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NotJustANumber99: Feb 15, 2012; somehow that last av was even worse than your posting

Stadia works fine. shame theyre getting rid of it but I think they'll pay me for my controller and i get to keep it.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 22:49

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 11:49

Prism: Dec 22, 2007; yospos

slurm posted:

The snow tires thing basically requires you to have a dedicated winter car because there are very few places it instantly gets below 45F and stays there until spring and then you can't drive your car on the warm days/at low altitude where it might not have an instant hard freeze for months.

That's pretty much a normal winter here, but I also live in Canada, not the States. That's like, what, 7 C? I'm not going to see that until March. Maybe.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 22:54

UCS Hellmaker: Mar 29, 2008; Toilet Rascal

Uh the hell are you talking about. There's literally tons of places in the us that do, and in areas like the great lakes where lake effect exists snow tires can mean a huge difference.

The rest of the country is not the west coast for god sakes.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:01

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Yeah, I've not owned a car here in Upstate New York but I think the ones I've rented even in winter didn't have snow tires because the roads get plowed extensively when it snows.

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:02

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Mister Facetious posted:

I need a script that replaces every instance of "the cloud" with "someone else's computer"

this was a good reason to test out chatGPT

quote:

create a python function to input a string and replaces every instance of "the cloud" with "someone else's computer"

code:

def replace_cloud(s):
  return s.replace("the cloud", "someone else's computer")

code:

s = "I'm storing my files in the cloud"
replaced = replace_cloud(s)
print(replaced)  # prints "I'm storing my files in someone else's computer"

kinda cool

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:03

Mister Facetious: Apr 21, 2007; I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

this was a good reason to test out chatGPT

Speaking of:

https://twitter.com/samfbiddle/status/1600926097860087808?s=46&t=C40h-u3UTlSoavdkiRs-LQ

https://twitter.com/spiantado/status/1599462400583176192?s=46&t=uRshI8J06Xiq31BZ3Sl4pw

# ? Dec 8, 2022 23:49

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Mister Facetious posted:

Speaking of:

yeah, AI has a long way to go before bias isn't a crippling issue.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 00:35

slurm: Jul 28, 2022; by Hand Knit

UCS Hellmaker posted:

Uh the hell are you talking about. There's literally tons of places in the us that do, and in areas like the great lakes where lake effect exists snow tires can mean a huge difference.

The rest of the country is not the west coast for god sakes.

When I lived in northern lower Michigan right on the lake you could really only guarantee highs under 45 for 3 months a year, but there was snow for like 6+ months a year. This isn't the West Coast. If I could've afforded to own and store a second winter beater car I would've put snow tires on it but that wasn't realistic for me.

slurm fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Dec 9, 2022

# ? Dec 9, 2022 00:41

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

You don�t have to have absolute perfect alignment between the tires that you�re using and the conditions. Driving over snow on all‐season tires once or twice on either side of winter due to unseasonable snowfall is better driving like that every day for months.

It�s likewise fine if your snow tires contact warm pavement on occasion, you just don�t want to be driving on them for months in the baking summer heat.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 03:01

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1601038512219770880

Look out Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are peeping your DMs.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 05:20

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1601038512219770880

Look out Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are peeping your DMs.

She's sliding into your DMs, I'm reading your DMs because the manchild who bought the platform is desperate to court chuds, we are not the same.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 05:25

His Divine Shadow: Aug 7, 2000; I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Platystemon posted:

You don�t have to have absolute perfect alignment between the tires that you�re using and the conditions. Driving over snow on all‐season tires once or twice on either side of winter due to unseasonable snowfall is better driving like that every day for months.

It�s likewise fine if your snow tires contact warm pavement on occasion, you just don�t want to be driving on them for months in the baking summer heat.

Precisely, there's something just so very goony about the fact that someone sat and thought about this and came to the conclusion you need a 2nd winter car...

# ? Dec 9, 2022 05:26

Heck Yes! Loam!: Nov 15, 2004; a rich, friable soil containing a relatively equal mixture of sand and silt and a somewhat smaller proportion of clay.

Hilarious

The current head of trust and safety at Twitter likely allowed another person to access her account and take screenshots, or took them on a guided tour.

https://twitter.com/44/status/1601036283371192321

https://twitter.com/spdustin/status/1601054300356358149

This will surely go well.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 05:43

Zachack: Jun 1, 2000

Evil Fluffy posted:

If you have a remote starter your key fob should still let you remote start even without onstar, SiriusXM, or whatever other freebie service you had.

Well now I know what the �fast forward 30 seconds� button does.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 07:16

Antigravitas: Dec 8, 2019; Die Rettung fuer die Landwirte:

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

yeah, AI has a long way to go before bias isn't a crippling issue.

The bias is the point. You put all the bias in a black box that you can say is infallible, and you push it everywhere you want to obscure biased decision making, i.e. policing.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 09:13

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Evil Fluffy posted:

If you have a remote starter your key fob should still let you remote start even without onstar, SiriusXM, or whatever other freebie service you had.

I have an older car with no remote start, so on really hot days I start it with the regular key, then use the spare key to lock the door back up and leave it for a few minutes.

The fob won't lock the doors when the key's in the ignition which is a well thought-out feature.

Of course, I also park in my driveway in a decent enough area, so car theft isn't a big worry.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 13:51

Ruffian Price: Sep 17, 2016

Heck Yes! Loam! posted:

yeah, AI has a long way to go before bias isn't a crippling issue.

As datasets get larger and harder to manually edit (honestly, it's already impossible), the models will only get more biased with time. All OpenAI can do is limit your ability to prompt, like we've seen with DALL-E randomly injecting "black female" to pretend they did the expensive work of editing the dataset

# ? Dec 9, 2022 16:25

Agents are GO!: Dec 29, 2004

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Of course, I also park in my driveway in a decent enough area, so car theft isn't a big worry.

I park in a big bed with your wife.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 17:09

Leon Trotsky 2012: Aug 27, 2009; YOU CAN TRUST ME!*

_{*Israeli Government-affiliated poster}

Elon is taking the next logical step in securing his business by... beefing with Elton John?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601262438967435266

# ? Dec 9, 2022 18:27

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Elon is taking the next logical step in securing his business by... beefing with Elton John?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601262438967435266

"Now riddle me this, Boer Wonder!" Aw gee, will the Cape's crusader ever figure it out?? Stay tuned!

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:05

Elias_Maluco: Aug 23, 2007; I need to sleep

https://twitter.com/ShayTheAries/status/1601230312104546304

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:25

ninjahedgehog: Feb 17, 2011; It's time to kick the tires and light the fires, Big Bird.

Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

Elon is taking the next logical step in securing his business by... beefing with Elton John?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601262438967435266

There can only be one EL_ON

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:31

Leon Trotsky 2012: Aug 27, 2009; YOU CAN TRUST ME!*

_{*Israeli Government-affiliated poster}

Elias_Maluco posted:

https://twitter.com/ShayTheAries/status/1601230312104546304

Should have gotten a cybertruck instead.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:32

PhazonLink: Jul 17, 2010

Elon hates Elton's because they* have a cooler sounding name. also mad jealousy that a mere musician has done more for culture and human civ than himself.

*i assume they, the ONE music guy is the only one coming up in my pre coffee mind, but that does mean there's no bad Elton's that are notable??

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:33

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

PhazonLink posted:

Elon hates Elton's because they* have a cooler sounding name. also mad jealousy that a mere musician has done more for culture and human civ than himself.

*i assume they, the ONE music guy is the only one coming up in my pre coffee mind, but that does mean there's no bad Elton's that are notable??

Sorry, he's named after Elton Vauxhall, a British industrialist that founded a car factory and then purchased Daily Mail, a liberal paper at the time, to ensure freedom of speech.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:37

Vegetable: Oct 22, 2010

Elias_Maluco posted:

https://twitter.com/ShayTheAries/status/1601230312104546304

I�m cynical enough to think that someone intentionally incited or prompted to do this for the likes. Dog�s mouth looks all hosed up now.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 19:48

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Good dog.

But yeah that feels like what happens after you antagonize the poo poo out of a dog, rather than it being a random occurrence. Dogs don't just go around eating cars. And it's well within my stereotypes to assume a Tesla owner would also be lovely to animals.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:26

Elias_Maluco: Aug 23, 2007; I need to sleep

feedmyleg posted:

Good dog.

But yeah that feels like what happens after you antagonize the poo poo out of a dog, rather than it being a random occurrence. Dogs don't just go around eating cars. And it's well within my stereotypes to assume a Tesla owner would also be lovely to animals.

I had a boxer who ate my mother's car tire once

# ? Dec 9, 2022 20:35

Main Paineframe: Oct 27, 2010

feedmyleg posted:

Good dog.

But yeah that feels like what happens after you antagonize the poo poo out of a dog, rather than it being a random occurrence. Dogs don't just go around eating cars. And it's well within my stereotypes to assume a Tesla owner would also be lovely to animals.

The whole thing was probably done on purpose. I'm no zoomer, but doing staged videos for TikTok seems to be a thing.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 21:35

Motronic: Nov 6, 2009

Main Paineframe posted:

The whole thing was probably done on purpose. I'm no zoomer, but doing staged videos for TikTok seems to be a thing.

Of course it was. If it wasn't why did they open the window? Why did they not drive away?

# ? Dec 9, 2022 21:40

Kwyndig: Sep 23, 2006; Heeeeeey

So apparently that's what a dog will do when he's chasing cars if he catches one.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 21:42

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

Kwyndig posted:

So apparently that's what a dog will do when he's chasing cars if he catches one.

It's in their genes. They think they are direwolves and the car is a mammoth.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 21:45

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

ninjahedgehog posted:

There can only be one EL_ON

My phone keeps autocorrecting Elon to Elton, and I doubt it's the only one, so maybe Elton is getting fed up of tweets calling him a dick/piece of poo poo/fascist/fraud/Emerald Boy/etc.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 22:43

Person Dyslexic: Jul 23, 2007

feedmyleg posted:

Good dog.

But yeah that feels like what happens after you antagonize the poo poo out of a dog, rather than it being a random occurrence. Dogs don't just go around eating cars. And it's well within my stereotypes to assume a Tesla owner would also be lovely to animals.

Dog looks super happy and really not mad at all; probably thinks it is a game. Our pit has the same look when he steals our socks and is busily shredding them to pieces. Also I don�t doubt a pup could chew that thing to pieces� ours breaks through 4 inch pieces of wood in about 3 minutes.

# ? Dec 9, 2022 23:40

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

Nenonen posted:

"Now riddle me this, Boer Wonder!" Aw gee, will the Cape's crusader ever figure it out?? Stay tuned!

# ? Dec 10, 2022 00:26

Quorum: Sep 24, 2014; REMIND ME AGAIN HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE?

Person Dyslexic posted:

Dog looks super happy and really not mad at all; probably thinks it is a game. Our pit has the same look when he steals our socks and is busily shredding them to pieces. Also I don’t doubt a pup could chew that thing to pieces… ours breaks through 4 inch pieces of wood in about 3 minutes.

Am pit mix owner, can confirm. That good doggo is having an enormous amount of fun. Even if the video itself wasn't staged, the attention they got from every human in the vicinity for playing the Eat A Tesla game plus the sheer joy of destroying something would be enough reason to keep going.

# ? Dec 10, 2022 00:29

duz: Jul 11, 2005; Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost

Kwyndig posted:

So apparently that's what a dog will do when he's chasing cars if he catches one.

# ? Dec 10, 2022 00:55

Absurd Alhazred: Mar 27, 2010; by Athanatos

duz posted:

another day volunteering at the tesla factory.

# ? Dec 10, 2022 01:10

Cicero: Dec 17, 2003; Jumpjet, melta, jumpjet. Repeat for ten minutes or until victory is assured.

duz posted:

Lmao

# ? Dec 10, 2022 02:06

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# ? Jun 3, 2024 11:49

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duz posted:

Larson claims that he genuinely didn't intend to make it look like the dog was humping the car and was surprised by the blowback. The dog is merely shaking the car with its howls of triumph!

# ? Dec 10, 2022 10:11

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