Dave Ambrose

I can add my experience -- I "retired" almost 2.5 years ago. I'm busier than ever, but at good things. Have gotten back to astronomy and telescope making, but am still working on SCUBA diving (found an underwater film festival instead). All the tasks that piled up over a couple of long illnesses are now on the to-do list. Could be worse tho. I might not be here, and they're on someone else's to-do list. My experience with Medicare has been great, but I'm not on an Advantage plan. I'll second the vote to take care of yourself. physical conditioning is very important. Don't skip the weights. I'm 70, and feeling much better through a combination of physical therapy and just general workouts. Gyms are all included in Medicare. I'm finally getting to build out the garage in the way I've wanted it for a while. That's my current adventure.

Nice Merc! Your location caught my eye. I haven't been to Rockford in a long time.

I have found one area where AI seems to be pretty good. Reviewing. I've been writing emails for a publicity campaign, and I had ChatGPT critique my email. It came up with several improvements I would have missed. It helps a lot if you give it more context and goals. That's probably why it works so poorly for coding. There's almost no way to give it enough context to write correct code. And, if you're writing a lot of routine code, you haven't gotten everything abstracted properly. (Alan Kay came up with object oriented programming for this exact reason)

In the same, yet very different vein, I bought season tickets to the San Diego Early Music Society's concert series. First concert in a little over 3 weeks. Definitely going to break my personal record for concerts this year.

That's just bizarre. I'll dig into it a little more, but looks like all the right email authentication entries are there.

My daughter has one in her stash. Does that count?

I'm so sorry. She was a lovely cat. Seems like we miss them forever, at least for me. Sounds like she led a good and long life. I hope you can take comfort that she isn't suffering anymore.

I might have to get one of those for my household feline phalanx.

PM Sent

Mine came today too.

That might not be on the tablet/mobile view. If it isn't, let me know and I'll add it.

The problem is actually in a rules engine that front-ends the web server. The forum software guards against those attacks just fine.

Well shoot. It means the fix I put in isn't working. There are rules in place to prevent what's called a SQL injection attack. The verbotten words are s-e-l-e-c-t, u-p-d-a-t-e, and maybe d-e-l-e-t-e, especially followed by w-h-e-r-e. (I feel like I'm trying to slip something past a 4-year old here) I'll look at this again later this week.

There have been divers on the Edmund Fitzgerald. If I remember correctly one of the cargo hatches was open. I don't remember if they were able to ascertain why it came loose.

Nice. I like that there are Gundam and Warhammer categories. They're both very popular in the US and most general (IPMS) shows ignore them to their detriment.