Sigh… it’s just going to bounce off the lens/protective cover, take forever if it works at all, and draw a bunch of attention to yourself.

Whereas a cheap paintball gun is faster, safer, probably cheaper, verifiable, and more fun.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the creativity, passion and potential stealth… assuming you use a scope the way yabbos did years ago when they were pointing them at aircraft… but a 1+ watt laser is fairly dangerous and not easy to aim from a distance, so maybe use a tripod if you’re really hellbent on doing it this way.

Also, laser safety glasses.

In closing, a quote from one of my favorite movies “You’ll put your eye out kid!”

Dude probably just brought more attention to the website 😝

How so? Is the hardware that special? One computer is much like the next you just have to be creative in repurposing them. Linux runs on millions of devices that a great deal of the population would consider highly obsolete. Just an example, I’m not saying that that’s the actual answer to this question. It might be, I’m just kind of completely ignorant as to what kind of hardware these companies are installing… It sounds like a lot of memory and a lot of GPU power.

I think you explained it well… My father got let go from GE when their nuclear power plant business collapsed.

I call us a nuclear family as a bit of dry humor. That said I still hold out some hope for it as a viable means of energy production. The two key meltdowns that took it off the game board were preventable human error.

Chernobyl is an environmental nightmare… but largely caused by combination of ignorance and hubris. Three Mile Island could have gone much worse… nobody died, no significant contamination. More recently Fukushima… but again, had the backup generators been properly elevated above historical flood levels it would not have been a meltdown.

Solar has some environmental concerns that are currently being largely ignored. The panels currently used some nasty stuff that stays hidden in china where the bulk of them are produced… but there are advances in new panel chemistry on a regular basis, hopefully a few of those will scale.

Hydro can be done well, it generally isn’t, but there’s some notable exceptions, Niagara Falls comes to mind.

But ultimately all that would be a complete waste on Ai… I don’t think the reliability will ever quite get there. It has its applications, always has… but general intelligence isn’t really one of them, IMHO. That said I know scores of people that are not even 92% accurate, so who knows? ;-) I certainly wouldn’t mind a robot slave to do my chores… but Ai isn’t really the issue there. You don’t need a “thinking machine” to do laundry and vacuum. Thought I suppose you didn’t need an Android either…

Robot vacuums seem to work quite well, and once someone makes an affordable automatic washing machine capable of being loaded with a hopper and spitting nicely folded clothes out the other end you don’t need an anthropomorphic robot. The value there is only in adapting to a world of appliances built for bipeds.

But as humans (in the royal sense) we do a lot of dumb things that could more easily be handled with a phone call/email/video chat.

Basing anything on a finite resource like natural gas is ultimately the wrong idea… Hopefully, we perfect something better, I really don’t care what it is as long as it’s better :-)

There’s probably going to be a large data center or 10 for sale in a few years 🤞🏻

Nice! 😊

Oh, I think this was just TSA going “Wires and switches, OH MY!”

I had packed all this stuff up days ago… IIRC they were the little Parallax Beatles too, so we’re not talking about something crazy with saw blades and all that jazz… just two little 8x8x8 robots that looked like a Barbie Steam Roller with a cute little breadboard on to.

What’s odd is it’s only at PDX, which kinda indicates that they have their own list of suspected Mad Bombers “What bombs at midnight, baby!”

I have not flown through there for years, but literally every Christmas for 4 years, and then like 8 years later!

The swab always turns purple/pink… and they always run it through some kind of chemical analyzer… not sure exactly what it is, but ancient enough to have an amber phosphorus CRT built into the front. It always shows the same 2 peeks… sadly it’s to far away to actually read the scale at the bottom of the graph.

Probably whatever is on the “human detector,” I’m assuming alcohol by the smell… and something that turns purple. Total smoke show 🤣

“The whole thing is tailor-made for the AfD,” he said, according to Correctiv. The investigative platform dug into Alternita’s source code and found that, at its heart, the AfD software suite draws on Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic Claude – three leading AI engines.

Did you vibe code this turd in one afternoon?

Neiiiiiiiiiiiine!

Just don’t travel without putting it in checked baggage… that’s just TSA bate. I traveled with a pair of battlebot kits once and they still swab my wrists every time I go through PDX 🤓

That’s it gents! Wax up those mustaches, load the cannon with grape, storm the White House! We’ll give those bastards a day of reckoning that won’t soon be forgot.

Also kilts and face paint 🤣

🤣 Man… that phone from The Saint with the slide out full sized keyboard though. Peek Nokia.

Right. It wasn’t the zune guy, limited adoption, Microserfs killing the platform after 7 years or a general lack of interest, a climate of distrust after 10 years of garbage operating systems with new logos and the same Windows NT internals…

Rejoice. As an Android owner, you have options of And-nodroid 😉

Hence the proliferation of spam… It cost nearly nothing to do and has a very limited chance of return… And yet my inbox has still got 10,000 messages in it which I do nothing about.

I’m highly active at a molecular level doesn’t mean I’m getting shit done 😊

This feels like the last stop for this. I swear it got posted 3X a day to every other sub for weeks last year.

Am I ignoring the actual post and just looking at the logo because I own a 7 year old iPhone —also yes.

So they could sell you something else, duh…

P.S. They probably wanted to add the IP to their portfolio.

This baby’s built for deep penetration, not speed!

Yeah… I think the salute emoji might be Apple specific… I was trying for a respectful goodbye and a war metaphor seems appropriate given its name.

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