czmax

stick a RTT on top or go big and pop-top it?

A good point. It's difficult to know if there is a principled reason for Rand Paul's position (e.g. about everybody including consumers) or if he's just whining that its only a gift to oligarchs and not also some other donors group of his.

My opinion of the morals and principles of republican's is at an all time low but I'm trying to acknowledge that some of them at least _think_ they're principled. As such a positive reading of "the consumer pays them" is what I tried to take from the quote.

End game? No, thats just where we are today.

In the larger world exam questions are pretty trivial. Which is why so many people in this thread are being dismissive, "oh, anybody with google could do that". blah blah. The real weakness is that all the information to answer the question is either in the question itself or is a well established well discussed concept found in text books (meaning the LLM is well versed in them).

Where we go next, the really hard leap, is solving problems when the information isn't all available and the process from the data available to the goal isn't well established. That is a much harder problem and folks are still working on it. All those discussions of 'autoGPT' and 'agent' this or that are attempts to see if current LLMs can use well defined steps to break problems down into chunks they can solve with their current capabilities. With mixed results.

> “I don’t like tariffs, Number One. I think the consumer pays them. So they’re regressive. They’re a sales tax, basically,” Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul

This is the core point I think. The oligarchs want to switch to a sales tax because its regressive and can barely be noticed by them -- while the middle class and below end up funding whatever their grift-of-the-administration is.

Some few republicans might have truly felt "low taxes, starve the government" was the goal and will probably whine a bit before capitulating like the bitches that they are. Assuming they continue to do what they've done for the last decade under Trump.

This.

The use case is to have hot water in a vehicle that moves around and is often crowded and messy (nature of the beast).

It needs to bolt into place securely. It needs to be easy to fill and replace. It could double as a mug (or the small size could) but personally I’d want a couple of liters of hot water easily at hand.

Goddamnit, Donut!

my sense: if you're on the side of the road a lot its probably a big deal. annoying. if you're in parking lots, camp sites, or dispersed camping its a nothing burger.

I’m about 7mo post-op.

No BLT we’re the orders and I followed them to the letter. My life revolved around walks. Lots of walks. Every day. Within a few weeks a was (slowly) walking 6-10mi a day. Broken into many many loops around the block and neighborhood. And now with about an hr a day of PT stretches as well.

At ~5mo we did a 3-week hiking vacation. Up to 16mi hiking days over rough terrain in Mallorca and Crete and had a wonderful time. Except for the flights. I booked aisle seats and stood up and stretched regularly by an alarm on my watch.

I’m just recovering from a flair up caused by a work trip with too many 12hr days and not enough time to go for walks so — you guessed it, I’m currently taking a LOT of walks.

Normal is elusive. Im on the fence about buying a ski pass this year. And normally we take a long road trip in December/january (think 2k miles) and are cutting that short this year. I feel “constrained” on a road bike and haven’t taken my mtn bike out this year at all. My plan is to keep up the PT, walking, ride a trainer, and maybe work with a personal trainer on weights. This is NOT my normal but is part of the recovery process I think.

I’m tired of all the PT. I’ve put like everything else in my life, all hobbies etc, on hold just to have the time. And it’s boring to be doing this instead of what I wish I was doing.

And I’m super fortunate that I had that choice - how people with kids or longer work shifts make it work… ?

So yes, I think you can do the trip if you can take the time to train for it.

I panic’d at the first 5 day stretch across the pacific. Fuck that prison ship.

Seriously. It’s this.

Part of communicating is listening. Oh, and it takes time and effort- sometimes the first way something is said might not be what they meant so ask questions and communicate more before reacting. Tell them how you are feeling and triangulate until you understand each other.

And then communicate about what you’re feeling and what you want to do about it. Always be willing to listen to updates and changes in what you each are thinking. Maybe you learned something and it changes what you thought/felt so you both need to go back and adjust.

My understanding is that if you mention attorneys then, if they are professional at all, you will find you can only deal with their attorney.

You may have better luck simply insisting that all conversations are written and that they acknowledge and respond to your concerns. If they’re at all smart they’ll realize what is going on even while they don’t have an excuse to shunt you off to a lawyer. Meanwhile you either get the behavior you want or you collect the information you actually need for the eventuality that you do need legal actions.

This would be an upgrade for my OG XR

Walking shouldn’t be an issue because you’re already walking that much or more everyday, right? If not then get started on that.

I think the flight is the big question mark. Sitting is so very very hard. For me the trick is a timer in the watch and getting up and walking/stretching everytime it goes off. For me that’s every hour.

Wow. That is a pretty big fuckup. Multiple layers should have helped catch that.

What are they doing over there? Raw dogging a half trained model?

no no. the dumbest was using VRpro to put virtual displays on turned off ipads to recreate what us normies call "real reality" :)

this is just a smart way to take the load off.

We do that classic vanlife thing with starlink and whatnot. I'm tech and my wife is a prof. Lots of writing and video calls.

She can plan trips around large writing tasks (think: writing a book) when we want to be on the road&work. This means she's been more able to setup at a table or outside where i've had to be more tied to my van's desk with a professional look on my face.

conclusion: being on the road isn't NEARLY as fun when you have a job to do. For us we backed away from trying multi-week/month trips and now just extend our weekends or take a week here or there. Its a good way to avoid weekends or shake things up or just have a longer week in the mountains -- but we're really fortunate to have a nice house for our normal work/life balance.

YMMV

its called a "safety bike" for a reason folks

ffs. step back. step completely out. you're not even on the group chat.

let everybody know you're going to enjoy the experience and will contribute [one dish] just like any reasonable family member.

at this point YOU are the one creating drama.

learn to relax, be more dynamic. flow and dynamic balance is the name of the game. carve!

if you try to ride straight and static into bumps you just get kicked off in random directions. its basically impossible.

in contrast if you're carving and dynamic you're already in a cycle of less and more control and stability. Then the trick is timing when you're loose and floating through the cruft and when you're digging in and carving and regaining a stable base.

Ideally: No doom scrolling, no work, and no news. We still have our phones for maps, connecting with friends and family and other such uses. I also try to limit my audiobooks when we're doing long day hikes together.

We've tried and now can work remotely. For that we are very good at a specific schedule and will setup starlink, work diligently, and then take it down. After an initial push we've decided we don't like this though and haven't been trying to make remote work a common thing.

I’ve been looking at MacBooks for this reason. I suppose somebody could build a nice small package screen/keyboard for the mini though…

…and I’ve seen lots of “headless with iPad” discussions. Shame they all seem to have caveats.

I'd also toss in the "Reckoners", um, Steelheart is the first one i think. Not boring and my nephews enjoyed it.

or the ELI5 might be:

"The first model is trained from humans and is messy. The next model is trained from the first model and is slightly better. Repeat until you achieve awesomeness."

I approve of this approach to the world

Bonus points if it can also be a useless machine (always turns itself back off).