bloup

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[–] bloup 20 points 1 week ago

I do, but I doubt he’ll actually do it

[–] bloup 3 points 1 week ago

I would not, if the “someone” was Gucci itself, and the materials were only different in how they were made.

This is literally an official commodore product. There are original Commodore engineers involved with this latest iteration of the business. And when they put a 6510 core on the FPGA, that fpga has in a very physical sense become a bona fide 6510.

[–] bloup 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I guess I just don’t understand what it having an AMD chip has to do with anything. I just assumed you thought it was being emulated, my bad if it’s not the case.

[–] bloup 1 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You know that an AMD FPGA is not the same thing as an AMD CPU right?

[–] bloup 2 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It might not be a “first edition” but it’s definitely not a “knockoff”.

[–] bloup 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The archer stops arching and turns to you: "My brother told you to tell me haldo? He must want to start the old business up!"

[–] bloup 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It was more like the mafia realized that if they could take over the labor unions, they could use them to bully and extort money from unionized businesses by threatening labor actions like strikes. And they knew that unions would have a hard time turning down muscle, so they would make union leaders “an offer they couldn’t refuse”. Also the mafia was way more likely to torture a union boss who realized it was a deal with the devil than use violence against a wealthy business owner.

[–] bloup 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Social level opinion: While I hope it is successful in making cruelty free living more accessible, I hate what lab grown meat represents, and I hate the idea that human beings are so self-centered that the only way they would give up meat as if someone else made an exactly perfect replication of it. I also unfortunately do not think it’s going to succeed, because even today if you served somebody a bunch of different burgers made from different animal meats, and in there you also included a beyond burger, I doubt that person could identify which one was vegan, unless they are some kind of meat connoisseur. So why wouldn’t I expect people to just convince themselves that whatever imperfections are going to be in the lab grown meat are a dealbreaker?

Practical personal level opinion: I wouldn’t have a problem with lab grown burgers, hot dogs, and most sausages. To me these are basically just “processed protein tubes and patties”. And if that’s what the party was grilling then i won’t complain. But I also think that if I’m at the grocery store and that’s what I want to eat that week, I’m really just gonna care about the sustainability and the price to quality ratio more than anything. Now if it’s just a cut of meat on the other hand with gristle, connective tissue, a grain, that just skeeves me out. But I wouldn’t say it offends my morals or anything, just seems kind of grotesquely self-indulgent and offputting

[–] bloup 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Print on demand is more expensive because you’re paying a premium for never having to actually spend your own money. This is why these get rich quick types use it, because again literally anybody can do this with basically no money and all of the “expenses” only happen when people actually buy the stuff. Once that happens, the printer takes its cut directly from the sale and then passes on the rest to you without you having to do literally anything or spending any money out of your own pocket.

As for the quality, there’s literally no reason that a book that is printed on demand has to be low quality or use low quality materials. It quite literally only seems like that because the only people who are doing this right now are rich quick types who don’t actually care about what they’re selling and are just trying to minimize the cut the printer takes because that means more money for them.

And all of this is honestly moot anyway because you wouldn’t do this with the intention of using on-demand printing long-term. You would do it just to get started and then as the business grows, it will eventually be able to take advantage of more economical, but high capital investment opportunities like bulk publishing. I only brought it up because it’s literally never been easier to boot strap a business and the proof is the fact that Amazon is filled with AI generated garbage books. So like I’m just not willing to entertain the idea that an individual who literally has fans and clout should have a more difficult time selling books this way than a literal nobody scam artist pushing garbage.

[–] bloup 35 points 4 weeks ago (12 children)

With good integrated design, the LIDAR could be practically invisible. So weird to think the average person actually would care about the details of how something works, or maybe Elon Musk just literally cannot imagine a car that uses LIDAR without it having a big assembly on the roof.

[–] bloup 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

It means that today pretty much anybody can start a book publishing company, because just-in-time print shops will handle literally all of the expensive overhead that is associated with running a publishing company and just print whatever you hire them to print on demand for you once customers actually place orders, sometimes even on a commission basis so you don’t even have to pay them money unless people are actually buying the books you are publishing.

 

I would see this squirrel from time to time in my parents’ neighborhood about two years ago. I was always struck by its crimson tail. I remember being very young and all squirrels were just gray. When I started to get a little older, I noticed the odd black squirrel every now and then. By the time I was fully grown, black squirrels seemed to be just as common as gray ones. And now apparently there’s the odd squirrel with a red tail. Makes me wonder if in 30 years a child will have grown to notice the odd calico squirrel.

 

Musk says for-profit OpenAI harms public interest—and his own company, xAI.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/17556433

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