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There's always the Death Star angle.

"The temple’s dimensions are based on the number 12 and a module of 7.5m."

12 / 7.5 = 1.6 ~= Golden ratio

Ha, yeah. Fortunately for him, Connery did James Bond first, then later did Zardoz and Highlander.

But there's a whole Zardoz episode!

That is very cool. Their kit is $3,000 and the unaffiliated kit is $2,350, so definitely a commitment.

Yes

Lol, right on! I grew up on a farm in an area where the economy centers around Ag. There used to be an annual fundraiser dinner in a nearby town (population 309) with various games for kids. One of the more popular games was to see who could hammer a nail into a board first. Good times.

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California Democrats would need to choose pragmatism over party and rapidly deploy nuclear power for desalination.

But states playing no-rules hardball with each other would end up being a gigantic fail for everyone.

Definitely red. But I think in northern and central california the whole blue city / red outside cities thing is kind of like the European Coal and Steel Community. So much shared infrastructure and interdependence, and water and electricity is not evenly distributed.

Yes, just a thought experiment. I grew up on a farm in Northern California (mostly rice and tomatoes), lived in the bay area for 20 years for college and working in tech, and now live in a red state. I tell people the same thing you do about blue cities and red everything else. It's bizarre how many people in red states and blue states don't know that (and don't want to believe it).

The site says "Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others." I'm using Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. When I try a second tab or one in Firefox and one in Chrome my computer's network connection locks up (pings stop). I have to close the tabs and then pings to google.com come back at 30 seconds and slowly come back to normal. It appears that http://playground.nostrcheck.me/relay is the problem.

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but (and I'm genuinely asking) what is your point here?

Southern California is vulnerable to that, but not Northern California. California is the largest food producer to the US, including about 1/3 of our fresh vegetables and 3/4 of fruits and nuts. The country wouldn't starve without California, but I sure wouldn't want to experience a situation where California stops exporting to red states.

I used diarization in https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI last night and once it downloads the model from HuggingFace it runs offline (it claims).

Check out https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI

I ran it last night using docker and it worked extremely well. You need a HuggingFace read-only API token for the Diarization. I found that the web UI ignored the token, but worked fine when I added it to docker compose as an environment variable.

You'll probably like Whisper Live and it's browser extensions: https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Start playing a YouTube video in the browser, select "start capture" in the extension, and it starts writing subtitles in white text on a black background below the video. When you stop capturing you can download the subtitles as a standard .srt file.

I grew up in a town that did not get broadband internet access until 2017. Before that people had little to no high-speed internet service other than the town library (and they would park or sit outside the library to use the wifi when it was closed). They would also use cell phone data plans.

I see what you're getting at, but that doesn't explain bandwidth deserts in parts of rural California. They might have local conservative representatives, but the state leadership is obviously not conservative.

In the past I had parakeets and lovebirds. I think the app is great, but my first (joking) reaction was "Now let's setup a control group by putting the tablet in selfie-mode to simulate a mirror".

I don't know the trick, but take a look at the "7". It looks like it's made from the vertical line in "4" and a portion of another number.

"This year we put a 12 on the box"

I look forward to watching my future grandchildren install a minecraft mod that dematerializes them and let's them play inside minecraft. Then I'll start ranting about Tron and they'll just shake their heads about Grandpa and how he still lives on the old Earth moon colony.

Exactly! I used to ski double black diamonds in the Sierra Nevada range wearing jeans, with gaiters to keep the snow out of my boots.

Yes, we also switched to TV only on weekends.

You can always ask the folks at Experts Exchange for guidance on naming things.

Yes, very handy even for non-smokers. We have a 2015 vehicle that we bought used that came with a cigarette lighter. I removed it and put it in the glove box.

Under "Key scenarios" they include "SETI@home output recorder". Ouch.

Agreed, it narrowly fits on RTX 4090. Yesterday I rented an RTX 4090 on vast.ai and setup Mistral-Nemo-2407. I got it to work, but just barely. I can run mistral-chat, get the prompt, and it will start generating a response to the prompt after 10 to 15 seconds. The second prompt always causes it to crash immediately from OOM error. At first I almost bought an RTX 4090 from Best Buy, but it was going to cost $2,000 after tax, so I'm glad that instead I only spent 40 cents.

In this case it was tracked to Russia.