MalReynolds

Chris Rea is soo underrated.

Hence the desire for gutting education, especially critical thought. Politicians love advertising.

Plausible deniability in a can. Same shit, different day.

And wouldn’t it be great fun getting it right. Could so spend an afternoon playing.

Thanks, I was hoping it was :). Fuck this timeline where the default is doubting reality.

Not really weird, the mechanisms are pretty well understood. In an easily accessible nutshell, resistance training combats frailty (muscle loss, bone density decline, heart insufficiency), frailty is a really big contributor to mortality (yes, even for middle aged desk jockeys).

If the US wants to cut off its nose to spite its face, good, more for the rest of the world…

IIRC “3D Printed” houses are falling apart due to lamination issues. That said, I think it’s a solvable problem, though it will take awhile to sort out the issues. Modular systems also show a lot of promise for mass production, potentially even of higher quality, and likely amenable to robotic assembly if carefully designed for it, but we know it’ll just be a profit seeking race to the bottom. Those construction jobs are safe for at least a decade, likely more.

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” is a quote from Donald Knuth, one of the grand oldies of Computer Science. Basically get everything working and tested in the real world before even thinking about optimizing, it may be unnecessary or needed somewhere you didn’t expect.

In this case the optimization of spinning down as fast as possible is good in the use case of servers to save power and heat, but not good for gaming.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil…

It has a use case, gaming is not it.

Read it all, no, won’t live long enough. Grep (or full index) it all to find something obscure, priceless.

Ah, another round of handouts to big companies at the expense of consumers and taxpayers (when this lot get shot down as well and they reimburse the companies that sell the tariffed goods, not the people who paid extra). It’s win win (well, not for you).

Fuck NVIDIA.

Sure, glue sucks, but I didn’t need a heat gun (or hair dryer), just the microwave heated tube thingy and the slicer tab. Admittedly the old battery was a bit spicy pillow which may have helped, dunno. If it’s too imposing, just get a pro to do it.

Afterwards I got a ‘chargie’ which connects between the wall charger and the phone and lets you choose how much to charge it to, e.g. 80%. More importantly it lets you cut off charging when the device is over a certain temperature, e.g. 33C. Pretty sure the old battery cooked itself during summer, it was happily charging at 50+C, which is definitely not good. 2 years later and it still reports 99% health (although it mostly stays in it’s wireless charging dock, so YMMV). Like that you may not need to replace the battery more than once during the 7 years of security updates the more modern Pixels have.

The threat is also from empowering shitheels like VW who deliberately detect gOS and break their apps.

Can’t get a GrapheneOS phone because they’re only compatible with non-repairable devices

Replaced the battery in my Pixel 7 in like 30 min with an iFixit kit, nowhere near as imposing as I’d thought. They have screens too, the rest is mainboard, but that’s nearly all phones.

Vibe coding a simple project is easy, but a crapshoot, at the current state of LLM development. Vibe maintaining anything at all is basically impossibly currently, you need a competent developer for that.

Song tone: What a load of bollocks…

Always a good time to kill Nazis.

Yah, I think of it as Trump’s own goal.

Environmental progress through massive incompetence, ego and fraud. Actually rather a nice capstone to Pax Americana.