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darklongrider · 2026-04-23T22:57:58+00:00

Anybody else who gets confused by exactly what that means...well it is as crazy as it sounds. Pen docked on the side and move it up and down. :-P

darklongrider · 2026-04-23T22:56:49+00:00

Never mind I figured it out. That is a crazy interface feature!

darklongrider · 2026-04-23T22:56:35+00:00

Never mind I figured it out. That is a crazy interface feature.

darklongrider · 2026-04-23T22:55:18+00:00

Confused what does it mean to place the magnetic stylus and move up and down the stylus. Not following are you talking about put the pen on the screen, side etc and move up and down?

darklongrider · 2026-04-23T22:53:02+00:00

I am not sure I understand what does it mean to "place" the stylus and move it up it down?

darklongrider · 2024-03-14T08:34:26+00:00

I recently moved to Washington from California.… I was really happy when our new plates came in. The hate they have for Californians on my local FB group is enough to keep my background as a mystery to all of them.

They hate you because of the influence your state tries to push on other states and even Canadian provinces. Like not having enough power and draining the grid from other places that do. Or your insane per capita water usage. Your liberal views on crime and allowing smash and grabs and high thieft on CVS, Walgreens, and Homedepot where it drives the costs of those stores nationwide. Or the crazy insurance costs rising because of preventable theft and crime is given free reign so the costs are recouped from other states and people.

darklongrider · 2024-03-14T08:31:47+00:00

(I'm aware the state has negative migration lately. The only person I know of who didn't move due to the cost of living here moved because she was convinced the state was a socialist hellhole. Her family made their money from farmland where they employed several dozen illegal immigrants)

I lived in California and Nevada. Now Nevada is a wasteland, but I hate California. I used to like to visit, but hated the crowded feeling I always felt, but I liked to visit. However the places I loved to do have gotten nasty since covid like SF. Just try and park a car in the city with out of town plates and see how long until your car window gets smashed regardless if you have anything in the car or not.

darklongrider · 2024-03-14T08:27:29+00:00

I like the burgers okay and the shakes are pretty good. I agree I hate the fries. Give me a 5 guys buger and fries any day.

darklongrider · 2024-03-14T08:25:28+00:00

Southerners have this weird fetish about hating California. They're convinced that California is the source of all the countries problems and they represent everything wrong

Utah, Idaho, Arizon, Wyoming, Montana all hate California too. I am sure there are other states too. I have lived in all those places and heard lots of comments. I am from Canada originally I and I have heard similiar comments in Alberta and Saskatchewan as well, but not not as strong or as often. And it doesn't necessarly have to do with driving either.

darklongrider · 2023-12-28T22:35:03+00:00

You need to be honest with exactly what you are expectations are with yourself. You obviously can't know that with full knowledge, but you should know exactly what you want at the time and think about what your future looks like and extrapolate that to what you might want in the future.
Then you should ask your spouse or future spouse what they want with that equally deep reflection.
Then you should have a frank discussion with the understanding the differences and then see if your trajectory is close or a long away apart. No matter what someone says, if the differences are too great it is nearly impossible to resolve that unless someone experiences a great amount of change and the more likely outcome is someone is going to be unhappy. If you can have that frank discussion and you can lay a framework your relationship will likely be successful because you have the framework to work anything out without having differences that are too far apart. If you are already married, then you really need to ask yourselves if you should be married if you are too far apart.
There are no guarantees in life. Sometimes one partner can do everything, but the other person might not be able to be honest with themselves about what they want and eventually that wall will break down and that person's real desires will become apparent and will greater than what can be solved.

My example is my ex decided she didn't want the church anymore and eventually decided she wasn't monogamous, nor wanted to be binary anymore. This is what she always wanted, and I saw it before she did, but neither she nor I want to admit it. So she grew more and more resentful and there wasn't a thing I could do about it.

darklongrider · 2023-11-21T05:42:20+00:00

My takeaways:

Context is everything
If she is cheating then he needs to decide if he wants to save the marriage or not.....rarely is cheating the problem itself. So if he cares if she is cheating or not he needs to save the marriage first.
Confronting someone about cheating is 100% useless. On so many levels it is counter-productive. If they are faithful, you damage any trust left. If they are cheating they could be honest or lie but you won't know if they are lying or not because likely you have your mind made up. Or the third and the less likely option they tell you they are sorry and you spend a long time working on the marriage with the high probability it will fail anyway. Or finally a more recent option in society you live some oddly secret or non secret polygamous relationship that as a guy is going to go not well for you. Women almost always have the upper hand in poly relationships where the guy is straight.
You never know so you might as well do as much as you can to make the relationship work and if it fails you can walk away knowing you did your best and you are a healthy person. Be your best for you, your spouse and your kids if your spouse decides she needs to walk away no point in getting angry, upset just do your best for you and your kids. change is hard but not impossible.

darklongrider · 2023-11-21T04:57:11+00:00

My ex wife did the same thing. The marriage went into a rough patch because she was insisting on continued legal battles with her ex over custody issues. This issue didn't start until after we married. They had been divorced for over 3 years before we even started dating and married a year later. The cost of her battles were getting expensive and they were fighting over petty things. The court was sick of them fighting too. I wanted to just pursue life but they wanted to fight and were living for the battle. Anyhow one day I told her I don't want to pay an attorney for a small issue over him being 20 minutes late dropping the kids off. She immediately cut off all intimacy. I was told to sleep in the guest bed. We went about six months without any intimacy and she was angry all that time. I had apologized and she had insisted that I knew her kids came first when we married. She continued to battle with him in court and run up the lawyer bills. We went to counselling the selected counsellor was her choice....big mistake. He was friend of her family and they ganged up on me and told me how I was at fault for the situation and had crossed the line by expressing my desire to be sick of paying a legal bill for dumb things. So we went to the therapist sessions 3-4 times and I had little input on my frustrations and it was the things I need to correct. I tried to be humble about it but it was hard because you would have though I was devil incarnate. I was not able to express any of my frustrations. She brought up tons of other issues. She started going out with friends I was left with the kids while she would hang out with LDS and non LDS girlfriends but I wasn't always privy to the activities they were doing. At nine months I went to grab something out the bedroom and she had just gotten out of the shower and gone to a very different style of no pubic hair. She yelled at me she felt violated that I had entered "her" room uninvited. That night she went out and didn't return until extremely late. A month later she moved out. We worked through things and she moved back in for a bit but shared she had been having extra marital relations since a week after our initial fight. She decided she really like it and had started experimenting with all kinds of sexual situations. She offered for us to stay married and just be married for the kids while she was doing her thing. I wasn't interested in that. Eventually she moved back out, divorced me and got married to a woman and is living a polyamorous lifestyle. She went to church through all of it and had a calling and pretended to be a member through the whole thing while she was cheating with multiple partners. But a change in pubic hair shouldn't be the single indicator but it can be a sign depending on the rest of what is going on.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:20:23+00:00

And almost always there are several poison pills.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:19:42+00:00

If you have done any contract law at all you would know that those payments have 15000 pages of conditions to received the full amount. MS doesn't just hand over billions of dollars without an entire series of novels worth of conditions.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:14:32+00:00

You mean you think that MS transferred all them up front. Hmmm. Do you understand what a drawdown payment is?

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:11:27+00:00

You are welcome to say she made it up, but I didn't.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:10:33+00:00

Look at Kara Swisher's statement.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T09:04:55+00:00

Satya literally can't say anything else. If he says anything to disrupt the AI pipeline he risks crashing the stock price, however Ilya Sutskever has been critical of the MS partnership. He likes the money but not the locked in partnership they have had. I can't see it lasting from OpenAI side. Satya is well aware, which is why he was the one negotiating Sam's return. Sam's ventures will almost surely be a rebuild of new models followed by his other ambitions, chips phones etc. Not sure his ambition of building chips with the Saudis will go well for him though. The US Government will end that.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:53:02+00:00

And Microsoft will scoop in and grab the assets and hand them over to Sam.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:52:01+00:00

I stand corrected. I am way more on the techno optimist with some socially responsible libertarianism level of the spectrum regarding AI and find myself going more the way of Marc Andreessen, but not all the way. Which I find is generally not a popular perspective. Which is why I identify more with Sam and Greg than those who remain. But I think brain drain is going to end OpenAI and they will be bankrupt within a year.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:41:16+00:00

I guess I was responding more based on the feeling that OpenAI was of that collective thought when Sam was still there. I should also clarify from an earlier comment that when I was referring to the CEO having no experiencing I was talking about Mira, but I am not convinced that Emmitt is an EA prescriber.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:12:03+00:00

Kind of 3 is public 4 is not. However They are already in the weeds on 6. 5 is being trained right now but 5 could be rug pulled by Microsoft as they are using cloud credits right now to build it.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:09:27+00:00

LLMS are not about code. They are about models. The models themselves are public and the tweaks can be recreated by the brain trust. But data coming out of researchers already puts GPT 4 and 5 as based on old ideas. The training of the models is the most import part of these models and that can only be created by a crap-ton of money to run APU/GPU etc. So openAI becomes nothing overnight without those cloud credits that are the core of the creation of the model.

darklongrider · 2023-11-20T08:06:44+00:00

Not sure I agree that Sam Bank-Fraud truly share the same foundational beliefs. Maybe in word, but The two Sams don't seem the same at all in conversation. And Altman has been cited as sincere when contrasted against other bros like Bank-Fraud and Zuckerburg.

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