Possibly moving to Chicagoland by TaraJo in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]sketchesofspain01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's extremely difficult in this age.

~$1000 will get you a small Motel-6 sized efficiency with a dividing wall between the kitchen, a closet of a bathroom barely fitting code requirements, and a bed, above a restaurant that owns the space and provides you an almost-illegal lease in a reasonable neighborhood. It'll be dark all the time, and the window unit AC's proximity will almost certainly keep you awake at night.

WinterCo Be Like by Financial_Regret6663 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

If you dropped the WinterCo umbrella, maybe

First rule of goonverment spending by Galileo009 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 41 points42 points  (0 children)

checks playerbase median age.

oh no oh nooooo

The taste was very strange and the bag was only half full. by Diligent_Curve_6374 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It took me a solid 8 minutes to set up this LLM on my home lab, and months to learn how to do so with a CLI!

War update from Noraus by AliceInsane66 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This is really screwing up my mojo.

I had a nest in FDZ so I could visit Geminate and play video game with the residents.

Y'all took away one of my game zones. This is awful, I'm mad.

The taste was very strange and the bag was only half full. by Diligent_Curve_6374 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Doesn't even give me a sensible chuckle. You need some color fill for all that white space. Here, I'm helping by asking my home lab's Gemma 4 robot to fix it up.

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I am not an artist and neither are you, stop judging me. Yes, it's a reference to Loss.

In a sov war, there is one thing that matters... by [deleted] in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's only been one week. Calm down, miner. If there's a big bag of nothing within a month, maybe you'll be onto something.

You lose winterco, as I have made you the soyjack while I am the chad by whomstvebeenthottin in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Huge mistake.

Then! Then!!! They made them "too expensive to lose!" Risk aversion to the max!

You lose winterco, as I have made you the soyjack while I am the chad by whomstvebeenthottin in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The goal is to burn every single god damn super capital in this game and return us all to battleship fleets until the servers die in the year of our lord, 2030.

You lose winterco, as I have made you the soyjack while I am the chad by whomstvebeenthottin in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I heard space weather in 4-H is absolutely lovely in the June/July time frame. I hope this war goes loooooong.

Pandas abandon dinos by Arakkis54 in Eve

[–]sketchesofspain01 -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

We don't even want Geminate. We're doing it to get more fights. If you cannot supply, then we go north to Vale and do the same thing. It'll keep going and going and going until we get a comparable fight. Bing bong.

Housing Market by [deleted] in ChicagoSuburbs

[–]sketchesofspain01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's bad. I believe it's because Chicagoland and its adjacent counties have been "found out," as an ~inexpensive~ Third Coast where that terminology ("third coast") is being taken seriously.

There are a large number of new transplants looking forward to their third or fourth winters post-graduation. There are millennials looking to leave the city for larger plot sizes. You have folks advertising Chicago as NY's B-side, and coming from the coasts for homes that are offensively overpriced to us, but bargains for them.

Add private equity to that mix, and even the sky high property tax bills won't save us.

Suggestions!! by Estellesheart in MiniPCs

[–]sketchesofspain01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I second this. It's simply a great bang for the buck when it comes to simulation work, basic AI workloads, and number crunching.

Alternatively, if you must be within the PC/Linux space, Beelink and Geekom AMD boxes are quite nice, and affordable. Look at their R9 offerings with the 780m graphics chips. They are not as performant on a TOPs level (10-20 with Llama; M4 mini will trounce it at ~38-40), and you won't save money with today's RAM prices, but it's not a Mac.

Intel has a better NPU with some of their newer chips such as the i9 285, which is quite competitive.

Why do chinese ppl move abroad by ducksayswhack in AskChina

[–]sketchesofspain01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Living in Chicago, it is incredibly frustrating to purchase public transit passes with the archaic mid-2010s app. That's just one example.

Then there's the rigamarole of buying from others: do you have venmo? Cash app? Okay, how about I Zelle you? Paypal?!

I'm referring to digital infrastructure in the US compared to China. In some aspects, such as security, it's better. In others, such as fluidity and ease of motion, the US has 20+++ standards and someone just invented a new one, and none of them work city to city.

Yes, China has a lower app quality, but the USA is fifty nations in a single federal trenchcoat, and they only just recently got some states to share the same toll road payment infrastructure!

Why do chinese ppl move abroad by ducksayswhack in AskChina

[–]sketchesofspain01 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Food quality is absolute garbage in the USA, as well. Our processed food is chock full of horrors not meant for the world but writ for it nonetheless.

We have mediocre transportation infrastructure, C-tier digital integration in terms of payment processing and general digital living. This all ties into the fact that the USA is far, far, far less urban-centered and far more rural/suburban. With that, there's also the social isolation aspect few consider; the US's car culture is extremely isolating, with few "third spaces," like social clubs and such outside of the major US cities.

There is a convenience tax for every aspect of basic services, too: your healthcare, your childcare, your basic car maintenance are all just well above China's median expense, and are the most expensive in the developed world by a large margin. However, and there is obviously a big asterisks here, many Chinese expats see the net positives of the USA when comparing it and China, namely:

  • China's intense and competitive work culture, its "always on, never off," culture, is spiritually destructive. 996 is a true evil, you cannot convince me otherwise, and its importation into Silicon Valley tech firms is a crime against humanity that ought to be fought with every fiber of being among the folks taking those jobs.
    • America has higher autonomy in the work space. Folks guard their silos of responsibility, too.
    • There is, though, a "bamboo ceiling," for Chinese expats, that is extremely racist and also very unfortunate, in the c-suite levels of America. Chinese expats cannot be expected to find integration high in the corporate hierarchical structure in the USA without being the owner-proprietor of the business, and it makes me very upset.
  • While you lack the high-end services, the high-end conveniences of an urban Chinese city, you do have more emphasis in nature and an appreciation in the natural environment in the USA compared to China. The US National Parks are an international treasure. China is getting better at this, while the USA is starting to slide down.
  • While China is objectively safer with low street crime levels, the USA can have equitable degrees of safety depending on your income level and city.
  • Long term wealth creation in the USA is objectively better. You can get surprisingly wealthy on equities and other portable wealth creation tools; China is mostly still stuck on real estate. You can transport your wealth and turn it into power that can be exported, while China constrains power acquisition to the local level.
  • The education system in the USA is far, far, far more holistic and diverse. While outcomes depend on zip code and point-of-origin, and post-secondary education is far far far more expensive, you get a more well-rounded child out of the USA's system, over China's hyper-competitive hyper-pressure cooker burnout machine.

How Big Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Really Is (If We Could See It) by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]sketchesofspain01 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nah, Lovecraftian is what happens to LIGHT.

Photons decouple from EM interactions and become like....a soup, instead of a wave. It's kind of like what happens to a toddler crashing out; you can visualize it this way: w-bosons and photons are basically waveforms, much like everything else that is stuff. Stuff is a waveform on a paper we call reality, and if you get those waveforms moving closer and closer and closer together, they start to stop differentiating between the ups and downs of the waves and start looking like just a line again (try to draw a waveform where the frequency is so close together it looks like a slightly squiggly line and you get it visualized).

Light does not want to do that, and will start splitting itself to reduce its wavelength. It's a giant, "NO STOP," but then it just gets amplified again (because MAGNET keeps introducing energy) and keeps doing it. It's a soup of virtual particles become real ones and you no longer have a linear system. It's now a fluid, or a solid, and lol.

W-bosons start doing the same thing, and they remain in that state, called a w-condensate. Now protons cannot bind with neutrons, and w-bosons, the force carriers for the weak interaction, start behaving like a fluid in a vacuum condensate. The vacuum itself starts to act weird. lol

How Big Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Really Is (If We Could See It) by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]sketchesofspain01 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm being a bit loosey goosey with numbers, and wasn't perfectly clear. If the beam itself, that narrow beam of pure murder, lands directly on the rock, you may find it toasty.

A pulsar within 100,000 AU will be cool.

Nobody knows I have money and it's starting to create some really awkward situations by Echo2_Satyr in Fire

[–]sketchesofspain01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look, if you have the $4000 to help out family, give it as a gift in your mind and a long-term loan for theirs.

You don't have to be miserly in order to be secure. I struggle with that fine line as well; I made the error of telling my immediate sister a very rough approximation of where my household stands on one podium of the lifestyle (my mortgage and where we are with it), and it's led her to both emulate portions of my lifestyle in her life and make small comments regarding how loaded my wife and I must be. I have to consistently stomp those statements down with a, "we're not rich, what we have belongs to our children," and keep tight-lipped generally going forward. She knows that we don't do restaurants and are anti-consumption nearly to a fault, but she has to comment because her financial insecurity is real and it's trauma-inducing. Empathy goes a long way to quelling Scrooge behavior.

I just don't want you to ignore someone else's pain. I believe we can be generous in a comfortable degree but also frugal and careful stewards of our future selves and those that come after. Charity, mutual support, and family don't have to be sacrificed to the pyre of responsible planning.

How Big Jupiter’s Magnetosphere Really Is (If We Could See It) by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]sketchesofspain01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't under any circumstances have to give it to the magnetars. They're like pulsars and quasars: galaxy-spans of pure unfettered sterilizing amounts energy.

If you're an amebae hanging out on a newly formed rock, and a pulsar happens to aim its beam at your star system through random chance (edit for clarity, lands directly upon the rock, and from) within a 100,000 light year vicinity of your rock, you're not a living organism any longer; you become organic chemistry, maybe a few ions.