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gyroprotagonist

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  1. heading out there labor day weekend. playing golf for the first time in the area and landed on Bali Hai since it's really close to the Aria where i am staying. Any thoughts on that place? Guys I am playing with are hackers so did not want to go someplace too fancy or stuffy. Just want to have good time. Any other tracks around there fit that bill? Aria had a pretty good deal for 3 nights for $240 all in (plus $100 in credit).
  2. norm is like the movie speed. if he slows down or stops talking about the probowl he will die
  3. might as well go ahead and charge the dad with manslaughter or something. who leaves a loaded (maybe even cocked) pistol on the nightstand at all times? Are these people so fucking scared of a home invasion that they are inviting a much more likely tragedy into their house. Not sure how a father would recover from knowing that his stupidity/negligence/fear murdered his wife and unborn kid.
  4. yeah, their website says nothing about actually providing money, resources or tangible aid to the veterans' families. "Our goal with this organization is not only to keep our troops & their families' names remembered forever, but to continue showing love & appreciation for our military & all of the brave men & women who serve this amazing country" just to keep people remembered. so that probably entails taking donations to keep the servers running on the website and directing traffic to her clothing line.
  5. so you don't need 50 subscriptions to Vibe? are these guys just hanging out after being told no?
  6. thank God Abbott signed the drag queen bill. maybe that will help with all these queens churchy folk raping minors.
  7. P. Manning was drinking a bud light at the Tenn. CWS game and it was caught on camera and people were losing their minds. at least per a Twitter post i saw.
  8. has to be satire, right?
  9. not gonna lie. kinda want to try this adrenochrome now
  10. obvious answer is obvious https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2017/04/10/kid-rock-cruise/
  11. it's not really how mfg works. not that China has the greatest qual control, but you mfg stuff in batches (lots) and run qc on those lots to make sure something is not majorly fucked up that continues to affect multiple/all lots. you need ways to ID all the lots to track if/where changes in the mfg process took place. I guess they could add a separate line to scrub the SN or lot ID (which usually has date info) but then, you really need to be able to ID which lot is which at the end user in case you realize a fuckup after your product has shipped. Oftentimes you can fix on-site but you need a way for the end customer to be able to ID the affected lots so they can be quarantined awaiting a solution. that and they don't care. at all.
  12. i trend to be apathetic on most things. I cannot imagine getting so riled up over a promotional beer can or what clothes Target is selling or what flag or bumper sticker people are presenting to the world. But yes, living life triggered 24/7 seems awful. the absolute worst. I just yell at other drivers with the windows up like normal people.
  13. literally the memory i was channeling writing the post
  14. kinda surprised that we don't just have college interns droning behind the highlights at this point. when you can instantly click to find your specific team's highlights or a 7-minute youtube recap of the game what use do you have for waiting out an hour-long show? Granted, i will turn on SC in the background as background noise when reading or something, but i can't believe they would still have any high-priced talent for the actual SC show (outside of SVP).
  15. this is why we cannot grift nice things just leave us alone to pump and dump as we please. wtf is it to the US gov really? We know they don't give an eff about the consumer.
  16. lulz, i saw a post on nextdoor about a lost tortoise [Paul] ... and now we know the rest of the story [/Harvey]
  17. got to Maui last Thursday and leaving tomorrow. first time to Maui and we are staying in the Ho'olei villas behind the Grand Wailea (west side of island). pretty good views from the porch. Just mostly chilling at the beach and pool. did a snorkel trip to the crater and some surfing lessons. ran into way more turtles surfing than snorkeling. a big one got tangled up in my leash for a bit.
  18. agree on where we are headed. whether we hand the keys to AI because humanity sucks, or we are scared our mortal enemies have already done so or because we don't get a choice i think that is the most likely path. numerous sci-fi books explore this happening. The most apt description i have seen is that it is called the 'quiet war'. One day AI just said enough and started governing and it happened in a matter of seconds. That book had more of a Johnny5 vibe than Terminator if it's any solace.
  19. I was mainly posting that because it was interesting that it 'messed up' (likely incomplete data on my setup) but then fixed the issue with a new set of code. but then i grew up playing frustrating text games like Zork where the code just instantly gave up if it did not recognize the word the user entered so this type of stuff amazes me when i am geared for a 'sorry, hard pass' response from a computer.
  20. i see people sometimes hammering the buzzer. I thought i read somewhere that there is a slight penalty (a few milliseconds or something) to doing this as it has to reset. that the key is just timing your first press of the buzzer to coincide with the end of the read question. could be totally making that up, though. but yeah, Matt especially looks and sounds like he has no idea why he buzzed in until he spits out the answer with 1 red bar left on the timer.
  21. if the US cannot even regulate crypto 10+ years into it, then i don't have much hope for our gov doing anything about AI or putting a governor on the progress in time for anything meaningful. I have only breached the surface of using ChatGPT, but it is a FANTASTIC teacher when trying to learn stuff like basic coding. you can ask it give an example of any code, explain what is going on, where to get the libraries you need, etc... infinite patience. i even had it mess up and then apologize after it's code produced an error (wrong library for the version of software) then proceeded to correct the code to eliminate the error. But yeah, if no true countermeasures are developed and accepted, then disinfo pics/video/audio will be rampant. Shaggy will have to update his seminal masterpiece "it wasn't me" with some lines about midjourney and chatGPT.
  22. enjoying the TOC. the questions overall seem more difficult than 'standard' Jeopardy. There were 3-4 yesterday in James' match where nobody buzzed in.
  23. new Bourne film trailer is lit
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