Sad. Vampires and immortals in general would be expected to lean eco-socialist, as it’s the only system capable of maintaining a long-term vision. You can’t die your way out of the consequences of looting the world.
If he is actually a vampire, he’s the spiritual equivalent of a 17-year-old with his first driver’s license and a 1992 Nissan Sentra, drunk on possibilities and yet to understand the responsibilities he’s taken up.
If you paint over the reporting marks (“CRYX” and the number), it requires them to patch the data back on much more quickly than if you just paint other parts of the car.
Rookie graffiti move.
This is likely about anticounterfeiting tech advancements.
You can pass a Series 1934 note just fine from a legal standpoint, but with the old style design and less advanced features (no watermarks/embedded thread/colour changing inks) people might not trust its legitimacy.
Some countries demonetize their old notes aggressively. If you want to spend the £10 note you parents had from a 2000s trip, you’ll have to take it to the Bank of England to exchange for a newer one.
Can all production be practically done in a distributed manner?
Plenty of industry works best at scale-- you’re not going to build neighbourhood-scale high-performance steel mills or semiconductor fabs.
FedEx and UPS just salivating at an oppotunity to destroy the fabric of reality itself…
Use a shared external source of randomness, like one of the shortwave “numbers stations”, to seed an agreed upon algorithm that simulates shuffling a deck and dispensing the cards. You’re running the same code on the same data, so you could show the cards you had seen after each hand to confirm everyone is in sync.
I was always more of a fan of the Pennsylvania Railtoad than the competing New Youk Central.
It knows and demands blood.
Wouldn’t two half-sized sticks perform better?
I thought dual-channel RAM was a thing at least as far back as the original Socket A nForce chipset.
Yeah, but it was the norm prior to 1909 and was a little more aspirational than “he just got perforated, let’s slap his face on the half dollar.”
The big board is used to track bets on when some Western leader does something comical.
As soon as Pete Hegseth calls it the Strait of Hormel, Shen over in the back wins 200 yuan.
What’s sad is that the obverse of the 250th dime is probably the best of the redesigns. For the first time since 1946, we’d have a circulating coin with an idealized figure of Goddess Liberty instead of a dead politician.
The typography is atrocious though. And the lack of a cohesive design language sucks. The Charles III coinage from the UK are so much better as a thematic set.
This will go great with the “i eat solder” shirt Mastodon bullied influenced me into buying.
Fedi people have the best taste in clothing.
Maybe the sheen of tech and finance is limited. You’re, at best, enabling other people’s visions and at worst contributing to enshittification.
It was appealing for a while with the promises of big paydays, but if they stop keeping that up, it won’t stand on its merits.
Making actual things has an emotional charm. I work for a fintech and the best I can do is point at a card terminal and say “maybe my code is one of 932 obscure steps towards you financing a $2.59 hot dog…”
Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Even some of the near east is starting to think about what happens when the goo runs out. Only the US is doubking down.
One huge issue is that LLMs do weird and stupid things differently than how humans do them.
If you’ve developed an eye for reading human-made changes, you’re not necessarily going to recognize new and surprising failure modes as easily. It’s literally harder than regular code review.
Humans with modern tooling, for example, rarely hallucinate field/class/method/object names because non-spicy autocomplete keeps them on the rails. LLMs seem much more willing to decide the menu bar is .menuBar and not .topMenu, probably because their training corpus is full of the former.
Same picture but non-swimsuit issues of Sports Illustrated.
Day 5?
Memes are at 9 hours. Day 5 is full erotic fanfic.
Many things still fall back to VGA, like old projectors.
I was disappointed they didn’t say anything about when they built him into his distinctive aerodynamic casing.
I assume there was some Machine Spirit crap going on there since it was almost 50 years after his death.
School newspapers range from tripe and pablum to the occasional surprise smash hit. It’s just a lot of random stuff filtered through underequipped instructional staff.