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Yeah, that's essentially the one casting call I've seen I had questions about. Since in the trailer they show a statue of M. Bison, I hope this guy is like his son/grandson/whatever and for pure cheesiness/tribute to Julia they just call him N. Bison and he exists pretty much to show why the...

Thanks to WoW Tokens it's been quite a while since I actually paid for expansions (and a lot of times my sub as well). I will admit I treat playing the AH as my "end game raiding" to a certain degree to accomplish this. Also, I'm grinding up professions for the 2-5 things in each profession...

Some days I actually like having a skinning alt... That's a 15k skin on the AH on my server...

Evil? He made God essentialy his self insert, and did it without any sense of irony or humor... That said, I loved Supernatural until somewhere around the start of the next to last season. I do agree Kripke obviously got "infected with the mind virus" Another unreported bit of work Erin had...

This is exactly why one embraces it. It looks ridiculous, which is it being the most absolute version of itself. Watching the trailer with sound a couple lines get dropped to make you think it's Ken's redemption arc. Along the lines of Ken needs redemption, someone goes and finds Ryu and...

Current state of WoW...

Ah, a man of refined tastes I see... I have a folder in my meme directory just called "wood" for these exact things... A few highlights... Thank you for the addition to my collection...

The problem is fewer and fewer dealers are keeping a readily available supply of "parts". The last time I went to my dealer it was for a worrisome sound coming from the transmission. They kept the car for a day and came back with "Looks to be an issue in the transmission, our only option from...

Well... if you wanted to go "wow"... Sealed Concrete countertop with a blue stone and glass mosaic inlay. You can choose the colors and design of the mosaic inlay to match her blue counters. I've seen it done on bar counters, some indoor/outdoor kitchens, and an island. Done right is can...

That "old people granite" is very similar to what we used in our kitchen, and it's still looking just fine a long time later. Although ours is a little lighter, still earthtone base and not white/gray based. Our "old people granite": Then again, our Kitchen is done in earthtones and not...

When I rebuilt my detatched garage I did this, Spray paint to mark each stud since on the concrete floor and ceiling above. I cannot thumbs up this idea enough. In my case it wasn't drywall, it was OSB, but same concept.

Yes, but if it's just a logistics and delivery (and possibly service, but that's another story) thing I think Tesla has pretty effectively shown you don't need the middle man. Between online sales of goods, and advances in services I think we're kinda entering the end times for "middle men".

What kind of news? Sounds like a job for my WCSG (Worst Case Scenario Gland) : China sees Us involvement in the ME as overextending the US defensive umbrella and makes a move on Taiwan. Taiwan then does as they have threatened and blow the fabs rather than hand them back to China...

I'm facing the same thing. You have my empathy sir. Mom's in her 70's. Getting to the point she forgets quickly. In a 30 minute car drive she'll bring up the same thing 3 times, usually something like "My friend Chris has a group of ladies she's hanging out with a lot". My sister lives with...

I think at one point in the past there might have been some justification for the distributor/dealer model. I see it in my industry. The traditional cybersecurity model was Vendor produces, Disti distributes (as it's name), and resellers sell. Back when this started it made sense because no...

Of you'll be able to just go, customize your ride on line, do the financing through your bank or the manufacturer, and have it delivered... We can only hope to survive this long enough for the courts to see the error of these ways my friends.

You can. But with current coding technology that has it's issues. With fresh "code from scratch" it seems to do much better than with "Maintenance coding" tasks. It's not the old language itself (COBOL) that I see as a problem. It's that a lot of older coding is, to say the least, somewhat...

When those senior operators and coders who are writing and running those archaic systems retire/die this will pose problems for AI driven dev systems in that many of those old systems have evolved "organically" over time (i.e. horribly and often ill documented at best), and the newer devs have...

Essential gear for the IT helpdesk person around the office....

If you can imagine, I know for a fact a HUGE swatch of the federal reserve bank system still runs on COBOL. I know where they hire people for it, and have been doing so since I was a child apparently.

That's already here. I am watching a customer I have supported in the past who was a BPO (read : call center outsourcer) getting absolutely put in the cuck chair by AI based "Call Centers" that are coming in at 30-40% the cost and in many cases providing service customers like more.. Here's...

I'm in sales, a supposed job that combines both technical capabilities and "soft skills" , the latter is supposedly "immune to AI" if I listen to others in my career. But even I realize I might be LUCKY being old in that I only have around 5 years tops left in an active working career because...

This is the exact willful ignorance of the Pareto Principal which every executive pats themselves on the back for... until the collapse.

AI is the new Junior Dev. We have to hope it's the new senior dev before the ones we have retire.

Ah yes.. The Pareto Principal applies almost everywhere. Especially in "percentage of workers versus percentage of work they get done". I work in sales and see this play out time and time again, but companies never accept it. They always think "We'll just pare down the less useful 80% and...

Someone has actually done this.... And if you're not a metalworker... https://3dprint.com/103249/3d-printed-cat-armor/

And by "criminals" you mean people who just don't want to be at the mercy of the US controlled SWIFT system? ;) I have heard also that countries can pay it in Yuan.

I'm still down a tiny bit for the year, but mostly because of the one large stock holding I know I need to diversify (stock in the company I work for). Just trying to figure out the best way (i.e. least expensive from a tax event standpoint) to diversify it.

Looking at the headlines this morning when I woke up Trump seems to commit to keeping people there "until a peace deal is done and followed through on". And Israel is doing it's second day massive strikes on Lebanon (which Iran sees as a ceasefire violation). Iran has locked the straight back...

Apparently there was a study and everything that shows the banks are just essentially wanting to block customers from being able to get a better alternative to their non-existent yields..

Yeah, I've also seen some of the "local model" runners (like GPT4all) have the ability to reference flat files for "memory" as well. And I think if I do my "couple the model with an agent like OpenClaw" I would build into the pre-prompting a method for it to retain things, and or a "catch...

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As for Oil, there seems to be a wide variation on takes. As long as Iran limits flow, that will introduce inherent upward pressure. Supposed "industry experts" on Bloomberg today were saying if the strait is still essentially shut down in 2 weeks Oil will reach $150 before it goes down. Not...

My wife has some nerve impingement around her lower back and hip that she is prescribed Gabapentin for, and she only takes it when things "get bad" because of those exact side effects. She can't take feeling mentally flooby. I've evolved in the opposite direction. At first I always needed an...

If we look at how people are accessing AI right now, much of it is gated by larger and larger corps profiting off our use of it. This leads me to believe at least in the nearer term we're going to see AI's turning huge corporations into megacorps, and they will control what AI the lowly serfs...

OK. just finished season 2 and I can't think of a single thing they could have changed to make me like it more. So far it's a near note perfect adaptation. And as mentioned, it somehow manages to not take itself seriously... Yet pull off stuff like the Chopper origin story, and then the...

Saw a video today about this which said this movie has now had EIGHT screening runs with editing/reshoots after them to try to make it more audience palatable. (For those who do not know, 8 is a somewhat eye popping number of screenings to need to do).