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Comment When does the host do anything? (Score 1) 118

Stayed at a rental in Omaha... Beautiful neighborhood and a very nice house. From a glance. Great location. But the lawn wasn't great. Leaves needed raked, basically they did the bare minimum mowing. The trash was heaped up and overflowing. Did anyone show up and put the trash cans on the curb? The deck was getting a bit old, the grill seemed like a toss aside charcoal grill that wasn't super safe. (You couldn't kill the airflow when you were done to quickly drop the temps. I grill/smoke on charcoal a lot and would've thrown it away.) The inside was not great. Furniture was an odd ball mix of things from who knows where. Basement was very dank/musty/stinky. Other clues like that too. Basically this house should've just been sold off to a family that could love it and take care of it and make it a home. Very sad. Basically had all these clues that the owner/manager was doing the very minimum they could get away with. But hey, let's worry about what the renter should/shouldn't do...

Comment Re:Ok (Score 3) 53

They've gone from being infamous for offering no support to pretending to offer support?

I guess it will help people who haven't yet tried everything on their own before they figure out there is no support.

Happy to be proven wrong and learn that the chatbots are empowered to fix things.

Comment Re:This is fine but still, what a mess (Score 2) 71

They can easily be downloading and using it locally/airgapped to get an open weights and measures system.

But that's the problem - an organization as big as the DC regime needs to control what its agents think to maintain discipline.

Marc Andreesen spoke about this when the Biden admin told him to not invest in AI startups because they wouldn't be allowed.

Controlling the Big Three is much more manageable but with hundreds you can't maintain an effective hivemind.

What's good for the country isn't usually what's good for the government.

Comment Buzz Aldrin (Score 1) 38

Buzz has spoken on more than one occasion about a radio source and a structure on Phobos that is being kept hush-hush.

Then he stopped talking about it and won't say why when asked.

"I got bad information from a dope playing a practical joke on me" would have been easy.

Maybe Japan will show something interesting. Maybe the probe will mysteriously fail at an inopportune time.

I'll be glad to see the question resolved if it can be.

Mysteries are fun but discoveries are more interesting.

Comment Based (Score 1) 201

He's right, you know, but the demand is self-feeding.

It's necessary to have more successful non-MBA companies outcompete the race-to-the-bottom companies.

We need better social systems to punish the psychopathic impulse. It needs to be more profitable to not exploit people.

I've lost track of how many companies I'm boycotting but most people don"t have time to think abour that.

Comment Interesting (Score 2) 23

Companies that sell control systems with proprietary software running on Windows could distribute their software running on Wine/OpenBSD as an appliance without reengineering the application.

Windows updates/hardware abandonment etc. are real headaches while control systems ought to be secure.

GPL virality has many vendors scared of linux appliances, warranted or not.

Comment Re:manual intervention? (Score 1) 19

They could breed the algae separately and load up a UAV with "bath bombs" buoyant at the correct depth to deploy them where it sees bleaching. One of the large solar powered planes wirh giant wings would suffice. Speed isn't valuable, just range and payload. Payload can be multiplied with increased numbers of aircraft.

With polarized lenses and sufficient ML cameras it should be quite precise.

Some work would need to be done to work out dispersants and adhesives.

It wouldn't be conceptually different than the fish breeding and stocking operations already common in most states, just more complicated.

Comment Re:I'm jus' a simple country engineer (Score 1) 73

Yeah, would a smart speedbag be illegal, if held?

More importantly this is all clearly theater, not a contest.

It almost seems like a MIC play to get people to be OK with humanoid soldiers.

The real Terminators can't lose to a human in martial combat.

Perhaps the boxing commission is complicit in the psyop.

Comment Real Foresight (Score 2) 22

I remember reading sometime around '98 his projection that by 2012 it would be less expensive to unicast video than to reach the same person by broadcast.

It seemed fantastical to those of us paying $200/mo for a 128K line and a 320x240 QuickTime was impressive.

A few smart people may have paid attention and skated to where the puck would be

Sure enough Youtube and the like really exploded around that time.

I'm pretty sure in '98 I didn't understand the sheer variety of content that would emerge and thought he meant the big networks might move their shows to the Internet. I remember investigating the mbone around then as unicasting didn't make sense to me. In some ways it still doesn't.

Bob got it, though.

Somewhere I have a Marc Stevens book on atomic energy collecting dust on a book shelf. I should probably see how much he got right in retrospect.

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