tonyn
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- Comment on Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund 1 week ago:
The federal government owns a ridiculous amount of land.
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 2 weeks ago:
People who look at timestamped data would notice immediately. Server logs, transaction logs, etc would all be missing a minute’s worth of data. Things that take a known amount of time would not be completed on time. Trains would be late, burritos would be under-microwaved, satellites would be in unexpected positions, etc. So some people would notice instantly, some may not notice at all.
- Comment on What happened to Pez? 3 weeks ago:
What show is that?
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 3 weeks ago:
OpenAI’s Yahoo! moment. In a decade it’ll be worthless.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 3 weeks ago:
If it’s God’s eye and Jesus’s wheel, then who does this shift stick belong to?
- Comment on Is there a word for items that require both hands to use (e.g. game controller, steering wheel, handlebars)? 4 weeks ago:
bimanual /bī-măn′yoo͞-əl/
adjective
Using or requiring the use of both hands.
Involving or using both hands.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 4 weeks ago:
You’re making ME feel old. I remember having to go over my friend’s house to play multiplayer.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 1 month ago:
If all the billionaires in the world instantaneously ceased to exist, and all their money were evenly distributed to everyone on earth, you would get a one time payment of about $1,769. Then what?
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 2 months ago:
Maybe our types of thoughts are so primitive compared to them that they can’t even imagine that we’d have them.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 2 months ago:
It’s technically possible but it would take a truly massive sum of money to get off the ground, and nobody is going to put up the capital knowing they’re not going to get a return on that investment. People don’t get the kind of money required to do this by making decisions like that.
- Comment on Mha heart 4 months ago:
Efficient yet insufficient
- Comment on Day 100 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
I can’t believe it’s been 100 days, why is time flying by?? I love your posts, keep them coming!
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 4 months ago:
We’re 7 minutes away, and we do go often just for a meal.
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 4 months ago:
We have season passes that give us access to all Cedar Fair parks with unlimited meals and drinks, unlimited visits all year long, and it still costs less than one trip to Disney. We often visit 7 different parks in a year, and our home park dozens of times.
- Comment on If I was selling a bag of flower and sugar to a CI who thought it was meth or coke can I get in trouble? How or why when I am selling a legal substance? 4 months ago:
My favorite kind of johnnycake
- Comment on How do you store lots of spools? 5 months ago:
I actually store all of my filament (that isn’t loaded into my AMSes) in a large antique wooden steamer trunk (like a pirate chest). It’s massive, and can hold dozens and dozens of spools. Wood is breathable and absorbs moisture, but also allows it to evaporate out into the room (whereas plastic bins trap it inside). I keep a bunch of dessicant inside, and I’ve never had a problem with filament humidity. The filaments I commonly use are always loaded up in my 4 Bambu AMSes. In there, I have extra dessicant pods with reusable dessicant beads.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 5 months ago:
Consoles are easy, and I love my PS5 for chilling and playing games, and I love my Linux PC for its power and freedom from corporate bullshit.
- Comment on Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash? 5 months ago:
I actually love it when people take things I put by the curb. I would much rather someone get use out of it than have it end up in a landfill.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 5 months ago:
The term you are looking for to describe such a shape is technically “spherical polygon”. Triangles are impossible in speherical geometry since the sum of the angles would always be greater than 180°.
- Comment on Goodbye FireFish. 5 months ago:
Self-burn, those are rare
- Comment on Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing 5 months ago:
The bluetooth antennas on your devices have sucked. I have no problems with my pixel 7 pro. Pairs quickly, play music from across the house, through walls and floors even. Previous phones of mine would lose connection to my bluetooth headphones if my.phone was on the wrong hip, obviously an antenna issue.
- Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to? 6 months ago:
The government would end up housing and educating most of the population, which would cost more than any country could afford.
- Comment on If you bought a 3D printer for personal use, was it worth it? 6 months ago:
Yes absolutely. I’m sure the hobby hasn’t paid for itself, but I never expected it to. It has been worth it because of the amount of happiness I have spread with personalized gifts and a feeling of satisfaction when I make a print to fix something around the house or make life a little easier or more convenient. The little toys and doo-dads are great and the kids love them too.
- Comment on Get AMS 6 months ago:
Image This is color 😉
- Comment on Llama 3.1 is Meta's latest salvo in the battle for AI dominance 7 months ago:
I’ve got llama 3.1 8b running locally in open webui. What do you mean it’s bugged with llama.cpp?
- Comment on If everyone is fired by AI, who's going to buy the products and services made by the companies if no one has money anymore? 7 months ago:
When there is a scarcity of resources a population will shrink to sustainable levels. Right now there are too many people to share the scraps left from the billionaires hoovering up all the capital. People will stop having kids, others will die homeless, and population will decrease just as happens in any population of animals experiencing scarcity.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 8 months ago:
It already does
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 8 months ago:
There will always be tasks that people don’t want to do, and they will require compensation for motivation.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 8 months ago:
But then who would finance the production of television programs?
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 9 months ago:
Just waiting for them to reinvent light rail
