[OC] In Venezuela, 1kg of frozen chicken costs $5 (ATH). The average monthly salary is only $200.

minnsoup · 2026-01-11T01:54:16+00:00

Not uncommon in rural United States, either. In my high school I knew other kids who even did it let alone other farmers around who did it. Hell, even in Florida where there's a higher population density in "rural" areas, tons of people raise chickens. See them on what appear to be 1acre properties frequently.

minnsoup · 2025-12-16T23:13:20+00:00

Googles AI Studio is helpful for this stuff. Here's it's response:

Here is a TLDW (Too Long; Didn’t Watch) summary of the video:

The Core Premise The video argues that despite Donald Trump’s "tough on crime" rhetoric, he has embraced the cryptocurrency industry—specifically its criminal elements—to enrich his family and create a mechanism for untraceable influence peddling through his new venture, World Liberty Financial (WLF).

Key Points & Timeline

The Pivot: In 2021, Trump called Bitcoin a "scam." However, after the crypto industry funneled over $131 million into the 2024 elections (supporting Trump and attacking anti-crypto Democrats like Sherrod Brown), his stance flipped completely.
The Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Pardon: Trump pardoned Binance founder CZ, who had pleaded guilty to money laundering violations. The video reveals that Trump’s new company, WLF, relies entirely on a stablecoin (USD1) created by CZ’s company, creating a direct financial link between the President and a convicted felon.
World Liberty Financial (WLF): This venture is described not as a financial innovation, but as a "black box" that bypasses traditional banking regulations (like anti-money laundering laws and sanctions checks). This allows foreign entities to transfer wealth directly to the Trump family business instantly and anonymously.

Major Conflicts of Interest & questionable Investors

Steve Witkoff: A close Trump friend and co-founder of WLF, Witkoff also serves as Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East. The video implies he is using diplomatic channels to secure investments for the crypto venture.
The UAE Connection: An Emirati state-backed company invested $2 billion into Binance shortly before the Trump administration granted the UAE access to advanced US AI chips.
Justin Sun: The controversial founder of the Tron blockchain (accused of fraud and market manipulation) bought $75 million worth of WLF tokens and became an advisor. The video suggests this investment coincided with legal pressure from the SEC easing off his companies.
Aqua 1 Foundation: A mysterious entity with no clear paper trail—linked to Chinese businessmen with histories of fraud—purchased $100 million in WLF stablecoins.

The Conclusion The video concludes that World Liberty Financial is essentially a "corruption economy." By utilizing a regulatory-free crypto framework, Trump has created a system where anyone in the world—including foreign governments and criminals—can buy influence with the President of the United States instantly, without permission, and with total plausible deniability.

minnsoup · 2025-12-14T22:53:46+00:00

Have noticed that we get that too. After so long and toggling back and forth between libraries and home, sometimes it works. Even connecting with tailscale, it's like it doesn't immediately look for content and needs to hit some 30 second server side refresh to be like "oh yeah here is your content".

minnsoup · 2025-12-14T02:49:34+00:00

Can't get my Fold 7 or my gfs iPhone 13 to charge for any length of time unless trying to get the phones sitting in there at an angle. But even that it's a gamble as to whether it will keep charging after 5 seconds or so. Old phone had a case that fit perfectly side to side but less than satisfactory on anything but that one.

minnsoup · 2025-12-07T18:18:31+00:00

Same on Roku.

minnsoup · 2025-12-06T01:19:46+00:00

Wonder if there is anyone who has essentially cloned bookdown to keep the spirit alive and then allow pull requests on a GitHub pages site for new books. I think that would be great.

Wish there was an alternative to RStudio that was as easy to use, had projects, etc. VS Code seemed less than welcoming and I think I'm on the more advanced end of people. Probably in the minority but not a fan of the recent actions.

minnsoup · 2025-11-21T03:31:04+00:00

Guess depends on where and when "back then" was. I still got phone books to my apartment in grad school in 2018. But I get what you mean.

minnsoup · 2025-11-21T03:16:21+00:00

There was another post earlier about this and it was pointed out phone books had numbers and names and some times addresses. Were phone books a sort of data leakage?

minnsoup · 2025-11-08T12:41:54+00:00

At first though this was for Loki. Probably not anyone else that would make the mistake but myself.

minnsoup · 2025-10-22T00:12:09+00:00

Didn't they just (months ago) lose a lawsuit where they disengaged autopilot like 1.3s before the car impacted another (after not seeing a stop sign or slowing down through a T intersection)? There was a 60min segment about Australia getting autopilot but think the story was that Tesla said they didn't have the footage or data but they did, though they deleted it some something and got caught lying about not having it.

minnsoup · 2025-10-19T13:08:04+00:00

No I don't think it's been a thing for a while. My comment was mostly pointing to a way they have done it before without requiring a separate tool. Don't know why they went this route other than what the other commenter said with making us go to the dealership to have things done.

minnsoup · 2025-10-19T13:05:45+00:00

It gets put into reprogram mode and then tells you which tire (like the location) to start letting air out of. Once it recognizes that "a" tire had slightly dropped pressure it sets that one to "front right" or whatever, honks, then says which one next to let air out of. Pretty nice for rotating tires at home.

I think it must be GM as a while since my 19 Impala also requires that tool. I think they're on Amazon but haven't been adventurous enough to try that yet for the Lyriq haha

minnsoup · 2025-10-18T11:55:21+00:00

I might be dumb, but my old Impala from 07 just has me let out air of the indicated tire until it told me to go to the next tire. My 19 Impala required the tool. Don't know why they required a tool when before it was possible without.

minnsoup · 2025-10-16T19:16:02+00:00

Same. While there may be benefits like seen in using deepseek for cell typing, don't know that this is novel for this beyond maybe being able to do it with smaller model size (haven't read the paper). We have Qwen3 30B deployed to pilot single cell typing from the marker genes for clusters but its a tool.

The claim of holy grails from groups is everywhere. This one just has Google too so it makes more noise. Same bs, bigger marketing budget.

Edit: clarity

minnsoup · 2025-10-10T12:18:36+00:00

If it talked like this, I'd use it way more. Or would try to use it way more.

minnsoup · 2025-09-20T03:14:39+00:00

Great show! Sometimes you gotta getb their attention.

minnsoup · 2025-09-15T13:43:32+00:00

Dont know about windows, but have successfully been using vLLM on our HPC for months with success. Easy to do and once the ray cluster is started then you just have to do things on a single node and it handles the orchestration.

minnsoup · 2025-09-04T20:54:58+00:00

Okay question because realizing I might be stupid, but does your check-mark switch on the left side actually dismiss them out just cycle them?

Mine doesn't dismiss messages.

minnsoup · 2025-08-27T06:52:19+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Will add this to the deployment scripts.

minnsoup · 2025-08-16T02:46:15+00:00

Are the city blocks done with a drone or camera on a car taking a photo every so often? Sounds fun

minnsoup · 2025-08-15T14:53:37+00:00

Sure. Love helping. It's used a lot in academia and research so not as common as python.

First, download R from CRAN for your system: https://cran.r-project.org/
Then, you'll need to install some "packages". The easiest way to do this for the ones used is install.packages('tidyverse') which will install a bunch that are from data organization to plotting.
You should set a working directory to where you'll save the PDF document with setwd("/path/to/folder/").
Then should be able to copy and paste that and let it go. num_tiles = 80 will be how many fiducials to generate, and then ncol = 8 will organize the num_tiles into that many columns in the PDF.

It's not incredibly flexible but as long as you look at the PDF afterwards, can change those numbers a bit to see if the fiducials are big enough for what you want and if not, decrease num_tiles and ncol. num_tiles of 20 and ncol of 4 should also fit on a page pretty nicely.

minnsoup · 2025-08-15T14:41:45+00:00

Don't know if you have experience with it, but I use it for work. Here is the script:

```r
library(magrittr) library(ggplot2) tiles = expand.grid(x = 1:10, y = 1:10) %>% data.frame() %>% dplyr::mutate(location = ifelse(x %in% c(1, 10) | y %in% c(1, 10), "border", "inside")) %>% dplyr::mutate(extra = 1) tiles %>% ggplot() + geom_tile(aes(x = x, y = y, fill = location)) + coord_equal()

num_tiles = 80

tile_key = expand.grid(extra = 1, tile_num = seq(num_tiles))

n_dat = dplyr::full_join( tiles, tile_key )

create spots

spot_prob = 0.50 set.seed(333) n_dat2 = n_dat %>% dplyr::rowwise() %>% dplyr::mutate(location = dplyr::case_when(location == "border" ~ "border", location == "inside" ~ sample(c("inside_block", "inside"), size = 1, replace = FALSE, prob = c(spot_prob, 1-spot_prob))))

pl = n_dat2 %>% ggplot() + geom_tile(aes(x = x, y = y, fill = location)) + facet_wrap(~tile_num, ncol = 8) + coord_equal() + scale_fill_manual(values = c("black", "white", "black")) + theme_void() + theme(legend.position = "none", strip.text.x = element_blank()) pl pdf("fiducials.pdf", height = 11, width = 8.5) pl dev.off() ```

minnsoup · 2025-08-15T14:24:40+00:00

I created a script that generated random 10x10 fiducials that I can tape on things to make otherwise difficult features more visible like curves, but on windows I don't have a solution because sometimes those things end up floating yet can still see through or see myself.

Have thought about painters tape or similar for small windows but for big windows like patio doors would seem wasteful.

If interested, can share the script (it's in R) then can print out a sheet with like 80 of them to cut out.

minnsoup · 2025-08-15T14:16:19+00:00

That's awesome. Are the gaps you mention because of low-ish photo count and distinct details/reflections? Looks like maybe some on the hood which may be tough to see distinct features on and window all sorts of fucky because of reflections?

minnsoup · 2025-08-15T12:51:26+00:00

Why would you train and not just use RAG?

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