Looks like a great event!

It was really great, Phil's old editor, David Brin, and a few other of Phil's friends came to join. I made a play that was from an interview he did before he passed away, describing an unfinished book. The interviewer also attended, (RIP Doris), What If Our World is Their Heaven. Great book if you're a pkd fan!

David Brin who is an accomplished scifi author himself? Awesome (also because of dolphins in space).

Yeah, I met him actually through a friend because of this project, was great to have him. He's awesome, one reason is because, Dolphins in space!

Thanks for sharing this work.

Or maybe instead of spending time with your dad on a bs menial task, you could spent time fishing with him…

It's nice to think that but life and relationships are also composed of the little moments, which sometimes happen when someone asks you over to help with a "bs menial task"

It takes five minutes to program the thermostat, then you can have a beer on the patio if that's your speed and catch up for a bit

Life is little moments, not always the big commitments like taking a day to go fishing

That's the point of automating all of ourselves out of work, right? So we have more time to enjoy spending time with the people we love?

So isn't it kind of sad if we wind up automating those moments out of our lives instead?

Well now it sounds like you are disagreeing for it's own sake. There may be a name for what you describe, but it's not what is commonly understood as Stoicism.

And in my many years, I have never found shouting at another person to be a healthy thing.

Well, I guess I’m here because of one of these miracle drugs. My kidneys would have crapped out year ago without it. I guess call me a fan…

You might take a look at [SciTE](https://scintilla.org/SciTE.html), a light weight wrapper around Scintilla, with lua scripting support. It’s been my non-IDE editor for years on Windows and Linux…

I love SciTE but it feels like a technical demo compared to Npp.

Thanks, I’ve been looking for something like this.

If I'm on a trip somewhere, I usually have a couple of small USB-C SanDisk 2TB drives for photo and video storage. I'm a photographer, and don't always have sufficient bandwidth to upload all of the photos I take via Lightroom - plus, I want a physical copy "just in case".

I suspect I'm just getting old :)

Even in Upper Michigan near Lake Superior we sometimes had stunn, colorful Northern Lights. Sometimes it seemed like they were flying overhead within your grasp

Most definitely, it's quite common to find people hanging around outside up towards Calumet whenever there's a night with a high KP Index.

I highly recommend checking them out if you're nearby, the recent auoras have been quite astonishing

I’m kind of glad it does this so I know that it understood what I asked. A good presenter will do this as well when responding to questions.

I almost always find it too verbose and unnaturally mimicy when bouncing the question back. It doesn't paraphrase my request. It's more like restating it.

What I notice most is that almost always repeats verbatim unnaturally long parts of my requests.

This might be more useful to people that do lazy prompting. My nature compels me to be clear and specific in all written text.