Bottom line is Microsoft wanted to integrate AI now because they know AI will be worthwhile later and not building institutional knowledge of the technology means they will be behind when the technology becomes desirable and useful.

They are trying to sell people on it by coming up with things you can do, because they know that once you have that hammer in your hands, you will hit whatever your whims demand and then you will want a better hammer.

Biltong is so damn good. I would be upset I couldn’t save any for later but hedonistically joyful in getting to engorge myself on biltong.

They are mechanically simpler because they don’t have hundreds of parts in a combustion engine and an automatic transmission, but their overall complexity is much higher.

You have all of the electrical system out of a modern car(fucking complex) with all of the systems needed to handle the electric motors and batteries.

It is the different between a flip phone and a smartphone. The smartphone isn’t simpler because it doesn’t have as many buttons or a hinge.

Absolutely.

Then there are the Korean manufacturers that sell themselves as great car, but they just look like great car. A 100k warranty is a selling point, not a testament of their reliability.

Electric cars are actually very complex. They monitor a ton of sensors and electrical properties constantly and need to manage everything.

It isn’t just a big motor and a big battery hooked up to a variable resistance switch at the accelerator.

Mentally ill and delusional.

I love that for him.

Wasn’t that one dev who said that?

The words written on the casings is a message. It is not a statement and backstory. The vagueness is doing what it is meant to, cause speculation and inspire fear for people who identify with the victim.

We can easily assume, but we don’t know.

Without knowing why he did what he did, we can speculate, I can not judge him for his actions.

I can make assumptions, as many have done, as to why he felt it justified to take the life of another.

If we are to assume the shooter to be sound of mind and logic, we can only assume his actions to have been taken in a just morality.

He must have known that killing one man could never right or prevent the wrongs he experienced. He didn’t kill someone irrefutably innocent. He didn’t kill a random person. He didn’t kill the messenger. He killed the person at the top to send a message. Points off for his message not being excruciatingly clear in motive. Points for his execution, thus far.

He scared people of a similar position to try and wipe their names from the internet, lol they don’t know how the internet works. They are scared, but they will need to be more scared into correcting the wrong that the shooter experienced. They have operated with the feeling of impunity from the consequences of their actions. If one death can correct the course of things, that death is justified. Unfortunately, we do not live in a just world.

If his, or other’s ambitions are greater, there can be a horrible justice done in this world if those in power are unwilling to do what is right.

I don’t want another person to die when they can be saved, but I don’t cry for a life lost to save many more.

Profit < people. If you feel otherwise, you deserve a one gun salute.

Don’t kill people and don’t be a dick, but I wouldn’t see or say a damn thing if you do the right thing in the wrong way.

The question isn’t about affording it, the questions is why China would give up such a valuable Intel gathering and propaganda tool? They wouldn’t sell it for all the tea in China.

The simple way is like Morse code, variable gaps and lengths of emissions to convey information.

The more complex version is that plus variable intensity and variable wavelengths for a more complex “language”.

You got sick by eating, clearly eating isn’t going to help matters.

Your body’s autonomous functions are run by a meat computer that developed a few hundred million years ago and has only added functions on top of the existing architecture in a bubblegum and string affair.

I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

I don’t thing corpse borne explosive device(CBEDs) are a legal form of burial, but I am not one to stand in the way of someone’s dreams so long as nobody is physically harmed.

You want earplugs that dampen above a certain threshold. That rules out most earplugs because they always dampen all sound.

Surefire EP3s have a removable plug that allows for dampening below 85db, but will take them up to 24NRR with the plug in. I don’t know if they actually rate the unplugged NRR, from what I remember it was 16-18 when I got mine. Don’t think you can swap protection levels easily, you practically have to take them out to plug them. You do also need to replace them once or twice a year. Surefire has others of a similar design that you may want to look into as well, I am only personally familiar with the EP3s.

Loops has caught my eye as a possible option to go to instead of EP3s, but I haven’t bit the bullet on them.

Especially since the damn nanny state outlawed laudanum.

Go to Newegg, look for ones sold by Newegg. They also have a marketplace model, so picking a laptop from them can make a difference should you have the unlikely outcome of an issue. Newegg is pretty solid with customer service.

Amazon is a marketplace.

If you go to the flea market and buy a laptop that is bad, does that mean everybody selling laptops at the flea market is selling a bad product?

There are solid sellers on Amazon and there are shady scam sellers on Amazon.

My advice for your best chances of buying what you are expecting to buy is to go through an authorized reseller of the laptop you are looking for. I bought my last laptop from Newegg and got what I paid for.

I would buy up as many apartments as possible and lower the rent below market value, this driving other landlords to compete. Since they could not maintain a “sustainable” business model with their profit driven mindset, they would sell and I would buy. I would still seek a modest profit, which would be rolled into further acquisitions to further infect the market with sanity. It would be a McDonald’s or Walmart approach to housing, positive effect by volume and low margins, but actually provide an undeniably good product.

I would also work with local businesses to offer discounts to residents of the apartments and employees of other businesses that also wish to partner, with the end goal of creating incentive to shop local and increase foot traffic, and therefore profits for those small businesses.

I would find residents who would be interested in starting a business, startup costs covered by my organization, and outcompetes with businesses who do not wish to be our partner. I would endeavor to provide free childcare and animal daycare/boarding. Ideally a pseudo private and free school system could be established to further promote the ideals of the community. Ideally provide free therapy. Ideally offer scholarships to traditional higher education or trade schools. Ideally create a system to help homeless people get back on their feet.

Overall the end goal would be to keep as much money within the local economy and maintain businesses that embody the values which create a healthy local economy, lower the costs of living, and restore the community to a healthy social state.

Or maybe I’ll just start a sex cult in the woods.

Who is the arbiter of death that decides when it is right on behalf of another?