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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    We still ahve one of those macs in our storage from from the wife's college days. Unrelated:
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Three racoons in a trenchcoat.... One here to talk the technology One in Politics to talk social ramifications Kinda surprised there isn't one in the stonkhouse to talk about the market/stock/money game around AI....
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    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    That's actually been documented as possibly the biggest problem with his acting career. He's of a light build with boyish looks, which doesn't translate into "Hollywood leading man" (i.e. the Hemsworths, Cavills, etc...) which has been attributed to reasons the non-Spidey films he's been in as...
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    Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)

    Well, at it's core, the character is BOTH a quip throwing jovial hero, and a troubled young dude going through a seemingly perpetual string of bad moments, always has been. The ongoing mantra in the comics is that Peter Parker can never really have a happy ending and Stan Lee even once talked...
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    Soccer 2022–2023 (EPL, La Liga, etc)

    Most interesting part of being someone who lives in Dallas during this is watching the rotation of people from foreign countries coming to town for the World Cup and having their every loving minds blown by food in Texas. Then Twitter of course pumps me feed full of it since I have a lot of...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I thought a few in here might get a reasonable chuckle from this.. as I did.
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    You know you're getting old when.....

    I've been a big fan of the poop in a box method which my Dr is OK with so far. But considering my kidney tumor adventure last year I fully expect that will change with this next go around. I saw this one and was curious, but since I'm not 3+ years clear from the kidney thing I can leverage it...
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    Clarkson's Farm

    Yeah, and remember, that more major surgery he went in for was back last year. He's apparently said they won't know if he's clear and good until towards the end of this year. But Amazon has already approved a season 6. He's definitely had one of those "so bad it gives you some perspective"...
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    Metalworking Thread (aka Haus indulging his inner mountain dwarf)

    So decided to spend the weekend unwinding and getting some repetition in on copper casting to try to get a little better at it... Notes from the weekend.... Always use some copper phosphorous to degas and avoid the little pits and bubbles on the surfaces Best polishing is around 48 hours in...
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    Post Your Pet

    One of our dogs still has her "favorite blankee". She will pull it around the patio, and if she does something she gets chastised for she'll go grab it, bunch it up between her front paws, and suck on it like a pacifier... I'll see about grabbing pics next time she does.
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    Stargate SG-1

    This is kinda where I'm at on this at this point in time. Same way people are "rediscovering" old games on actual physical media because the current game industry is such hot garbage. Many are rediscovering old shows that hold up. SG-1 , IMHO, holds up well. Embrace and love it for what it...
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    Investing General Discussion

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    You know you're getting old when.....

    I've been pondering those options as well. Just strange that in the past it was always "When the wife or I need a better gaming rig, the old system becomes the hand me down to my home lab" and if I build s rig for this that direction will now reverse.... Possibly the AMD, or an Nvidia Spark box.
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    Spider-Noir

    The wife and I finished this tonight, we've been trying to stretch out series so we have something to watch. We also did the B&W run on it and I thought it looked great. During it I did wonder how they "pulled off color" since I remember learning a long time ago about the "everything is...
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    Oklahoma

    Only around 3-4% of the US workforce is actually paid minimum wage. Where is REALLY matters is in all those union contracts which are negotiated with wages being a given multiplier of the minimum wage. So a bump in minimum wage equates to a huge pay off to labor unions for the most part.