chrisco255

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by chrisco255 2mo ago
It's a funny movie, it definitely captures the leisurely time spent shooting the shit with various store clerks. Although I never played hockey on the roof.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
I made $6 an hour working at a video game store in the early 00s and most of our employees would chat it up with other gamers all the time. We had lots of regulars.
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Nobody typically took a date to Walmart and Walmart employees were rarely the most knowledgeable about any of the million things they sell. Still, I have some nostalgia for the Walmarts of the 90s. I remember being mesmerized by Super Mario
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
They weren't necessarily a place to meet people but they were definitely a nice place to visit after a date out or for a family to discuss and pick their entertainment for the weekend. Occasionally a passionate movie fan would encourag
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Small town malls have suffered the most but a lot of large cities still have vibrant malls to shop at and hang out at if you happen to be a teen. Dave and Busters and other similar arcade/mixed entertainment centers are also way more c
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Even in 1982 you could mail a letter from your house, order shoes from a catalog, and order delivery food to your house. Admittedly, your choices were basically pizza, subs or Chinese for that type of delivery, but still, DoorDash mostly co
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
I think the study makes a giant presumptive leap to assume inbreeding was the cause of the higher-than-modern-human incidences of spinal tumors. It's irresponsible to assert this to be true instead of one of several possible explanatio
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
I can say as an American I've never really had that impression. My impression of all ancient societies including Greeks and Romans but of course Egyptians, Chinese, Persians, Indian cultures, etc there have been periods of rise and per
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by chrisco255 2mo ago
Sun Tzu is quite popular even in the west today. Agree with your general points. It is hard to know the boundaries of your culture if you've never been intimate with another, as in really getting to know the memes and patterns of thoug
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by chrisco255 3mo ago
Sony doesnt have a monopoly on gaming. There is PC, mobile, Steam, Nintendo, Apple desktop, etc. There are also retro games consoles like Mod64. You don't invest in a game console it is an entertainment expense. You can sell your used
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
Most people are achieving weight loss by dietary changes. It takes a massive amount of exercise to significantly alter your calorie balance. Definitely good for you either way but most people who exercise also want to be toned or muscular.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
1. They don't make you stop altogether, they just make you feel full on less calories, which is good when you are in a calorie dense environment like modern society. 2. Not necessary here either if dietary habits are permanently altere
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
The Steam Deck is an ok PC gaming machine, but most PC games aren't optimized for console experience. There's even quite a few Windows games that don't work or have bugs on the Deck. Meanwhile all Switch games are made for th
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
They're not. The Deck is hundreds of dollars more expensive than the Switch 2. The Switch 1 sold 155 million units, making it the second most popular console of all time. Switch 2 is also selling very well.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
Its still dominant and a lot higher % wise if you count paying users. Gemini was integrated into Google search so its not necessarily people using Gemini as their daily assistant.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
They still have the most recognized AI brand name and they are still the most popular LLM. For most users, a 10% diff between Claude and GPT isnt going to move the needle plus it seems to be a horse race anyways. I think their user base is
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
> I hear this VR thing is the future of computing. Why isn't Apple in this space? Apple released the Vision Pro, which is AR
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
Lead? Lead was used for millenia. The Romans made copious use of lead.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
Corrected my comment, thank you. I mean, if productizing with them, global trade dynamics are certainly a supply chain risk factor, however, security concerns would be the primary reason such chips would be restricted from import.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
For what its worth, Espressif chips are open source, but yes, I wouldn't run national security or government devices on these. Edit: I take it back on OS comment, they are not OS but some components of the SDK are: https://z
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
Typically you look for a development board with the chip embedded on it. The dev board will have a usbc port and multiple pins that can be routed to LEDs, miniscreens, audio devices, etc. To program it you can usually use Lua (a very simple
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
My 2019 Ford has this as well, this is not novel.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
The U.S. would do just fine but the rest of the world would descend into chaos and we know this for a fact because it happened twice in just the first 50 years of the 20th century.
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by chrisco255 4mo ago
A gun doesn't kill a person without being driven to action by a human. There are numerous alternative weapons to use, like using a candlestick in the conservatory or a rope in the lead pipe in the study for example.
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
The author, George Hotz, owns an AI company: https://comma.ai/ He is just making a moment-in-time assessment of how he feels about current state of LLM coding. I don't think it's a super-strongly held opinion, I&#
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
Modern shoes are made by a mix of machine and hand. There is still quite a bit of manual labor to produce shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK8pcAYapXQ This is effectively what's happening to software. We are gett
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
Good news! Buggy/carriage mechanics became auto mechanics and the number of mechanics jobs increased overall.
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
Yes, the U.S. is very concerned that the E.U. is pivoting to LibreOffice. There is an ongoing war in Ukraine right now as there has been for 4 years. Will the E.U. deploy forces there to save Ukraine from Russia? Or will it instead resort t
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
Oh boy, equivocating the U.S. military to the IRGC, which murdered tens of thousands of Iranian protestors just 4 months ago, which jails and murders women for failing to wear a hijab or burka or protesting in public, the IRGC which fired m
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by chrisco255 5mo ago
I guess, you know nowadays it seems like if an enemy scratches one of our ships it is called a total loss for the U.S. meanwhile other nations have their entire air force taken out along with all of their targeting systems and most of their

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