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wjrii

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  • A clean knockout

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  • Remember, anytime a New Yorker cartoon doesn't land, just substitute the caption with "Christ, what an asshole." You're guaranteed a befuddled chuckle at minimum.

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  • Even in the absence of right-to-die laws, from what I've seen with older relatives, once the healthcare providers know what's what and divert you to hospice care, the drugs take care of the visible pain and, frankly, consciousness. These are generally practical, kind people who understand the odds and don't want to see suffering.

  • Say it ain't so

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  • I’m deep into my 40s, and I’m one of those. I can get up to 70 words per minute for short stretches, but it’s still a weird dance that combines muscle memory and hand-eye coordination.

    I did learn just enough to know to hover my hands and keep my arms at a good posture, so I’ve never had any RSI from typing. That also may be partly because that I’m so inconsistent that I don’t get enough of the R for RSI, LOL.

  • Does your hobby have a "random person in Nebraska" project? If so, what is it?

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  • So I have finally started seeing some viable replacements, after a several weeks long partial outage due to changing infrastructure at GitHub, but for years now, the custom keyboard design community has relied on a single person’s site, https://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/ , to design keyboard layouts, and to generate properly labeled json exports to set up the most popular firmware.

  • Biggest print so far. About 42 hours and 2.6kg of filament. No, I don't have room for a table saw, how did you know?

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  • 42 hours

    it lives about twenty minutes away from me

    nm 🤣

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  • In small but statistically and financially significant numbers, yes, absolutely.

    The bigger paradigm shift will be moving corporate users to per-token pricing, and that’s the one that will really kill Anthropic and OpenAI (and maybe Oracle) if it doesn’t go how they need, but there are way more actual people spending money on AI than one might think… or hope.

  • Does a PBJ have a defined "up" side?

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  • This is what I do, except the jelly is on both sides of a third and toasted piece of bread.

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  • I like listening to Ed Zitron stuff, though admittedly part of it is AI Doomer comfort food, but one of the drums he beats is that the spend is absolutely obscene, and they’re going to have to start dramatically dialing up the prices, and soon, to have any chance at all of converting to profitability.

    From what I’ve seen, even people who like AI won’t pay for anywhere near as much as they’re using now while it’s free or flat rate.

  • Quark, why are you charging me to sit in my office?

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  • 'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump

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  • Fair enough, LOL. Just love that it's "oh I pay TONS of taxes, but asking me to pay more in taxes won't help anything."

  • What are some stereotypes you know of for weird groups you're a part of?

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  • Just make sure your beard feels empowered to live their truth, and it's all good. You do what you have to.

    Or did you mean facial hair?

    Anyway, I can't grow a proper beard at all, and my plaid button-downs are generally cotton because I've always lived places where it's hot AF most of the year, but I do very much like my Subaru. Had a '13 Outback for 9 years, and finally replaced it with a '22 Outback Wilderness, as possibly the dullest mid-life-crisis automobile purchase ever... it's a little bit taller and looks a little cooler and has the turbo! I still have the ethereal butterflies center-console protector because I had to make a deal with my daughter to let me trade in the only car she'd ever seen daddy drive.

  • 'I think those people are dead wrong': Jeff Bezos slams AI naysayers, plays down job fears for young workers, and defends billionaires and Trump

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  • “The top 1% of taxpayers pay about 40% of all the tax revenue, and the bottom half pay 3%,” Bezos said. “I don’t think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.”

    “People sometimes say that, you know, I don’t pay taxes. Not true. I pay billions of dollars in taxes,”

    “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens. I promise you.”

    WT-absolute-F? I think he got oxygen-deprived in space.

  • Trump Mobile exposes data of customers who ordered the T1 phone

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  • Not the main issue of course, but I found this fun:

    Both YouTubers said the exposed database records indicated significantly lower customer interest than previously reported. According to Coffeezilla, internal order identifiers suggested roughly 30,000 total orders associated with around 10,000 unique customers, far below earlier public estimates claiming nearly 600,000 reservations.

    So this grift will only net them ~$3M, not sixty. My heart weeps for them.

  • Have you ever camped out or queued up for the launch of a game, console, or other media?

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  • Anyways, I saw TPM 9 times in the first 48 hours.

    My friends thought I was nuts for seeing it six times during its first and dollar-theater runs. There was so much interesting stuff to unpack...

    ...except the plot or acting (barring Ian McDiarmid and Liam Neeson).

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  • I tried so hard, but poor Jake Lloyd was never given anything to work with, and Natalie Portman and Samuel L Jackson and any other actors who were hoping for some competent direction were hung out to dry too. Some of the worst line readings I’ve ever heard from professional actors.

    Then there was JarJar… and watto… and the neimoidians… oh, and the utter lack of a compelling story…

    Like you, though, I convinced myself that the bones were good, and then also that they were just getting warmed up and episode two would be a banger. Spoiler alert: it was not, though it had a few isolated moments as well.

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  • It was so much worse than that. People had been waiting 16 years to see a proper cinematic continuation of Star Wars. There were some pulp novels, a couple of very weak kids cartoons, a pretty decent tabletop RPG with source materials, a few video games, and that was about it. For a franchise that was still iconic and incredibly popular despite lying fallow like that.

    We got a more distilled version of George’s vision, and hoo-boy it just simply wasn’t very good. I still saw that movie six fuckin’ times (the last three at the dollar theater), but while there was plenty to digest and feed my nerdery, the story and acting just never got better.

    Surely they were just getting warmed up though, and episode two would be better…

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  • JJ Abrams, but yes. I will give TPM credit for production design and world building and for a few of the veteran actors’ performances.

    TFA gave us a cast of characters you could do something with, and apart from sounding a bit too much like a Joss Whedon movie, performances that were at least not delivered by cardboard cutouts. I didn’t completely mind the plot being a rehash, but the contortions they went through to make the state of the galaxy exactly fit a rehash doomed the entire trilogy.

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  • Waited in a three-hour-ish line for The Phantom Menace. 100 minutes of "I'm sure it will get better" followed by the Naboo duel tricking my fanboy brain into thinking it was a good movie.

  • This is mine now.

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  • There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.

    The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.