new one.

Number 4 isn’t bad. It could be from any application at any company.

Number 3 is freaking bonkers. Think about applying for a job as a park photographer at Disney and being asked how you’ll help fulfill the CEO’s direction to make another Star Wars sequel. After being asked to name the priorities to begin with.

As an old person today, I have no clue what these words mean. Assuming cooking has nothing to do with food. I’ve never heard rizz. I’ve at least heard people use based, though I don’t know its use.

In the Stormlight books by Sanderson, society is split based on eye color; bright eyed vs dark eyed. Bright eyed people are called Brightness or Brightlord. Not exaclty the same as what you said, but it is an interesting society based on eye color.

What are you talking about? C# is massively popular, especially with corporations and government. If someone wants to get a job writing software, they won’t go wrong learning C#.

Python is great for data evaluations and scripting. There’s nothing wrong with learning it, or any other language for that matter… including Java, C, or C++

And that somehow makes it better?

Testicluar cancer typically occurs between the ages of 15 and 35.

In 2020, one of mine felt smaller. No lump, no pain, just slightly smaller. Turned out it was stage 1A cancer, basically just starting to form. I was lucky that I noticed it when I did.

Gentlemen, check your balls. If you feel anything different than usual, go to a doctor.

My guess, and it is just a guess… it’s a storm water control system being used as a basement drain, possibly flowing into the sewer line.

I’ve seen older houses where someone cut into the basmeny floor directly into a sewer line to put in a basement drain.

Based on you saying water was in there when it was raining, someone might have cut into the storm water mitigation line for a basement drain. Then someone tiled the floor and put a vent over the hole because that’s what they found that fits.

With older houses, a lot of times, the storm water system was tied directly into the main sewer. If that’s what this is, I’d be concerned about sewer gasses coming up from it.

Again, with only seeing one picture, it’s just a guess.

Edit: It could also just be a cleanout for the storm water drain too.

You mean protesters in uniform?