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Well I've decided to come back after getting sick of being
kicked out of IRC channels by vile, vulgar, libertarian ops. I'm
Seriously, from the bottom of my heart, welcome back, and you are sincerely and truly appreciated here.
This community isn't big enough to lose people over silly little things, and so (without taking sides) I ask everyone to be respectful of each other.
Greetings SouthernComputerGeek! You say you're a social conservative? I left the Republican party because they were mealy-mouthed moderates. I've since joined the Constitution party. [ https://constitutionparty.com ] is the URL IIRC, typing from memory. Maybe I'll see you in the politics room.
2025-02-11 23:41 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Yes, I know...
Some of you will log in today and wonder why you have thousands of new
messages in the Lobby. It's my mistake. I accidentally deleted the
Lobby and had to restore it. The good news is no messages were lost.
The bad news is that everyone's last-read pointer gets reset.
Thanks for the clarification. I was fearing all the pointers for all the rooms were toast.
Some of you will log in today and wonder why you have thousands of new
messages in the Lobby. It's my mistake. I accidentally deleted the
I would like to announce my candidacy as one of these people!
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And it's just not our week :) Nuisance trip of a GFCI took our Internet down today. I reset it when I got home.
Looks like the best chance is just to add a battery backup and hope I'm home if it trips.
Unless you have to have it inspected, screw the rules when they don't make 'practical' sense and are there just to be there..
But that said, a battery that will flip over on its own is a good idea regardless.
Yeah. I'm looking for a code-compliant way to dodge the GFCI requirement for the computers but they've really tightened up the rules. And I get it, the rules aren't targeted at what I'm doing now but rather towards what someone else might do with that outlet in the future. I thought maybe I could run the AC side of the rig at 240 volts, but with recent code updates that now requires a GFCI as well.
Looks like the best chance is just to add a battery backup and hope I'm home if it trips.
This could fall under a lot of rooms... So move as needed.
Zoe is almost here, this is her predecessor. And at logarithmic rate things are happening in general, the Cylons may destroy humanity before the end of the decade. Just add quantum networking to off load the processing power, and it solves many of end point processing issues.
And yes, i know some among us dont think AI can be sentient ( i agree its not, yet, but its closer than most want to admit ) but does the debate really matter in the end, when the outcome is the same?
I guess you didn't see the other videos. Those synthetic muscles are a good 10x as strong as natural muscles, and according to testing will last at least 10x as long before they fail. ( nothing lasts forever of course )
And ( seriously, not joking like i often do ) you might want to look closer at some of the public models. Choose the right ones they are far more reliable and more "uncensored/unbiased" than you get with the 'big corps'. ( that is a thing actually, people taking models and 'cleaning' them ) Sort of like trying to compare FreeBSD to OSX.. yes, they are similar at their core, but not in the implementation, with all the restrictions and walls Apple puts on their "flavor". Many open models are more targeted than the general purpose models, reducing the resources needed. And while i dont support getting a mac, a friend of mine has a M3, and he can run models locally at 120t/s that i barely get 50t/s ( tho admittedly my GPUs are older, but even so, they do work well enough ).. so modern consumer grade hardware does work just fine. But yes i agree, the big ones, with tons of concurrency, or to do base training, ya, its a resource hog of biblical proportions.
And along the lines of the actual robot, you would be surprised at the microscopic amount of resources needed for IoT level robotics. But yes i agree, the big ones, with tons of concurrency, ya, its a resource hog of biblical proportions. Robotics used to be a hobby of mine ( and for a while, a job at GM, helping replace people on the assembly lines ) and its amazing you how little you really need to "get the job done", especially with modern hardware.
But this is starting to get close to the hardware room subject matter now.. didn't mean for this to go down that path, it was just meant to be a partially funny 'look out, shes almost here' post lol.
I'm not too worried about a floppy puppet that can't support its own weight powered by what is basically the world's most resource expensive and least reliable database query engine.
It might sound stupid, but while I was driving back home from the farm, I notized that having the back of the ban loaded with critters that were making happy hen sounds was filling me with a primal, silly sense of joy :)
The hens have already befriended the ones I have at home. The first day was a bit rough because these hens have spent all their lives in a jail, so they didn't know what to make out of an open space area. Suffices to say I checked on them at night, and realized they had decided to sleep on a heap of metal scraps I had at a corner rather than go into the coop. When I took them and placed them on a perch in the coop they were fucking surprised, as if realizing "Oh, so this is what an actual hen house is like?"
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Thanks for being here. It continues to be a pleasure to serve you.
Just hopped in to say congrats. And thanks for making us old-timers feel even older.
Today is March 10 and that means it's our birthday. We are celebrating 37 years of operation.
yep, happy birthday ... and may you have many many more
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