Tar_Alcaran

The plan to deal with the tech debt:

New rule: only 1 “in progress” item and 1 “in repair” item is allowed on the hobby pile.

Turns out I actually have a LOT of things to do, and now I actually do it too.

1 rose works well in a small vase.

2 roses means the go left and right, which looks weird.

4 roses are the same, either it’s unbalanced or split.

3 and 5 mean you have an even number, plus a middle.

If anyone asks me what fragile masculinity looks like, this will be my example for the month.

MUCH older. Shakespeare made a ton of contemporary references, and was referenced in turn by others during his days. Those were memes.

Medieval writers included strong biblical references, and we have some “entertainment” that is purportedly extremely funny and popular, that’s basically the medieval equivalent of Loss.

Brainrot videos are the first one I truly, truly don’t get.

I just discovered there are now over 9000 SCPs. Last time I checked, there were three hundred something.

That’s great, because his back could use a little support after this.

Larping works great for me.

Sometimes I miss the “Here’s our copy-pasted-photocopied rulebook, bring your own binder” type of game.

Well I mean, the best D&D stuff has always been third party stuff.

I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I’m eating “their” food when they know I usually eat meat.

Unless you’re at a place where you’re literally taking physical food, leaving them none, that’s just moronic

It’s mostly an artefact from how we measure it.

Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there’s plenty of readily available mountainous land that’s currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers). We’ve decided to place the CO2 impact on the cocoa, not the wood though, probably due to lobbying.

That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.

Why the hell don’t they capture the methane and sell it?

It’s really hard. Most methane comes directly from the cow, and cows spend most of their time in air. The methane gets mixed in the air, in very small percentages. Extracting a small bit of methane from a lot of air is complex and energy Intensive, and methane is cheap.

So you’d spend a lot of money and power to produce very little money or power.

Faxes are secure after sending. The only way for a third party to get a fax is to physically tap the line at the time of transmission, or to break into the building and steal the paper.

Email sits online, where everyone can get at it unless you prevent it. Faxes sit in a drawer, behind the locks you already have.

I spend a fair bit of time on construction sites, and cameras have one huge issue compared to mirrors: They’re one-way.

With a mirror, I can see the driver in the mirror. I can make eyecontact and confirm that they’ve seen me. With a camera, I have no idea if they’ve seen me. Maybe they can see more, but if they happen not to be looking, I have no way to tell.

And our stupid road regulations don’t allow for both.

Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.

Stroopwaffel van Klompmill.

I love this, because a “Hans worst” in dutch is someone incompetent and useless.