HerbManic

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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I don't think they realize that they are in the top 1% of earners on the planet with numbers like that. It is always funny to see how many think they are hard done even though by the numbers they are the winners by a wide margin.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I think Matt Bevens with his show 'If you are listening' summarized it perfectly. Trump got into the mind set that he could switch wars on and off as needed. The issue is that Iran was the third rail you do not touch and wasn&#x27
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Alas for some people, their lifestyle will expand to fill their income. They could earn 10x as much, and it probably still wouldn't be enough.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I'm sorry but you pay more in tax than I make in income! This sounds like your lifestyle creep has chewed up your money stream. Despite my significantly lower income, I manage to own my house in Melbourne. With your income I could have
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I'm not sure if there is anything more that can be said about this. While there is a huge stack of skill, training and just good genetics at work. A big part of this does come down to, who can push themselves closes to the absolute lim
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The one major area they are still behind in is CPU tech, but they are hungry and thus moving quick. Looking at Loongsons processors for instance. About 15 years ago they coudl barely compete with a Pentium 2. Now they are about 4-5 years be
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Possible, but that is still reasonable odds. Reminds me of the line from The Naked Gun "Doctors give him a 50% chance of living, but there is only a 10% chance of that."
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The booster catch is a useful trick but when the focus is just getting SS3 into orbit without incident, you can drop a few of the boosters in the ocean with the intent to fix at a later point.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yeah... he gave himself that title back in 2021.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
That is a brilliant line. And yes Emanuel Macron has been taking this treat seriously as he is very well versed on Da Gaulle. He might not have the best domestic moves but when it comes to Geopolitics, he is all over it.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Terrance McKenna once said something like "The worst government is the one in power, regardless of the time." Essentially, regardless of who is in, they rarely teardown the injustices of the past but merely build on them. They wil
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yeah I usually expect better of the comments here but it looks like a nerve has been hit.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I said in another response, Trump has shown the cards to world that there is a sizable portion of the country that can not be trusted. Other nations have realised this is an embedded problem and cannot be fixed with another election. At lea
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It is a combination of moving fast and slow. A lot of Canadians now avoid purchasing products from the US were possible. Mean while their government while still dependent on the US is making the moves that will minimise their dependence on
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It will be interesting to see what happens. Many are hoping that there is a very strong turn out for the Democrat's so that any rigging cannot over come it, but this sounds like fan fiction to me. That said Trump hitting Iran may be th
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It is wild seeing the elctorial maps of Germany and you can almost exactly recreate the East-West split. Decades later and it is coming back to haunt them.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
There is the military saying "Once is an accident, twice is an attack", this is how a lot of folks see it. I think it is deeper, that these actions were taken at the top and a sizable amount of the people sided with them, that sen
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yeah pretty much. I have seen it hallucinate things confidently but that is usually when it has no direct sources to pin down the output.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Yep, if you are going to leave a project as leader, either see if someone else wants to take over or leave a note that the project isn't being updated. If you are really motivated, leave instructions on how someone else can pick up wer
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
For the longest time Iain McGilchrist has been going on about left brain this, right brain that and it all felt very pop-psych stuff. Not sure if because of that being sort of torn down but recent years he has been clarifying he wasn't
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
There are so many projects that come up here that have the tag line of "This is such a stupid idea that I just had to do it!". We can do things just for the fun of it. Woz made the Apple computer basically as a toy, nothing more.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I run it on an old Optiplex that is a 3rd gen i3. No issue with drivers but that comes from its old (well seasoned) age.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Haiku is a good example of prioritising the user experience over benchmarks. Under the hood, broadly speaking, it is running at about 60% the speed of Linux on the same system. But in action it feels so much quicker than anything else. That
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I immediately copied that clip of the cyclone intro because of how dark and funny it was. Also calling listeners "Biological processors" is one of the funniest dystopian outcomes of this.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I like that it doesn't block the content but merely highlights it. That is a smart move. The limit ultimately will be how well the algorithm can keep up with changes in LLM cadence over time. This is usually were project like this come
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
I suspect this is why places like Reddit are so valuable. With the voting system, they can correlate AI output with peoples approval. They are essentially ranking how well the output is received. This doesn't mean this stuff will impro
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Sorry I see I am being down voted. Understandable, I do come off a little like a jerk there. I am not anti solar in the least, I just kind it really fascinating how some folks who are very well meaning, also tend to love that they can show
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
The internet would be a very quiet place and the publishing industry would go mostly broke if we had that requirement.
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
Back 2001-ish there was an uproar about how Windows XP would profile your system and upload this to Microsoft. This was done to ensure that it got the right security update (32/64bit - home/enterprise). That was the only thing it
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by HerbManic 5mo ago
It think they under estimate the 'Green bling' factor. For many people if they are going to get solar, they want the neighbours to know. Got to get that virtue signalling in. Not saying it is a huge factor but it is there.

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