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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Captainant replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Aww it's so cute when they just repeat whatever Dear Leader is saying. I wonder what other things they're going to copy from great fascists of the past. -
USCSB published their findings from the explosion. Wild it was 5 years ago - I remember it waking us up in when we lived in Midtown, and my neighbors said it broke windows TLDW: an old propylene line gave way, started leaking, and leaked continuously into an automated working area. Watson Grinding had previously disconnected their gas detectors from their computer control system. So there was nothing to stop the building from filling up to stoichiometric levels and to cut power to the building. Facilities DID actually send out a warning notification to workers, but the first person in for the shift didn't hear any alarms or look at his messages, and turned on a light switch that ultimately was the detonation ignition. The kicker? Watson seemingly did not break any statutory rules or safety standards as they weren't required to create a process safety standard, but USCSB argues adoption of those mechanisms would have prevented the explosion. Ultimately, Watson did not maintain their safety equipment and operated a facility that did not fail into a safe state. The facility was designed with fail-safe measures, but they had been disabled years prior to the incident. Contractors had raised concerns in writing to Watson in 2013, 2016, 2019, and just weeks before the explosion. Watson was replacing copper lines with rubber hoses, and had disconnected their safety equipment. Thank god for our business-friendly state!
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Captainant replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
Very thankful for that. Still don't really wanna roll the dice on the motherfucking measles because some Karyn decided Aidyn doesn't need shots -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Captainant replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I've got an almost 10 month old that can't get the MMR vaccine yet. Do we fucking hide her away? I've got a Texas Exes event in Katy to play at this weekend and we want to bring her! But there's definitely a big overlap on venn diagram for "antivax", "bucees" and "Katy" -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Captainant replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Oh, like the site-generated dark mode? Interesting, I leave the site on the "light" style and use system level settings on my phone/computer OS to render pages as dark. Never had a problem like that with block background coloring to the text. Sorry to anyone I've ever unintentionally flash banged with a big block of white text lol -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Captainant replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Sometimes I intentionally don't post in plaintext so it's more apparent I'm posting the direct text from the thing I'm linking to, is it really that disruptive when formatted text comes up? -
So are we all but confirmed now that @pronghorn was nothing but an outside agitator? He sure seems to have fucked off after getting everything he was campaigning for
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I've been rereading and re-listening to a bunch of WWII history lately. America is making decisions that would have made us a natural ally of the tripartite pact. Our citizens are acting much the same as Germany and Japans - driven largely by a hunger for growth at all costs, and completely oblivious to the degree of propaganda and disinformation they are imbibing
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Unironically this is some incredible data science. That means apple has enough linguistic data that its embedding process is finding "racist" in the same vector-space as "trump". It's a shame that the underlying data is a trade secret, those sorts of insights are the actual utility of this """AI""" dystopia were barreling towards
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Reality is off the rails
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Pastor, a close third -
I mentioned a couple days ago some similarities to pre-WWII actions by axis powers, and how our current path mirrors them. This is a prime example of the sort of exploitative and unequal treaty that imperialist nations would impose on weaker states. We are on a dark timeline
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Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
In the Bitcoin protocol, "mining" is the process of solving for the next block in the chain. Each transaction is packed into a block of transactions as inputs into a hashing algorithm, plus a random pad value. Per the BTC protocol, a block is valid IF and ONLY IF the output from that hash function is under a certain value. There can potentially be multiple solutions to one block, but it's not likely to happen and there's a mechanism to solve the potential for that I'll set aside for brevity. The idea is that the target value is tuned to take approximately 10 minutes to solve at the current network hash rate. The process of solving for a block is: setting up the hash, adding a random pad to the input, checking it for validity against the current network target value, and then repeating that until a valid pad value is found to produce a small enough output value. This is the work that undergirds proof of work. The current network hash rate is around 800M TH/s. 800,000,000 x 10^12 hashes per second. For 600 seconds.That is 4.8x10^23 discarded computations per "mined" (solved) block added onto the chain. When the block is minted, the finder gets a baseline block reward (it halves every so often at set milestones of coins created) plus any transaction fees that users add to their transactions to help guarantee they're added to the next block in the chain and they don't get stuck in block validation limbo. Blocks have a definitional 1MB size limit, so there is a hard upper limit to the network throughput of the blockchain network. The smallest unit of a BTC is colloquially a "Satoshi" and represents one 100 millionth of a BTC. Thing is, at that size your transaction is probably never getting added to the blockchain unless you're paying a comparatively insane transaction fee ("gas fee") -
Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.)
Captainant replied to surlybevo's topic in Business and Markets
Any takers on what's tanking BTC's value? I guess with the rooskies and norks getting friendlier with us there's less need for it now -
Its been the leading voice of far right hate for fucking years now. It's maddening how the moderation team and owners blindly allowed it to be posted as a news source and """contribute""" to discussions with it.
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Aaaaaaaaaaaand here's the other shoe to drop: https://www.politico.eu/article/vladimir-putin-offer-sell-minerals-donald-trump-russia-occupied-ukraine/ Sure can't wait for our American oligarchs to team up with the russian oligarchs to really fuck over generations! Profits are gonna be FUCKING INSANE BOIIIISSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Maybe they've got their own "leopards eating faces" thread and they're over our bullshit too lmao
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Captainant replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
The foot sucking video might have been the trigger TBH. If it's what you say I love it. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Captainant replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Houston? Non-CR thread
Captainant replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
I would be amazed if they could build a next gen manufacturing facility and have it operational by the end of 2026. As far as I know they haven't broken ground yet, and there's gonna be some major power grid stability issues to onboard such a new heavy load with city power infra being as shoestring (and wildly profitable) as it is -
Covid/Influenza/Black Death. 2024 and beyond
Captainant replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
No no no no, what you failed to consider is both sides.- 1206 replies
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
Quantum computing does something completely and specifically different from classical computing. I am still earning my depth in quantum computing - BUT - where quantum would come in handy is solving NP-hard problems that classical computers are bad at. Vehicle routing (traveling salesman, anyone?), cryptography cracking, protein folding, etc etc, are all well-suited. Even, potentially, in setting the weights and biases in a neural network for optimal performance and throughput - rather than running billions of cycles of gradient descent to rule out local maxima and minima to find the system min/max for the most generally suitable solution. These are problems in which the solution is easily verified, but it's extremely difficult to solve using classical computing methods. Quantum computing promises to find the right parameters to make the math work the best. But you still need something to actually DO that math, and that's where classical computing will remain. Broadly speaking, "AI" tries to guess or approximate the best answer to a response, and it informs that guess based on the data it was trained on iteratively over time. "Quantum computing" simply collapses all possibility spaces in O(1) time such that only the best response still exists and is not obliterated. That is a massive oversimplification, and quantum computing is (as far as I know) not anywhere close to general utility to actually set up a quantum system to approximate a complex real system. But as a student of computer science if I were to stick my finger in the air and guess where we are on the timeline we're closer to UNIVAC than we are to x86 in terms of quantum computing. -
Tracking Trump Administration and Cabinet picks
Captainant replied to PenelopeWitherspoon's topic in Cloak Room
Bingobongo is telling the truth in this video clip. "The only thing that matters is power. Power. That is all that matters. A system of checks and balances? HAH! That's a good one." https://v.redd.it/2wd4nukwd4le1 This FBI is gonna make Hoover's ghost get an erection for longer than 4 years. -
ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
Captainant replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
I'm a specialist in this space - this is 100% accurate. I have some customers that are starting to build real business cases for this sort of tech, but nothing to the degree that the market has inflated its value and speculated on that basis. GenAI became the next hot buzzword that vapid MBA's would say to eachother at board meetings, without really understanding what it meant. They saw line going up, so it validated the okeydoke they were all nodding along to. The music is gonna stop and the bubble is gonna pop. Now, that's not to say it's all bullshit. To the contrary, it's a novel new mechanism to meaningfully parse through libraries of data that's been locked away in textual language in mere hours. There's crazy potential for applications with contract management and terms disputes, archival information searching and integration, theory possibility space exploration, and on and on. But critically, none of those things justify the trillions in capital expedature that we've seen so far. It does represent a significant enhancement in our information processing capability. It's just that I doubt those improvements will be put towards social goods, but rather for further concentration of wealth
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