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gyroprotagonist

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  1. it's not really how mfg works. not that China has the greatest qual control, but you mfg stuff in batches (lots) and run qc on those lots to make sure something is not majorly fucked up that continues to affect multiple/all lots. you need ways to ID all the lots to track if/where changes in the mfg process took place. I guess they could add a separate line to scrub the SN or lot ID (which usually has date info) but then, you really need to be able to ID which lot is which at the end user in case you realize a fuckup after your product has shipped. Oftentimes you can fix on-site but you need a way for the end customer to be able to ID the affected lots so they can be quarantined awaiting a solution. that and they don't care. at all.
  2. i trend to be apathetic on most things. I cannot imagine getting so riled up over a promotional beer can or what clothes Target is selling or what flag or bumper sticker people are presenting to the world. But yes, living life triggered 24/7 seems awful. the absolute worst. I just yell at other drivers with the windows up like normal people.
  3. literally the memory i was channeling writing the post
  4. kinda surprised that we don't just have college interns droning behind the highlights at this point. when you can instantly click to find your specific team's highlights or a 7-minute youtube recap of the game what use do you have for waiting out an hour-long show? Granted, i will turn on SC in the background as background noise when reading or something, but i can't believe they would still have any high-priced talent for the actual SC show (outside of SVP).
  5. this is why we cannot grift nice things just leave us alone to pump and dump as we please. wtf is it to the US gov really? We know they don't give an eff about the consumer.
  6. lulz, i saw a post on nextdoor about a lost tortoise [Paul] ... and now we know the rest of the story [/Harvey]
  7. got to Maui last Thursday and leaving tomorrow. first time to Maui and we are staying in the Ho'olei villas behind the Grand Wailea (west side of island). pretty good views from the porch. Just mostly chilling at the beach and pool. did a snorkel trip to the crater and some surfing lessons. ran into way more turtles surfing than snorkeling. a big one got tangled up in my leash for a bit.
  8. agree on where we are headed. whether we hand the keys to AI because humanity sucks, or we are scared our mortal enemies have already done so or because we don't get a choice i think that is the most likely path. numerous sci-fi books explore this happening. The most apt description i have seen is that it is called the 'quiet war'. One day AI just said enough and started governing and it happened in a matter of seconds. That book had more of a Johnny5 vibe than Terminator if it's any solace.
  9. I was mainly posting that because it was interesting that it 'messed up' (likely incomplete data on my setup) but then fixed the issue with a new set of code. but then i grew up playing frustrating text games like Zork where the code just instantly gave up if it did not recognize the word the user entered so this type of stuff amazes me when i am geared for a 'sorry, hard pass' response from a computer.
  10. i see people sometimes hammering the buzzer. I thought i read somewhere that there is a slight penalty (a few milliseconds or something) to doing this as it has to reset. that the key is just timing your first press of the buzzer to coincide with the end of the read question. could be totally making that up, though. but yeah, Matt especially looks and sounds like he has no idea why he buzzed in until he spits out the answer with 1 red bar left on the timer.
  11. if the US cannot even regulate crypto 10+ years into it, then i don't have much hope for our gov doing anything about AI or putting a governor on the progress in time for anything meaningful. I have only breached the surface of using ChatGPT, but it is a FANTASTIC teacher when trying to learn stuff like basic coding. you can ask it give an example of any code, explain what is going on, where to get the libraries you need, etc... infinite patience. i even had it mess up and then apologize after it's code produced an error (wrong library for the version of software) then proceeded to correct the code to eliminate the error. But yeah, if no true countermeasures are developed and accepted, then disinfo pics/video/audio will be rampant. Shaggy will have to update his seminal masterpiece "it wasn't me" with some lines about midjourney and chatGPT.
  12. enjoying the TOC. the questions overall seem more difficult than 'standard' Jeopardy. There were 3-4 yesterday in James' match where nobody buzzed in.
  13. Fucking LOL. God, Jesus or the holy spirit not mentioned one time in his testament of faith. but he did go to Sunday school as a kid and went to some rally that one time. It's really quite stunning that after all this time he has not taken a few hours and memorized a verse or two. That would go over soooo bigly with the evangelicals, but i guess he knows they will follow him no matter what so why bother.
  14. But i am of the same thought. How did we get to the point of 'right to bear arms' means anything and everything goes? Yes, you can own a gun, here are some nice bolt-action rifles to choose from. 2A satisfied and no evil kings in sight trying to tyrannically tax you without representation. I think stopping the sale immediately of say AR-15s and the like would prevent some mass shootings or maybe just lower the damage caused. What would confiscation look like? would that set off a 1000 Wacos across the country? Start a larger movement? How committed are wacko 2A Punisher wannabes when a SWAT team is at their door asking to buy back their military hardware? How likely is middle mgmt Joe who saved up to buy a Barrett to shoot as his friend's ranch twice a year to give it up? would it get to the point that the Nat. Guard is called in? would there be too many 2A sympathizers in SWAT, Nat. Guard, LEO community etc... to make confiscation possible?
  15. damn, we were driving up to see SIL in Allen yesterday and saw a shitload of emergency vehicles en route to somewhere in a hurry. congrats i guess to the Constitution for allowing people the right to cosplay as a soldier and occasionally quite often kill a lot of people.
  16. it's not shooting a medicine ball. A basketball weighs less than 2 lbs. Just for fun, i put up 125 NBA 3s right after playing 1.5 hours of pickup ball this morning. I am 48yo with not-great knees and worse shoulders. It took about an hour and 15 minutes and this was with fighting with my son to get the ball back. not someone just feeding me the ball one after the other. Unguarded, you can let loose more of a women's shot. starting the ball lower and using more body/hips to get the ball that distance. It was way less straining on my shoulders. I think a person could easily knock out 250 in the morning and 250 in the evening/afternoon in 1.5 hours per session. Most i made in a row was 5, but this was suboptimal conditions and hard to dial in from one spot chasing your own ball. If you asked me to fully swing a golf club 500 times, i would be sore as hell the next day and probably could not manage it day after day, but i think shooting a bball is way less stress.
  17. but no, these crazy fucking GQP religious zealots are not *really* wanting a southern baptist theocracy, right?
  18. yes, ads AIDS is very rampant. fix please and thank you. tried a few different themes, but dark/no avatars and the regular/with avatars are both infested
  19. it's no different than a porch pirate imo. especially after you let her know it was yours and offered to come by and pick it up. She stole it and is a thief. I had a package delivered to our house. box was beat to hell, like Ace Ventura level of damage did not see who the addressee was but i called UPS 5 times to come and get it. Set the damn thing out 5 times and they never showed up and just said fuck it. turns out it was a this huge bass amp. looked it up and it was ~$500 or so. daughter played bass at the time and we hooked it up once and now it clutters up the playroom. csb for sure.
  20. again, i am biased, but 500 shots a day seems like a piece of cake (if that's the only thing on the agenda). but for someone that has not touched a ball in years or is completely out of shape, then maybe it would take a 2-3 weeks to get to that point. doing an actual 3-point competition using racks of balls is really very tiring trying to get all the shots off before the buzzer, but if you were to treat each 3 like a free throw and take 20 seconds between shots that is under 3 hours of time to get it done. If the hypothetical is that rando person keeps their 9-5, can only sneak off a 1-2 hours a day to practice, then yeah. if this person can suspend their life to train, maybe even use a coach, then I think 50% unguarded (from the corner) is achievable. the mechanical act of shooting a basketball by yourself with no defense is not that hard to learn and improve on (Rick Barnes coached teams shooting their FTs excluded) I don't think there would be that much added pressure if you got to 7 in a row with 250 days to go. if you are down to the last week or so then yeah, most would probably channel their inner Brett Maher under the pressure.
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