I don’t know enough about copilot as work has made it optional for mostly accessibility related tasks: digging through the mass of extended Microsoft files in teams, outlook, OneDrive to find and summarize topics; record meeting notes, not that they’re overly helpful compared to human taken notes due to a lack of context; and normalizing data, as every power BI report out is formatted as it’s owner saw fit.

Given it’s ability to make ridiculous errors confidently, I don’t suppose it has the memory to be used more like a toddler helper? Small, frequent tasks that are pretty hard to fuck up, once it can reliably do these through repetition and guidance on what’s a passing result, tieing more together?

If you don’t mind me asking, what do you do and what kind of AI? Maybe it’s the autism but I find LLMs are bit limited and useless but other use cases aren’t quite as bad Training image recognition into AI is a legitimately great use of it and extremely helpful. Already being used for such cases. Just installed a vision system on a few of my manufacturing lines. A bottling operation detects cap presence, as well as cross threads or un-torqued caps based on how the neck vs cap bottom angle and distance looks as it passes the camera. Checking 10,000 bottles a day as they scroll past would be a mind numbing task for a human. Other line is making fresnel lenses. Operators make the lenses, and are personally checking each lens for defects and power. Using a known background and training the AI to what distortion good lenses should create when presented is showing good progress at screening just as well as my operators. In this case it’s doing what the human eye can’t; determine magnification and defraction visually.

Pushing Little Children With Their Fully Automatics!

Didn’t make this, so only a guess, but the concept of plants “communicating” via mycorrhizae is probably why it’s there.

Since we use our nose to warm incoming cold air, I’m sure cutting the volume per nostril and boosting contact surface makes a significant difference

The simplest is just sewing a strip onto the back at two ends, making a loop for the belt. If you’ve a bigger piece of leather, you can make a wing on each side with a wide hole that the belt can go through. Or the other direction, up, then loop back down and sew or rivet to the bottom.

Hmm Thanks for the info!

What kind/where do you get leather from?

I’ve been using veg tan from Tandy I’ve had better luck with smooth cuts on oil tan or chrome tan, but they’re not quite suitable for boiling

Or maybe it’s too fine an edge? I’ve a retired scalpel and a plethora of blades from my old university job I’ve repurposed.

Most of my stuff has been utilitarian or functional enough it’s not mattered. An nice abrasion/heat resistant shop apron, or renfaire bags

I made a few pieces from scrap to test a book mark and they ended up rough.

What do you use to get such clean edges? Even with a fresh blade, I’m still making 2 or 3 passes on thicker leather (or 1 slow halting pass as I readjust my grip) and end up with rough edges. Burnishing settles them in, but only as long as they aren’t disturbed. Which feels likely on a cosplay piece.

I’ve got a machine running XP and one running 7. Both really only exist due to the software/equipment they’re supporting being abandoned. IT keeps them disconnected from everything else and generally doesn’t like that they exist. Disconnected Lab View licenses are fun though.

Mother in laws parrot would copy the sound of the house phone ringing. Not quite right, but from just far enough away to be heard it was very convincing

Yes?

Not typically, as they’re normally pretty comparable between people. I’m sure specific exceptions exist based on hygiene and other external factors. In general, skin’s made of the same thing and the amount of sun and moisture and types of fluids excreted by our pores tend to be similar in the same areas.

Your friends armpits vs their ex’s are probably similar, pending they live in a similar area. Same would go for the genetials of their ex vs any of their other partners. Differentiating members of the opposite sex is important here: the biome of the vagina is drastically different than that the surface skin of a dick. However, a bacterial infection from one to the other wouldn’t be common.

The biomes are “contained” by your physiology and your environment. In the same way you wouldn’t normally find a fish (a wet biome like water with plenty of food) chilling in a tree (a dry, exposed to the open air location with little for a fish to eat) you don’t normally find yeast (common in dark, moist biomes with skin excretions to eat like armpits or the groin) on the back of your hand (bright, arid, with minimal excretions). Your environment can change that. See athletes foot or diaper rash. Normally dry skin being saturated for too long can allow yeast to proliferate.

Does/did your friend pee after every encounter? Not doing so does drastically increase the risk of UTIs, as the biome of the vagina and the urethra are not exactly the same, but similar. The biome of the outer area divides these areas normally, but during sex there’s quite a bit of fluid moving organisms about.

Also, as above, hygiene can play a factor. Clean your external skin periodically. Particularly after sticking it anywhere. New organisms and potentially new resources can be introduced to the biome. Soap and water are more than enough for normal hygiene, don’t get crazy. You can alter the biome or kill off the native organisms, which isn’t optimal.

Were they using a condom or some other form of external object for protection? Anything on the inserted, artificial object could absolutely alter the biome for someone. Probably not organisms (I’d hope it’s a fresh out of the package item or at least cleaned) but chemicals that might be feeding or killing native organisms.

I have a biology degree, but am A: plant focused and B: now a manufacturing engineer, because of you wanna do plant biology in the Midwest it’s corn or soy time. And those are boring. So only marginally more applicable.

You’re pretty spot on. The vast range of skin biomes directly impacts what sorts of organisms can live there. Even between a human arm, armpit, nose, and intestines you’ll have different organisms making up the majority of the biome, and potentially even organisms unique to that biome.

Changes to the region or loss of competitors in other connected biomes can allow normally less dominant organisms to gain a foothold. Absolutely how one gets a yest infection. You can even just KILL EVERYTHING and still different organisms might colonize the area faster, resulting in a difference that’s noticeable even at our comparably massive scale.

I didn’t particularly know what organisms prefer the fur, feather, or scale coated regions of animals, but they very much would have the same type of dynamic populations.

Ballpark guess, given how there’s a Salmonella risk associated with reptiles, I’d assume they have some biome that allows Salmonella to survive, if not directly thrive. Similarly with some varieties of Armadillo carrying leprosy.