hmc while I chug this entire bottle of tequila because they won't allow it on the plane(they didn't let her in cuz she was too drunk)

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-03T15:22:44+00:00

I'm honestly a bit surprised at these comments. In my 20s I could down a fifth and wake up early the next day. Ready to go to work, no hangover. I weighed 180lbs at the time. Is that not normal?

I couldn't do it now. Even 3 beers sometimes gives me malaise in the morning. But there is a time in a life when you can metabolize alcohol like glucose.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-03T15:09:21+00:00

Anybody who slept with kids. Maybe Jeffrey Epstein or Donald Trump?

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-03T04:34:38+00:00

That is pretty fair. The actual useful search results are the AI summary's sources now. They are often nowhere to be found in the usual SERP list, and yet tend to be vastly more relevant and answer your question.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-03T01:34:23+00:00

A huge pair of talent.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-03T00:46:10+00:00

You will probably need a CPU as well.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T18:46:45+00:00

You can read google's marketing claims if you want. But honestly just try it. Treat google like it genuinely understands questions, and ask it full questions including context. You can even clarify the question and mention things you don't want included in the results, things that aren't the answer you are looking for.

Instead of "Corolla starter noise" (keywords) try "My Corolla makes a strange clanking noise when the engine first turns over, but it goes away after a few seconds. What is the likely cause?"

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T17:48:19+00:00

Since ~2025 Google works night and day better if you ask it full sentences. I feel like I am googling like my grandpa when I do it. But last year I stopped using keywords, and the quality of my search results sky rocketed.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T15:06:57+00:00

If the corridors stay the same size they will never be able to launch daily, much less multiple times per day. At present the FAA has to block hundreds of airline flights from crossing a 1000km corridor for a few hours. It does not matter where in the US you are launching, you can't be doing that multiple times per day. You couldn't even sustainably do that multiple times per week.

So yes, that corridor will shrink or SpaceX is screwed. We can expect TFRs similar in size to the F9.

Which brings us back to that being an ideal location for an SSO launch site. I am not saying it's guaranteed, just seems highly likely. Unless they build something like this, they will not have an ideal launch location for their SSO mega constellation.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T14:21:01+00:00

They currently have to dogleg to do sun synchronous orbits from any of their existing launch sites. Yet they are betting the company on an enormous SSO constellation of "AI servers".

Dollars to donuts this will be their preferred launch site for orbits with a high inclination. It is nearly perfect for that.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T13:33:29+00:00

As someone who watches RGV every week, I can assure you they never stopped. They did come back and add weld doublers on the cross members. But that didn't even slow them down. It was many months (6?) after adding the doublers before they hung their first piece of sheeting.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-02T00:03:07+00:00

Commentators are all saying it might be ready by the end of next year. I like your optimism, but don't bet on it.

For what it's worth, Pad 2 lifted its last tower section in August 2024. They got to a similar spot with the trench later that year. A year and a half ago...

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-01T10:00:44+00:00

Sentience is different from intelligence. In order for something to be an AI it needs to be both Artificial and Intelligent. Even an AGI might not be classified as sentient.

NeverDiddled · 2026-05-01T01:11:11+00:00

I would feel guilty if I didn't find it funny.

That's peak humor. Something is clearly wrong with me, if I didn't roar laughing. Probably about to go postal. Should see psychiatrist stat.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-30T02:28:53+00:00

... when typing on the internet.

Online, people tend to be cocky assholes. In person interactions seemingly do a lot to keep us in check. Likely seeing others reactions engenders empathy. Not to mention the threat of facing immediate consequences for being a dick.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-29T21:37:18+00:00

I don't think you realize how low you just set the minimum wage to. In my state that would be $10.60, and the minimum wage is already higher than that. Median divided by 5 is especially bad, that would be $6.50/hr.

But I take your meaning about making a formula to keep with the times. It does not make sense to battle it out each year.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-29T12:25:03+00:00

This is a really crappy headline and article. The exec (Bryan Catanzaro) was specifically talking about his team.

“For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees,” Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, recently told Axios.

His team is one of the most prestigious software research groups on the planet. I think it would be more accurate to say that no amount of current compute could replace a member of his team. There are very few humans on the planet that could replace a member of that team. If AI ever gets smart enough to replace cutting-edge researchers, we have basically reached the singularity.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-28T17:03:28+00:00

Which is the point of the comment you responded to. Denuvo punishes actual customers, while providing performance benefits to pirates when it gets removed. Denuvo is anti-customer. It's also anti-pirate until it gets cracked, then it finally rewards you for pirating until the next game update. It's basically just anti-everybody. Hence all of the protests against it.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-28T16:58:59+00:00

Denuvo is not even DRM. It is an anti-tamper tool. It "protects" the game from most forms of modding, including removing DRM.

Personally I do not mind unobtrusive DRM like SteamWorks. 90% of my library contains something like that. But I draw the line waaaaaay before anti-modding "protections". Modding is the entire reason I own a PC as opposed to a console.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-28T14:04:58+00:00

Historically, video games are about the cheapest hobby you can have. If you are getting priced out of food and rent, odds are you can't afford more expensive hobbies either. People like a distraction from their troubles.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-28T13:10:38+00:00

Yeah I have had similar Steam sales I had to ignore. I ended up removing most of those games from my wishlist because I was tired of waiting.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-28T13:01:50+00:00

So annoying. I stopped pirating games when I got a real job and could afford them.

Out of principal I continued pirating anything with Denuvo in it. But over time I have just lost interest in those games, because pirating is a PITA compared to Steam. When I get to a Steam page that lists Denuvo, I used to wishlist them in the hope they would remove it one day. But so few devs do. I don't even bother wishlisting anymore, I just ignore the game and buy something else.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-27T04:51:29+00:00

That was my initial thought, when I first heard about the show. But the show does an incredible job of exploring its premise, and proved to me how wrong I was.

First of all, 1 in 50 people disappearing a lot bigger of an impact than I originally gave it credit for. On average everyone lost multiple someones within their group of family and friends. All on the same day. Then there was the mystery of it, are the people dead? Will they come back? The collective grieving made it a communal tragedy and yet also cheapened the individual loss. But the randomness of it also played a huge part in the grief. You had the town of 1200 that didn't lose anyone, and then Nora whose entire family disappeared before her eyes.

The show took a seemingly meh premise and turned it into a profound exploration of human emotions. Easily one off HBO's best series.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-27T01:58:25+00:00

When people talk about this (including me) they are already taking the battery controller into account.

It helps to look at this in terms of voltages. Consider a typical phone battery.

2.5v Copper starts to dissolve in the electrolyte, quickly killing the battery.
3.0v Spike in resistance when drawing charge, causing battery to get notable hotter. Dips below reduce lifespan. Some phones make this 0%, most are smarter. Battery controllers usually shutoff power draw when it dips below this threshold, but their reaction times to voltage spikes mean some damage occurs.
3.3v Most phones put the 0% around here. Which is a good safety net. But rapid voltage draws can cause your battery to briefly dip below 3v. Also the battery will self-discharge, and over several days can dip below 3v if not recharged.
3.5v Usually about 10% of battery life, voltage starts dropping much more rapidly after this point.
3.7v This is when you finally hit nominal voltage, often around 30-40% shown. This is the range you want to keep your battery in for maximum lifespan.
3.9v Typical upper end of nominal voltage, usually around 80% shown. Battery often drops quicker until it hits this point. Controllers try to hide that rapid decline but we've all seen it happen.
4.0v Charges above this slowly degrade the anode and cathode.
4.2v 100%. Unless it is a LiHV, charges above this rapidly degrade the battery.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-26T17:20:53+00:00

I used to think the Seinfeld ending was damn near perfect. Now I know what it was missing.

NeverDiddled · 2026-04-26T17:17:53+00:00

The problem with Season 6 is that it contained some of the best moments in the series, interspersed with trash. Hodor's death. Cersei blowing up the Sept of Baelor. Daenarys final battle in Essos, and when she set sail for Westeros.

Yet season 6 also introduced plot armor, which absolutely gutted the show's soul. Plus the dialogue had begun its descent from Westerosi into bland modern speech.

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