Adding to the above, one of the challenges of GD is how to know whether the global optimum reported by the function isn’t just one of its many imposters (local optima). That’s the “big picture” he’s talking about. Working with Elon was a dead end.

I thought it was a matter of detail resolution not simply color. My bad.

Misunderstood, didn’t realize you meant color

Heat stamping might be quickest alternative. Should be rugged and aid low-vision use.

Full brass letterpress type sets and die can be pricy, but the cheap leather iron kits at craft shops commonly include small metal alphanumeric types that could be set (clamped) and affixed to your stamp (burning/soldering iron or pliers + hot plate/stove).

But is LTO next? Is AI coming for my tapes??

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Ask if by rich people they mean funding?

If no: ask them to discuss functions uniquely fulfilled by rich people in the allocation of funding. They will likely need time to reflect, so plan to resume later, but the best answer is expediency/dispatch via unitary agency, and it’s easy to demonstrate why this advantage (A) is outweighed by numerous liabilities via human fallibility and (B) isn’t actually unique.

If yes: they have already conceded, but you might then shift to the question: must there be people who are poor?

That is a meatier conversation, since it challenges their assumption that people require imminent threat of destitution to motivate productivity. You can brute force this argument via strong scientific consensus, but for most you need only rely on their belief in human dignity. Just be aware that the most difficult branches of this conversational pathway are exceptions they might have carved out: groups for whom they hesitate to ascribe human dignity. But the revelation of such bigotry is important for their own personal reflection.

GL

Finally, the era of vibe command has arrived. WCGW?

And yet, as with any disease, outlook depends on many factors. The number of cells in the immune system that recognize an infection, for example, can radically alter its progression.

A sudden widespread immune response may be all that can save the organism following an initial exposure, but often a more targeted, adaptive, and coordinated immune response is possible later. It mostly depends on how much of the body recognizes the infection and does its part to block its spread.

This judge had a particularly crucial part and played it to a T_h.

It takes a hell of a lot more courage to hold the line with your comrades, like this judge did by laying the groundwork needed for their future victory, than it does to

1. abandon them because “waving signs and impotent chanting never made a difference,”
2. take long looks in your mirror to “ask yourself how far you’re willing to go” because “no one is going to save you,”
3. tell all the comrades currently fighting for your rights that they “should leave” if they’re not willing to be more “outwardly aggressive,” or
4. otherwise pose for all the other terrified edge lords on here who dismiss activists, predict defeat, lionize fascists, and imply that they’re prepping to do what’s actually necessary to “fix this.”

Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

(Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:

• “Thank you”
• ”Sorry”
• “My bad”
• ”Go on”
• ”Nice drift”
• ”You drunk?”

Hmm, my RC400L only pings when IMSI catchers are detected. I think Flock camera alerts are still mostly driven by community gis databases.

I think they mean a steel door with a solid wood core. Basically a wooden door clad in sheet steel.

They’re common in the US, especially in denser urban areas.

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You are the Winter in my Summer, Sonor

Oh shit lol, forgot we could vote on our own shit. Ty for the slightly taller pyre

Nothing compared to your haul though. Let’s see Paul Allen’s doots

Not sure if this hack has a name, but usually once someone in a comment tree makes a joke about downvotes — e.g., clowning on an edit complaining about a downvote — rules are suspended for all comments that follow, and you can accrue lots of downvote salutes FOR FREE.

(Maybe not my comment since I’m late to the downvote party, but here you go;)

Edit: why the upvotes? :(

Edit edit: 1v1 me irl

All air is filled with spores.

Uh huh