The supervisor probably assumed it was another school shooting and that it needed 90 minutes to play out first.

Yeah I already said that in my first comment.

Yeah, just because we can reduce our use of pesticides doesn’t suddenly make all of the bee colonies we killed with it come back to life. I get that.

But nature is resilient and if we stop dousing everything in nerve toxins then maybe we’ll see the ecological web of insect life doing its thing again. That improves the soil and plant life, gives food to small critters, and both of those indirectly helps the bees. So it kind of does undo the damage in a roundabout way.

Well we could stop dousing our planet in poison just for weed free and pest free grass, for starters. I know it’s not as bad as what we use on farm crops, but every little bit counts. The bees are stressed and dying because of that stress.

File this under: Not a real problem.

Yeah that’s if you were to try to bruteforce the entire keyspace one key at a time. Nah. You’d look for sidechannel attacks which could reduce the keyspace by many orders of magnitude before starting.

Fuck yeah I just bought that liquor online only an hour or so ago. Crazy to see it pop up in the wild. I hope it tastes good!

That makes it more energy efficient nut not necessarily faster. The on-die ram made enormous improvements in cache misses which had a huge impact on speed. Basically every application got a nitro booster.

Video games with apparently sentient NPCs.

I reeealllly want this. Throw an LLM behind the NPCs ffs. Give each of them a list of goals and let us interact with them in a more free formed manner.

No - the last two decades have shown that just because you can’t invent new stuff to solve, you can throw hardware at solving existing problems less efficiently. We’ll continue to get more and more horsepower just so we can run js.node garbage instead of letting software devs actually make things well.

Yeah it’s what made the M1 macs so blisteringly fast compared to everything else at the time

Yeah I fully expect a government mandated id system for all online platforms. First it’ll be argued it is necessary to allow the platforms to remain free of liability for hosting whatever their posters submit - then it’ll be mandatory to even access those platforms for viewing - then it’ll be pushed onto the ISP level.

Nah - the english language is just full of ambiguities that people tend to understand through context or intonations from speaking that are lost in text

… what?

Anyone been to a state that has outlawed* banning of plastic bags? The roadsides are covered in - you guessed it - plastic bags stuck to fence lines.

*Yes that’s a thing. And yes it is utterly stupid

Yeah like basic communication and the general concept of democracy.

Normal light bulbs with semi-smart switches isnt the worst compromise. I definitely dont want smart blinds though - they’re expensive as fuck to purchase and I bet the motors break frequently.

I use Lutron’s Maestro brand because then I can get a little remote that runs on a CR2032 battery. Then I just buy a mount for that remote and bam - 3 switch that cost me $70 instead of a multiple hundred dollar wiring job.

Oshkosh would probably win a large amount of the original contract price without even having to produce. So it’s a corporate handout at our expense.

Is that an Animal Farm quote?

Oh good. I’m glad we can just let 3M give microplastics to children in Indonesia once we all decide to quit our pack a day habit. Plus it’ll be nice to not be asked by the hostess if we want to sit in the microplastics or non-microplastics section of the restaurant anymore.