Its the culling of the herd. They feel they know best what the make up of the country should be. Its the same thing as eugenics. It makes sense if you think helping the disabled is a waste of resources.

How do you develop this point of view? How did people become convinced the h man was right? People are susceptible to propaganda. I heard the comments on popular sites about Taylor Swift being pro right after her last album was 25% astroturf. Heard from Phil Defranco on yt, there was a study.

Go look at the shit on truth social. I’ve met people that only look at the conservative part of the web, like fox news junkies of the last 25 years. They’re radicalized by astroturf, then hide in these echo chambers. Most of the discourse is directed by people with vested interest in political outcomes.

People I was friendly with were trying to say Charlie Kirk would have been a good president when he died. He was such a kind and selfless Christian, they say. I cant find anything defendable in his media output, but once you’re radicalized, its just about hitting the talking points. “Woke ideology.” “Trans mind virus.” “Communists and Socialists.” “Empathy is bad for our coutry.” Once you believe you’re surrounded by enemies, its easy to be manipulated by fear.

Ok. R5 3600, rtx 3070, and 4 spinning drives. Idles at 62W. 80W under normal load (2 concurrent streams). This is a hilariously over specced NAS. This is all 2nd or 3rd life pc parts (outside of the spinning rust), so financially speaking I’m happy with the result.

The long term goal is to use it as a homelab separate from anything I need to work all the time. I want to try running some LLMs locally and use it to control some home automation stuff. That’ll stress it.

Edit: so yeah its double yours.

At idle or under normal load? Im tempted to get the killawatt out.

Ok, im glad im not the only one that wants a responsive machine for video streaming.

I ran a pi400 with plex for a while. I dont care to save 20W while I wait for the machine to respond after every little scrub of the timeline. I want to have a better experience than Netflix. Thats the point.

Capitalism protects the capital (goods, and equipment, on a truck), and values human lives at approx $3 million (based on financial cost for the company when a life is lost).

The value of the truck and the contents of the trailer are frequently greater than the value of the driver for a given trip, and therefore justify more caution and care than any given patient in a doctor’s office.

He needs to take a long walk, on a short pier.

“You cant force me to be a decent human being!”

You know shit is off the rails when the unibomber is starting to sound reasonable.

I’ve personally got a lot on my plate. In trying to survive. There was a time I was more active, but its a young man’s/woman’s game.

I thought the nazi propaganda on the internet was annoying 20 years ago when I occasionally bumped into it. Now I’ll have to carefully curate the internet to not have to hear it constantly. Jfc.

A bed that connects to the internet is not a smart bed. Thats fucking stupid.

I dont think they’re buying the spin. The maga folks i know arent.

We just need to recreate abiogenisis and billions of years of evolution? Um ok.

Legit. Do you need to feed it your code base at all? How does it know what needs to be tested otherwise?

This sounds to me like saying you have enough feathers in the grocery bag you’re holding. All you need now is a beak, and you’ll make yourself a duck.

X doubt

Anyone suggesting Ford or Toyota start 3d printing their fastening hardware in-house should have the head checked.

That’s the point of the analogy. You can do this, but in most cases, you probably shouldn’t, and you will get better results for less time and money with the traditional method.

Ok, im a hardware dev. They’ve tried to make us do software style project management every time there’s a new fad (agile last time). It usually doesn’t fit.

What do you find them useful for in your role? Like a coding partner, you can ask questions? Or linting? Im at a loss in my role. I need to know the proprietary code base to write a single line of value. We aren’t allowing anyone to train an ai on our code. Thats a huge security problem if anyone does.

That’s about being willing to eat the nre for one-off special purpose parts that have geometries not attainable by casting or machining.

3d printing is not the default fabrication method now that we’re getting good at it. It just shines in certain applications.

AI is often pitched as being able to do anything, eventually. We even try to use passive fail safes over active ones, a century after electricity became commonly available. Because that will always be a better solution by the nature of the options. AI is the same way. It is a distillation of human English language that is written. Why you would think that that could eventually replace all software developers, or any other field that produces text as its output makes any sense is beyond me. I can’t see how that could be true.

Like a 1/4 20 bolt? Or and m3 screw?

Or are we talking about spiral threads incorporated into your design?

Wow you did it! How much data to hit critical mass?