Richard Bastar
221 posts
@davidbateman Just like Jesus said...I speak in parables so the wicked will not understand.
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Being tortured is more likely to unlock spiritual gifts than reading the scriptures. Never underestimate the innate wisdom of a man who unwittingly engages in self torture over scripture study
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@mrmadchad @Douglas03699422 @kennybigrig @adamcarolla Yeah no one pays attention to this. This is the thing that really shows the specifics
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@NapaValleyTrade @levelsio @ultimatefifa I was thinking the same, and much more. Crazy. How many oxygen breathing humans live like this? People have been making it for years...now we have sensors, and everything needs 'fixing.' I get it tho, I def get optimizing
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I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge
You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight
You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am
I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?
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@vonboehmbawerk @davidbateman Thank you so much; that makes sense now, given the context!
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The best apocalypse proof tractor. Simple engineering. Fuel that lasts forever
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@jimmyjoebob20 @davidbateman @vonboehmbawerk Ahhhh, duh. Liquified propane! LP, got it. Thanks for the clarification...I didn't wanna assume and be wrong. Curious to learn more on this though - applicable for me!
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@JaredDHardin All the glory to God - he provides at the right time, the right amount, with the right amount of learning. It's unreal
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I'm out on a big job today.
Previously I've been trying to do everything myself, now I'm trying my best to rely on God.
He's blessed me with so many jobs and opportunities just within a month of doing this full-time that I'm overwhelmed.
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Opinions?
You have all this power at your finger tips...
and you're asking LLMs for opinions?
Rachel Karten@milkkarten
i interviewed marketers about their ai-obsessed bosses
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@davidbateman @vonboehmbawerk What is LP? I heard diesel doesn't do well going cold to hot, like places in the south where it can get really cold then really hot. Is this what you're referring to? Sorry if it's silly, I'm no pro yet! 👍
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@vonboehmbawerk Diesel lasts 2 years. Gotta go LP and stockpile fuel that lasts indefinitely
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They should have never let me grow up and be in charge of my own nutrition
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@landforce 100% same way - always do that every time. 60% of the time, it works every time
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@IvBastar push all the buttons to see what happens kinda kid
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Wanna know what else Tim Cook did in his time at Apple?
In 2002 I was a freshmen in high school. My dad came home from Mac World and a big box showed up from FedEx the next day. It was a brand new iMac G4. One the most hyped computers of our time, not yet available for sale, sitting on my doorstep.
I immediately opened it, plugged it in, and noticed that the CD tray appeared to fit 2 different sized CDs.
For literally no reason I put one of those tiny Nintendo Game Cube disks into it and turned it on. I remember it so clearly it felt instinctive like of course I’m putting this unrelated odd shaped disc in this brand new highly coveted piece of hardware.
It bricked the G4 immediately. I was mortified. I spent hours rebooting it without luck.
At the time, my dad was president of one of Apple’s largest independent retailers. This was years before Apple Stores. The machine was an informal pre launch demo unit it. And I bricked it with a game cube game lol.
I finally told my dad. He sent an email to Tim Cook. Tim Cook had a new one sent out.
I was editing skate videos on it that weekend.
Legend.
bubble boi@bubbleboi
Tim Cook is one of the greatest CEOs of all time and the cope from the haters this cycle has been frankly a sight to behold. When he took over Apple in 2011, it was a $350B consumer hardware company that was selling the iPhone 4 lol. Now it’s a $4T+ free cash flow machine where Services alone is a $100B+ ARR business & AirPods is a bigger standalone business than most Fortune 500 companies. Going from a Phone OEM to a company with monster recurring revenue without breaking the core product is not easy to pull off. Now people will see this master stroke and then be like oh but they are falling behind in the AI race. The problem with that line of thinking is that people think "AI strategy" means setting $100B on fire to rent H100s and become a low-margin neocloud. They want Apple to just blow all of their money instead of building a real differentiated product. Apple probably looked at the inference market early on and correctly decided not to play a game where the winner gets 20% gross margins and a terrible balance sheet and let everybody else fight it out. Nvidia did the same thing. Neoclouds look more like industrials why the fuck would you destroy your 75% margins for that? The actual Apple AI strategy is a lot more smarter than haters give credit to. They own the silicon, own the OS, and can run inference on the device better than anyone. M5 ships with neural accelerators in every GPU core, 153 GB/s unified memory bandwidth and if you believe flash has room to run… much more. Your data never leaves the phone, your AI never goes down because AWS had a bad day, and you don't get billed by the token. No competitor has the silicon plus OS plus distribution to replicate that and I truly believe on device inference for trillion parameter models is coming in next 5 years. The fact that Ternus is succeeding Tim Cook is very bullish for that. They didn't pick a finance guy or a services guy. They picked the head of hardware engineering because the board knows this is the future for Apple. The people dunking on Cook have never built a free cash flow business in their lives. You actually need to be successful first to understand why a business needs to defend a margin profile, allocate capex against a portfolio, or make a decision that looks slow now but obvious for 10 years. You can't expect the junior varsity players to understand the decisions a pro would make.
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@wildfan9624 @KatMartinez0001 @dirtcheapbanks A relationship, not necessarily religion - that's what people need and that is often confused. Today isn't eternal, and our short lives should help spread joy & happiness. People are always just dropping opinions, no one is forcing anything, and if they are, then 180
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@KatMartinez0001 @dirtcheapbanks People can be happy without religion. No need to force it on everyone
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I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.
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@BWellvoice @MrPassive_ This couldn't be more true. Crazy to think about the perspectives
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@MrPassive_ Society sees their commitment as sacrifice, children see it as life, parents see it as love and support.
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My parents drove me 44 miles to school every day.
Both worked full-time. Dad a veterinarian. Mom a teacher.
4 sport athlete - Up before sunrise. Home after dark.
They did it because they wanted me to have opportunities a small town couldn't offer.
They never complained once.
I didn't fully understand the sacrifice until I became a parent myself.
Now I sponsor a scholarship at that same school.
And I let my parents pick the recipient.
1 of our main criteria?
A rural kid that sacrifices by commuting to school everyday
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Full circle doesn't even cover it.
If you had someone who sacrificed for you before you could sacrifice for yourself —go tell them what it meant.
Don't wait.
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@landforce The fans will guide you 💪 I have faith, stay the course
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@IvBastar Haha nah I’m genuinely fairly new to Claude desktop etc and been going in on it and just can’t figure out what the difference is
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If I use Claude Code is there any reason to ever use Cowork?
it seems Cowork is just Claude Code without the dev tooling and with UI for the stuff you're doing..
Every time I use Cowork it seems like I should have just been in Code but Idk if I'm missing something or what
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@landforce ....as many as it takes!! 😂 Feels like this comes up every 3 months or something. Although, could be good ammo to get more engagement. Or to learn what's changed. Those AI models change like my underwear, whew
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@PikeBishopIII @MattWallace888 Right? Who are these people that think that....crazy. If only they did a little LEARing to learn what they are
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@TheFor48243 @Losrobles1550 @DisrespectedThe Not how it works - too wide, how do you unload it then. They're loaded with a fork w/a big pin or cylinder that gets it.
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@Losrobles1550 @DisrespectedThe These should be transported laying flat and well secured to the bed.
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This is why you don't cut truckers off.
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