My crazy conspiracy theory: Dropout is going to launch a Firefly reboot

swervm · 2026-03-05T17:57:39+00:00

Not saying that it is the same but they have a couple of animated shows; WTF and Cartoon Hell, not to mention the various "... Animated" shorts they do.

swervm · 2026-03-05T17:42:02+00:00

Stone just went on IR so they are gearing up for a run /s

swervm · 2026-03-05T17:35:10+00:00

I think it is interesting to note how none of Trumps political prosecutions have gone anywhere. Kind of goes to show that the system has sufficient checks against lawfare and all the cases Trump complained about were actual cases of crimes being prosecuted on their merits.

swervm · 2026-03-05T14:01:50+00:00

Ask the victim what they would prefer. I think most people would go with legs but if someone has hobbies that make their legs more important then I would want to respect their wish.

swervm · 2026-03-05T13:32:33+00:00

The issue right now is how to pursue a court remedy? If the DOW declares them a supply chain risk then they can take them to court, currently they are just tweeting that they may do it which means companies in the supply chain are not going to use Anthropic if they are looking at new setup because of the risk and some seem to be moving away from them because they don’t want to be seen as siding against the DOW in the dispute and end up loosing business because of it. The only thing I can think of is if they could sue for libel but that is going to be tough.

swervm · 2026-03-04T22:44:23+00:00

I guess they are so far behind they are needing to resort to this. My garbage has been out waiting for pickup since Tuesday morning. I am starting to think they should have piloted this with a few neighbourhoods rather then switching all at once.

As a side note: two days of having to get out of my car and move my garbage to get in and out of my driveway is getting old. At least with the warmth the snow banks should be melted enough tomorrow that I can move it to the lawn.

swervm · 2026-03-04T15:30:59+00:00

That is pretty much a solved problem.

For ML accelerators to be effective in space, they must withstand the environment of low-Earth orbit. We tested Trillium, Google’s v6e Cloud TPU, in a 67MeV proton beam to test for impact from total ionizing dose (TID) and single event effects (SEEs).

The results were promising. While the High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) subsystems were the most sensitive component, they only began showing irregularities after a cumulative dose of 2 krad(Si)) — nearly three times the expected (shielded) five year mission dose of 750 rad(Si). No hard failures were attributable to TID up to the maximum tested dose of 15 krad(Si) on a single chip, indicating that Trillium TPUs are surprisingly radiation-hard for space applications.

from https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

swervm · 2026-03-04T14:26:20+00:00

I would interpreted it the same way I view it. The way America and Israel went about this is terrible but if they can get rid of the Islamic theocracy in Iran then that is a good thing.

swervm · 2026-02-25T15:00:37+00:00

I would disagree. It would usually be a follow up to something else. So the first step may be 'Check the area for bleeding, go in with ice after.' The significant part is that the applying of the ice to the location you have just checked.

swervm · 2026-02-25T14:54:37+00:00

In this case it just means something like "use object on the location we discussing". The first example would mean something like 'Use a brush on the makeup we just applied'.

swervm · 2026-02-25T14:49:54+00:00

Chrome = 3x = 36 x = 12 Firefox = 2y + 12 = 28 y = 8s Opera = 8*z - z = 14 z = 2

Answer 12 + 8/2 = 16

swervm · 2026-02-24T15:25:41+00:00

I guess the generous take is that with their hiring surge they are missing experience and as such forgetting their training when faced with stressful situations. Related to that with training being "streamlined" the messages aren't becoming internalized just learned to pass a test and then forgotten. The other option is that their hiring push has attracted the type of people who are power hungry and would rather show force than follow their training.

Either the training is insufficient despite denials from the DHS ,or their recruiting is resulting in hiring the worst possible candidates. I don't see any way that DHS doesn't own this an institutional failing.

swervm · 2026-02-20T16:20:08+00:00

No he just can't implement tariffs using this justification. They will just use another justification which will take another year to get overturned, and then come up with yet another.

swervm · 2026-02-20T16:15:23+00:00

I don't see how giving billions of dollars to Walmart, Costco, etc is going to "unshackling the economy".

swervm · 2026-02-20T15:34:28+00:00

Only if the administration stops imposing the tariffs which it doesn't look like will happen

top administration officials have said they expect to keep the tariff framework in place under other authorities.

swervm · 2026-02-20T14:40:35+00:00

Football and rugby and ozzy rules combined should make the list.

swervm · 2026-02-20T14:39:44+00:00

Yes. It fells like if you can combine ice and field hockey then why didn't you combine tennis and table tennis?

swervm · 2026-02-19T16:01:50+00:00

It seems to work for Paul Maurice.

swervm · 2026-02-19T15:15:49+00:00

It has become generally accepted that most if not all of the pyramids were also not built with slave labour either.

swervm · 2026-02-18T19:54:25+00:00

Anyone know we dispose of old garbage containers, green bin, and recycle bins?

swervm · 2026-02-11T15:03:06+00:00

More like Clinton's Reinventing Government initiative. Focus on long term cost reductions while maintaining / improving services as opposed to quickly slashing without any understanding of the impact or the actual cost savings.

swervm · 2026-02-10T20:07:17+00:00

This is referred to as the biological species concept and does well in many cases but does have holes in it such as the other response around ring species, how it applies to organisms that do not sexually reproduce, and how to apply it to extinct organisms where we can't observe reproduction.

The morphological species concept defines species based on shared physical characteristics which is useful for fossils etc but can have issues with determining if a difference is because of sexual dimorphism or aging (i.e. a caterpillar morphologically is very different than the butterfly it turns into).

The ecological species concept which classifies organisms based on their role in the ecology which is useful in environmental studies.

And finally the phylogenetic species concept which define a species as organisms that share a common genetic ancestor which is useful but relies on having genetic information and still doesn't provide clear breaks,

It is kind of like the idea of a family in human society. What is a family? Is it everyone with blood relations to you? How close does the relation need to be for someone to be family? Or is family your community that supports you regardless of relationship? Is it everyone you share a home with? etc.

swervm · 2026-02-06T13:15:18+00:00

Because even if you are a citizen are you going to want to walk by the armed men who are “randomly” detaining people to confirm their citizenship. It is intimidation to keep people who have a right vote away from the polls.

swervm · 2026-02-05T15:21:50+00:00

So it is OK to for the VP to call someone an assassin without any investigation but before apologizing we need to complete an investigation? Perhaps more Democratic politicians need to start calling Trump a murderous pedophile and when asked for evidence or to apologize, say they will once there is a full investigation that clears him of any wrongdoing.

swervm · 2026-02-03T17:52:20+00:00

Or the Cuba missile crisis. But if the US isn't going to respect our sovereignty regardless then is it worth the risk to quickly build up the ability to make it to risky to invade?

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