Godwin’s law (of spiders)

I’m not even sure it’s safe for her to go to any event he’s speaking at…

So I’ve heard this lots of places but never done the math, so I sat down this afternoon to try and work it out and…it’s super complicated. The generator in the picture might not charge the car at all…if it is, it’s probably a trickle charge like plugging into a 120v outlet…which means running the generator for a very long time for a very small charge which means it’s super inefficient…depending on your starting assumptions you get anywhere from 11 - 20 miles of charge out of a gallon of fuel for the generator, which is less efficient than tha average of 31 mpg for a 2022 sedan…so in that case, it’s less efficient. The more normal use case would be a whole-home generator powering a level 2 or 3 charger in your garage… which can be more efficient than an ICE engine assuming a high-efficiency generator and EV. Additionally, generators don’t typically have emissions controls, so from a carbon standpoint, it’s WAY worse than an ICE with a catalytic converter.

Also of note, this is still more fuel efficient than using an ICE vehicle.

You can have airtight or in the sea… not both.

That was a wild fitness class…

“sudo is not recognized an an internal or external command”

Often, yes, there just aren’t enough union shops anymore.

He’s being oppressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!

Absolutely. I’ve gotten myself spun up about determinism before and eventually decided that I’m going to believe in free will for the time being. Much like theism is for many, the idea of free will is kinda comforting for me and it helps me cope with reality to feel like I (and everyone else) has agency. Plus, if I’m wrong it doesn’t really matter and I never could have been right at this point in my life anyway.

But we never could have designed it any other way (assuming no free will)

High humidity can cause them to go off as well. Used to use a cool air humidifier in our kids’ room at night and had to stop because it would eventually set the alarm off.

Jesus gets sad when you get DNA in Uranus, or so they say

Started on Friday… still coming in waves. I had a breakdown a few weeks ago… just pushed myself too hard for too long…it was probably building up for at least a year. Went to the VA (veterans affairs, for those not in the US, the VA is the sole source of health care for many veterans in the US), and they started making adjustments to my anxiety and depression medications which eventually precipitated into a ER visit. A few days later, they got me hooked up with the mental health clinic where I talked to a provider about going on short-term disability while we’re messing with my medication doses until I feel normal again. He says something along the lines “sounds like a good plan, sned me the paperwork.”

Queue up to Friday, I get a call from the insurance company saying they got the paperwork from the provider, and it recommends I go back to work. Now I’m out of PTO, disability is denied, and I’m trying to decide whether I lose my job or go back to work on while tettering between “extreme anxiety” and “drug-induced haze” from all the new prescriptions.

A faulty sensor…A faulty senso responsibility, amirite?

How science of everyone

For 50 years, science has been telling us that we’re well and truly fucked if we don’t do something about climate change. We didn’t. I don’t think the species is gonna die out (thought millions of other species will and are). You’re talking like we’re gonna be building a Dyson sphere (or swarm) in the next 20 years? Or colonize outer planets? It’s science fiction…at least for next few 100 years. We can’t rely on a deus ex machina save…we gotta take care of the planet we evolved to live on…if we aren’t strong enough for that, I don’t think we’re getting anywhere near K-II.

Role a d20 and d4. If the d20 result is less than the caster’s wisdom saving throw, collect <d4 result> lemonade (healing item). Otherwise, the caster must pass a constitution saving throw or become blinded and silenced from lemon juice in the face and mouth.

Fuck you buddy, we’re gonna cook ourselves first!

That’ll teach ya…

When you train an LLM on a strictly curated and verified dataset that is limited in scope, it will do a very good job providing you with information about that specific topic and should hopefully give you the “As an LLM, I don’t know about that…” speil for anything else.

When you let an LLM “do its own research” (e.g. train it on internet content) it starts telling you to put glue on pizza, eat a healthy number of rocks every day, and that you can run in the air as long as you don’t look down.

Maybe they really are already as smart as people. /s

Everyone I know who’s interested in raw milk probably has a few crates of ivermectin left over from the pandemic…should be plenty to keep them safe from the flu, too. /s