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Cocodapuf

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  • Does anyone here want / already have children?

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  • My advice is you're on the fence about kids, don't adopt.

    We adopted because we thought "we're actually pretty good at this, and hey, there are kids out there who desperately need a family".

    Let me tell you, it is so much harder, for so many reasons. I can't even fully express it, it's so much harder.

  • People Keep Destroying Flock Cameras Across America. The Paperwork Already Saw It Coming.

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  • law enforcement sources have put the running national tally at more than two dozen destroyed cameras across five states dating back to April of last year.

    Wait, what? Your saying this article and all this concern is over about 25 cameras? Like not 25,000, just 25?

    The bigger concern I have is that only 25 cameras have been vandalized... I thought this was more of a popular movement, but those aren't "national popular movement" numbers.

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    Can anyone advise realistic, dystopian books with AI?

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  • You should read the Scythe series. It's YA, so don't expect anything too gritty, but it's a good story and one of the better depictions of an AI Superintelligence that I've seen.

    Also, the Superintelligence is core to the story, but not the subject of the story, which is nice .

  • What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?

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  • Truly a horrifying read. As a parent of a tween, I don't think I could be more worried. This is going to suck.

  • The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype

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  • Ok, yeah I can believe that. And if you're using it for art printing, you may even be printing often enough that the feed lines don't dry up and clog.

    Personally, I like that with laser prints, if someone gets the paper wet, the toner doesn't immediately run all over the page like with ink.

    But again, less of an issue for art prints, as the results are more likely to be put in a frame than left out on a table where they can get splashed.

  • The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype

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  • You could if you want. But then again, remember that most people will be replacing that toner cartridge only once every 2-5 years. So it's not like a major expense.

    It depends on how much you print of course, like if you're a teacher or something, you might print a lot.

  • The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype

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  • Having been an IT guy for a very long time this is my recommendation to everyone. Buy a cheap laser printer for your home. Ink jet is garbage it will piss you off every time you want to print something, it's a trap. Go with whatever brand you want, but brother is the one I'd recommend most

    In my home I have a brother color laser printer, it may have run over $300, I don't recall. But I don't recall because I think I bought it 15 years ago and it still works just fine every time I need to print. No regrets.

  • Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

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  • What part of that phrase was confusing?

    I mean, feel free to look up each word if you have to, there are only three of them...

  • Predictions on they type of people the AI age will produce

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  • Before it was cool!

  • FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Space Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

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  • This is a wild take.

    Space mirrors are not a new idea, they're a very old one, a staple of sci-fi only now being tested in reality.

    They stated that this is a small scale demonstrator, just to test the technology. The goal would be to get some real world measurements and decide on whether it could be economical and realistic going forward.

    What part of that is a scam? I would say it's perhaps overly optimistic, but it's a perfectly honest exploration of engineering.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Oh yeah, 100% those are straight up dangerous situations.

    You're just not allowed to freak out during those dangerous situations. It's like how "there's no crying in baseball", well "there's no freaking out in aviation".

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    Student Pilot Forced To Land Plane Alone

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  • Were they flying escort for some B-17s?

    To be fair, a lot of pilots didn't make it home in that role.

  • FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

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  • Then it should be to hard for me to pay them.

    Shit man...

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • Sure, but she's a trained pilot. You're literally drilled on a large number of emergency situations and procedures, with step by step checklists. The lead pilot dying isn't even the scary kind of emergency, in that situation the plane is still working fine. A sudden loss of airspeed, engine out, or a control surface unresponsive, those are all much scarier, and the pilot is expected to stay calm in all of those situations.

  • Student pilot successfully lands plane after instructor jumps to death mid-flight

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  • What? He'd never died during a previous lesson?

  • Thieves Are Now Targeting AI Data Center Construction Sites for Copper and Expensive Equipment

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  • You gotta love a good crowd-sourcing campaign.

  • [Serious] What are some advantages of being over 40 years old and getting older?

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  • Most of the advantages don't come from being over 40, but rather, from the experience of having lived over 40 years. What you have is knowledge and perspective. You can make better choices, fall into fewer traps. It's that "wisdom" thing you may have heard of.

    Also, as most people over 40 have been working for some time now, many of us (though definitely not all) have reached a different phase of their life financially. In my 20s, when things went wrong it was generally like "well, this is my life now", but in my 40s when something goes wrong it's more often like "ok, how much will it cost for this problem to go away?". And don't forget, with all of that wisdom we have, sometimes we can just solve the problem, but when that won't work, throwing money at problems is generally effective.

    Finally, I think someone already said it, but it's worth repeating. You stop giving a shit about a lot of things, and it's liberating. It feels like honesty and confidence and contentment.

  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • New laws in California and New York might stop people from 3D printing guns

    It absolutely, positively, will not do that. If someone wants to print a gun, no legislation is going to stop them. It could at best, slow them down by maybe an hour, as they find, download and install different firmware for their printer.

    If you want to prevent people from printing guns, you'll need a different tactic, because that won't do it.

  • Your Favorite Place, Your Actual Budget

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  • I gotta say, north from San Francisco is pretty amazing. I did a road trip years ago, we were in a hurry for this section, so took the I-5 rather than the coast road. That was a shame for the LA to SF section of the trip, but my god when we got north of SF... Driving through Shasta National Park was perhaps the most beautiful scenery I've ever witnessed.

    At some point we passed a lake beach that was truly unreal, the vibrant greens of the pines, the red clay of the shore, and rich blue of the water, the color was so intense, so saturated, it was like an alien world in the best possible way.

    When you look to the east, you can see Mount Shasta. Now, being from New England, up in the Appalachians, I thought I knew what a mountain was, I was wrong. Shasta loomed over the terrain, a solitary giant, with a perfect cone shaped lenticular cloud overhead. The scale was truly awe inspiring.

    Note: I didn't have to search for "lenticular cloud" to find that image, I just searched for "Mount Shasta".

    Should you make this drive, up toward Portland, don't forget to stop in weed CA. It's an old logging town, probably not a lot to see, but there's a lovely, kitschy little diner, a great place to stop for lunch. The food was good, and you get the opportunity to pick up some merch like a shirt that says "I got high in weed CA".