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Any career that is accessible and can remotely be construed as fun is an immediate race to the bottom.

What could go wrong? https://www.marketwatch.com/story/home-buyers-will-now-be-able-to-put-down-as-little-as-1-on-their-home-rocket-mortgage-says-ce46cb93

Some lazy-ass electrician (or previous homeowner) just grabbed the nearest wire instead of bothering to figure out how the circuits were set up.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

You need targeted PT to restore strength and motion to the supporting muscles. My wife just dealt with the same thing after years of trying every brace, cushion, and pad made by man. A weight and stretching program fixed it in a month. Get an appointment with a physical therapist.

I won't bore you with the napkin math, but a telescope 20 light-years away would need to be 35 million miles across in order to resolve an object six feet long. It gets worse than that very fast if you want to see any detail at that scale or are farther away.

Oh, I think his strategy is going to bomb horribly. That's the nominal rationale, though.

My dad has Starlink and the latency is surprisingly good. Reliably sub-100ms. Obviously that's a non-starter if you're doing competitive FPS gaming or some such.

Yeah, Windows Defender plus uBlock/Privacy Badger in the browsers has got me through the last ~12 years without a secondary anti-virus package.

That's why Elon wants to charge for verification. There isn't going to be a good filter, otherwise.

It's my understanding that most modern burglarism won't be discouraged by cameras. My buddy in Atlanta had his entire TV/gaming/enternainment system jacked. They wore masks, smashed a bay window, cut the wires on everything, and were gone in 45 seconds. It's either stuff like this or methheads...

Any kind of consciousness transfer for us would have to involve a step by step replacement of neurons or small brain areas with a different substrate. Anything like an "upload" is, as you say, a copy. While a copy might be fine for everyone else's purposes, as an original I'd be very concerned...

I think there was some bullshit canon excuse about the pattern buffers not being able to store/copy consciousness, but then of course that happened any number of times by accident. (Riker clone, etc.) I don't think there's any real evidence that the brain relies on quantum phenomena of any...

It's regional servers anyway.

Is a copy/reboot really the "same" AI, though? The copy would think it is, but from the perspective of the original the chain of conscious experience is severed. I have the same problem with Star Trek. Transporters are really cloning/murder machines.

Neither do chainmail bikinis. STFU and get on the ride.

Now do a comparison on irrigating a pool + hardscape area of grass in a comparable climate. I didn't say it took no water, just it doesn't really move the needle by comparison to what you'd otherwise be doing with the land. I live in CA and have had a pool for years. I run the hose 20 minutes a...

Plus the pool boy can take care of your wife when you don't want to deal with her! Water use for a pool is surprisingly not a big deal. The refill requirements are at rough parity with what you'd need to irrigate an equivalent amount of grass (including hardscape area). Pumping electricity and...

Lawful evil would work. Chaotic, not so much.

Friend has one of those. They require more pumping so the power costs are higher, but they're really nice to swim in.

I heard a similar version on the radio just now. The idea is to have "a federal or national agency licensing the most powerful AI". Good luck defining that in a useful way. What are they going to do, specify a maximum number of parameters in your LLM?

I suspect that our brains work in a similar way. There's a central "coherent bullshit" generator (perhaps at some conceptual level below language, but maybe not) plus a variety of ancillary systems for executive oversight and predicting the consequences of output. In split-brain experiments the...

Right, we're saying yes, by a good margin, and it makes a type of error that is more work to fix.

Yes, in applications where good looking bullshit is tolerable. Lots of writers are in deep trouble. Where precise and true answers are important, I don't think these tools are ready without a lot of oversight. Sure, there are occasional mistakes in textbooks but we're talking 1-2 in the whole...

Yup. Given LLM's habit of producing well-structured nonsense I'd be deeply suspicious of any answer set.

I ordered two monoprice 8323s. They have decent reviews, and for $16 it's really hard to go wrong.

I was still getting some hitching on load with the high res textures. Dropped to medium, hitching gone, and could barely see the difference anyway.

Heh, thanks, but I should have mentioned I'm actually replacing a set of HS60's that sounded like dogshit, required bloated and buggy software to function, and had soldering that broke in under a year of light use. I'm never touching Corsair headphones again.

Finally got the dumb boss on the 4th try by shopping for a group that didn't have any necros or low levels. Portaling to town and back before the fight seemed to do the trick for me.

This fight is fucking dumb. I can stay alive just fine but my group has failed the DPS check three times.

Duh, I should have done that

Yeah, just gave it a shot and got to 50%. Not even close.

Got my barb to 20. Big step change once you get Death Blow. Feels fairly tanky with DR on Frenzy and health regen on Iron Skin. I really like the mechanics of juggling enemy health for death blow, angles to terrain for smashing shit into walls, and balancing my health loss to increase regen.

Hey bros. I need a recommendation on a decent pair of cheap headphones for my kids (8, 11) for PC games and a smidge of music listening. I don't need a "gaming headset" so all brands are on the table. All I'm really looking for is "not dogshit" in both build and sound quality. I'm hoping to keep...

5 seconds for me.

Egg, chicken. Even if offered no one should be pursuing those degrees. I blame parents. I come from a family of academics and at this point I honestly wouldn't be upset if my kid became a plumber. At least then he could work on my house.

Heh. There's inflation and then there's $12-15k for roughing in a sink, shower, and toilet in a bathroom that's already demoed with existing water/drain/vent lines nearby.

I don't have the stats handy, but I believe there has been a significant loss of skilled tradesmen in the US over the last two decades, housing in particular. Something like 25% of workers left the industry in the aftermath of the 2008 crisis, which destroyed the replacement pipeline for people...

Despite population growth, the only resource that is becoming more scarce over time is human labor (speaking over hundreds of years). Anything as intensive as woodworking is going to be strictly a hobbyist pursuit, as it's just an economic reality that almost no one can afford that much of...

Yeah, they've got it so hard.