Commander Xay

AIDS, a silent fear nobody could classify at the beginning

Challenger catastrophe (ok, it's a personal thing about this)

Tchernobyl, radiation levels every day in the news over months

Arms race with nuclear weapons

Permanent threat in cold war,

Nuclear waste & problems with nuclear plants

Acid rain and sick forests

Nato alarms

Movies like "The Day After", "War Games", "When the Wind Blows", "Koyaanisqatsi".

We, the young generation at this time, were called (and we called ourselfs) "The no-future-generation" or (In German, additional but not replacing) "Die Null-Bock Generation", which means something like the "Couldn't-Care-Less" Generation, because from our perspective, nothing will follow after now. The earth will be destroyed.

So, no.

We didn't want the future to come.

And personally, I don't want back to this time. As the Russians attacked Ukraine in 2022 all of it was coming back in my mind, the whole time. Suddently, I was there. From flashbacks I got a deep depression, because all cold war threads were back instantly.

I like the artstyle. Tried to replicate. Time was running out (reached the 5 minute limit), so I could only draw one tit. And while typing this, I know, what the meaning of "asymmetrical tits" is. Okeyyyyy....

There are mostly regular tits at my winter bird feeder and they are visibly bigger then blue tits, but guess who shoos them away all alone? This punk little bird.

And also blue tits, even if they are rare to see, eat the third of the lard or eggs that I put in my feeder. These little chicks are carnivores.

Ich kann mich außerdem erinnern, als ich als Teenager an der Tankstelle geheult habe. Eltern waren in Urlaub, ich durfte das Auto haben (Ford Granada 2.0L). Es ist mir in drei Tagen gelungen, den Tank (66 Liter) leerzufahren. Und ich habe 100 DM für den Tankinhalt bezahlt. Das tat weh, das Geld sollte für den kompletten Zeitraum der Ferien reichen. Erster Schritt ins Leben als Erwachsener...

Aktuell habe ich einen Ford KA - mit 36 Liter Tankinhalt und ich habe am Wochenende über 80 Euro hineingetankt. Hätte fast wieder geheult. 80 Euro sind umgerechnet knapp 155 DM.

Auf der anderen Seite: Inflationsbereinigt sind die 1 DM auf 1 Liter aus meiner Kindheit heute 1,74 EUR auf 1 Liter. Also sooo viel teurer ist es kaufpreisbereinigt nicht geworden... berücksichtigt man die Preise vor dem Krieg der Clowns, ist Benzin eigentlich recht billig zu haben gewesen.

The technic to take an offspring from a tree is not "grafting" from my point of view. Grafting is to combine, taking offsprings is to separate. Nevertheless, I made this with my 3D printer last autumn to make an offspring from the big laurel tree of my mother [I don't know, if there is a lingual difference in English, but with laurel I mean the leafs to spice up cabbage, potatoes etc. ok, maybe its "bay leaf" and the spice is "bay leaf spice"... the dictionary I use is not very helpful, internet search is even worse]. I print these hemispheres with a connection in between and in- and out-pipe for the branch, then I filled it with soil, removed the leafs from the branch, where the soil-ball is located and made little cuts in the bark in the "knee" of the former leaves to force roots. Over easter holiday I applied it to the tree (now and not in autumn, because of the beginning growing phase).

I'm curious to see if it works.

BTW: I once saw a grafted tree with 28 (!!) fruits on it. A wonder to see it bloom in spring with all the colors. In New York (Sam van Aken, Sycracuse university) is a tree with 40 fruits.

I took the German or Autistic diagnostic.

Results: probably autistic. Wittgenstein would have gotten the same result.

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24% German, 80% Autist and I'm both, so sum this up and I'm 104% fully functional German Asperger with a good job and a good employer - letting me make nearly 100% home office with a 6 figures income.

In a workshop last week I made some suggestions. The workshop was moderated by a HR person and there was the chief of risk and transformation also to see, what we are doing. His boss is the CEO of the 1200 people company, I'm working for since 7 month.

A day later I was added to a MS Team chat with chief of marketing, said HR from the workshop and the CEO asking me, if I want to work with him on one of his own projects, because my suggestions are near to it.

This website was written about 2010 from a guy, who could barely write HTML and PHP and his knowledge was 10 years old at THIS point he wrote the website. I know this guy since 1998 and... yes... until 2015 I used to call him a friend (but what happen is something not to talk about here - long story short, it was a bias of me, I was always not more than a cashcow for him).

He had built more websites and they are all looking the same (so a copypasta guy). Coincidentally I met a woman from marketing later in another job and we found, we both know this guy. More funny, THIS was the person who taught him basic html and this specific websites was the code, she gave him as example and training at this time. And it was before I met the guy - so... before 1998. There is no big space between invention of www in 1993 to 1998.

Let me say: A lot of shit inside the code. It was my page, the guy was coding it for me. I fully inherited the page in 2018 and since then, I would do something about the crap.

I saw the issues and was disgusted:

html frames

html tables as design elements

font tags a lot

simply errors from someone using PHP3 behavior. Bad behavior.

No CSS, but IF, then inline styles

I ported some parts to PHP 5.6 in 2018 before, later PHP 7.4. But we have Version 8.3 now.

Not UTF-8 and UTF-8 characters (but html entities like && amp;)

yeah... and marquee tags. There is nothing more 1990-ish than this!

It's like cleaning the toilet of someone, who build a toilet over a big hole digged into soil and never cleaned something.

And it's very annoying work.

So, I didn't really want to touch this. BUT I need to do.

Now I have Claude AI Code and I asked the agent for help. And he made an overall good job (far better then said guy). Not in particular all cases, but with a little help and hints from me, it could manage it.

I orderd Claude, what it has to do. I only adjusted about 10 codelines by myself. I checked every step. All of the list above is solved.

My impression: I could give Claude tasks, which I would give to a junior developer.

The code is now in a state, I can work with better. There are still some structures I have to rework (e.g. <center> tags). But now I can handle it.

For this kind of work, AI is a big help. But I refuse to think about AI being "intelligent" or "creative". It is a tool, which is working well for annoying tasks.