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Homercles

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  1. So a C-17 has got to cost like $20k-$30k an hour to operate, and would be an absolutely critical in-demand asset were a war in the Pacific to break out owing to its ability to deliver materiel to austere locations directly. They’ve even gamed ways to deploy one + a few F-35’s on a dirt strip, complete with fuel bladders and crew, for the inevitable destruction of Diego Garcia in a full shooting match…so let’s not log pointless hours on one? Logistics reach has long been a key differentiator of a superpower, assets like C-17s and tankers should be protected so they don’t end up like the B-1, where serving as a low-altitude bomb truck for 20 years in the sandbox effectively clapped out the bulk of the fleet. Heavy lift, long range, high speed and high altitude employment of stealthy cruise missiles sure sounds helpful in a war with China. And that’s 1% of why that was stupid. Probably just to get that one photo.
  2. Ok so sounds like my ability to buy tickets to a hot concert are going to get even shittier? My first thought was all the scalper asshats will run the $200 ChatGPT tier to broaden their ability to gobble up more tickets by obfuscating they’re essentially script kiddies. Fuck I miss the days of seeing Mumford at Stubb’s for $35, parking across RR in that weird little garage thing for $8, and not having to be on like 4 ‘presale’ lists just to buy a shitty $90 seat at Moody.
  3. At least in its current form (Transformer architecture at massive scale trained on stolen content), GenAI reminds me of Block Chain…a solution to a particular type of problem, requiring shit-loads of expensive compute to execute efficiently, and thus cost-recovery drives business to expand applications of it or follow the tech hype cycle to extremes. So like Block Chain, “AI” is being crammed into every possible corner when no one asked for it in use cases with no value-add. I’d like to think the smart way is to adopt the general language model, extend it with use case-specific training data, and leverage a process like RAG to give it access to SME-written policy/troubleshooting/etc documentation…make a legit useful knowledge base search, or virtual support agent that’s smarter than a basic logic tree, or digital Dr House that diagnoses Lupus. I doubt I’ll be happy to have Apple Intelligence’s version of Clippy when I’m burning whale oil for lighting and oxen power to commute because all the electricity/water is fully dedicated to data centers. No doubt better modeling architectures will drive towards legit intelligent systems…but current pace is going to bankrupt companies and waste limited resources standing up monster data centers to keep pace in an imaginary race.
  4. Don’t they have Truth Social? If I recall correctly, there were complaints it was too boring because there was no dissent there to satisfy the outrage cycle
  5. Tons of subreddits today are banning Twitter links. I approve.
  6. RR and Austin ISD normal start tomorrow. Off to check Facebook and see how the sane ones are taking it.
  7. Getting flashbacks to 2021…luckily no power outages or sounds of trees splitting in half from across the hood.
  8. Glad you got one of those snide bastards
  9. Apparently his character in the game Path of Exile 2 was logged in while they showed him on tv at the inauguration.
  10. RR closed as well. I’d welcome a day to just chill but these weather events never happen on a Friday evening, where it’d get us out of 8a Saturday basketball, but always after a weekend when kids have to be managed while on calls all day.
  11. Any forecast updates that aren’t just an image of a map with lines and circles? Seems outlook trended away a bit from impactful precipitation, but what do I know.
  12. Beef don’t come with a radio edit Beef is when a judge is calling you defendant Beef, it comes with a long jail sentence, handed down to you in a few short minutes
  13. I’ve always been partial to Fuck Off Jesus
  14. The answer should have been pretty clear the moment you came to us for help.
  15. Sweatergawd the fuckin weather only gets ‘close school’ levels right after a long weekend or right in the middle of the week…so my kids are always at home when I’m working. Can’t this shit start on a Friday evening and be gone by Sunday night? Now I’ll be F5’inf the district Facebook page, reading all the Karen comments saying ‘just close the school FOR THE CHILDREN’. Karen, if you want your kids home so bad, just keep em there…rest of us have jobs
  16. AHB has it right…I’m born 1980 for reference. Use it to plan events and manage comms, marketplace when selling shit, very occasional messaging. Internet discussion peaked when forum software matured but before broad social media, when most communities were more narrow in focus. Slashdot, Fark, Something Awful, was on a great Prelude forum back when I had one, etc. Amassing the vast majority of online communication into a few tech monoliths…half of which owned or otherwise controlled by billionaires…puts way too much power into a handful of people. I choose to participate only in limited moments, when that massive reach or sheer momentum of legacy contacts, is when I use Facebook. Anytime I get curious and poke around further, my eyeballs alight and I leave that shit faster than NowThis.
  17. I only use FB for event invites anymore. So much AI Slop, ads, and ‘posts’ from groups that I never joined…feels like work to even see posts from actual people. No wonder they’re creating GenAI users.
  18. I’d still take it over my wife’s back seat driving
  19. See also: hospitals.
  20. Just wanted to say Thank You for getting to live vicariously through yall. Pokes season inexplicably went to crusty ass and I followed ya’ll more closely than normal…to the point I ate the insane ticket prices and screamed my heart out last night. Even bought my first new UT gear in ages…an “I’m Horny” longhorns shirt. Dude, I’m heart broken. We had shitty upper level seats right above the far corner of the end zone from where QE gave up the sack fumble. Right up until that moment I was confident they were going to pull it out, and when the tOSU side started going ballistic I had to get out of there…I was fuckin INVESTED. Was a great ride, so glad ya’ll are back to national prominence. You have the highest Good Fan :: Douchebag ratio of any of the blue bloods, finally have a coach, and despite never really having a solid 60 minute game…almost played for a natty. No consolation to ya’ll, but in the NFL-lite era, and with OK State never being a part of the Big Boys Club…I’m ecstatic to see you guys standing toe-to-toe with the assholes of the world.
  21. Not even a Horn, and I still drove 2.5 hours and spent $500 just to be able to do this:
  22. Only a matter of time until someone nearly drowns in the Gulf from riptides, the ambulance driver panics at the sight of a wall cloud, but is unable to stop on the frozen road and runs into a bollard-less pipeline upon which the gale-blown flames consume an entire refinery. Or parks their CyberFuck next to one
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