The Streisand Effect is very rarely understood by the kind of emotional infants Trump prefers to surround himself with.

Trump is trying to get an F-18 shot down, just the same as he was praying a nat’l guard member would get shot down, so he can justify doing whatever the fuck he wants.

They are useful for doing the kind of boilerplate boring stuff that any good dev should have largely optimized and automated already. If it’s 1) dead simple and 2) extremely common, then yeah an LLM can code for you, but ask yourself why you don’t have a time-saving solution for those common tasks already in place? As with anything LLM, it’s decent at replicating how humans in general have responded to a given problem, if the problem is not too complex and not too rare, and not much else.

I don’t like to judge idiots too harshly, but if you bought a product marketed as an encrypted toilet camera you deserve whatever happens to you

Where I live I see mom and dad getting pulled over all the time for going 30 in a 25 on the way to drop Little Timmy off at preschool, so different everywhere I guess. I wish cops would focus on catching people who’ve committed major crimes rather than being citation money printing presses.

Oh yeah, I was not even considering trying to jam everything in that tiny case and getting the cooling and cabling sorted out. I would for sure skip that and just go with a standard mid-size tower, were I going to try this (I’m not)

Well first we don’t know the price, other than “like a PC” unless I missed something.

Second, sure, someone like me, who already has the background and experience building gaming PCs, maybe (maybe) I could replicate most of the specs at the same cost, possibly even improve them in a few areas. But economies of scale, the labor on my end, shifting market prices… Unless Valve is marking these things up like 50% or more I just don’t see how an individual is going to compete on cost once you include labor.

Wait Dad, you just gonna leave us hanging without a link?? 🤣

yeah aren’t these wild? I have a handful I use with the local models on my PC, and they are, quite literally, magic spells. Like not programming exactly, not English exactly, but like an incantation lol

oh awesome, and thanks for sharing the link…just once I’d like to be under-informed in a positive direction rather a negative direction 😪

Boy EA really hit rock bottom and just kept on a-diggin til they struck oil didn’t they.

How much worse could our fuel economy standards be than they already are? Does Hummer want to make something that gets 5 MPG instead of 7 lol? Not that it matters very much at all, manufacturers already don’t meet existing standards and just pay the fine each year, which is a drop in the bucket to them. So “rolling back” these standards is basically just telling Chrysler “hey, you know how you have to bribe us with about 200m a year to do whatever you want with fuel economy? Yeah let’s just forget that fee going forward.” The fines for violating our standards is just a tiny cost of doing business for them, nothing more. As they say, if the penalty for breaking some rule is a fine, then it’s only a rule for poor people.

That’s why almost no one does it other than the US, we get to have over 750 of them in more than 80 countries! And at the same time, we would absolutely lose our freedom-loving minds if another country wanted to build one in America.

In highschool we used to just repeat large portions of the script of Grail to each other in place of actual human conversation. I can still trot out the whole “Old woman!” scene by memory when the moment calls for it.

Or “like my dear Pa-Par” in some versions 🤣

Everyone trying to look serious or intellectual and Cleese just grinning like an idiot in the background love it

totally agree, they should all be regulated and taxed and the quality assured by law. The same as any other potentially-dangerous item you might want to buy. Works just fine for weed where I live, and it completely blew the bottom out the black market and everything that entails. We’re doing mushrooms next and no reason to stop there.

All that could very well be true, but Russia has also blown through all their best men, ammo, and gear like 2 years ago at this point. They’ve been using shit from the cold war and north korea and even ww2 tanks in some cases. They’ve forced or bribed every russian man into service they can realistically afford and are using expensive and ill-trained foreign troops who are closer to slaves than soldiers. They’re being issued paintball gear instead of body armor in some cases for goodness sakes. They’ve had to re-insitute the Stalin-era orders that any man refusing to advance or fight will be shot. Russia, like the USSR before it, looks way scary on paper, but is so rotten, corrupt, and hollowed out in reality that it threatens to collapse dramatically at any moment honestly.

If Russia somehow has enough left in the tank to go toe-to-toe with every European military at the same time, then they should have easily beat Ukraine with such a force at any point in the last 3 years. The fact that they are unable to muster the resources to push over even little Ukraine bodes really really badly for them if more nations get directly involved.

Oh I know, just pointing out that not only is it a pointless smoke show for the faithful, but it actively hinders trying to roll up these organizations by killing the very people that could help us take them down.

haha yep that message was a more a secret one for my fellow browncoats ;) That opening battle scene blew my mind so much when I first saw it, like the Buffy guy made this? For TV? On a TV budget?!