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@ThomasSowell "safe and effective".

Bernie Sanders: “Legislation to impose a moratorium on the construction of new AI data centers until strong national safeguards are in place to ensure that AI is safe and effective."

@distantboots @Guysloveguns youtube.com/shorts/upxD8sV…

@derek1ee @Guysloveguns what movements would that involve? it looked like he just had to figure it out on the fly that he had to rack the slide while depressing the mag release, but he still did it in an impressive time.

Nightmare fuel

@distantboots @Guysloveguns You don’t train for specific malfunctions, you apply immediate then remedial action non-diagnostically. Had he done that, it would have taken half the time.

@Guysloveguns impressive speed clearing that malfunction. nobody even trains for base plate failures. ive never even heard of baseplate failures.

@initnam @CringeCoomer @IterIntellectus But not a time machine.

@CringeCoomer @IterIntellectus I would say true except for the fact that the covid vaccine was a special case. for the covid-vax the pharma companies had: massive government funding, faster regulatory review, and overlapping trials, all of which sped things up significantly

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

@shanselman Immich but on TrueNAS.

Considering moving all my iCloud/Google Photos to Immich on a Synology. Anyone else done that? I've got every photo I've taken since 1998 and would prefer to not mess this up.

@Kunkmiester @prac_machinist And do a blunt start - features like this won’t appear itself I matter how many times you run the same cycle.

@prac_machinist Well, x won't let me see any of the other comments so I have to ask, using a topping insert?

Some customers won’t allow any burrs — not even under a microscope. That’s why this part gets threaded three times in 303 stainless. And that’s exactly why the Swiss setup matters. If you want to see a full Swiss lathe setup, the full episode is live now: youtu.be/sFdzjVHg3AA

@brankopetric00 What’s wrong with what they have now?

Your team is split. Half wants to go serverless, half wants Kubernetes. The context: - Processing 50M events/day with unpredictable spikes - Current monolith costs $8k/month to run - Team of 6 engineers, mixed experience levels - Compliance requires data residency in 3 regions - Budget ceiling: $12k/month Serverless camp: "Lower ops overhead, auto-scaling" Kubernetes camp: "More control, predictable costs" Which path do you choose and why?

@mischavdburg Does he put his entire book in AGENTS.md?

The author of Clean Code is using Claude to write software. I can hardly think of a clearer indicator that coding is now officially outsourced to LLM’s. Who else is mourning the death of coding by hand ?

@imbktan As if tech debt isn’t a thing pre AI.

Our engineer flat-out refuses to use AI IDEs like Cursor or Claude Code. He will use LLMs to look things up or proofread, but he will not let them touch the actual code. That is basically turtle speed compared to using an AI IDE, so yeah, we ship slower. But at least I can sleep at night knowing the codebase will not slowly turn into auto-generated spaghetti that nobody really understands and that becomes expensive technical debt later.

@amitisinvesting @ChartDavidson He certainly has not. And this is me speaking, most likely have a faster lap time than he is and enjoy driving very much, just not on public road with tons of traffic.

@ChartDavidson You might not have tried FSD then

$TSLA So, my dad had the FSD trial for a month. He loved it. Could not stop talking about it. Trial ended 2 weeks ago and I asked him if I should upgrade his account for the $100/month. My dad…being my dad…said no because $100 is not worth it. Now, I pay the $100 on my Tesla because I know it’s worth it. My dad drives 10x more than me so I knew he knew it was worth it, but I gave him a week to go back to driving normal. Few nights ago he called me and told me to upgrade the software because he can’t go back to driving 😂 FSD is the future. Best real world use case of AI. Just needs to penetrate more markets but man if they can get my dad to pay $100/month, they can get anyone to pay it.

@Jeremybtc I don’t remember needing to wait forever or pay grey price for a Mercedes even AMG, and if GS is Lexus at least let Seiko be Toyota?

If you don’t know much about watches, here’s a simple way to understand them: Rolex = Mercedes Benz Omega = BMW Patek Philippe = Rolls Royce Audemars Piguet = Ferrari Richard Mille = Bugatti Grand Seiko = Lexus IWC = Porsche Tudor = Genesis Casio / G-Shock = Toyota Apple Watch = Tesla

@ThrillaRilla369 Tax withholding is interest free loan to IRS, 0 means you have an optimized amount of withhold, so why do you want a big refund?

My tax return: -$362.78 Someone with 6 kids who hasn't worked all year: $11,385

@TheCinesthetic Do I even want to know what they used for the snow?

For all the advances in filmmaking, this Citizen Kane (1941) shot still feels untouchable.

@DeltaClimbs All these talks and still made in China at the end of the day.

@Mrgunsngear Why are they not wearing masks?

-0% chance anyone in this video out of, you guessed it, California ever served in the Army or Marines. -All man cards are IMMEDIATELY revoked -Some of these folks are clearly unstable on their "bridge" and seem to think risking a broken limb to avoid a temporary wet foot is a good trade off Walk accordingly.... #California #rain #WTF #fail #nope #shopping #weakness

@AliGrids Pretty easy to see who has read Apple’s HIG and who has not.

Skeleton vs spinner. A or B -what would you ship?

@TailosiveEV @djcre8or Micrometer is more accurate than caliper but just because it's more accurate doesn't mean you use it for your next woodworking project.

@djcre8or Isn’t that in itself proving lidar is more accurate with projection mapping? Otherwise why cross reference with it?

To be clear, I personally don’t think LiDAR is necessary for level 4 automation, but I’m just saying it’s not entirely useless when Tesla runs these vehicles around every area before launching

@obfuscated_D @jimbelosic Same. Onlinemetals used to be cheaper but lately McMaster has been really competitive even after shipping (vs pick up with onlinemetals).

@jimbelosic McMaster has been my go to lately, they’re surprisingly competitive with my local metal shop…

Machinists of X: What are you guys paying for 6061 T6511 extrusion, per lb, cut to size? Include shipping/landed cost if you can.

@sheentrades So you tell me these two shots have the same sight picture? LOL.

How tf are people getting sub 1 second shots from concealed😂 1.25 first show 1.96 split (reload and 2nd shot) This about the fastest I could get it going today.

@SawyerMerritt It would be cool to have human assemble the upper body, then it put the rest together itself, or maybe for each other.

First look at Tesla’s Optimus Production line. Significantly larger Gen 3 production line coming in 2026. Tesla’s goal is $20k COGS per robot at scale.