Where did the term master recording come from?

Let me go ask my dog if they’re autistic. They’re right over here, screaming about how it’s already 5:31 and I haven’t given them their 5:30 treat yet.

This is a pretty great use case for AI. Instruction manuals exist for almost every product online, so models would be trained on them. Most tech is very similar to each other, so in the context of hardware repair, it should be a reasonable tool.

My favorite part about all this DRM-lockdown that the movie industry loves so much is that gog.com makes tons of money and is successful with zero DRM. People buy games when it’s convenient, they don’t in general share them with 10 friends. Some people pirate, but if I don’t have to deal with DRM from a first-party store, I’m not going to bother with piracy. Meanwhile, the movie industry spends millions on innovative new DRMs that make things worse. I have tried to keep up with 4K Blue Rays, but it’s exhausting. Every 4k player sucks, freezes mid-movie, or refuses to play movies I paid full price for. DRM totally kills my incentive to pay studios for products.

This decade has really been a speed run through ethically dark sci fi classics.

It’s not incompetence. Incompetence is “My unguided drone veered off a few hundred feet and picked the wrong building.” Someone high up intentionally picked Chernobyl as a target because they knew the west would foot the bill at any price, and this war is a spending game top to bottom. They hit their planned target, probably with a meter or two. This wasn’t negligence or incompetence, it was pure malice.

I think it’s a lost cause. Essentially both crypto and AI were big because someone figured out how to offload shit to a GPU efficiently. There’s probably a ton of other appllications for GPUs we haven’t even tapped.

Don’t forget the public transport, which is underwhelming.

It’s less weird when you realize it’s not a hexagon, it’s a sine wave in cylindrical coordinates. There are a lot of negative feedback loops such that a sine wave can turn into a standing wave. You just have to get a little lucky with a couple important things like your rossby number et voila, hexagon.

Paying for Factorio and letting their engineering career pay for your retirement home is way cheaper than saving for retirement!

If I was the only onsite Devops and my professional support lived in Cambridge with an 8 hour time difference, I’d have a hard time not selling corporate secrets to the highest bidder.

As someone who works in the field, that sounds like something I’d pitch to shareholders when I’m trying to steal their money, not when I’m trying to fuse particles.

I spend a lot of time opening files in multiple programs. What would even happen if you switched from a right handed program to a left handed program? It’s completely up to interpretation how to read the orientation.

A left handed coordinate system is absolute blasphemy.

Both Real IDs and passports are the premium options, you pay extra to have them.

I played Saint’s Row 4, does that count?

That’s…not the problematic part there, like at all.

Komtraya!

Fusion releases a daughter particle and a neutron. The daughter particle is much larger and will deposit its energy back into the plasma, the neutron will travel much further until it hits a collector outside the chamber, heating it up, which will heat water. You don’t get to decide which direction the neutron goes, so you have to build this collector around the entire thing.

Gummy bears are also flammable, so this all tracks.