2 girls one brush?

Shoot first, ask questions never.

You want to ask questions? You get shot first

Yeah we’ve had snow in the end of April, spring just does their own thing. Today it’s 10 C outside, you most definitely need a jacket.

No, we need to stop using all AI systems as soon as possible. Show the companies behind them that there is no market, no interest, no future profits.

They’ve been dumping all this AI crap for free or way too cheap. The idea is to create a market which can be exploited in the future. However this isn’t sustainable, they have poured billions into this, there is no way they are ever going to make that money back. It’s just a matter of time before the bubble collapses and it will make the dotcom bubble popping look like a fish farted in the ocean. And for you people too young to remember what that bubble bursting was like, it was bad. The sooner the bubble bursts, the less bad it will be.

This all wouldn’t matter as much, fuck the companies right? Except the little side effect of this whole thing is us using up our precious resources, using up our planet, bringing about horrific scenarios at an alarming pace. We’ve barely seen what climate change can do, but at this pace we are going to find out.

And don’t get your hopes up on the technology improving and becoming more useful. More and more indicators have shown the diminishing returns are hitting hard. And it was a kind of one time thing, one opportunity to train models on all the data humans created and put on the internet. Now that more and more of the internet is being AI generated and people closing access to AI crawlers, the well has been poisoned. All that crappy data created worse performing models, not better. Sure with more raw power and clever tricks the performance can get somewhat better, but it needs to be much much better to do what companies tell you it can do, in order to sell it.

And I haven’t even mentioned the morality issues, copyright issues, propaganda/control and educational issues. Let alone accidentally hitting the singularly and wiping out humanity due to some paperclip problem.

Exceptions exist, like expert systems / machine learning in data processing and analysis. But we’ve had those for decades and just recently got the AI label to ride the hype.

AI needs to go away, sooner rather than later.

Far Cry 5 is by far my favorite of the franchise. Interesting world, good gameplay, fun mechanics. It doesn’t take itself very seriously, but still has a more serious story. Everything meshes really well and it’s a ton of fun in coop.

Far Cry 6 was a huge letdown, I hated it. Lots of re-used assets, dumb game mechanics, story very predictable and not interesting. When it released performance was terrible with lots of crashes and bugs. And not the fun kind of jank like in most FC games, the this is annoying my mission is softlocked kind of bugs. Plus it felt like 3 games in 1 which didn’t really have anything to do with each other. Later I found out this was because multiple teams worked on the different parts which didn’t really communicate as much due to covid.

Chapter 1

Aragorn sped on up the hill. Every now and again he bent to the ground. Hobbits go light, and their footprints are not easy even for a Ranger to read, but not far from the top a spring crossed the path, and in the wet earth he saw what he was seeking.

Suddenly a new voice could be heard. ‘Hi, I’m Grady and this is Practical Engineering’, Grady said.

Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

Why can’t we live in the dumb timeline where Twitch chat plays US Government? They rename the station to “PENIS STATION <3”. but then gift a bunch of money so the station actually gets overhauled and better than ever, so everyone accepts the name.

This timeline sucks.

Drinking too much milk makes your bones harder, not stronger. This means they become more brittle and have a greater chance of breaking.

They are very good indeed. I love the taste of sour in candy, but since I’m an old man my stomach can’t take it.

Cola is a bit harder than the bears tho. The bears are like silk, very soft and bouncy and melt in your mouth.

Why yes I do have a bag of bears in front of me right now. I know it says Share size, but this is my bag. Get your own bag if you want some.

Yeah I always laugh when movies or TV portrait a character being good at strategy by depicting them being good at chess. Those two have zero relation. Total war on the other hand, get good at that and you’re cracked at strategy

I was in a hotel last month that had that, and the led was blue as well. I pulled it forward out of it’s little cubby and unplugged that fucker right away. I meant to plug it back before checkout, but I forgot, oops.

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And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well

I hate that this is actually how the universe works, total BS.

I bet it was the jacket that sealed the deal

Please note whilst the jist of this diagram is correct, it’s not drawn properly. The sun is so far away and much larger than the Earth. This means sunlight is about as parallel as it can be once it gets to Earth. So the lines aren’t going through the atmosphere at different angles. The angle is the same, but since the Earth is a sphere it will travel through more atmosphere before hitting the ground.

It’s not just the cloud cover and going through more atmosphere, it’s also the amount of energy per square meter hitting the ground. But a large part of it is most solar panels aren’t tracking and even if they are it’s usually in the horizontal and not in the vertical.

It’s impractical to mount solar panels at such an extreme angle, but it also won’t help very much since the sun is so close to the horizon shadows will be terrible. Imagine two rows of panels, once you set up the first one almost vertical, the second row won’t get any sun. And that’s if there is even a clear view to the horizon, in most places that’s not true. It’s also very hard to mount panels at such an extreme angle because the wind will catch it more easily. Mounting flush to the roof is usually preferred, or at a fixed angle with struts for flat roofs.

Because the panels don’t track, higher latitudes are less efficient, as the sun varies more in angle during the year. From just peaking out over the horizon in winter, to high in the sky in summer.

Wow is that THE Raymond Chen that answered? His blog is legendary: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/