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imagine one of these perpetual liars saying the pope is a liar.

I know it’s a long shot but I desperately hope some of them live to regret this behavior.

I’ve heard that almost every single bath tub install has this problem.

Like on a new build the plumbers show up before the pad goes down to run the pipework. They measure out where the waste pipe is according to the plan but it might not be perfect to the mm.

Then the pad goes down. Then the carpenters show up and put up the walls. More measuring and inaccuracies and what have you.

The tub is the last to go in, and there’s always going to be some variance between that first step and the final step, so there’s always going to be something under the tub to connect it to the correct waste water.

We’re planning out a renovation to take place in a few weeks. It’s above ground floor with unrelated tenants below. Our guys need to drill a new waste water hole through a ~150mm concrete floor. The waste water pipes are in the ceiling of the tenancy below. The tenants are being weird about it… “you can only have access on Fridays!”.

That said, our plumbdinger was leaking into their tenancy real bad 2 years ago. We couldn’t really get at it without a full reno, which we didn’t want to do, so we just put silicone on it as best we could with the nozzle through the grate of the bath tub waste water. That running repair has worked for the last 2 years.

Mapping!

Presently I’m using aerial photography to produce a map of local cycle ways and walkways.

I agree that moon stuff is a critical first step to doing anything in space, but my point is that I don’t think sending humans will ever be the best way to do anything.

Bots are just so cheap and effective and disposable by comparison.

How many decades more research and development before we can safely establish a permanent base on mars, and in that time how much more effective and reliable and deployable will bots become?

Eventually the calculation will be: we can afford to do a manned return trip to Mars, or we can afford to solve cold fusion by doing whatever thing with a bot, or something similarly amazing.

I’m not a plumber but there’s a variety of devices designed to address this problem because… everyone has the same problem. The one under our bathtub is called a plumbdinger.

No one has mentioned Open Web UI, which is part of this landscape.

Open Web UI is the chat interface you use to interact with a model. I haven’t really dug into much of the functionality beyond simple chat, but there’s thousands of community plugins for web search and similar. You can also create knowledge bases and attach them to queries. For example if I have a bunch of policy and procedure documents from my work, I can create a knowledge base and ask the LLM to create new policies in that context.

You can configure it to work with ollama, which allows you to run LLMs from huggingface.co and similar on your own hardware.

However, in my own case I just don’t have anything resembling a modern powerful GPU, so I don’t run ollama locally. You can use a paid account at huggingface.co and use their API to do the inference (running the models). Not all LLMs are available this way but certainly many are.

More recently I’ve discovered that OVH, (a french bare-metal host I’ve used for years) provides an inference API for a half dozen models, and I’ve found this to be blistering fast compared to huggingface.

If you give a hospital medicine they will use it.

Irs not only formal education but also just a kind of culture around medical practice.

In a lot of south east Asian countries there’s a real expectation that doctors have to give you medicine. If you go to the Dr with a cold, instead of being told to go home and get some rest, you’ll leave with a goodies bag with all the things: paracetamol, a branded pen, antacid, vitamins, a coffee mug, antihistamine, bubblegum tooth paste, expectorant, a mask, and yes: antibiotics.

Many patients particularly from rural backgrounds, have always experienced medicine as a blend of actual therapy and showmanship. If you get headaches then the treatment is paracetamol for the pain and cupping to remove the bad spirits.

This means real practitioners providing science based medicine really need to uphold the showmanship. Better to give a kid a vaccine they might not need in order to improve the perceived value of the healthcare they received.

I can also imagine situations where a hospital might receive 10,000 doses of a vaccine from an aid organisation but are expected to provide their own hardware.

My experience with dovecot has always been pleasantly surprising. doveadm in particular. Just the documentation seems less readable than it could be.

If i understand correctly addy.io just forwards incoming email to another public facing server. So OP would need to configure and selfhost their own server, even if it only ever receives mail from and sends mail to addy.io.

This might be a potential solution, but I dont think its really what they wanted.

This isn’t really what OP is asking about.

They want emails to reside on their own hardware. So zoho might run the public mail server but OPS own server pulls the mail down from there.

This might be naive but it seems like cheating can only tip things so far in their favour. Perhaps in North Korea you can have Kim elected with 99% support, but aparently you cant just make up the numbers in the US.

I expect things will get desperate in the coming months.

I suspect Trump will try heavy handed public policy, like interfering with interest rates, or handouts for business. Then maybe even a false flag incident in September or so, intending to declare a national emergency.

Is being gay one of those things that people think is in the bible based on the vibe but in fact the bible doesn’t express an opinion?

I don’t really understand the question.

Yes you “can” bring it all in cash, but what will happen is another question.

Like someone else said you’ll pay tax on it. That being the case you’re probably better off trying to deposit it at a bank and transferring it

I guess thats why, in sci fi it’s only used on ring shaped objects. A ship with a ring around its mid section, or a space station, or the expanse has a barrel shaped ship.

I disagree.

Its slightly firmer science than star trek, but it still makes a lot of license IMO.

I dont think the cost of sending humans to Mars or to do asteroid mining will ever be justified. Bots, and not humanoid ones will explore the frontier of space, and collect the minerals we need.

If you think about all the stuff humans need to survive for any length of time it just doesn’t make any sense to send a human.

Not so much lost but, its an entirely new tech stack. So any solutions we might have had in the past are no longer appropriate solutions.

Thats a weird take.

Literally everything that just went to the moon and back is “new”.

Yes, we have been to the moon before but that doesn’t mean that all the cool stuff we just did is not an amazing achievement.

This flyby is a necessary precursor to landing and doing those cool things.

They need to take tiny incremental steps because the cost of a fuckup is so great.

If the public has to watch someone expire in space due to a malfunction the existing candle flame of support for these endeavours would be snuffed out.

Ay?

Do you mean only the super rich will be able to travel?

The only travel anyone will be doing in the next 100 years or more will be going to the moon to squeeze into a tiny smelly hab module to figure out how to avoid getting regolith in your ass crack.

I think space travel will be the exclusive reserve of hard core science nuts.

Even in say 500 years. Will there be a “colony” on Mars with anything more than a dozen science nerds? I doubt it.