Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!

How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?

A friend of mine had a pretty shitty marriage, which ultimately led to a divorce. When he finally wanted to start dating again he figured he’d try tinder. Used the app to hook up just once, decided to start dating the woman, ended up marrying her, they’re happy to this day. I think they’ve been together 6 years or so, maybe married for 4.

I think he had planned to use it to hook up with a lot of people, but he couldn’t escape his monogamous nature. He wasn’t really gonna sleep with a bunch of women and never speak to them again, I don’t think he could.

Well, if you’re just in it for the points, I’d recommend telling jokes, that’s pretty reliable. But, just an observation here, what I’m seeing in this thread is your having real conversations. Making the kinds of comments that might just as soon get a downvote, not the witty one liners that are guaranteed karma. So I wonder if that’s really why you’re commenting, or if maybe there’s something else you’re getting out of it. Could be worth considering.

Wait, if people are a waste of time, why bother commenting online? If you don’t get anything out of interacting with the people close to you, what are you getting out of interacting with strangers?

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to land a sick burn here, I’m honestly curious.

Yeah, in the 80s they had crack. Not as easy to sell as social media, but it’ll also fuck you up. In the 50s the KKK and their brand of racism was mainstream, that also fucked people up. I guess my point is, yeah, things are different now, but they’re also kinda the same. And the solution is kinda the same too. Garbage in - garbage out; if you want to be a good person, live a good life, don’t consume shit. Don’t consume this terrible content and you won’t let yourself be influenced by terrible content.

Going out into the world is essentially the only way to meet people. Try it, see what happens.

Though, I was talking about ways to disconnect, things to do; how to enjoy life without social media. If you’re only focused on meeting people though, well actually I still recommend clubs and hobbies.

Ok, so you can go out all the time without “going out” all the time. You don’t have to go shopping or to bars or expensive events, there are cheap activities out there. Parks are a good option, go for a walk, take photos of wildlife, go fishing, fly a kite. Or get into biking, or juggling, parkour. Or join a club, book clubs or film clubs are a lot of fun not expensive and you get to meet people and have real conversations. Go to your local library, they can tell you about upcoming free events, it connect you with clubs, or communities. While you’re there, ask the library if they have cheap or free tickets to things like museums or zoos, they often do.

There are a whole lot of ways to disconnect, but one thing is absolutely certain, you’re stuck on social media because you’re using social media. Just stop using it and it can’t trap you or control you. You can stay in touch with people with text messaging and phone calls, it totally still works. Also, a good reason to disconnect is just to distance yourself from “the algorithm”, don’t let some machine tell you what it thinks you should like, figure out what you like for yourself.

My dad used to make bread as Christmas gifts. December 23-24 the kitchen would just be a bread factory. And honestly, his freshly baked loaves were super impressive and they felt like personal gifts, something that someone actually put time and effort into.

Also, I think the holidays were stressful, and the process of making bread brought some zen like calm.

If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.

It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.

You had multiple AI subscriptions…

Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact

Just a suggestion, both are technically correct.

… and it destroyed their company right? Their entire business model broke down and it impacted the security of their customers who complained constantly about the decision. Right?

Right?

We should boycott them

How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re beyond fucked at this point.

Just grab some popcorn?

One of the now public films is the war film “Hell’s Angels” (about fighter pilots, not bikers). It’s directed by Howard Hughes, I thought “that’s odd” because he was an airplane designer, not a director; so I looked it up on Wikipedia. The more I read the more Hughes’ project sounded like a parallel to dumb shit Elon is doing, buying a social media outlet… okay, making a major motion picture… sure, firing a third of the company and running it into the ground… predictable, getting several people killed during filming and never recouping the cost of production… wow.

Hughes has a reputation as an eccentric reclusive genius, he designed some great aircraft, he made a lot of money, but he was problematic whenever he stepped out of his lane. We’re probably lucky he never got into politics.

But here’s what really caught my eye, (I’ll quote from the Wikipedia page).

When Paul Mantz, the principal stunt pilot, informed Hughes that a stunt in the final scene was too dangerous, Hughes piloted the aircraft himself, but crashed; he suffered a skull fracture and had to undergo facial surgery as well. Three stunt pilots and a mechanic died in accidents during filming.

I’m not sure if Hughes really “learned his lesson” from that, but I’m willing to bet that coming that close to death would affect anyone. How do we get Elon to do anything that would actually give him pause? How do we get him a life altering experience (not necessarily a near death experience, but I’m not oppressed to that either)?

Which you can do starting at like 15! So it all works out.

Hah

Please please please… please Nvidia? Can regular people please still have computers?

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Meh, nevermind. AMD and Intel can have your consumer business, I’m fine with that too. Surely this AI trend isn’t a bubble, and there’s absolutely no way you’ll regret this later. Best of luck.

Ok, let’s use that example. So imagine you had a large square of rubber and you drew a coordinate plane on it. Then you drew a line segment between points (1,1) and (3,1). You can stretch the rubber until it’s significantly longer, but your line is always exactly 2 units long, even if the rubber stretches.

The thing is, space is the geometry of the universe, it’s what all the various particles in the universe are bound to. Matter isn’t fixed to any point relative to other matter, it’s fixed to a point in space. So if space bends, matter bends with it.

This is how/why orbits work. Gravity is mass warping spacetime. Fast objects like photons sail right on by most stars with their courses barely changed. But slower moving objects like planets are experiencing this local warping of spacetime for a longer period, so it affects them more over time. The thing to note though, is that the planets, and photons are both following newtons first law, they’re traveling in a straight line unless acted upon by another object. The reason the planet orbits the star is that the star has warped space such that (given speed the planet is traveling) an orbit is a straight line.

Not the swedish chef? Think about it… could be good.