Tar_Alcaran

I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It’s even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it’s removable. It’s kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that’s also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

“AI”, referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

Yeah ok, if you want good shoes, it gets expensive fast.

But if you know where to find cheap larp gear, please let me know.

Cheap? Mytholon. Cheap and good? Sorry, not really. I mean, Mytholon has great fabrics, but they’re not exactly sewn straight or neatly.

But a thousand bucks will get you there easily, depending on admission cost and food of course.

Edit: depending on what you want, Burgschneider is pretty great. Not super cheap, but definitely good and not crazy expensive

It’ll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It’ll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

1000 bucks will get you a pretty awesome larp outfit, as long as you’re not looking for plate armor.

I know both, but I still went with “Duke Nukem isn’t a game” as my first thought

I’m working on an 8 heddle (the things that make the string go up and down, it determines how complex your pattern can be), 80cm wide loom. They’re about 1200 euros to buy, and I really really want one.

It’s not really working well, tolerances are pretty tight, but I’m pretty motivated.

Best succesful project is probably an armor stand, handmade for husband’s larp armor. Not technically complex, but with a lot of cool hand carving

Well, when you’re used to privilege…

I’m a woman and the manliest thing I do is woodworking, the husband sews clothes (occasionally from fabrics I weave).

I also do bodybuilding, but that’s hardly masculine anymore, yay!

Even Cyberpunk 2077 ran perfectly on launch,

Liar.

Highvelocity scissors sounds like it would score mad karma on NCD.

More realistically, a fuckload of old-fashioned rapid fire lead will work better against them, since the drones can’t really dodge and weave well, and they’re less fast on account of a big spool of fiber.

It won’t happen while I’m alive. Current LLMs are basically parrots with a lot of experience, and will never get close to AGI. We’re no closer today than when a computer first passed the Turing test in the 60s.

That’s mostly because google search has turned to absolute shit. ChatGPT rarely returns anything useful either, unless you want the most absolutely mundane answers. Anything remotely niche or specific has a far too great chance of just being plain wrong.

LLMs are a way to turn hundreds of billions of dollars into mediocre slop content that nobody wants to pay for. Humans will generate mediocre slop content for a fraction of the cost.

There is no way LLMs of this kind will ever be remotely affordable, and I fully expect OpenAI to fold in a few years. Amazon and Microsoft are already bailing out on LLM, realizing they’ll never pay off.

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I pirated the DLC, it’s not really worth it

Oh yeah, drafting included a lot of sticky tape in the actual draft phase.

The US founding fathers were vehemently against a standing army, because it could be used for exactly this very thing: seizing control from cities and states. That’s why they only wanted militias.