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So... Alan Greenspan died at age 100. I hear some people are irrationally exuberant.

OK. Two I can think of that hit the "best value in something I've purchased" category, and their on opposite ends of the cost spectrum. First , Bare Naked boxers from Duluth Trading. I used to be a "Go to Sam's once a year, but a dozen pack of boxers, wear them for a year, throw them out...

Any of these systems can be gamed, often programmatically. It's one of the critical flaws in modern "Manage by Metrics" mantras. In most industries now there is this seeming motion towards having managers who don't actually know what the people they're managing really accomplish. Instead they...

Just imagine if the catch line at the end of the movie is back on Earth and someone goes "Hey! There's SuperGirl!" and she stops and say "No... SuperTHEY"

Now imagine the eventuality when Amazon says "OK, we'll also start picking up packages you need to ship now and leverage our network to get it delivered, just print out a label, and we'll sell you a label printer or $5, and charge less per-package..."

The way I see it, the games my wife and I like playing all play reasonably on the cards we already have. If the 5060s are just used for the AI work that perfectly serves my purposes well. For now, I think I'll remove the old cards, upgrade in place. Then once I can hit the store or find a...

As my mountain Dwarven instincts start manifesting more and more... that means being drawn to more expensive metals apparently... Behold what 23.8 ounces of junk silver jewelry I got off Ebay melted down into.... (80% purity silver) Including the elusive magical lucky silver poop! If I get...

So today I find myself at a quandry.... Decided to do the "tiny" upgrade to the desktops in the house. (my rig and the one @Mrs. Haus uses). 3060s with 8GB to 5060TIs with 16G. For the first time I can remember I'm doing an upgrade NOT because of gaming performance. But rather that we're...

Slightly more semi-official update and PSA... for of all things.. a PSA blood check.

My usual stance is if it doesn't come across with a caller ID I recognize as a person I want to talk to, then I don't answer. Lately that has been loosened a little as I am starting to do some "job market exploration" and other things.....

I'm still getting a lot that seem to be calling just to see if someone answers. I answer, say hello, and silence, then hang up. Only thing I can think is someone was expecting someone to answer in a foreign language, or clankers mapping out which phone numbers have humans attached for later.

Yeah. Lisa is more active than him apparently on Instagram, and he keeps popping up in her posts and looking like he's doing well. Which is relieving.

We still ahve one of those macs in our storage from from the wife's college days. Unrelated:

Three racoons in a trenchcoat.... One here to talk the technology One in Politics to talk social ramifications Kinda surprised there isn't one in the stonkhouse to talk about the market/stock/money game around AI....

That's actually been documented as possibly the biggest problem with his acting career. He's of a light build with boyish looks, which doesn't translate into "Hollywood leading man" (i.e. the Hemsworths, Cavills, etc...) which has been attributed to reasons the non-Spidey films he's been in as...

Well, at it's core, the character is BOTH a quip throwing jovial hero, and a troubled young dude going through a seemingly perpetual string of bad moments, always has been. The ongoing mantra in the comics is that Peter Parker can never really have a happy ending and Stan Lee even once talked...

Most interesting part of being someone who lives in Dallas during this is watching the rotation of people from foreign countries coming to town for the World Cup and having their every loving minds blown by food in Texas. Then Twitter of course pumps me feed full of it since I have a lot of...

I thought a few in here might get a reasonable chuckle from this.. as I did.

I've been a big fan of the poop in a box method which my Dr is OK with so far. But considering my kidney tumor adventure last year I fully expect that will change with this next go around. I saw this one and was curious, but since I'm not 3+ years clear from the kidney thing I can leverage it...

Yeah, and remember, that more major surgery he went in for was back last year. He's apparently said they won't know if he's clear and good until towards the end of this year. But Amazon has already approved a season 6. He's definitely had one of those "so bad it gives you some perspective"...

So decided to spend the weekend unwinding and getting some repetition in on copper casting to try to get a little better at it... Notes from the weekend.... Always use some copper phosphorous to degas and avoid the little pits and bubbles on the surfaces Best polishing is around 48 hours in...

One of our dogs still has her "favorite blankee". She will pull it around the patio, and if she does something she gets chastised for she'll go grab it, bunch it up between her front paws, and suck on it like a pacifier... I'll see about grabbing pics next time she does.

This is kinda where I'm at on this at this point in time. Same way people are "rediscovering" old games on actual physical media because the current game industry is such hot garbage. Many are rediscovering old shows that hold up. SG-1 , IMHO, holds up well. Embrace and love it for what it...

I've been pondering those options as well. Just strange that in the past it was always "When the wife or I need a better gaming rig, the old system becomes the hand me down to my home lab" and if I build s rig for this that direction will now reverse.... Possibly the AMD, or an Nvidia Spark box.

The wife and I finished this tonight, we've been trying to stretch out series so we have something to watch. We also did the B&W run on it and I thought it looked great. During it I did wonder how they "pulled off color" since I remember learning a long time ago about the "everything is...

Only around 3-4% of the US workforce is actually paid minimum wage. Where is REALLY matters is in all those union contracts which are negotiated with wages being a given multiplier of the minimum wage. So a bump in minimum wage equates to a huge pay off to labor unions for the most part.

I'm about to assemble the most powerful (and subsequently most expensive) computer I have ever assembled for home use. And I won't be installing a single game on it. (AI workstation/server system)

You've just described an absolute nightmare scenario I think about. I started having some hand tremors a while back. There's no history of PD in my family, but a history of something called "familial tremors". But in the back of my head I keep worrying about exactly what you're getting hit...

Yes, because only losers own/run hardware in the glorious age of..... THE CLOUD!

This was literally the scenario where I worked. They were posting up leaderboards of who was using AI for the most. So people started using it for everything... email... product descriptions... competitive intel.... things we literally already had internal sites and resources for half the...

How about we just mash T'ealc up with Amos, and add in Jayne's hat from Firefly?

As explained by a Dr I had once, over time your body's histamine system (which regulates what you are and aren't allergic to) can partially rotate. Which means you can gain and lose allergies over your lifetime, and most people lose them over time. When I was a wee Haus I was allergic to a...

I handle all my mom's finances and my sister coordinates all her medical stuff... Recently I get a text from one of her Dr's (Cardiologist) about her owning over $400 for some scan. I look into it. The Dr's website says the insurance paid $5, the insurance website says it's paid $150 and the...

Even with SG-1 being off the air for around 20 years now, it's still considered a very formidable mid-tier series on the platforms that stream it (although it doesn't feel impressive as it's around #250 all time on most lists of streamed series/content/movies). With that said Netflix's most...

Interesting tidbit on the SpaceX thing today. It will trade on two exchanges. NASDAQ, and.... NASDAQ-Texas Maybe I just haven't run into it before, but today is literally the day I realized there is such a thing as a NASDAQ exchange that was Texas based.

As has been mentioned, things aren't always linear. Not even day/week/month is a win, sometimes not even every year. If you know what helps you get through the crap until you can start to make progress again there's no shame in doing what you know should help. The fact that you still seem to...