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Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 1) 205

I'm friends with a couple who took their 6 year old daughter to go live in a country with malaria endemic for a year. Docs put the kid on ivermectin for the whole time

I want you to understand that your post makes you sound like an anti-science delusional nutcase.

Why? Because data about ivermectin side effects is available, but you decided to listen to the the self-comforting anecdote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:At what cost? (Score 0) 31

If only that was cheaper than hiring a human to do it..

I purchased a used Radeon Instinct MI50 with 32Gb VRAM on eBay for $360 — in December. it is quite usable with llama.cpp under FreeBSD inside an older (DDR3) workstation. I use it to filter incoming email (with a plugin to SpamAssassin).

That same model is now being sold for over $500. On the one hand, this is the first time in my life a witnessing a piece of computer hardware costing more seven month later.

But on the other limb, it is still cheaper than simply providing a Western developer with coffee for a few months — much less than actually hiring him...

Comment Raises questions? (Score 5, Insightful) 40

The incident raises questions [emphasis mine] about supply chains, audits, and cybersecurity in the British armed forces

Raises questions? No, boys and girls — who slept through the journalist lecturer's implorations against cliches — it does not raise questions. It provides clear and obvious answers...

Comment Re:Disconnecting the car? (Score 1) 248

Why go to effort to duplicate what I already have and already paid for?

Sorry you utterly failed to sell me on this idea.

Because you have the actively user-hostile version, as discussed. It is extremely sad that such tech is user-hostile, and it is equally sad that there aren't enough regulations in place to mandate that such options are opt-in-with-informed-consent, or able to be disabled in a way that retains as much functionality as possible while still respecting an opt-out, but since there is not, the options are either:

1. accept your system in the state in which it currently exists, complete with the ads or potential for them, or

2. disconnect and claw back as much functionality as you can.

You've accepted the first, and it's 100% your right to do so. However, since the situation we currently live in does not allow for both.

Comment Re:Good point! But other makers could fill the gap (Score 1) 69

I think most would agree, porn would be a lot better for society if more "real people" were in it. Instead of a LA fitness instructor with huge breast implants, like we saw in the 80s and 90s and 00s...what if it was actual women and men who are actually in love with their partners and have imperfect bodies? What if lonely people watched healthy, positive, loving sex instead of impersonal performances?

Err...because that gets old and boring REALLY REALLY fast.

No one is watching pr0n to learn relationship lessons....people just want to get off and get back to their day....

And, everyone has a different body type they prefer, etc......there's niches for everyone....

Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 138

I like in a large suburban/urban area and I have to go to the dump for certain kinds of waste (batteries, UPSes, eWaste, etc).

Yeah...we just throw all that stuff in the "regular" trash and they haul it away.

Where you live, do the garbage men actually slow down and stop their jobs to "inspect" your trash, open up bags, etc...to see what you are throwing away in there?

Comment Re:Landfills are such a bad idea (Score 1) 138

I'd think even where you live there is some limit to what the garbage men will take?

Not that I've found yet....garbage, old CRT monitors, pretty much any household waste chemicals / agents, oil...etc. Ive thrown out whole beds (mattress, boxsprings, frames....old bookcases....

I've heard some areas make you sort your trash...I've never lived in such a place as having "trash police" sifting through what you throw out.

recycling was halted years ago, but I think recently they started again, but you have to pay for it, but if you do that program, they do pick it up for you weekly I believe.

Comment Re:Only response (Score 1) 31

By complete coincidence I recently purchased this cordless angle grinder kit after watching a glowing review from one of my regular channels and wondering how good it could be for $75. It's not as good as a Milwaukee but I've been using it around the house and I'm going to modify a shoe rack with it this evening.

Of course this has nothing to do with the story and surely these aren't the types of arms the Framers envisioned when they set the foundation of upholding the Constitution upon the duties of the Citizenry.

Comment Re:What a waste (Score 2) 122

mass incarcerations and deportations for mostly non-criminals (being in the U.S. w/o permission is a civil, not criminal, infraction), etc... Did I miss anything?

You're wrong about the illegal alien crime levels...

Generally, someone that OVERSTAYS a visa, is indeed not a federal criminal offense, but the person IS removable / deportable at that point.

But a persona that has improper or unauthorized access (crossing illegally) indeed violates Federal criminal statute (USC 1325).

Illegal REENtRY after removal: That's a bigger more serious federal crime under (8 USC 1326).

So please quit trying to make all these folks here as illegal aliens as no big deal....many/most of them are guilty of criminal offenses JUST by being here.

And ALL of them here illegally are subject to immediate deportation.

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