ramble81

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ramble81 ,

Sadly I view this as a “net zero” situation. Trump would also abandon Palestine along with Ukraine and Taiwan, so in this instance it doesn’t matter who you end up voting for, but getting Trump has many, many more negatives. So I hope people aren’t using this as their hill to die on for their vote otherwise it puts us in a much worse situation.

ramble81 ,

+1 on the “don’t touch the springs”. Those things are deadly like capacitors in tube TVs. I’ve seen one pop and go through a windshield and the seat of a car. Luckily no one was in it as I doubt a person would have offered much resistance to it.

ramble81 ,

Yes there are other formats such as DTS and Auro 3D. You can even do it with straight up LPCM if you want, but DD is one of the quickest ways to do it and iirc DTS has similar licensing requirements with their logo, and barely anyone has Auro. You could try to use LPCM but you’d need a multichannel output such as 6x analog connections or a digital source using bitstreamed output which many didn’t have at the time.

ramble81 ,

Would it look for a wire or more so “where is the fucking ground”?

ramble81 ,

Jerry Jones, yeah same one that owns the Cowboys, made almost $1B off the price hikes durning the big freeze that almost crippled the grid.

ramble81 , (edited )

What about a private plane like a Gulfstream?

Edit: so I decided to do some wild napkin math, but Trump, for example, has a B757, which uses older and most likely more inefficient engines. So take a short haul flight which is 246g/km/person, and a standard short haul flight can hold about 130 people. So if he only travels with say 13 people on board (a tenth of that) it would increase the amount tenfold and give 2,460 g/km/person.

I think the goes a long way in showing that the 0.1% blow things out of the water comparatively speaking.

ramble81 ,

Anyone remember the $1,000 app on the iPhone? People will pay for that shit.

ramble81 ,

I stopped on 5.666 just because

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ramble81 ,

.iso 
. Storage is cheap and I want it as native as possible, that way I keep all my menus, original video and audio quality without any chance of introducing artifacts.

ramble81 ,

I view “completely turned it around” as as 180 too. Think about it “I’ll turn this car around if you don’t quiet down” it means you’ll go the opposite direction. So “completely turning it around” means they did just that.

ramble81 ,

Yeah on the Texas gulf coast they open up the shoulder into an additional lane and switch direction of the opposite side giving anywhere from 6-8 lanes. This lets them evacuate places even like Houston pretty quickly

ramble81 ,

I remember we had a coworker (in his late 20s or early 30s) gushing on how he celebrated his gfs 18th birthday. Then we all started doing the math when earlier he had mentioned they had been together for 2 years.

ramble81 ,

Oh geeze. Don’t know who that is but this was back in the mid-2000s.

ramble81 ,

Especially when you’re not gonna get repeat sales “I really like my PS5, I should go buy another!”

ramble81 ,

My thoughts on software in general over the past 20 years. So many programs inefficiently written and in 4th level languages just eats up any CPU/memory gain. (Less soap box and more of a curious what if to how fast things would be if we still wrote highly optimized programs)

ramble81 ,

I’ve used those for 208V 60-amp 3-phase power to racks in our Datacenter. Capable of supplying almost 18kW
 those things are monster.

ramble81 ,

You don’t generally see them in the US until you get to Industrial/Datacenter level. Since the US tends to use NEMA standards, for example for a 220V dryer/EV charger we’ll use a NEMA 14-50 plug.

ramble81 ,

I know you could see the aurora all over the place but did it actually cause any damage anywhere?

ramble81 ,

What will SovCits do now?!

ramble81 ,

If I had to pull an educated guess out of my follicle rich posterior, I was gonna say for protection too. Given that we started walking upright having a denser concentration (even pubes aren’t that dense) blocks a lot of direct sunlight for heat, and helps keep warmth in for cold climates.

ramble81 ,

Wait, this isn’t the Onion?

ramble81 ,

I love SimTower. I’ll pull it out from time to time.

ramble81 ,

“accelerationist”? Pardon my ignorance, but what’s that?

ramble81 ,

I see. I understand that as a path, but that seems like the “option of last resort” to me, and these guys want to make it the proposed one?

ramble81 ,

Optional for HD2 but the fact that they restricted the countries most likely means they’ll try it again.

ramble81 ,

That was me and the solar eclipse


ramble81 ,

And guess what, it can be done just as easily, if not, more easily on a federated instance. You don’t gain at real additional control over your data (and no putting “covered under license X” is about as realistic as those Facebook posts saying “I don’t give anyone access to my posts”).

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, realistically the only way to control your data from AI is a DRM type solution which everyone fundamentally hates.

ramble81 ,

I mean Saints Row has the dildo bat


ramble81 ,

Never saw the original one. I prefer “fuck the state” better too.

ramble81 ,

He had the chance to be left alone and most everyone out there was honoring that because he was a kid and wasn’t involved in politics
. Hope he realizes what he’s about to open himself up to.

ramble81 ,

This is gonna suffer the same issue that Star Wars has. They have an entire world and myths to explore and they just stick with a core group to focus on.

ramble81 ,

Harder daddy

ramble81 ,

Bimbo is a vernacular word now regardless of origin and correct grammatical use.

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ramble81 ,

The Malibu was a bland car and won’t be missed, but what I will miss is that was the last sedan they had. Now they will make nothing but larger crossovers, SUVs, etc. I hate that cars keep growing bigger like that.

ramble81 ,

I’d be less concerned about shape and more about rigidity. Feels like it’d fall apart unless you used a frozen banana, I mean they’re only what, like $10 each?

ramble81 ,

You can have someone else do it for you. You just need the money. Give yourself Executive Producer credits, tell them your vision and pay them to make it happen.

ramble81 ,

Except if they trained it on something that has a large proportion of turban wearers. It is only as good as the data fed to it, so if there was a bias, it’ll show the bias. Yet another reason this really isn’t “AI”

ramble81 ,

So
 Tor?

ramble81 ,

Yeah. Easy to check and get around this. Check your routes before transmitting data, also set up your VPN to push /2s if this relies on /1s, nuke extra routes, etc.

Novel idea though that most people wouldn’t think to look for, but at the end of the day any system will follow its routing table.

ramble81 ,

I was about to guess he wasn’t up for reelection.

ramble81 ,

Couldn’t they subpoena the bank and see the cancelled checks with his signature on them?

ramble81 ,

Which is slightly better than some places I’ve seen cut the staff and keep the interns on to run with what’s left

ramble81 ,

Probably also a matter of agency. Being used as a battery where you’re still in control of your mind goes over better than “we’re gonna hijack this persons mind and constantly make use of it”. It also then makes things like agents taking over people in the matrix or Smith getting out that much more impactful.

ramble81 ,

Where did it say that in the movie? Otherwise that would have been another great one liner for this thread.

ramble81 ,

Using brainpower to power the matrix makes sense, but it sounded like OP was initially just saying for spare computing period, whether for the matrix or anything else even if it wasn’t related.

ramble81 ,

Wouldn’t it be more akin to a snapshot during a race? Anything can change after that until the finish. A photo finish strikes me more as final night counting of actual votes. And “too close to call”

ramble81 ,

One death is coincidental, two is suspicious, any more and it’s gonna become plainly obvious, and now there’s 10. That’s just delicious. They can’t silence them all.

ramble81 ,

To follow that path, doesn’t everything (people included) receive AM radio waves as it passes through us? We just can’t tune into it. But I’m pretty sure I have all the AM spectrum passing through me right now.

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