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That's really odd. Pretty sure it takes less time than that for me to compile, and my invidious machine is an atom d2550

Picked up a full on trauma kit (first aid kit with extra trauma stuff) when the little one was born, because that's the worst nightmare I can imagine.

Tim pool sold me on the pascal's wager of prepping -- if you never need it it's worthless, but if you ever need it it's priceless so pay a couple hundred bucks during the good times just in case.

The internet is under attack around the world, and it's gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

They'll turn it into Disney world: a highly regulated, highly corporate, fake plastic wasteland where you're free to consume and nothing else.

"sorry we're far too busy making everyone use paper straws in plastic cups to assist in this matter"

Paid her $190,000 to do literally nothing and she STILL screwed it up.

We compete with shittier products all the time. That's part of the power of capitalism, that you buy the product you actually need rather than the platonic ideal of the product, then you can pay less and use less resources so you can spend those resources on something else you need instead. You could buy a desk calculator with an i9 inside, but sometimes you just want a desk calculator.

There's a market for inexpensive city cars, but they're straight-up illegal in most cases because they're not like an internal combustion engine automobile and the laws are set up for those vehicles. Just deregulate city cars, make it easy to build, own, buy, use, not by paying a bunch of money, but by getting government out of the way, and lots of people who aren't in the market for a full automobile (and many people who are but don't need something fancy for their morning commute) could suddenly get their hands on them.

I'm convinced that you could build something fit for personal travel in a part of a city you live in that's weather proof and relies on stuff that's already commonplace, and get the BOM down the the point that you could sell it for around 5 grand or less. Relax insurance requirements while you're at it, since a little 5 grand city car isn't going to have the same capacity to damage anything or anyone as a full size automobile.

But no, we need to build EVs that are equivalent to ICE cars and cost many times as much and aren't practical to drive to the next city because that's what everything is set up to expect, particularly legally.

The concept of using already existing technologies in smart ways won't make anyone rich, so it is laughable -- nobody is going to go along with something that could change things but won't line the pockets of politicians or megacorps.

It's actually easy, but we need to temper our expectations. You could have an EV revolution if we could build a city car that costs a fraction of the cost of an automobile and doesn't go very fast and doesn't go terribly far, but everything is piled against what is a practical solution.

fr, it's all well and good that Jordan Peterson was shocked to see ChatGPT producing code, but what the fuck does Jordan Peterson know about code? The tests I've run looked good but weren't actually good -- the code often fundamentally couldn't work because it wasn't real.

Not totally useless, but like most AI, it's an algorithm that can solve specific problems extremely well, but you need a human to choose which problems to solve and to check the algorithm's work.

I could end up proven wrong later -- I've heard the newer GPT model works much better than ChatGPT -- but I tried using Bing chat which allegedly uses the newer model and it didn't provide better results when I tried. I ended up having to build something for myself using my human brain to learn about a thing that didn't exist before.

I think it most Indians took a look at some of the recipes from Rich Englishman in the past, they'd want to throw up.

I like, we get it. You're rich enough to afford spices. What the hell did you put in my plate?

How many resources industry wide have been spent on the thing that was always going to fail, the metaverse?

"we handed trillions to the rich! You union idi∆h∆h∆hvoters love that, right?"

Run, don't walk away from Paypal. They think they are your god.

"why did this bank do the thing we caused them to do?"

Congress is dumber than a box of rocks.

Rev 1 of my new fan blades really didn't turn out very well; The print was big and bulky, and really had issues with weight and off-center weight. I've tried to redesign, next weekend I'll print it off and see how this works. One immediate positive is that the amount of material is way lower.

Taking "trad" pretty far, "Of course back then everyone was having affairs!"

I don't usually watch his show much anymore, but I just happened to be watching it today because it showed up on my rss feed and they have Ezra Levant on who is the owner of an alternative outlet in Canada.

Not just other central platforms though. Right now, Tim's show is being hosted off of his servers. That's a lot harder to pozz than someone else's service.

Youtube ended up apparently ending the Timcast IRL stream that was discussing today's shooting. This is the sort of reason you want your own infrastructure!