Might be noteworthy if you missed it: https://lemmy.world/post/53011126

tl;dr: College told flock to remove the cameras and they refused saying they were within terms of the contract. Any cameras that got bagged were unbagged.

I stand corrected.

I wasn’t aware of any for consumer level chips. All I really want is a basic motherboard+processor with ECC RAM and solid electronics with good capacitors and power filters like the manufacturers seem to be doing for the high end gaming rigs, but without a lot of bells and whistles that need to be turned off as part of the “new computer” process.

they had the technology the whole time to make upgraded modular chips and sell them for pre-existing computer architecture

I’ve heard that it’s also possible to make consumer motherboards with ECC RAM and no built-in wifi as well, but surely someone would’ve tried that by now if is was technologically possible.

Maybe the RISC-V RVA23 push will be able to figure it out.

You can have long guns purchased through the Civilian Marksmanship Program shipped directly to your door. Those are a drop in the bucket compared to most firearm purchases in the US, though.

The MBAs are making use of the math associated with risk management. An MBA with a flat tire teleworks for the day or takes a second car to work while a mobile mechanic service fixes the tire. A shift worker misses the shift and potentially loses the job for not finding someone to cover the shift.

MBAs who need a wrench can buy whichever wrench they want because they can afford it: a low end wrench if they need it to work once, a mid tier wrench if they’re looking for a mix of quality and cost, or a high end wrench if they like to buy it for life. A shift worker buys what they can afford and has to pray it doesn’t break because prayer is the only insurance they can afford.

A shift worker can’t afford a better wrench because a team of economists, psychologists, and political scientists have calculated exactly how low they can pay a person and keep the economy from grinding to a halt. An MBA eats lunch for $15 every day because nobody charges them $150.

So the idea was publicly aired without any internal discussion at all. Kind of makes me wonder who knew enough about it to put it forward as an option that also didn’t know enough about it to consider direct side effects.

Completely agree, but alternatively: is there enough red stuff and red pumps to meet demand even if it wasn’t a stupid idea for the reasons you gave? I doubt business owners are going to taint their existing tanks for the reasons you gave, and there’s not enough of a guarantee this scheme will be around long enough to build new infrastructure for it, and the massive fueling stations on the interstates damn sure don’t have red tanks/pumps ready to go.

Does this even put a dog in the fight for the businesses who add the dye, or who sell the red diesel? If market manipulation like this were a goal, why not just put a tax holiday on all diesel?

Edited to remove idea someone else already posted.

Let’s hope it was something else, then.

Earlier articles said it was Pneumonic Plague. Maybe the independent is taking a step back from that since there’s nothing definitive, but it doesn’t really matter right now (note that this position is different from saying it doesn’t matter at all, or saying to not keep your ear to the ground).

If it’s the plague then it’s treatable with antibiotics, but not the first line ones, and it has to be treated quickly. As we all should know by now if it’s a virus you can only treat the symptoms until there’s a vaccine.

An investment that would pay off if the tech industry went to hell would be Put options on QQQ (an ETF that tracks the NASDAQ-100). You have to get both the timing and the drop correct, and better funded groups with much faster computers AND the ability to make trades to prop up the market while they unload their shit will be competing against you (every options trade has an opposite side and most of them expire worthless). Watch the movies Margin Call and The Big Short for research as much as playing the lottery can be researched (they’re good movies so it’s time well spent anyway). Make a movie night out of it and watch The Other Guys which was directed by the same guy who directed The Big Short. Watch through the end credits.

I didn’t read the article because gizmodo, but as other people here have said, Dr. Burry (he’s played by Christian Bale in The Big Short) often thinks things are going to go south, and there’s usually reason to think so, but in general as Warren Buffett could easily have said, “stonks only go up.” NVDA, AAPL, and MSFT make around 15% or so of the entire world stock market and around 20% of the US market. Nobody’s going to let them collapse and even without the AI craze they still have all the other stuff to fall back on. Thumbs will go on the scale to an extent even greater than the 2008 collapse.

we lost this battle years ago

Have to assume that all the info has been fed into some LLM somewhere at this point. Somewhere there’s probably a computer better at replicating people’s voices to other computers than the people they’re mimicking. Existing databases are the new world now in terms of stripping them for resources, and new ways of thinking of chopping them up and packaging them are where all the innovation is.

Next will be injecting fake records into all the databases so another program will think the record as a whole is real. A person won’t be the person, they’ll be the database entry.

Who GAF about the fact that Nixon definitely was involved in these crimes and taped himself covering it up, it was The Deep State™

Nixon used the southern strategy to make an appeal to racists to restore The Good Ole’ Boy Network which is how people in power or aspire to be in power think the world is supposed to work. He got elected and could then start “fixing” “things.” His impeachment and removal stepping down was a very public example of someone not in the good ole’ boy system disrupted the power structure. Inevitably people bought their way into that system and his removal wiped out the “investments” they made. There’s probably some feeling that the Deep State stole their money, and they want reprecussions for the theft.

A nuclear tugboat model where the shipping boat (“barge”) is attached to the nuclear tugboat by some linkage is probably inevitable. It would give a way to meet security requirements of the barge crew never having access to the tugboat while still having sustainable fuel and not having to redesign all ships. If Maersk didn’t have a research paper somewhere in a drawer doing cost estimates for that, a fully nuclear container ship, and a time estimate for when current fuel sources run out then their 50 year plan is probably incomplete. I’m sure there’s a bunch of companies who’ve done stuff like that without making it public like with Exxon and climate change.

So Space Cowboys 2, except

• Everybody passes the physicals just fine, but all decide to quit instead of going through the onboarding process
• The young punk bad guys in the movie are secretly trying to get an LLM to redesign it, but can’t because the Blackbird was a skunkworks program and some key principal princple either never got written down or DOGE cut the funding to restore the microfiche with the details so all the details got destroyed

EDIT: Spelling.

or threaded messages

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If a thread I was on today is any indication, you look at the post on top, then sometimes the one at the bottom, and just for variety’s sake sometimes there’s a reply in the middle. All MS Outlook generated.

“We need to use America’s health data to determine whether the food we eat, the chemicals we encounter, the vaccines that we’re administering, the other environmental and lifestyle exposures are contributing in one way or another to the chronic disease epidemic,”

Is there a way to buy calls on the accuracy and specificity of actuarial tables, and puts on the number of americans with health insurance?

Good luck blocking SSH. At that point you are looking at just banning computers and networks.

“After blocking every other possible avenue of children having unstructured, unmonitored communications with each other, they have now learned ‘UNIX’ just to spite us! To that end we will now be banning all computers. Think of the children!”

If Europe can hold out until 2029

Why would anyone who considers Europe an advarsary wait until they rebuild their militaries?

During the first impeachment hearings Dr. Hill said a lot of things that are worth remembering. One of those things is that Russia had a plan for whichever candidate won the trump v clinton election.

When done right they complement each other. I’m not going to sit here and argue everyone should be handjamming their own XFree86 config file but there are still a lot of austere environments out there where you don’t really get a GUI. A basic knowledge of VI can go a very long way and as long as someone doesn’t go out of their way to disable terminal access the capability never stops being useful.

Kiosks are a good example of a GUI-only environment, but I’d never want to use one as my main computing environment and don’t understand wanting to be limited to that world (which is not what anyone here has suggested).