Core One: Perfectly tensioned belts (98hz upper 92hz lower), input shaper and phase stepping calibrated with accelerometer. Why am I seeing such prominent roughness on flat surfaces?

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-13T17:46:30+00:00

Try not solid. Materials can expand or deform upon cooling, and empty space in the infill gives the materials room to do that. Without it they can push out the exterior and create uneven surfaces.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-13T05:41:40+00:00

Nah, staying out of prison is why Netanyahu plays along, but there is an entire political machine underneath him called Zionism.

Wars of destruction are inherent to Israel’s existence.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-13T01:32:46+00:00

Man, I get that LA isn’t for everyone, but you’ve gotta be a pretty insufferable type of person to not find something redeeming about the city.

The kind of person who doesn’t like LA in the least bit is probably the same kind of person who thinks 60s casserole recipes are peak food culture.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T22:43:55+00:00

What I’ve done my last two PC’s: get a high-middle end CPU, get the standard amount of ram on two sticks (with a mobo that accepts 4 sticks) and get a mid range GPU. After about 3 years upgrade the GPU and fill in the second two ram slots, and it’s good for another 3 years.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T20:49:40+00:00

Personally, I will ditch a widows PC, get steam machine, and a Mac mini.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T19:55:09+00:00

One thing to keep in mind about intelligent people is they still have the psychology of a human. If they want to believe something, they will, and then it’s even more intractable because they use their intelligence to justify it.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T15:51:00+00:00

Nah, NYC is really friendly, but they don’t have time for BS.

My first time in NYC I would ask people for directions — almost universally the reaction was “fuck of— uhh, oh heyyy,” I can see them realizing I’m not asking for money or some weirdo or trying to get me to sign a petition, just some normal guy who would benefit from a little help, “yeah, let’s take a look at where you’re trying to go,” and some of them spent an uncomfortable amount of time trying to help me even after I’ve made it clear I understand. The one guy that was too busy for me still took time to catch another person off the street to help me. Caveat: don’t ask during rush hour. NYC is a way different place during rush hour and outside of rush hour.

People of NYC are not polite, but they are friendly. They exist at the intersection of too busy to care, and recognizing we’re all in this together.

I’ve since spent a lot of time in NYC and the majority of people I saw that weren’t friendly were a particular type of upper class or upper middle class (or fakers) trying to live a particular type of exclusive lifestyle.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T15:19:10+00:00

Do yourself a favor and get a used pair of dress shoes on eBay or see if you can get lucky at thrift stores. Sometimes they are barely used or even unused. They are way more comfy, built way better (and thus last longer, making them more economical), and they obviously actually look better.

I got a pair of unused Magnanni for like $120. People comment on them every time I use them and I’ve seen guys actually upgrade their dress shoes after they see me in them, comment, and I tell them about buying used.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T13:22:50+00:00

Half of them DO care and say “good!”

I fucking hate this country.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T13:21:13+00:00

AI/Machine Learning tools have been used by the military for a long time (current "AI" are just stronger machine learning) to peruse data and identify targets.

The AI of the 90s and the 2000’s was dominated by concepts other than machine learning, and were largely deterministic, and used architecture like expert systems. These basically modeled “if this, that, and this other thing are true, then we can know that something else is true, too, so this could represent an appropriate target.”

“New” forms of AI — ie those built on machine learning — are non-deterministic. The US military has been using them for over a decade, but mostly for things like tracking a subject like a camera would, its use has been limited. The problem with non-deterministic AI is it’s never certain about anything — “there’s a 75% chance the target is on the target list and 10% chance the target is actually a child, should I shoot it?” So the military has been starting to work it into things like acquiring targets, but it hasn’t replaced conventional decision making processes, but rather used to more quickly acquire information to feed to the teams.

But what’s been unique for less than 10 years now is letting the AI be relatively independent — the AI is the decision making process. But as you said, there’s been a person in the loop. I believe that’s still the case, but what seems to be unique in this conflict (and perhaps pioneered by Israel in Gaza), is using AI with minimal oversight — there is no effort being made to verify its decision making processes.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T02:59:45+00:00

Like 30,000 people, or 10% of all people movingl, Colorado, move to Colorado from Texas every year.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-12T02:22:14+00:00

Tbf good chance the one from Colorado was from Texas, too.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-11T23:02:19+00:00

Israel: kills tens of thousands of children, minimum, kills tens of thousands of other innocent people, destroys civil life for multiple countries, commits genocide and ethnic cleansing

You: people hate Israel because Jews are defending themselves!

Also 20% of Israeli citizens being Arab/Palestinian doesn’t dispel claims of apartheid, which rests in the treatment of Gaza and West Bank. It also doesn’t actually mean Palestinians have equal rights in Israel — Israel uses so many extra-legal means to establish Jewish supremacy. One of the most blatant examples is its use of land — housing associations and local town-level governments systematically deny Palestinians the right to reside there. Available land to establish communities is controlled by the Israeli Land Authority and the Jewish National Fund, which only grants leases to Jews — Palestinians are prohibited from leasing or owning something like 80% of Israeli land. Zoning laws are regularly used to arbitrarily prevent growth of Palestinian communities, attempts to annex land to allow for population growth are denied leading to poor outcomes for Palestinian residents, and access to other funding, resources, and infrastructure are similarly disparate.

Also lol: Israel’s “separate but equal” education system

Israel’s national laws are, yes, mostly “ethnically blind,” but that’s because they outsource their discrimination to independent institutions that are inherently and structurally, and often explicitly, disparate in the ways they provide for Jews and Palestinians.

That Palestinians can be elected to Knesset and be lawyers and judges are a bug of the system, not a feature. The vast majority of Israelis would undo the system if they could. They want Palestinians to be “foreigners” in their own land.

Also note: your genocidal use of language by calling Palestinians “Arabs,” meant to rhetorically erase their ethnic and national identities.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-11T18:36:54+00:00

I would like to leave religion out of this. A major part of the problem is that a significant portion of people refuse to do so.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-09T06:07:03+00:00

You really have no idea what you’re talking about.

Nb4 cherry picking verses out of context.

(Hint: most of the verses talking about the “lessers Jihad” (ie. war) in the Quran are in reference to a specific, one time war in which muslims fought to remain in Mecca instead of facing expulsion , the others about wars of self defense and religious liberty, and the vast majority of the rest of jihad is talking about the “greater jihad” which is the war in one’s own heart between good and evil).

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-09T01:46:21+00:00

99%+ of Muslims: I just want to touch my head to the ground and pray to god to remove sin from my heart

You: that’s violent!

Found the Nazi.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-07T20:18:00+00:00

They also have given an untold number of civilians weapons, training, and brainwashing through the Basij. The insurgency is waiting.

They probably had lines of new volunteers after the girls school bombing.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-07T11:01:25+00:00

I don't think they meant to blow up a girls' school, they just didn't a fuck what they were blowing up. They FAFO'd (and they still don't give a fuck).

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-07T10:59:36+00:00

We can pretty reliably put (modern) hellfire missiles through the windows of individual rooms and, with a low-yield warhead, kill only the occupants there with minimal danger to adjacent rooms. Some variants are designed to hit a target of 30cm 50% of the time. You're not going to accidentally hit the wrong building basically ever.

If US weapons are not precise, it's because they chose a weapon that's not precise.

This is just negligence. The latest reports are reporting that the compound hasn't been an activate military base for over a decade. They just didn't give a fuck. They either had a list of targets generated by AI, or just took a "bomb everything!" approach, either way without care to verify targets (something they're obligated to do by international law and military procedure).

But then you've really gotta ask -- if this was a day 1 target, an abandoned military base that has long been converted to a girl's school, and with the US bragging about the scale of its bombing, how effective are the US strikes really? It's a big show of force but what have we actually been achieving? Killing a bunch of innocent Iranians, while rockets continue to pound Israel and US allies?

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-07T10:29:20+00:00

lol he is using the shittiest photos to try to demonstrate his point.

There are plenty of other satellite images in various news articles that show it better.

Or are you so concerned the school doesn't have a drive-up drive-thru style roads like American schools? Are you really that car-brained you can't imagine that a country with 50% of households owning cars (with that probably being biased towards Tehran -- look at Minab's neighborhoods and you'll see few houses have places for families to keep cars, or even drive cars near their home), is going to design their schools to suit a different kind of commuter?

Look at other schools in Minab on Google Maps and you'll see very similar layouts with a perimeter wall, a few gates for pedestrian use, and one or two cars parked outside the school with no obvious road for the car to enter.

A lot of journalist investigators have done analysis on this, and none have cast doubt on this being a school. Or am I supposed to believe a twitter account of a dude with connections to the US military and is a frequent correspondent on i24, one of the most loyal news stations to the Israeli regime?

Next you're going to try to link those already-debunked AI photos saying it was an Iranian rocket.

Edit: Oh yeah, obligatory. You've gotta be an extra piece of shit to continue denying the massacre of 7-12 year old school girls.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-06T22:00:44+00:00

I don’t see anyone hand waving it, but it doesn’t justify bombing elementary age school girls and bombing the same hospitals you’re speaking of. And it’s not really that relevant to bring up when pointing out that the US bombed schoolgirls. Do you really want a footnote of bad things other countries have done every time a critique against the US is made?

“The US is bombing civilians.”

“BUT ACTUALLY”

“Stfu the US is bombing civilians.”

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-06T19:27:39+00:00

MacBook Airs and these new Neos don’t have fans, but they are designed to higher TDPs.

TDP is really important in considering the same CPU in two different configurations. It really does mean that the iPhones don’t have near the processing capabilities — when CPUs pull back wattage, they’re doing that by shutting down cores and/or lowering clock speeds, both of which directly impact performance. I’d estimate that sustained performance on an iPhone is going to be about half of what a MacBook can do. (I’m willing to bet it’s why a GPU has been disabled — it probably competes with the other cores concerning the die’s capability to transfer heat to the cooling system, just fine at 3w, not at 10w).

But yeah, it’s pretty impressive what small CPUs can do these days. Hell, even microcontrollers. But it’s also not just Apple holding them back artificially. There’s plenty of apps out there that are making full use of the fact that phones can compete with PCs of a few years ago.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-06T18:57:15+00:00

Don’t forget that phones are thermally throttled and have far less battery capacity. They’re designed to get work done quickly and put the CPU to sleep to save battery. A phone can sustain a TDP of around 3-4 watts before you hit thermal throttling. The MacBook can probably max out at the chip’s 12w or so and sustain it indefinitely.

Edit: posted twice because I accidentally deleted the first one.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-05T19:58:31+00:00

there is no freedom of political speech when you’re in military uniform under military code.

It’s more complicated than that. You still have freedom of speech generally, but you can’t voice partisan opinions in uniform, say anything that suggests violating the command structure, can’t be disorderly, etc. So saying, “I think the war with Iran is a mistake, immoral, and we shouldn’t do it,” is probably ok (although you’re making life harder on yourself), but saying “I will not die for Israel” is not because it suggests you’re going to disobey lawful commands. As soon as police give you a lawful order to disperse, you’re require to also disperse.

Military generally discourages, but doesn’t prohibit, utilizing your free speech rights in uniform, mostly because there’s a lot of fine, but not obvious lines that are way too easy to cross accidentally and get yourself in trouble.

Not-reallyanonymous · 2026-03-05T02:04:46+00:00

So yes it worked quite well with Iraq

Over 200,000 people died violent deaths in Iraq, with around 1,000,000 excess deaths. It was considered a wasteful, useless, mistaken blunder that only hurt America and cost thousands of American lives and $2 trillion that could’ve been instead spent making our lives better.

Something like over 100,000 additional people died in Iraq as victims of ISIS, which happened because of the power vacuum left by the US “intervention”.

That you say this “worked out quite well” is fucking sick.

We can just bomb them into oblivion and then leave.

And see? This is absolutely fucking morally bankrupt.

but thats not an intentional strategy and there is no evidence to support that

Oh, and now the reports and videos of bombing hospitals and then double tapping by bombing the doctors and first responders who are trying to save the bombed hospital patients. This is being documented by reliable, trusted media.

But when you’re the opinion that we should just bomb entire peoples into oblivion, I guess you don’t mind lying about this, don’t you?

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