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Video games, robots, politics, 3D printing, and whatever else.

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I think so, something like a "contextually-weighted foot pulled from a distribution"

16.10.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Most are, just not at a panicked pace yet.

OpenAI www.wired.com/story/openai...

Google deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Meta www.reuters.com/technology/a...

Amazon of course has been doing major robotics work both in a reliable and hype driven way for years

25.09.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

1) Either they don't or they don't care
2) Trump's FTC will never do anything that would interrupt silicon valley hype

11.09.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Or guy who hunts. There are 14 million+ hunters. Please consider the more likely options first. 200 yards isn't that far

11.09.2025 11:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think the idea is that this act only *required* the accuracy and caliber of a standard hunting rifle without any "assault rifle like" features (semi auto, magazine size, short barrel, ect.), so proposed gun control rules wouldn't have prevented it.

11.09.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think this is a place where you apply Occam's razor. The US Military has generally around 3500 snipers at one time, maybe 1500 FBI swatt team members, maybe a couple thousand local PD swatt.

Approximately 5% of the US population hunts. What's more likely?

11.09.2025 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Please, link a real source, not AI slop. I'm interested if he actually did issue statements, but a Google AI summary is literally nothing.

10.09.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it is also an excuse to downsize while allowing product quality to atrophy some acceptable amount. Executives saw Twitter get slashed and still vaguely operate and concluded they have massively overhired.

26.07.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I assume its "magic the gathering" given the other topics included

13.07.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Honest question, has a PD ever faced any consequences for violating one of these orders?

11.07.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because they're not real judges? They are DOJ administrators who can be fired on the drop of a hat

11.07.2025 06:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh man, Iwish they gave me a free option of checking my carry on and only taking a small backpack. But I'm not going to pay extra to check my bag. I gate check it all the time, it's just a stupid process :(

10.07.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This guy just solved the single problem with Yglesias's one billion Americans: parking

09.07.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

6 per series I believe. Like how there are different series of PokΓ©mon card packs each with a fixed set of cards which could be in them.

07.07.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vintage Trieste Folding Chair by Aldo Jacober for Bazzani Folded dimensions only: 83x46x4,3 cm. Iconic chair designed by Aldo Jacober and Pierangela d'Aniello, exhibited in MOMA, NY.

Are they not Triste chairs by Aldo Jacober? E.g. www.pamono.com/vintage-trie...

07.07.2025 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Sweeney Todd 2?

Sweeney is a illegally deported man who returns, buys a food cart, becoming a pillar of the community while going after ice agents and rubber stamp immigration judges.

23.06.2025 23:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republicans in oregon are attacking RCV for the same reason. I think they honestly hold the belief that their coalition only has a shot at winning with lots of incredibly dumb and sunsetting older voters.

21.06.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Cops aren't workers" does not mean that they don't work, because even Bezos puts in hours. Nor does it mean that the work is totally without value. Even abolitionists would admit that there are cop tasks that should be done by others. "Cops aren't workers" means cops act as bosses for the masses.

18.06.2025 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The only thing with an app that I've bought recently and stand by is my Bluetooth OBD2 scanner. The app is free, doesn't require you to sign up or log in, and it has been helpful to parse through error codes and sensor snapshots.

17.06.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ACAB includes aurors

16.06.2025 22:21 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some good technology there, but we should absolutely not celebrate or even accept facial recognition technology being forced on people.

11.06.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Idk man, I think that's one of the coolest fucking cars you could drive. When a car is shitty/inconvenient/weird enough it becomes awesome. You gotta hit the ugly and bad but try hard-ing.

11.06.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It really is what's going on. Brett Adcock is trying to be Musk for humanoid robots. Ian Proulx is trying to be the gaming Musk.

11.06.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can I modify it? I would take one and try to turn it into some insane ratrod

11.06.2025 01:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We have lots and lots of partial autonomy systems which are really effective but aren't sexy to singularity pushing weirdos.

10.06.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes and no, we have robots that are useful. We don't have useful humanoid robots (what many vcs are focused on) and we don't have useful robots in unstructured environments. Food delivery robots take a huge amount of human supervision and kinda suck.

10.06.2025 23:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seriously, fuck this revisionism. It was a republican wishlist border bill that the Democrats lined up to support. It was a huge handout to ICE and border patrol. Trump and Rs rejected it only because he wanted to run on his fabricated fear of immigrants platform.

10.06.2025 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My man... Your company can't build a good messaging app after a dozen tries. You're not sending anyone off planet

10.06.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please actually read the decision storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

They've totally failed in every claim. There are a few counts where they are allowed to try again if they can come up with anything plausible but their original pleading was just hot air.

10.06.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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