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  1. obvious answer is obvious

    https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/04/10/kid-rock-cruise/

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    Women were regularly dancing topless with just Kid Rock pasties covering their nipples. A man wore a hat with gigantic boobs on the rim.
    When the news helicopter flew by before we departed Tampa, everyone stood on the deck flipping it off. The middle finger this week was more a gesture of camaraderie and endearment than hate or anger. “Motherfucker” was shot every which way with a high five and a cheers.

    Despite the few Make America Great Again hats and Trump shirts I spotted, there was very little politics discussed.
    The only time I ever heard it come remotely close to a political discussion was when a middle aged man at the black jack table volunteered how he thought everyone needs a gun, Sandy Hook was staged by the “news media and the government to take away our guns” and that 9-11 was an inside job. For the record, he wasn’t “a fan of the current administration” either.

    As I live in the liberal bubble of Los Angeles, I don’t interact with this crowd very often – to say the least.

    But Kid Rock understand’s his audience. And his audience fucking loves him.
    Kid Rock doesn’t seem to give a fuck about anything (he hilariously, albeit lovingly, mocked his fans asking questions during the official Q&A – searching his pockets after a fan’s question he said “hold on… I’m looking for a fuck”).

    Kid Rock seemed to be drunk the entire cruise. When a woman asked to get a photo with him with her boyfriend standing right there, he responded “Are you going to sleep with me?” He may have been joking. But probably not. He doesn’t give a fuck. And you kind of have to love him for that. And to be honest, most boyfriends seemed to openly give their ladies passes for Kid Rock this week.

     

  2. 8 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Why would these countries supplying Russia not have, months or a year ago, stopped marking their parts with manufacturing date?  Or obscuring them before use if they are bought pieces?  Stupid?  Don’t care?

    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.

     

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  3. 18 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Beta males such as Shapiro and many other Republicans are easily triggered by a piece of fabric or what's on the outside of a beer can.

    Sad, but that's what the country has come to.

    I could almost understand it - red and white clothing or flags with the letters "O" and "U" can occasionally trigger me.

    But these dudes are triggered 24/7.  Pathetic.

    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.

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  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. 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).  

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    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. 

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  6. 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.

  7. 28 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    To be clear though: that LLM does not have an understanding of coding or development writ-large. It's just very very good at making natural sentences and other language model responses. It apologizes because that's the normative thing to do in conversation when your partner says you did something wrong - because that's what behavior is modeled in its data - not because it understands that it has inconvenienced you and feels bad about it. 

    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.

  8. Just now, Jerry Callo said:

    Matt is trying so hard to buzz in.  A couple times, it actually seemed like he didn't even know the question or the answer.

    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.  

  9. 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.

     

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  10. On 5/3/2023 at 6:00 PM, Beau Vine said:

     

    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.

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  11. 5 minutes ago, Basil said:


    If a conservative Supreme Court can toss Roe on a whim, a liberal one can toss ar-15 and other dumbass guns to the bottom of the ocean. Years ago Warren Burger called out the NRA’s interpretation of the 2nd as a fraud. It would not be that difficult to craft an opinion better reasoned than Dobbs to make most of not all guns illegal. Especially with the Court being just an disrespected partisan tool these days. We just need to hope for some untimely deaths for the religious fundies looking to install Jesus as president.

    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?

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  12. 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.  

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  13. On 4/26/2023 at 7:07 PM, ztejas said:

    This is a good point. 

    Although according to @gyroprotagonist putting up 500 NBA 3s a day is a trivial task. 

    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.

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