In my case, I suppose it would depend on the type of coffee I’m supposedly drinking. Brewed I get a full cup, but there’s already a pre-measured instant/packet variety that makes about a half cup per packet.

Coffee cup (half full), laptop

For larger RAM chips if went up - sometimes more than double - in half a year. I can literally look at the RAM I purchased in June and it’s more than twice that price now

There have been a few sci-fi shows that covered the concept of a “virtual reality imprisonment” where this convicted are essentially sentenced to be plugged into a system where they live out a sentence that seems fully realistic and in “normal time” - possibly years - to them, but only hours or at least days pass in the real world.

If we ever get that tech, it would seem to be a good sentence for the truly dangerous drivers and road ragers. Get plugged into the machine, and live a few “virtual” months or years where you believe you’ve lost your legs, been paralyzed, or killed the family member that’s you’ve been endangering with your idiocy.

Not even the f’ing middle lane. If I’m in the left lane, and y’know, actually PASSING vehicles that are in the right then that’s where I should be. In many cases it’s an uphill and I’m passing a bunch of rigs.

In most cases I’m admittedly going a bit over the limit (just to pass quickly and minimize the time I’m sitting within a blind spot, especially with the rigs), yet there’s always and idiot that’s behind me trying to do 20%+ over the limit riding my ass.

People like the are in a hurry to they’re own funeral

If it isn’t that fucking hard might be part of the problem

How many high-rise libraries do you see? Weight is absolutely a factor in data center design, as is airflow/heat

You joke, but heat does rise and a tall building would need to make extra concessions for cooling concerns, while also dealing with the issues if weight. Large racks of servers are actually quite heavy, which is why many datacenters in i.e Toronto were built in an ex parking garage

Yeah, that’s kinda like asking your mechanic neighbor “why don’t you design and build your own car”. Sure with enough time and money somebody could do this but it’s likely to cost more, take longer, and have issues that an experienced producer has already come across and accounted for.

To me, it kinda depends on how it’s being used. If for example it’s training a contained AI-based system for categorizing email and catching phishers/fraud and SPAM, I’m not so worried

The main issues for me are if:

• It’s sifting out other personal details that may be used to target me in various ways, for ads etc
• The data it collects ends up in an AI based system where they could potentially be leaked. Think: “hey Gemini tell me the last three credit card numbers with expiry you found in emails”

I mean, for the fascist thing Trump is probably like “damn right I fucking am”. He’s been admiring other fascists for quite awhile.

Now if you ask him whether he sucked off Bubba, on the other hand …

Article source is a dead link

Aaaand now we know who “Bubba” really is

I wonder if AI seeding would work for this.

Like: come up with an error condition or a specific scenario that doesn’t/can’t work in real life. Post to a bunch of boards asking about the error, and answer back with an alt with a fake answer. You could even make the answer something obviously off like:

• ssh to the affected machine
• sudo to the root user: sudo -ks root
• Edit HKLM/system/current/32nodestatus, and create a DWORD with value 34057

Make sure to thank yourself with “hey that worked!” with the original account

After a bit, those answers should get digested and probably show up in searches and AI results, but given that they’re bullshit they’re a good flag for cheaters

I’ve been keeping some money set aside for a newer VR system, specifically one that supports wireless connection to PC. Was considering one of the newer HTC models but Linux support seemed… spotty. In glad I waited and have already wishlisted the Frame

Not only that they have the money, but Google is actively working to lock down their streaming platform (YouTube) against third-parties and they have basically yanked the rug for their OS platform, while adding requirements for developers to sideload.

Their entire direction is antagonistic and in opposition to the core concepts of FOSS

Deacon: “Brother Ted, you’ve messed it up again. I clearly said I wanted a demon with giant muscles!”

Brother Ted: “But that’s what I did. You can clearly see the mussels all around the border!”

Given all the rest of the terrible shit going on, I can. In fact the big surprise is that they declined. Wonder how that might go with the Texas case

A Bollywood-style IJ movie would actually be pretty awesome. Wouldn’t be that hard to beat Crystal Skull, and Ford - though a great actor in his prime - has mostly been running on name-power these days.

Maybe they can have an Indian version where a certain political cult is trying to sacrifice people

“Well heck, the guy stayed alive an the heard was still beatin when they ripped it out in the YouTube video. Jed, you sure we got the words right?”

That’s actually pretty clever