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"You may not use any third-party sources, including artificial intelligence tools, in responding to these screening questions or while participating in any consultation with a client. <The EN> reserves the right to deny payment for any consultation, and may remove you from its network, if it determines that you have misrepresented your identity, experience or knowledge or used third-party sources in connection with the consultation."

I completely understand the need for accurate and timely information in the screeners, and that they are an important legal attestation. I also understand that it's Client's counsel requiring this, and even if 99% of them go along, that 1% could still stipulate the manual entry for everybody. However, this seems like it's heading for a reckoning at some point as Agentic AI creeps into nearly every aspect of the workday from content updates to brokering of availability.

I'm not advocating for anything that would jeopardize the accuracy or timeliness of screener responses. I'm just asking is the issue with AI or with the accuracy and legitimacy of the answer?

Lets say there was developed a form of "bulletproof, verified" automation that could provide accurate answers 100% of the time for compliance, skills and availability. Could this someday be acceptable?

This post asked the same question from the EN perspective more than a year ago, and it was well received by the community, but we haven't seen much progress here. The same restrictions are still widely enforced.

Newer ENs even seem to be going backwards, relying on archaic MS and Google forms that ask the same exact questions in every instance, including basic contact info like Email and phone, which they already know. You're not even allowed to use identify-filler tools like Roboform (invented in what, 2002?) on those.

I got Optimum broadband with a new Altice router, the tech who installed it said it needed about day to "register" itself on their network before I would see it in my online account and be able to change the Wifi network name.

I called a day later and the guy said he could see the router on the network but was also unable to address the router for any configuration and suggested a second on-site visit.

A week later the tech showed up, stood and looked at the router and said there was nothing he could do for my issue. I then had to answer a series of phone calls and say I had cancelled the appointment so I wouldn't be charged a $100 "false alarm" service fee. Optimum sent the tech in response to my issue.

Is there actually any way to configure this router? I'm still using the printed factory password from the bottom which is NOT secure and I have about 60 wifi smart devices on my network (with the name I gave it) and I've had to install a range extender so that I can broadcast that SSID so the devices will have internet access.

I know they did away with the local ip (192.168.0.1) addressing for these routers. Am I now stuck?

Online and in the mobile app it simply says:

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Hi, trying to buy a 2BR/2BA condo in Florida.

The community is 1992 and home inspector confirmed it has "Poly-B" piping inside the walls.

Seller and other residents (200+ units) don't seem to be too concerned, and all seem to have insurance. Inspector says it's a risk of bursting at any time and that it'll be very difficult to get insurance.

Have you encountered this? If so, how do people deal with it? It's a 3rd floor unit and I don't want to be liable for water damages for the floors below. I've read advice to replace it, but seems also like many people are living with it.

A friend suggested I look into an electronic Leak-detection system with an electric valve, moisture sensors and a flow sensor that would detect if a pipe had burst and would turn off the water automatically.

"Why not both?" A: I don't want my countertop to look like the Wal-mart appliance aisle. Countertop is workspace, not storage space in my kitchen.

But I'm used to having one countertop appliance for quick cooking, reheating, toasting, air frying.

I've tried the low, flat, fold up style from Ninja. Did not like.

Currently have a toaster oven/roaster/air fryer combination that does an OK job, but nowhere close to the power of the basket style air fryer. Main issue is the air comes from the side not the top so it's less balanced and not as powerful, scorching food on the right and undercooking on the left.

I'd love to be able to go with a basket air fryer, but that's a bit more limited. We have a limited need to toast bread, reheat pizza, things the oven excels at. Can this be done in the basket style?

What are your pros and cons for replacing a toaster oven with a basket air fryer?

Obviously McConnell is the first one accountable to the people of his state, but let's say he's incapacitated, and can't act, where does the legal obligation for disclosure of this next fall to? Beshear's letter was addressed to McConnell, so if he can't speak or communicate, how can he react to it? Does McConnell's office have a duty to respond in his stead?

Can anyone be held directly accountable for not disclosing his condition before August 4th? Or can his office or handlers simply say nothing until after August 4th? I assume doctors are held to patient privacy, so it cannot come from them, nor would it be appropriate for it to.

His office can put out statements attributable to him, but there's no direct proof those are his words. If it turns out he's been incapacitated and those words turn out to have been written by someone else, and not McConnell, can anyone be held accountable or will they hide behind that being SOP?

If this was happening with a regular citizen we'd call police and request a "wellness check" knock and talk, why can't we do that in this instance?

Since McConnell is in Washington, does Beshear have any power to appoint an investigator to go to Washington to ascertain his condition and make an official report?

I would watch the show religiously 5 days a week after school in reruns. There are two episodes that I can't shake from my memory.

• The first one many will know, when Caroline gets the infection and is struggling alone and has to cut open her own leg with a red hot knife.
• The second one was The Hundred Mile Walk, where Charles and Edwards had to go on the road for work and got jobs on a dynamite/rock clearing crew in a quarry. The job involved Charles having to hold the spike upright while Edwards wailed on it with a sledgehammer. And people getting blown up with dynamite. Man that episode made me want to stay in school learning there were jobs like that out there.

Love the game but burning a lot of time traveling around the map to discover locations. There doesn't appear to be a run button for the horse. Any way to speed it up with an ability or unlock?

I unlock all of the Fast Travel Synchronize locations in any given area, and use them, plus the ship ports, but the terrain is so hilly it's still taking me forever to get around on foot. Spent 2 days alone trying to unlock all of Attika to find the 6 cultists from their clues.

Horse is fine in between cities, but he is massively slowed down inside them. Seems like his speed is same as walking. It's usually better to dismount and parkour going in a straight line than trying to ride him through the streets.

Here the few things that have been working.

1. Beeline across the land as much as possible. There's hardly any reason to stick to roads, they're longer, slower, and have no resources to pick up.

2. For really long trips, the horse autopilot seems to work well. It loses its way sometimes but sometimes I'll put in a trip and put the controller down and go do something else.

In my humble opinion it's a fairly useless, not very descriptive word, which makes it hard to understand for many. Compared to other words, it's not great. But let's press on.

Ontology is a combination of two words.

1. The Greek "Ontos" , meaning "being, or existing"
2. and the suffix "-logy" which means "the study of".

So it literally means

"the study of things that exist".

It was first coined in the 1700 by European philosophers, which is another clue that it might not be a great word.

Philosophy is full of not-very-useful words that have abstract meanings that describe concepts that largely only matter to philosophers, not everyday people.

Which is what makes it so confusing to many, but really it's quite simple:

It just means perceiving and studying the stuff that exists around you. Look around your room right now, take note of the objects in it. The people present. The color of the walls. the brand of monitor you're using to read this. The temperature of the air.

Congratulations, you're practicing ontology! That's really it, a small child could do it. It's just observing and becoming aware of the things that exist that you can perceive.

OK, so what did we just do there? What are things that exist? Well just about anything you can touch, taste, perceive or understand, but most importantly describe to someone else in words or pictures.

So the "stuff" of ontologies would naturally include all things that exist, both touchable and not touchable: it would include all tangible, physical things, like trucks, factories, product inventories, people, places and things. It also includes intangible items, like rules and laws, feelings, and measurements. These things don't physically exist, but they exist metaphorically.

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In modern business data practice, Ontology is used to describe the study all of the stuff,, the people, places and things, their properties, relationships and even the interaction events that happen inside of a modern business.

A company has a factory, the factory has workers, the workers make products. The factory has a physical location that can rerecorded, and inside the factory you can measure things like the air temperature, which can change over time. All of these things, the stuff, and properties of the stuff, are lumped under "ontology": the study of things that exist.

It has a lot of overlap with Digital Twinning and Data Modeling. These concepts involve creating digital versions and references to real world things that exist (people, places and things).

Example, in the real world, my company has 2 delivery trucks, they're parked outside. They exist, I can physically touch them and drive them.

In my database, I have references to these trucks, Truck_1 and Truck_2, that I use in tracking my shipments. Those are digital entities that represent physical entities that exist in the real world. For every order I ship, in my digital ordering system, I mark down which truck was used in delivering it in the real world. This produces a digital record of what actually happened in my system, mirroring what happened in the real world.

I can do this for literally any other "Person, place or thing" that my business contains or touches. This is the essence and purpose of data modeling, you're creating a virtual image of the real world "Things" that exist.

Ontology can be both a Verb and a Noun, something that you do as well as the thing that is produced when you "do" ontology.

Ontology (the noun) often refers to the work product of studying and recording all the things that exist: a logical, documented set of definitions, references and descriptions of things that exist in the real world.

What are your best "instant gratification" or "register now, get this," offers for getting lurkers and indecisive web visitors off the sidelines and into the trial/user funnel?

Looking for things that promose immediate value, with an immediate payoff. Our main value prop is solid, and pays off with time. I'm looking for something that pays off quicker to motivate the 5-10% more people who are on the fence or busy and give them that reason to register.

The trial is free, so I can't discount it any further. It doesn't need to be directly linked to the main value prop, but would be something that feels more urgent or "instant" that will interest people who are seeking that instant gratification.

Imagine if we were giving away a $1,000 Amazon gift card with every trial registration. Something with that kind of pull and instant reward, but without being an outright bribe (or costing that much).

Talking about lawyers who say to:

A) Politely, and calmly comply on the stop by providing License, registration and insurance, and basic information. Remain polite, keep hands visible
B) If the officer asks anything else "Where you coming from this evening?" "Have you had anything to drink tonight?" Again, calmly and politely "I'm exercising my right to not answer questions. That is not evidence of anything. Am I free to go?"

This seems calm and reasonable.
Law enforcement officers: have you ever had it happen and how did you feel and react to it?

Talking about lawyers who say to:

A) Comply on the stop by providing License, registration and insurance, remain polite, keep hands visible
B) and then calmly and politely "I'm exercising my right to not answer questions. That is not evidence of anything. Am I free to go?"

This seems calm and reasonable, but have you ever had it happen and how did you feel and react to it?

Hyper-Drive 18V cordless finishing nailer, 16ga. Stopped working after 4 years of very, very light (residential) use. Paid $200 4 years ago.

Motor and trigger worked perfectly, full battery, but can't hold pressure or drive nails. Just gives a little "Poof" on activation, like something's not holding pressure.

I start researching, says the seals can fail on these, sounds like my problem.

Disassembly procedure from a YT video. I get the air cylinder removed, and yep, it's nearly pristine inside, loads of clear grease, but the main rubber center seal has turned to black toothpaste, I can smear it around with my hand. Seems almost like it disintegrated from the dielectric grease that was smeared everywhere. Hmmm.

I also have to say, I have NEVER seen this much Loc-tite Red used on a tool. That's the permanent stuff. Nearly twisted my arm off getting some of the magazine bolts out. Definitely not DIY friendly.

Call Ridgid, of course you'd think they'd stock this $0.25 rubber grommet so I could get it working again. No, they don't. Part not available. No stock. Anywhere.

Ridgid says they have only limited parts for this thing, mainly screws, belt clip, etc. So extended warranty or no, they couldn't repair it even if they wanted to.

But wait, there's more.

I needed a working nailer. Ended up purchasing the Ryobi 16ga Finishing nailer, about $100 less than the new Ridgid. I immediately notice some significant similarities between the two tools. Cosmetics are different of course, but many of the parts seem identical. Cylinder and housing look identical. Magazine has many of the same parts.

This means there's factory somewhere in China making these for both Ryobi and Ridgid, and there's a stockroom full of those replacement seals that are only for the new tools.

Fuck modern manufacturing. I don't have a problem with replacing an old tool that's worn out, but it just kills me to have to toss an otherwise perfectly good, new looking tool in the garbage when a simple decision from Ridgid could have saved it.

I've learned my lesson, I will now spend my money with manufacturers that support repair and longevity for their products.

I've been using Studio for several years, and it mostly gets the job done. Used Orca and others as well. There a few really dumb basic questions around basic features and workflow I'm hoping are just steps I've missed and not gaps in the product.

Have you run into or solved any of these?

1. I print a lot of .3mf files from Makerworld, and while I appreciate the value in having both the models and the print settings in one file, they also completely reset my filament settings with whatever the person saving the model had active at the time. Since Makerworld encourages this file format, every single model I open comes with a different set of filament settings and I need to re-map mine every single time. Is there any setting to suppress this from happening? I have learned to at least place my most commonly used filaments into bays 1 and 2 so at least it defaults to what I usually use.

2. Speaking of filament mapping, I have an AMS, so when I change filament color or type in my AMS, I update it in the Device tab and I then also have to re-map it to the printer. Seems redundant and I do it a LOT. Is there any way to just set the filaments once in the printer tab and have the Prepare auto-sync to that? I mean, in a single printer environment, wouldn't this be a must have?

3. I mostly do one-color printing, Is there any button or other way to change the filament in a selected object without right-clicking on it, scrolling down and selecting the filament from a list? There's a whole "Filament" section on the left menu taking up space, why can't I select the object, and then click on the filament from there? These steps seem unnecessary.

4. As we all know, multi-color filaments are a thing, is there any way to unlock color labels beyond the single-color for a given filament? There is a "Filament gradient" button on the Prepare tab, but that seems to be for when you're mixing two solid filaments to make a gradient. If I have a 2-tome or 3-tone filament, any way to depict those colors faithfully in the UI?

5. And finally (I am going to be really shocked if this is NOT something dumb I'm doing). Is there any way to see which of the 4 AMS filaments a particular object is set to in the UI, other than going by the color? I often will have black loaded in two or more bays, ABS, PETG, ASA, and once I set the object to say ASA, is there anyway to read or confirm which of the 4 filaments it's set to? The only thing I've found so far is the Object Settings button in the Process menu, and by clicking the Print Plate button, I really wish I could see it in either the Prepare or Preview tab just showing someplace. Even the Preview > Filament view neglects to show this.

Lastly, I've not done much in the setting, are there any must-do settings recommendations you always use or leave on?

We have two cavaliers, both female, one 14 (blenheim) one 8 (tri). Both are sweet and healthy. Lately we've been observing a lot of accidents from the 8yo one. I'm going to chalk it up to incomplete/improper house training originally. She learned to poop during walks, but unlike the older one, never really "got it" that going in the house was a no-no. (I understand that you can't teach them where NOT to go, you can only teach them where they should go.)

That was exactly how I taught the older one: make the walks as boring as possible unless/until they do their business outside (Process: ring bell at door, leash, walk, if they go (praise, treat) and if they don't go, quietly return home, don't talk or engage, wait for next opportunity.)

Now the 8yo female has started holding it on walks and as soon as we get home will unload (#1 and 2) in the house -often within a few minutes. She has 4 places she likes to go, 3 on rugs 1 on hard floor). She loves to pee on a particular rug.

My wife's has been trying multiple remedies: Bottles of icky poo she sprays everywhere to get rid of the scent, we have NO carpets in the house, only these super thin rugs that are machine washable. My wife seems to think its scent related but does not seem to be working. We literally just washed one and she pooped on it twice in the last 2 days.

The older one sets a great example, but nobody's learning. I've noticed the younger one will mark (pee) when she's seen the older one go on grass outside, but does not seem to have the same effect with pooping. The Tri definitely exhibits pack behavior, when we all walk together she has to be in front and nobody can get too far in front of her.

I don't notice any health issues, diet has been consistent, it's really just the timing that's frustrating/. They get 5 walks a day on a pretty consistent schedule (7am, quick pee outside, 10 am longer walk, 2 pm walk, 5 pm walk, 9 pm quick pee,) and every other day a longer walk at a park or outdoor area. They eat at a consistent time as well, between 10:00 and 10:30 am.

I just took them for their 10:00 am and the Blen pooped, both peed. But the Tri refused to go, (even though it had been nearly 16 hours since her last bm) she kept looking at me hopefully/defiantly and pulling to go home. I walked her up and down the grass for 30 minutes to give her time to go. She refused. Went back home and in 5 minutes she had pooped in the bedroom in 4 places.

Could it be related to walking them together? Is it out of spite? What would you recommend this late in the game? Any comments welcome.