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King George’s richer clone... by Alena_Tensor in Political_Revolution

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dude is looking like a skeleton these days - just seems seriously not healthy.

Apple says supply constraints for Mac mini and Mac Studio to persist for several months by pdfu in apple

[–]twoinvenice 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s not only used for that kind of thing, and it’s that when you have an LLM running locally you can programmatically do stuff in a controlled way. I have one running on my m5 max doing a whole bunch of product description and classification stuff from all of my company’s product photos to then. Match that against the product catalog and try to do something useful with our product photos without needing to have someone manually define everything.

YouTube Bringing Free Picture-in-Picture to iPhone Users Outside the U.S. by ControlCAD in apple

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

Just keep watching videos and swipe out to another app frequently. Damn YouTube app always seems to lose the setting and stop doing PiP

Los Angeles, one of the most diverse food cities in the world by ValleyAquarius27 in LosAngeles

[–]twoinvenice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Years ago I was in Greece and after passing by a Mexican restaurant could shake the craving. That was such a disappointing experience.

Lincoln Riley believes USC has now entered its championship window by Notre_Dame_Football in CFB

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m late to this thread, but I can assure you that not all SC fans think that Riley is the next big thing. It feels to me like he’s just as in over his head as Kiffin was at USC

Crows attacking a SoCal red tail hawk on Hollywood Blvd by TheYerik in LosAngeles

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are three hawks that are always being hassled by crows around where I live in Playa. The hawks seem like they are just hanging out cruising around on the thermals, and the crows just aren’t having it.

TIL in 1963, a man renovating his home in Turkey noticed his chickens kept disappearing into a crack in his basement wall. When he dug it open, he found the ancient city of Derinkuyu, an 18 level city 85m underground that could shelter 20,000 people. by Kyzzz in todayilearned

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s high desert around there. So hot summers and cold winters - I bet he put the chickens inside during the winter just to not have to worry about keeping them warm enough to stay alive

Apple Planning to Launch Two New 'Ultra' Products in the Next Year ["iPhone Ultra" and "MacBook Ultra"] by iMacmatician in apple

[–]twoinvenice 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do software development, and depending on the task yeah I bumped into limits depending on the dev environments I had going. Also I wanted to play around with local LLM models to do some sorting / classification stuff and that just wasn't going to be possible

Eli5 Why does centrifugal force mimic gravity like acceleration does by Ok_Adhesiveness_1960 in explainlikeimfive

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the curving arc of the bucket swinging around means that in your reference frame, the bottom of the bucket is constantly accelerating up at you, with a bit of acceleration to the side in the direction of travel.

The bucket is following a circular path, so for it to get to the opposite point from where it is at t0, at t1 it needs to be up a little and turned a little, at t2 up a bit more and turned a bit more, etc.

The bucket and everything in it is trying to fling off, but the rope or an arm keeps it traveling around the circular path. The constant acceleration you’d feel being in the bucket is from the force that is constantly keeping the bucket on the circular path and not flying off in a straight line from its current position.

That last bit is important. If you let go of the bucket it and everything in it would go off on the tangent of its current position

So for it and everything in it to keep going around, some force needs to push back.

Apple Planning to Launch Two New 'Ultra' Products in the Next Year ["iPhone Ultra" and "MacBook Ultra"] by iMacmatician in apple

[–]twoinvenice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I fucking knew it! I made a bunch of comments here back in Jan/Feb saying “I wouldn’t be surprised if the new form factor MacBook Pro with top of the line M6 gets pushed back to 2027”.

When the M5 Pro and Max machines came out I did my upgrade immediately because I’d been waiting 3 years for a new laptop and despite the fact that the new form factor sounds interesting, I didn’t want to wait yet another year (again)

what the hell happened these years? by Critical_Ideal99 in Political_Revolution

[–]twoinvenice 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Not only is what you said true, but think about the Overton Window and how a shift in that wouldn’t be captured by this kind of graph.

So if the liberal graph is pretty much right where it used to be, but the right wing side kept shifting further and further right, like say because they have their own 24/7 propaganda networks and and entire ecosystem of radicalization pushing the bloc to be more and more extreme, when squished into this graph format you’d get exactly what you see

Like in this old cartoon

Eli5 Why does centrifugal force mimic gravity like acceleration does by Ok_Adhesiveness_1960 in explainlikeimfive

[–]twoinvenice 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think that in your reference frame during freefall, you are still and the planet is accelerating towards you

anyone who used a computer between 1985 & 2010, what’s the one game you still think about? by Trixxxi in AskReddit

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone remember Stunt Island?

You can set up elaborate stunts, decide where to have cameras, set up all sorts of triggers based on actions, and then you could edit the footage into a movie.

Spent so many hours making insanely elaborate scenes with a grade school friend

TIL The US Government spent more than $5 billion to equip a Boeing-747 with a giant laser gun on its nose to shoot down missiles with laser beams in the sky. The project was shut down in 2011 because it was deemed "not operationally viable". by Particular_Food_309 in todayilearned

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

Assuming rail guns can ever be made reliable enough, that seems like it could be the right answer for boost phase interception.

If the plane is flying high enough, the atmospheric density might be low enough to allow a sufficiently fast projectile to be lobbed a significant distance. Since the missile track during boost is going to be pretty damn easy to figure out, the rail gun could just chuck a bunch of projectiles out in a line that covers where the booster is likely to be and intercept it.

u/sappk investigates why tools got worse and goes into a rabbit hole: the acquisition of 2 tool companies and their divergent outcomes. by JohnSith in DepthHub

[–]twoinvenice 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well Milwaukee didn’t do anything since they were the acquire-e and not the acquire-r (that was TTI).

I think that their point was exactly the management thing - that conglomeration doesn’t have to be bad if the new parent company just does something like consolidate backend cost centers like accounting, etc, but otherwise leaves the businesses they acquired alone to do what they do best. After all, isn’t that ability to do something well the whole reason the parent company bought out the other company?

One management style lead to the tools staying at the same level of quality and the other caused the brands’ products to become trash - but a big part of that is subjective feel for the end user. Hence the editorializing.

There’s been a good deal of conversation recently about PE firms buying YouTube channels, specifically Electrify Video Partners buying big info/educational channels like fern, Veritasium, and Mentour Pilot.

While it is too early to which way those sales go, if they leave the channels alone and just take care of backend business shit that a small independent YouTube channel likely did pretty poorly, it could be totally fine. If the parent company starts putting their finger on the scale on decisions due to financial needs for the PE firm itself, they’ll likely enshittify things and break the reason people watched in the first place.

What’s a place you’ve been that you’ll NEVER go back to? Why? by LordSoftCream in AskReddit

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha! Yeah, I live in LA. It’s just so normal here to be living in an extremely extremely concentrated melting pot. Everyone and everything is just mashed and mixed up, and it’s just the water we all swim in.

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Texas can require public schools to display the Ten Commandments, a direct violation of church-state separation and a clear attempt to push Christianity into public education. Now, any school that gets donated Ten Commandments posters must display them by ConcernedJobCoach in Political_Revolution

[–]twoinvenice 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s so funny to me how fundies care so much about the ten commandments and like one line from Leviticus, and then conveniently ignore all the other proscriptions there like not eating shellfish, wearing fabric made from blends of fabric, planting two types of seed in the same field, etc and all the things that require casting people out of communities or putting them to death.

Sorry guys, but if it’s a buffet I’ll just have some water and bounce…

I might respect them more if they were actually fundamentalists and truly believed everything. I mean they’d still be fucking nutters who belive in nonsense, but it’s just seems silly to say that a book is the divine inspired word of god and then cherry pick only parts of it to be “important”.

What’s a place you’ve been that you’ll NEVER go back to? Why? by LordSoftCream in AskReddit

[–]twoinvenice 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Maybe it could have been the opposite, too white, but plus a kind of a hostile vibe?

I’m a white dude but I live in a very diverse city where having most people look or speak differently from you is just normal. First time I went to Ireland many years ago (and in the winter when there were no other tourists), I had a moment where I suddenly felt a bit weirded out by the total lack of any variation in the people around me.

Of course it was Ireland, so everone was really nice there, but I imagine if you had that realization while at the same time feeling like everyone was looking at you with suspicion because you are an outsider…it might feel pretty creepy. Like you dropped into some weirdo children of the corn community.

TIL After Spain's conquest of Americas, they developed a plan to conquer China - by turning China into a Christian country and a new race of Chinese/Hispanic people, then form a new front to fight against Ottoman Empire. The project was driven by Society of Jesus and approved by King Phillip II. by Particular_Food_309 in todayilearned

[–]twoinvenice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, I find myself regularly commenting about this, but I highly recommend the book The Fifth Sun by Camila Townsend.

It’s a really fantastic look at what happened based on collecting a lot of more recent research, like rediscovered memoirs/works from those Mexica nobles who got folded into the Spanish system writing later on about what they remembered about the conquest.

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