Helion is my bet to first acheive commercial fusion, as the plasma containment is not as dependent on rare materials as the heat exchange medium for high energy neutrons. That being said…the image is a tokamak, like Commonwealth fusion uses. The fusion nerd in me is mad at this article.

I mean specifically Bad Empanada is regularly too crazy for even the people that he agrees with, he is a serial harasser and general scorched earth nuisance. I don’t think any consequences he endures are because he was anti-israel.

Can you expand on that, I’ve been considering making a “portable network in a briefcase” situation, with a small router and a kodi box with just HDMI, Power, and Network coming out (for when the family travels; the kids connect to the same SSID and are on the home network by default). I hadn’t started researching yet, but I am wondering if these support using Wifi as the WAN link, even with openWRT firmware? For example, if we’re in a hotel, can I join this to hotel wifi with a captive portal, have it tunnel home, then the kids join it like a hotspot? I prefer openWRT and not vendor firmware because I trust patching the firmware more than I trust a vendor to upkeep their maintenance.

I’m looking at this: https://www.amazon.com/GL-iNet-GL-MT3600BE-Portable-Wireless-Computer/dp/B0GF1J99S4

Is this botted? Near identical quotes from multiple instances.

And children wouldn’t be locked in cages, and random people wouldn’t be sent to random countries, and probably the transfer of wealth to billionaires would have been slowed to the point it would have been possible to stop it. Epstein would have probably been investigated, and the child victims would have had an opportunity for justice. The people of Cuba’s life would probably be improved and we would probably be making strides on international climate pacts. We wouldn’t have accepted a foreign airbase in the Midwest, and the people of Ukraine would have had enough support to actually be doing more pushback against Russia.

Less bad is better than perfect and it is a position of privilege to be able to minimize how much better Harris would have been.

So this is actively in progress, and right now I’m having trouble getting my tesla P4’s working in my proxmox environment. The P4 is supported for vgpu out of the box, allegedly, but the installer I used is forcing a kernel version pin which isn’t making me happy:

https://github.com/anomixer/proxmox-vgpu-installer/issues/16

So at this time, I’m just connecting API’s.

I also try to participate in some of the farms, running zimit and mwoffliner to help make more archives. Feels like I’m helping.

His policy on this sucks, but if he’s the nominee, the effort is better spent trying to move his positions than poisoning him so we dive straight into a losing strategy in a 2-party system. I hate the game, but that doesn’t mean backing a third party and convincing apathetic voters to stay home if he is the nominee would benefit vulnerable people. Rallying against Harris because she wasn’t strong enough on Gaza explicitly harmed the people of Gaza. We need to learn from the lesson soaked in their blood.

Yes, and I actually use it to train a local llm so I’m not hammering the internet. I have a ton of storage, and like to keep my kids in the sandbox, so we have wikipedia, project gutenberg, kahn academy, and a bunch of others all hosted behind an apache reverse proxy which is using mellon so there’s LDAP auth.

That makes sense, and we definitely jumped in headfirst with not enough research. Given what we’re learning, I am going to have to replace the shifters, or the casette + derailleun, and the latter is probably better as a different derailleur will be more compatible with 3 gears in the front.

This is where my research is failing, is there a reasonably priced recommended casette/derailleur I should look for? I don’t know brands at all.

Hmm ok, the idea here is this is a “forever” project so I’m less worried about its utility for a kid and more want it to be something he is proud of as he grows up, and we own 10 acres up in the mountains where a mountain bike that can go the full range will get used. If we keep the casette and derailleur, how big of an issue do you think it will be if we don’t swap the front gear? It seems the we are potentially talking a new derailleur and casette if we want it to stay 3x8.

It seems the better option is to swap the derailleur, or would that mean I need to swap the casette too?

I definitely thought a lot of this was more universal, but that is ok as it is a learning journey. Is this what you mean with a Shimano mountain bike derailleur? I don’t see a pull ratio listed but google said 1.7 is their standard https://www.amazon.com/Shimano-ACERA-DERAIL-8-SPEED-Black/dp/B0BGFBSYQ3?sbo=RZvfv%2F%2FHxDF%2BO5021pAnSA%3D%3D

We watched the whole video from Park Tool on the rear adjustment, and I know the set screws are set correctly. I did not see an explicit compatibility except that they are both microshift acolyte andy came up and his frequently bought together ad.

Yes, we can manually pull on the cable and get to last gears. I was thinking that the shifter maybe wasn’t compatible, but nothing in the Amazon listings made me think it would be a problem. When we bought the second set, I was even looking for things like a distance in mm.

I have not replaced that part yet. I will have one here in two days. Thank you for the recommendation.

It is wild that this season of The Boys was filmed months before this.

What do you suggest? I take pretty extreme “voting with your dollars” positions that have excluded me from a ton of social and family things. I have protested, taken days off work, marched, signed petitions. I’ve donated to progressive politicians, I’ve talked about what’s going on to apathetic people to the point where they don’t talk to me much anymore or ask to stop talking politics. Everything I’ve voted for has pretty much passed, and my representatives do the right things for the most part. I actively participate in a local network of people connecting resources to protect immigrants by hosting some services on my self-hosted network for people to organize on (I have personally sponsored meshtastic communicators and provided access to an anti-ice private channel).

I’m pretty tired of doing what feels like a huge amount of effort, only to be told I should be doing something different or more. I fought so hard against the right, that the flanking snark attacks from the left and the implication that I’m somehow complicit by not doing enough or the right thing are driving me towards apathy. I’m fucking exhausted.

Even the local traffic cops have enough firepower to take down a village; the farce of a 2nd amendment does nothing against real tyranny, it’s just for meatheads to injure themselves or their loved ones and oppress minorities when they get scared. I’m in California; all my votes go blue and are meaningless on the national scale. No amount of standing in front of buildings or blocking roads will make a dent in the capitol overlords that own the levers of accountability.

Devil’s advocate…this is one of the few good opportunities for ML. If you train a model on a specific dataset with expert validation, this has the opportunity to save lives.

First, radiology isn’t one thing; different radiologists with different expertise looking at the same imaging can see different things. Second, there are not enough radiologists; my wife is an ER doctor who only does overnights and her hospital network has a central radiology center that reviews all films from all the hospitals, and it’s always backlogged and waiting on results impacts outcomes in a real way. Third, there are simply human limits to what we can visually perceive, take a look at this study: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3964612/

Radiological ML models could change healthcare. Imagine a world where part of your annual preventative care you go and get a full body CT. The ML model can compare your CT with references in your demographics AND your prior years, and find changes/issues before they’re crises. That’s simply not an amount of data analysis that could be done by an army of radiologists, and has the opportunity to spot things like tumors or organ swelling way earlier. I get that the late stage capitalism reality is “they’ll use the data to farm money out of you” but from an actual technological standpoint, this could have real life-saving and improving implications for a lot of people and removes a huge bottleneck in healthcare.

FYI, the kiwix foundation makes offline versions of wikimedia resources (though at pretty wide intervals, depending on the site, annually) which you can download via torrent and browse with a ZIM viewer. I use this as an offline resource on my home LAN, and have used other kiwix downloaded resources to train a local LLM without spamming the real internet: https://library.kiwix.org/