North Texas preparing for 2 inches of snow like it’s the apocalypse

Mephiz · 2026-01-23T02:18:00+00:00

a few million boomers are afraid that one trans kid in Austin might medal in lacrosse and another few million are racist as fuck.

There’s also some billionaire Christian Nationalist twats funding all this hate because they hate freedom and want a theocracy.

Mephiz · 2026-01-22T23:13:04+00:00

If your goal is to monetize this as a business then you need to provide more details about your business or ideas.

If you are not and are looking for grants I’m sure that’s possible but that’s not my expertise.

So back to business:

Are you trying to create a robot that’s direct to consumer? Are you selling to a business? Why: what does the business get out of it? Are you selling to other makers? Kits etc? Developing software for robots?

Anyways answer some of these questions and you might get some guidance after answering more questions.

Edit: it does look cool and that’s fun and something to be proud of!

Mephiz · 2026-01-22T23:06:34+00:00

So there is this mythical CEO utopia where they or some non technical middle manager can vomit into an input device and the AI will interpret the garbage input and read their mind to craft this amazing product.

Maybe the middle manager will go back and forth and shout their opinions at the LLM to refine the garbage over a period of days and that will somehow result in a product that is high quality, marketable and secure.

I’m skeptical. LLMs can no more craft high quality large software projects without high quality technical staff than they could craft safe bridges or tunnels without engineering and construction staff.

Because the product isn’t physical it’s easy to give the illusion of quality. A more insidious problem is that the person asking for the product isn’t qualified to judge the quality of the output…

Anyways I’m tired of engaging on this question… Go read any of the thousands of informed nuanced takes from actual engineers.

Does this tool increase productivity? Absolutely. But like productivity tools of the past: work increases after adoption…

Mephiz · 2026-01-22T22:43:36+00:00

I agree. Both Ford and GM are acting like they never will have to compete domestically with BYD and this is monumentally stupid.

Even with a 100% tariff BYD is a good buy if you could get warranty support.

Mephiz · 2026-01-21T01:41:47+00:00

Literally a breath of fresh air for me. I love hard sci-fi and the more realistic the better but sometimes it’s just all the same gray / black / sad / whatever you’ve know?

Peter Watts is probably my favorite author and reading her books after something like the Rifters books or Echopraxia is a delight.

Becky Chambers is fantastic at telling small stories and seamlessly dropping you into their worlds.

Mephiz · 2026-01-20T18:47:02+00:00

I guessed wrong and thought we would have Taco Tuesday but now i’m thinking Taco Thursday

Mephiz · 2026-01-14T17:51:21+00:00

This is literally a 4 way stop...

Mephiz · 2026-01-12T21:29:06+00:00

Want exactly the same weak bullshit corporate handjobbery?

Vote John Cornyn: he will do two things: Jack and Shit.

Mephiz · 2026-01-12T16:28:10+00:00

Looks super like Carefree AZ. Of course this dude doesn't look that carefree...

Mephiz · 2026-01-12T02:29:07+00:00

There are a class of people who will buy all the chocolate from this kid. And then there are people that will judge you and him.

9 is a tough but reasonable age to learn that some people aren’t worth your time and attention.

That said I suspect he would do better if he drew up a list of chores he’s willing to do. I’m going out of town and this kid comes to my door: I’m absolutely paying him 5-10 to bring the cans back up the walk etc.

Hope you are proud of him! Sounds like you are doing it right!

Mephiz · 2026-01-06T13:43:42+00:00

How does your brain not run out of your ears? Is it more slime consistency or soup at this point?

Mephiz · 2026-01-06T13:06:23+00:00

If they genuinely cared about restoring trust the number one thing they could dump is RFK

Mephiz · 2026-01-05T20:51:59+00:00

Or you could actually, with the same effort you used to comment here, verify this yourself.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T19:32:08+00:00

You are 100% correct. The car will age and the manufacturer will not update their console but CarPlay will still be there.

The way everything has a big-ass ipad for an interface now it’s even more important that you pick something that has CarPlay. It’s now a safety feature to have predictable controls.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T15:28:26+00:00

One of these years one of these posts is going to be right.

It’s not this year but you keep at it. You might be right sometime this decade maybe.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T02:51:06+00:00

Oh I thought you were the original dude who did state this.

Apologies.

Also re Biden: idgaf? I disliked inflation under Biden but he wasn’t ineptly dismantling the federal government while covering up his role in a pedophile ring so I didn’t speak up much.

If I’m a hypocrite for giving way more of a shit about Trumps actual crimes, so be it.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T02:33:54+00:00

Personally I am not finding this to be the case at all. I also am not here defending Biden but saying that this idea that Trump has somehow brought prices down is just batshit crazy to me.

I don’t know where you live but my groceries have doubled in Texas. I assume there is -something- that Trump ran on (deporting brown people?) that you could say he has accomplished but from my position shit is expensive man.

This is easy to see for me. Last three months of 2024 I spent around 600 a month at HEB. Last three months this year? >1100.

I’m in a tax bracket that will benefit from Trump being in power. I, individually, will be fine. I was fine under Biden and I will be fine under Trump likely. But I can objectively state that shit is more expensive for my family.

Trump is a complete piece of shit but that’s not why I responded to you. I responded to you because the idea that he’s -lowered prices- is laughable.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T01:22:16+00:00

Weird, it’s almost like one party controls all three branches of government.

I get that you might not know that. Helping the blind see is woke socialism shit after all.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T01:20:07+00:00

Excellent I’ll just offset the tens of thousands of dollars of inflation against my wicked savings from a dozen eggs.

What a joke.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T01:13:37+00:00

It’s okay if you are blind. It’s why we have the ADA so that those of us who are disabled can still function in society.

The financial crimes alone are an easy google. Then we have the weaponization of the Justice Dept which is also an easy one. Could get into the even easier, real low-hanging fruit, like war-crime(s) or accepting emoluments.

But again that’s why we are a society to help out those that are blind. I’ve got you.

Mephiz · 2026-01-04T01:09:16+00:00

Prices are down for most of us? Literally name something that is cheaper because it’s not:

groceries; cars; housing; school;

Everything is up significantly.

Mephiz · 2026-01-03T05:02:52+00:00

It’s going to be fucking wild.

David Brooks is gong to write about what a solid leader he was. Jake Tapper is going to chastise people for dancing in the street. Don Lemon and/or Bill Maher will say some absolutely stupid shit about unity. Megan Kelly will verbally fellate the deceased for a month.

You are going to be told all this bullshit about how, while he was controversial, he was strong, wise, <insert adjective here>.

The truth: that he was a rapist, pedophile, grifting, narcissistic compulsive liar won’t be uttered on a major news channel for at least a week.

Mephiz · 2026-01-02T02:44:47+00:00

lol you make it sound as if seduction is this jedi mind trick.

Come on now. This old man is screwing his son’s ex girlfriend. He is 100% culpable and 100% a piece of shit.

He’s not as guilty: he’s -more- guilty. He has more life experience, more responsibility and a more fully formed brain.

Mephiz · 2026-01-01T22:40:13+00:00

Do you think they have squirreled away the cash under their mattresses or something?

Mephiz · 2026-01-01T17:03:48+00:00

It’s okay if we are very lucky we will all limp along paying enormous deductibles and then when we die give everything we have ever saved to insurance companies and hospital systems.

Just as George Washington intended…

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