There’s an opportunity there to invent a homoerotic subplot and use it in a sequel to The Producers.

Springtime For Hitler II: Winter Is Coming

I think it’s closer to learning binary and Boolean logic as the precursor to programming, learning about transistor circuitry as the precursor to that, and learning more fundamental electronic circuitry as the precursor to that.

We use assembly where it’s appropriate, people build digital circuitry where it’s appropriate, people still build more basic/fundamental circuits where it’s appropriate. Learning the etymology of words is interesting and an important part of history and anthropology, as it helps us piece together how people in the past interacted. Again, I agree that it’s kinda weird to make a competition out of spelling. All I’m trying to say is that one of the side effects of spelling bees is that more people learn about the etymology and history of words, which is neat.

Eh, I feel like it teaches etymology, which I think is interesting. It’s cool to know how many loan words we have from other languages, and how other languages shaped our own. It’s kinda weird to turn that knowledge into a competition I suppose, but it’s far from the weirdest thing on ESPN8

Yeah if your vacuum does enough for you with its Internet access restricted, then there’s probably no good reason to install valetudo. I chose to install it on mine because 1. paranoia, 2. I don’t have a good firewall solution set up yet, and 3. a lot of features on my vacuum are disabled if it can’t phone home, but valetudo re-enables those features.

I literally just installed this last weekend, so the docs are still pretty fresh in my mind. I still recommend you go read through that site to get the full picture and make your own informed decision, but here’s my tl:dr.

Valetudo, first and foremost, is intended to enable select models of vacuum robots to operate cloud-free. It’s not intended (nor is it feasible) to offer feature-parity with the manufacturers’ firmware/apps/cloud services. But in my limited experience, the only feature my robot is missing after installing valetudo is the ability to live-stream video from the onboard camera, which isn’t a big deal at all for me (and is something that the dev specifically won’t support). Everything else works flawlessly so far. It also allows you to configure just about anything the robot supports configurability for, like pathing algorithm adjustments, obstacle avoidance sensitivity adjustments, and a whole host of other things. I’m not sure if the manufacturer’s app even allows that level of configurability (because I never installed it), but I definitely feel like I have full control over my robot, and it functions flawlessly at performing its job of keeping my floors clean.

I think the biggest thing to be aware of is the rooting/installation process may require some soldering (not of the robot, just some through-hole soldering on a separate breakout board to make connecting to the robot’s debug port more foolproof), and requires comfortability in a Linux terminal. If those things aren’t in your wheelhouse, I’d say this project probably isn’t for you.

If you have a robot vacuum, and the robot vacuum makes a persistent map (as opposed to the older “dumber” models that just bounce around randomly), they all send that map back to some remote server. In fact, most of those robots won’t even enable the mapping feature unless they’re connected to the Internet (which is absolute bullshit considering most of those robots generate, process, and store that map locally, so there’s literally no reason to send it off somewhere).

So your options are to just use the robot without ever connecting it to the Internet and be happy with the reduced featureset, root the robot and install Valetudo on it, or just vacuum manually. But until manufacturers are forced to let us actually own the smart devices they sell is, under no circumstances should you ever let one touch the Internet.

When talking about supplements, grams of protein in relation to grams of food is irrelevant.

There is a very large contingent of people who believe animal protein is superior to plant protein in every way, shape, or form. So this result isn’t obvious to them.

I feel like we’d see a lot more progress if these types of comments were higher up in the chain, instead of buried at the end of a conversation. I see a lot of ridiculing people for not knowing this stuff, a la: https://xkcd.com/1053/

I understand it’s the ignorant masses’ responsibilities to educate themselves. But like, we could all stand to make it easier on one another instead of jumping down each other’s throats all the time.

Also this isn’t directed at you in particular, just in general. I just liked your response, and I wish more people would give answers like this.

Containers are nice, but don’t really cover things like firewalls, network configuration, identity management, and a whole host of other things, the configuration of which varies between providers.

There will come a time when your AI girlfriend’s context window fills up and its responses become increasingly unhinged and nonsensical. The average person doesn’t know to expect that though, so it probably is pretty harmful when someone’s emotional support robot suddenly goes insane

Do you think there’s zero risk of shots being fired if a bunch of police show up on a Marine base and start slapping cuffs on soldiers?

1. Cops don’t stand much of a chance against actual US Marines.
2. Most cops are probably all for this show of force, it’s kinda right up the pigs’ alley. So I doubt they’d be super enthusiastic about arresting those Marines, especially in a circumstance where it’s not super clear what law they’ve broken (I doubt most cops know anything about military law or laws governing the military, since they likely haven’t taken any civics classes since flunking out of high school).
3. Heaven forbid cops go in there, things get violent, and Trump uses that as an excuse to retaliate or invoke the Insurrection Act. He’s already on a hair trigger, something like that would almost certainly send him and his base over the edge.
4. They did take action to keep their citizens safe, by closing down the roads near the base and diverting traffic away from potential danger.

Look, I’d love nothing more than for a bunch of bad ass good guys to go in there and slap cuffs on anyone involved in this little “celebration”. Unfortunately we live in reality and not an MCU movie though, so they had to do the next best thing.

Uooueggh

lmao what the fuck does this word sound like?

Darn

“It’s all just ideological masturbation, and boy is my right arm tired”

So what do you want Newsome do to? Send California police officers to storm a Marine base?

You know what, you’re right.

You know what has an even better safety track record than a car with FSD supervised by a human?

Trains.

If your concern is actually safety, advocate for the safest methods of transportation - mass public transit, coupled with pedestrian- and bicycle-safe roads, and advocate against passenger cars, in any form.

I feel like AirBnBs just aren’t for single travelers though. When you can rent a whole house that sleeps 4-8 people, that’s when you can get things closer to $100-200 a night (or less), on par with hotel pricing. A group of travelers can also take advantage of the extra common space to hang out in, something you can’t really do in a hotel. A single person probably doesn’t care about being able to play board games out in the open concept living room/kitchen area, but that’s a marketable feature for the group of 6 that are in town for a bachelorette party or whatever.

I for one got the sarcasm, I just though it was a pretty shit joke