Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
It’s so dumb that these things are done “in rebuke” to things.
Israel should recognize the Armenian genocide because it fucking happened. As should every other country, for whatever it’s worth that a country officially “recognizes” facts like these.
Thought this was headed for Warhammer40k at first.
I’m not even clear on how the bamboo is supposed to damage the data center.
Ah, in the name of environmentalism, go forth and plant invasive species?
What do people think this is actually going to do to data centers? Oh no, there’s plants growing near them… like there weren’t already?
Conversion from epub to txt is a highly lossy process, there’s a lot of formatting that gets thrown away.
Regardless of how individual ebook readers may display epubs a little differently, epub is an open format so I would recommend keeping it in that form at least for archival purposes.
From the perspective of someone who’s leading a country that’s around number 3 or so on Trump’s “invade and annex” list, having America lose a war against Iran in an expensive and humiliating manner is very much worth it.
To do what? They had established that he was performing activities that needed to be stopped, he’s not owed more time to do those activities in.
Could just add it to their demands for opening the Strait of Hormuz.
Also we need to fund a proxy army in Mexico.
He was an incredibly prolific poster. Unfortunately I found him to be rather abrasive, I don’t recall any particular interaction but I do get an “oh yeah, that guy. Glad he’s not been around much lately” sense when I see that name.
As I recall he was heading somewhere else, but the US revoked his passport while he happened to be catching a connecting flight in Russia and so he ended up taking refuge there instead.
The S&P Dow Jones Index Committee explicitly rejected proposals to fast-track SpaceX.
The Russel 1000 and NASDAQ 100 did have “fast-track” rules for large IPOs like this. However, they have an additional guardrail that I think you overlooked here. When SpaceX went public only about 4% of the company’s total shares were released to the public (the public “float”). The remaining 95%+ of the shares belonging to Elon Musk, early venture capitalists, and long-time employees are legally locked down and can’t be sold for 90 to 180 days after the IPO. Index funds are weighted based on free float (only the shares actively trading), the amount of stock the fast-tracking index funds are actually forced to buy right now is very small, representing a fraction of 1% of most portfolios.
So no, this really didn’t fleece 401ks and other conservative investment funds. They have rules in place specifically to prevent this sort of thing and outside forces can’t “force” them to break those rules. Musk and other early shareholders were unable to dump their stocks during that initial IPO price spike and pension funds weren’t buying the stocks up in significant quantities.
Index funds don’t update their investment balance instantly, in part specifically to avoid this kind of problem. Most major indices require a stock to trade publicly for a minimum period (often 3 to 6 months) before they’ll include them, and they rebalance on a fixed schedule - usually quarterly or semi-annually. A stock must wait for the next official rebalancing date to be added.
The things that might have been bit are Active Mutual Funds and Sector ETFs. These funds are focused much more tightly on specific sectors of the market and often buy “immediately” to ensure that they don’t miss out on up-and-comers. FOMO can bite these more easily. But for that very reason they’re not something that conservative investors like public pensions would invest heavily in, they’re explicitly meant for the more gamble-oriented stuff. If you explicitly take a risk with your money then you should expect to lose it sometimes.
Neither are forklifts. It’s an analogy, not exactly the same thing.
I hung on to my first dog several weeks longer than I should have. I know it’s rough, but hopefully in the long run you’ll feel that you did the right thing by him letting him go at the right time.
IMO the best way to approach life is to try to maximize the number of good days in it and minimize the number of bad days. I’m sure in those 12 years you gave him plenty of great days.
Having transcripts of every adventure is such a huge game-changer for me. I’ve been putting them into NotebookLM and I can ask it any detail about past adventures, “when the party met with the prince did they mention anything about the vault to him?” Or about the worldbuilding, “who was the goddess of tears and rain?” And so forth. Drop a PDF of the rules in there too and it can look up stuff that may not be so easy to just keyword search, and in a pinch it can even do stuff like whip up a new set of monster stats (though I’ve found it’s not very good at balancing them so you’ll need to give it a once-over).
I’ve been experimenting with tools like llm_wiki, which can automatically build an obsidian-compatible wiki out of raw source documents (such as those transcripts). It’s not quite “there” yet IMO but it looks like a promising approach.
As I said, I can write programs in assembly language. I have actually done so, small trivial ones. I’m not a businessman, I’m a programmer. But I use compilers basically all the time because it would be ridiculous not to.
If an AI is able to break something in a way that no human can fix then I suppose that’s a sign that AI has exceeded human capabilities. Do you think it’s there yet?
And yet the person with the forklift is moving more stuff than the guy who did it by hand could manage. The “over” in “over-reliance” is a subjective value judgment and I just don’t agree.
I’m not seeing the problem here. Technology is developed specifically for this purpose, to remove unnecessary burden from humans and enhance their capabilities. There’s nothing noble about laboring unnecessarily hard to accomplish goals in a suboptimal manner. I could write programs in assembly language but instead I use high-level languages and compilers. Does that result in over-reliance on compilers?
John Henry died in the process of “beating” the steam hammer and then got replaced anyway. Nowadays it’d be considered foolish to do that work by hand.
It’s possible that it’s a bluff at getting ready for another round of mobilizations. If Putin thinks that Ukraine is at a breaking point and is relying on Russia also being at a breaking point then doing things that make it seem like Russia’s ready to draw this out a lot longer might force them to the table.
I don’t think Ukraine actually is at a breaking point, but Putin might think so - I seriously doubt he’s getting good intel from his underlings.