benignintervention @ benignintervention @lemmy.world

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That carpet is Persian! Irreplaceable what with there not being a Persia anymore.

Edit: misquote

NIXON'S BAAAACK

But Black Dynamite, I possess souls in the community

More please. Shitpost crusaders might be the only thing I miss about Reddit

I'm listening to the Hugos There podcast (only for the books I've read) and social commentary by the authors is central to several of their discussions

I found a set of Makita tools for 60% off last year and now I'm Makita battery dependent for the rest of my life

When Trump got elected in 2016 I thought, "Okay, now that we've done this everyone will see what a farce it is and never let it happen again."

But that didn't happen. It got worse. These kinds of people got their inch and now they're in it for the mile. This is a "keeps getting worse" scenario unless we kneecap it now.

While this is true, I think of AI in the sci fi sense of a programmed machine intelligence rivaling human problem solving, communication, and opinion forming. Everything else to me is ML.

But like Turing thought, how can we really tell the difference

He pulled some strings

Two years ago I became a first time homeowner. I'm moving in 6 months and am going to keep this property and rent it out. I cannot afford to buy another house almost anywhere in the US. I will be renting. However, I closed on this place with 3% interest and pay $1500/mo for the mortgage, plus about $250 for utilities. Round up to $1800/mo. Anyone buying at today's interest and value with 20% down is looking at a mortgage of about $2300/mo, before utilities.

I absolutely resent this market, but I refuse to let this place go into the hands of anyone like Blackrock. And since I don't care about maximizing profit, I can keep the rate on the lower end and help someone live here for a few hundred a month less than they could with a new sale. I can rent it for $1700-1800/mo to cover incidentals and repair and still let a renter live here for less than a new mortgage.

I've been toying with the idea of counting every dollar the renter pays against the mortgage and selling to them at the difference when (if) rates come back down.

Certainly not ideal, and a little bit apologetic, but in this situation it's about as close as I can get to a win-win. Or least lost-least lost.

This is just Westworld.

I'm tired, boss

Time to draw some free body diagrams!

Actually it would be the same force on the car if you removed the arm holding the magnet and placed a block of wood in the space between the magnets. It's a static system

Oh I'm just old

Is this the uncanny valley of dril tweets? I have no idea what this means

I initially wrote "opaque" and then second guessed myself, got confused, and refused to look up the correct use.

Who the hell is interrupting my kung fu?

The digital landscape is so different. I teach undergraduates and it's hit or miss whether they understand what a file path is. But honestly, I'm not sure it will be relevant in the same way for much longer. I grew up installing games from CD and establishing a specific file path and folder for install and if I did it wrong it wouldn't work. With GUI's becoming more simple and intuitive, combined with advances in machine learning and algorithmic design, I have no problem imagining a future where all file structures are transparent to the user.

Suite: Judy Blue Eyes by Crosby, Stills, and Nash (and sometimes Young). Also, Wooden Ships, same band. Four Way Street is an outstanding album full of heavy hitters

I think this one?

I fucked around with dozens of these trying to get my steam linked email changed, only to find out it's virtually impossible. Then I sent an email to the support line explaining why I'm never buying another Rockstar game.