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- yuekit0
- When they label the right as 'fascists,' they're projecting. Just look at the riots, destruction, and chaos disguised as 'protests'hotroddy
- Won't someone think of the poor Nazis?i_monk
- https://www.youtube.…jonny_quest_lives
- Wasn't Trump's first act after becoming president to pardon a bunch of violent rioters?yuekit
- label them as pet eating people...?neverscared
- Troddy Ho, please ...tbgoodwillie
- the difference being the 5ers were protesting on gov't property belonging to the people and they didn't do it like the cowards in the darkhotroddy
- Knobgobbler Hot Takeutopian
- "Protesting on gov't property belonging to the people" is a funny way to say they were trying to overthrow the government and kill their own VP.garbage
- grafician0
- let's get all the foreigners out of Ireland so we can get back to killing each other!_niko
- The post of president of Ireland is ceremonial. The Taoiseach (Prime Minister) is the head of govt.kingsteven
- Not that he doesn't have fans but I'd say McGregor is less popular in Ireland than anywhere else.kingsteven
- But still
LOLgrafician - Bono for PM!!OBBTKN
- Worryingly, I can see him getting support from people on the breadline and the growing anti immigration camp.mort_
- mort_7
- Why iMac has a chinnb
- The smellmaquito
- ^yes!renderedred
- I still put post-its on the edges of my 34" curved LCD monitor.nocomply
- I can hear the hum of the fan from the back of that monitor.Akagiyama
- I put post-its on my Cybertruck to keep the trim from falling off.mort_
- i still use post-its around my monitormicrokorg
- maquito3
blog
Rain fucked up the optic fiber box of my flat. 4 zoom meetings waiting to happen, estroying my phone’s hotspot. Happy friday.
- Fuck-it Fridays.palimpsest
- Although it may seem incredible, it hasn't rained here all morning, but we've had fiber optic outages for a couple of hours...OBBTKN
- My provider has given me unlimited data as compensation 4G > Wifi, very fast here ;)OBBTKN
- ^ Whaaat? Company??maquito
- Eus... For a month ;)OBBTKN
- monNom5
Artificial Intelligence
Nvidia releases an open source robot ai platform GR00T
https://github.com/NVIDIA/Isaac-…@10:00
- neat architecture with a vision/llm for 'thinking', and a diffusion model for action/motor control.monNom
- Seeing Jensen on the stage presenting like this...I just miss Steve's keynotes mangrafician
- 10:55grafician
- the robotics hype bubble pivot is here... i just want my smartphone battery to last over 8 hours... is that too much of a hurdle for these tech geniuses?jonny_quest_lives
- Indeed.grafician
- If you can fine-tune a robot for a task like you can fine-tune an LLM or diffuser, (IE cheaply), I can see these things becoming useful very quickly.monNom
- task specific robots has never been a hurdlejonny_quest_lives
- love that these little robots look like something you'd see in starwars.
take my money!microkorg - because disney imagineering did the heavy lift... https://www.youtube.…jonny_quest_lives
- https://la.disneyres…jonny_quest_lives
- I was thinking a general purpose robot that could be cheaply retrained to get good at specific tasks. Redeployable. Not purpose built.monNom
- Time to finally boot up my 3D printer and start building out my CHAPPiE unitprophetone
- One day in like 10 years, you will be able to Amazon order a humanoid robot to your door, turn key ready to go is where we’re headedprophetone
- Imagine a future where criminals use robots trained in thievery etc to burglarize homes on their behalf...prophetone
- A future where because of this the right to bear arms will mean home protection robots marketed to worried homeownersprophetone
- Average joe can already live in Black Mirror and have a Metalhead dog shipped to your door overnight https://youtu.be/Btt…prophetone
- You can buy a Chinese humanoid robot today. https://www.robotsho…monNom
- if you read the disney white paper it's still just a puppet that utilizes reinforcement learning but still utilizes an operatorjonny_quest_lives
- presumably those controls are the 'action tokens' shown here?: https://raw.githubus…monNom
- My impression is that the robot's movement is going to take input from the visual, text(verbal), kinematics, and then special action tokens.monNom
- It probably shouldn't be moving unless you give it a command/objective.monNom
- But yes, no doubt the emotive performance at the nvidia presentation was nearly 100% operator and fine-tuned cuteness.monNom
- It doesn't seem a stretch that the robot could generate those action tokens itself given the right verbal/visual stimulus.monNom
- This thing is cute AF!ideaist
- yuekit6
- Stunning and bravei_monk
- Imagine saying your son was "dead". Utter cunt.BusterBoy
- She's his daughter.palimpsest
- https://www.teenvogu…yuekit
- It actually is pretty brave to speak out given the situationyuekit
- Consider the MAGAtard's haven't tried to hill her/him yet, yes very brave.utopian
- neverscared15
- Ozempic faceNBQ00
- lol perfect placement_niko
- LOL!Akagiyama
- What does nazi like brainwashing feel like to radical democrats?Hayoth
- better ask the rapist in the oval office..neverscared
- Which one?^Akagiyama
- the one who said he needs the kind of generals that adolf had..neverscared
- Elon Musk’s daughter says father’s rally gesture was ‘definitely a Nazi salute’neverscared
- 卐 Hayoth Approved 卍utopian
- The hypocrisy is marvelous. Don’t know why these magats care so much, they’ve got their dream and America wMrT
- will soon be great again lolsMrT
- Yupmaquito
- Excellent MrT, I have been try to get maggots and MAGA together with out sounding french. pip piptbgoodwillie
- if the shoe fits...neverscared
- thanks willie, makes up for me thinking that the right point to hit save was in the middle of a wordMrT
- yuekit4
TESLA
Musk's fundamental problem is that he's alienating Tesla's core customer base of upper middle class liberals. Trump supporters are unlikely to buy electric cars in large numbers even if Trump does an infomercial for them.
All of Musk's actions in politics, now and in the future, are going to end up further alienating and antagonizing Tesla's potential customers. Then as the value of the company falls, he lashes out more and more at this same group of people, calling them traitors and terrorists.
- "U.S. JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL PAMELA BONDI ANNOUNCES SEVERE CHARGES AGAINST VIOLENT TESLA ARSONISTS"grafician
- Sadly, Pam MAGA Bondi doesn't understand how state and federal laws work.utopian
- Arson can be a federal crime, if it involves property used in interstate or foreign commerce, or property owned by the United States.utopian
- Lol, really? Terrorism is the use of violence (arson), for political goals (stop elon). Pretty easy case to make that the arsonists have a political goal.monNom
- Great let's see them start shipping people who keyed a Cybertruck off to Guantanemo Bay, I'm sure that will help save Tesla.yuekit
- He never looked liked he really cared. He told once that Tesla shares are too expensive and tanked it.Beeswax
- webazoot3
Suggest a good movie…
Really enjoyed the first half of this. Got disturbed to deal with a bunch of 'stuff' half way through watching and I'm not sure if the second half of the film is a let down or else it was just me and the interruption. Anyway...
- watched this last night. Made me think I'd rather watch a film like this over the predictable shit from Hollywood. It wasn't perfect but i loved the premiseIanbolton
- What did that ending mean though? She still couldn't escape her material belongs? I loved how unlikeable she was.Ianbolton
- Are you folks seeing much at BIFF? Keep us posted please if so!MrT
- I can't find it in Americashellie
- ideaist0
Apple
Alright nerd(s):
Conundrum...
...Getting a new laptop, BUT can't decide between a (refurbished) M4 Macbook Pro (16") OR a (new) M4 Macbook Air.
The price difference is NEARLY half, AND I'm not generally using the thing for multiple 4k videos, rendering(s), etc. SOOO I think i may be able to pass on the extra power.
OR
Anyone have experience gearing down from the "Pro" world?
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- I have the m2 air and it handles everything flawlessly. The only drawback is internal storage but external drives take care of that I guess._niko
- @_niko, did you grab 512GB? You cloud storage? I'm 100% Dropbox SOOO I'm unsure I need much more...ideaist
- I can literally grab a MacBook Air AND an iPad Pro for the price of a MacBook Pro!ideaist
- Also @_niko, what RAM amount?ideaist
- the air is so much nicer for travel. I have the 16 pro and I hate schlepping it aroundnb
- M3 Air does everything I need but I don't do a lot of video, mostly coding, some CS and Logic. 16GB Ram / 512GB.fadein11
- idealist, yeah on the cloud as well but if it stores some project files locally as well it can fill up fast. 8gb ram and 256GB storage_niko
- so with even those meek specs it's still insane, I can't imagine how an m4 chip with more ram and storage would perform, just nuts._niko
- Fantastic wisdom(s) dude(s).
Thank you.ideaist - I have an M3 air. My 2018 MBP screen died and I didn't have the $ to buy an MBP. The Air is great, no complaints unless you keep a ton of tabs open.mg33
- @mg33, its downfall is tabs?! Lolz.ideaist
- From a resource management perspective, Chrome and Slack are dogshit appsnb
- @nb I know Chrome is a bit blaoted/sluggish at times; what browser do you use? Fuck Slack (I work solo).
; )ideaist - I'll always reco a MacBook Pro (because awesome), but honestly, 16" is entirely too big. Heavy beast, that.
I have the M1 14" and that's plenty large enough.Continuity - Safari. There’s a reason Apple invests in a browser. Nothing can compete (on a Mac or iOS device).nb
- Safari, eh?
I'm ALWAYS avoiding Apple Software; 3rd party for calendar, tasks, mail, browser(s), etc. BUT I guess they DO know their own hardware, eh?ideaist - Yeah same. I don’t like Apple calendar, mail, reminders, Numbers, etc. I do like Apple Notes, but that’s about it.nb
- Still there’s no reason you can’t use safari and google calendar and Gmailnb
- Safari is so good on Mac and iOS. And battery life is significantly better with Safari. Like +50% longer.nb
