linearchaos

linearchaos , 6 days ago

I started Russian Duolingo a while back. You can make English sentences that would take five or six words in two words under first impressions the language doesn't f*** around it gets right to the point.

But then I started getting to conjugations and it turns into a dumpster fire real quick.

linearchaos , 5 days ago

Yeah that's seriously like a super power, just reading names on social media feels so good

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Nah, it was self-defense, she was coming right for him, and then he heard an acorn.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

At the rate we're going centrism may not be sustainable

linearchaos , 6 days ago

That's how religion keeps power. Only our group are righteous and are doing it right.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Why'd you pick me up?

Why'd you take me out of my house

and kill my parents with me? Ain't you committed to me?

Where are we fuckin' goin'?

Though Yolanda AKA Honey Bunny from Pulp Fiction it a close second.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

And the principal was granted a restraining order prior to this and is now been granted in no contact order against this guy.

We'll never know the whole truth. But it is leaning toward the daughter thinks the principal is a good guy and the father of questionable reputation.

linearchaos , 6 days ago

Find a job where you're never without something to do.

linearchaos , 10 days ago

That's bananas!

linearchaos , 10 days ago

0, but at some point I'll roll another and swap. Even Lemmy doesn't need to know that much about me :)

linearchaos , 10 days ago

There's tires with a circumference of 13.2 ft.... Chef's Kiss

linearchaos , 10 days ago

When I visited Ireland I was very impressed by the Irish cartoons. Anywhere I went I hardly heard a lick of anything but English, but it was obvious what they were there for and it was very cool thing.

linearchaos , 11 days ago

I'm balanced.

I'll help you push you car. I'll hold the door for anyone, I'll let you in, in traffic. I'll over-tip the wait staff, even the ones having a bad day. I give kids in my neighborhood freezypops when it's hot AF. I'll go out of my way to make sure your food allergy is covered and you'll have safe snacks at my gathering.

I won't give the guy begging on the corner money. I won't help you forever if you never reciprocate. You skip a paycheck, I won't wait for you to get it sorted.

I won't remember that you hate mushrooms. I won't remember your kids name or wife's face. I'll forget you birthday if it's not in my calendar. I'll tell you I need to focus on something for an hour and go take a nap.

linearchaos , 11 days ago

Maybe it's Mandela but I really think he did this on video...

linearchaos , 11 days ago

Maybe this will be the straw the causes them to port librelec to it

linearchaos , 10 days ago

Huh, turns out I can never go to Romania. I would eat until I pop.

linearchaos , 12 days ago

When firing people is difficult, it's not infrequent to promote them to hire someone useful to backfill.

Those people keep rising the ladder through seniority and attrition.

They never do anything bad enough to get fired and just make everyone below them miserable cuz they don't understand the business and like to prove that they're in charge because of fear of inadequacy.

linearchaos , 17 days ago

There's no clear path from getting the computer out of the box just setting it up without internet. If you call the manufacturer and they know what the hell they're doing they'll walk you through doing the OOBE no internet fix. It just needs to be an option in the damn operating system. The fact that they're hiding it from you is unconscionable.

linearchaos , 16 days ago

I hope they haven't disassembled it and sold it on eBay for bribe money

linearchaos , 20 days ago

I can't fault him for any of his depth and character building and poetry and storytelling and descriptive environments it was all very thorough and for the right person wonderful. I think the movies did a giant justice to making his work accessible. There are a lot of people out there that can't manage to make their way through his poetry sections. And you can't not read the poetry sections because there's definitely content in there you need.

linearchaos , 21 days ago

Yes!

Probably a couple of times a year, some interesting product will catch my eye. It doesn't necessarily mean I'd be willing to buy the product. The last thing I clicked on was a yarbo ad. There's no way in hell I'm going to pay 5 to 10 grand for a robot tractor, but to be honest the thing looks pretty cool. I watch the entire ad did a quick search for pricing and what about my day. Now I'll probably see 420,000 different ads for it but that's okay it still looks pretty cool.

linearchaos , 26 days ago

You could make automatic breaking without a full blown computer, but it's so much cheaper to put a full-blown computer than it is to do it all in hardware. Everything uses turing complete equipment now, it's actually less expensive at this point.

There's absolutely no reason not to put multiple computers in the car I think the real win is not surfacing it to the end user.

linearchaos , 27 days ago

Oh my God my wife bought this bean bag once. It was a photography thing so it had to be absolutely packed full. So the skin came folded up in this tiny little plastic bag and then it came with three giant bags of styrofoam balls.

If you stuck your hand in the back and pulled it out it would just be coated. I spent hours just trying to scoop them into the bean bag.

When I got to the second bag to fill I found a long narrow box and taped it up to the side of the bean bag slice the bean bag open and used it to pour them through.

The whole experience was awful. And the cleanup took nearly as long as the fill.

linearchaos , 27 days ago

Nah, all the original data came from humans. If it was all good and happy and properly tagged correctly there'd be no intervention.

Unfortunately they scraped it from wherever in the hell they could get it from and it's not all tagged correctly.

I'm sure they use more AI to pre-grade it, but at some point a set of real eyes need to verify that something is what it's supposed to be.

This is more of a blood diamonds or fair trade coffee thing, US legislation isn't going to have anything to do with it. You need to expose the places using the data.

linearchaos , 27 days ago

I used to work in a company that was VC adjacent.

Most of the people sitting on piles of money don't have any knowledge or radar to help them negotiate where to put it. They lean heavily on other people to tell them what to invest in.

When AI first started getting big everybody was guessing where the curve was going to be and where the technology was going to head. The people guiding the venture capitalists were putting their oars in the water early.

To be fair there's a lot of money to be made in AI assistants if they can manage to run the back end affordably. If you're asking Google, Siri, and Alexa complicated questions they're miserably fit for the task. But when we get to the point where you can expect a reasonable answer from something like look up all the places to rent cars near Tucson Arizona give me the cheapest price with the best reviews. Or tutor my kid on basic calculus, test him, and give me a report on where he needs more assistance. That kind of stuff is worth money and something that many people with money will pay for.

This form factor is off-putting and honestly AI at this point is still only mostly right.

The VCs are all over AI and there's opportunity there. Just not on every product and probably not yet.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Medical care, Pharmacy, Schools, Daycare, Elder care, End of life care, prisons.

These things should not generate revenue with the target of making rich people richer.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Insurance is an interesting case. You're paying into a loan you might never take out in case an unlikely event happens. The entire reason the companies stay in business is because people never take the money out.

Instead of "insurance", make it work like a mandatory 401k. You have to pay into it, it's yours for retirement, but you can draw against it. Qualifying life events happen you can draw against it up to a point. you can pay it back down.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

For most intents and purposes the cheap harbor freight infrared thermometer is as good as the far more expensive models.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Not as such. But it also doesn't mean that it can't have catastrophic results.

Your water heater has an overpressure valve, but just one. A failure in that valve and a temperature regulator and you can have your hot water heater shooting up through your roof.

Your furnace has a control board. It turns the gas on, hits the igniter, watches for flame. An older, shittier designs, it was entirely possible for just one or two sensors to go bad and run the furnace to the point of melting down and have the house burned down. Source: happened to me on vacation many decades ago.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Those red and blue dots are damned close together for one guy that incited a coup, kept mein kampf on this nightstand writes love letters to Putin and IL.

Biden is nowhere near where I want him to be policy-wise, But to try to put them close together on social issues is disingenuous

The political compass site is far from scientific.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

All peolpe who say all liberals aren't left are idiots who like to lump everyone into one box to make their point.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Nuance is about subtlety. Nothing here is subtle.

There are clear differences between destroying the planet by eating meat and driving a car and supporting the guy with Mein Kampf on his nightstand who publically Idealizes Dictators.

linearchaos , 1 month ago

Can we try once? Just give him a night, let him know what he's up against?

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Npm isnt horrible for that.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Go Ronny Boy! Bleed em dry!

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Well, the were exiting through the windshield quickly back in the day...

linearchaos , 2 months ago

All magnets and "chefs" over here

linearchaos , 2 months ago

ok, I snorted.... well played.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Secret? Their playbook literally has four bullet points and this is #2.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

As soon as anyone starts arguing in bad faith I just block them. I don't really care what they have to say about me for my argument.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I would love better blocking. But I understand the costs of doing that in a truly federated environment. I'll just settle for not caring what they actually say about me. The whole point of the trolling is to get a rise out of someone.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

If he doesn't get in this is a foregone conclusion. Untaxable donations, tax shelter for purchases. Every Trump property will become a church campus, every collection attempt religious oppression.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Oh grandma what big teeth you have.

It's coming from inside the house...

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Tennessee: old enough to make assembly line lawn mower parts

Florida: not old enough for social media.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Cracks? Cracks! These are not cracks, these are features of our product. Their features of our business! It's what differentiates us from the fractured Windows and Android communities. You want these crac...err features, you need them because it makes our products better.

/s

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Wild animals are 100% preservation first. The elephants, seals and sea lions that you see being nice to people have been trained that people are not a threat.

linearchaos , 2 months ago

Touche!

linearchaos , 2 months ago

I mean, unpatchable vulnerability. Complacent, uncomplacent, I'm not real sure they look different.