You could list yourself as asexual (there might be a better term)

Romantic demisexual, possibly?

She obviously wants a relationship, therefore romantic (or close enough). Can't have PIV, but doesn't seem like she rules out other options, so maybe demisexual is a good way to express that in a character-limited environment like OLD apps.

1. Craft some nets from seaweed
2. Lease nets to other survivors in exchange for fish; obviously you can't both fix nets and fish at the same time!
3. Start smoking some of your fish using driftwood and hoard it
4. Start hiring other survivors to fix the nets for you and pay them in smoked fish, while continuing to lease the nets in exchange for fish; obviously you can't fish, fix nets and smoke fish all at the same time
5. Expand the smokehouse to include rooms, and start renting them in exchange for the tenants labor for smoking the fish; you obviously can't fish, fix nets, smoke fish and maintain a mixed-used building all at the same time
6. Begin collecting seashells until you effectively have a monopoly on them, mark them with your signature, and begin circulating them to "better facilitate transactions" among the survivors on the rock, and begin only paying your workers in seashells and accepting payment in those same seashells
7. Now that you own the nets, production centers, and housing, begin collecting taxes in seashells; obviously you can't fish, fix nets, smoke fish, and maintain property all on your own, you need to hire people to do that and pay them in seashells.

Congratulations, you're King of the Rock.

Come on Andre. This is Capitalism 101 shit.

To be fair to the bears for a moment, looking at Intel's historic stock price doesn't exactly boost their confidence either. Even when they were dominant, it's not like they were commanding the insane stock prices that most other semiconductor companies are today.

I think some people have lost their sense of scale for the tech market. Back when AMD was legitimately a trash tier stock, it was $1-2 a share and Intel was $30. When I bought AMD back then, I sold around $45 because my bet then was a "fuck it" one, I didn't think it would go literally parabolic over these last few years, and I had already made ~20x my initial (small) investment.

I don't think that will happen with Intel. I can see them going to $100-$120 over the course of a couple of years if their next generation of CPUs is a solid one in terms of capability, security (by eliminating speculative execution attack vectors by removing hyper threading), and price. But, still, if that happens, that is still a 3-4x return over a couple of years and it's hard to be dissatisfied with that for a standard long equity purchase.

I don't think it even looks nicer. Even on a 24" monitor, the UI is too spaced out. Shit like this is meant for mobile devices, so why is a GCODE slicer doing this?

"Reality can be whatever I want" - the design engineer

"The fuck it can" - the QA, Safety, and systems engineers

Actually, it may, if he's trying to monetize it to recoup its cost. Dumb way to get that money back, tho.

That actually could be a solid rom-com if you did it right. Like "50 First Dates" meets "Groundhog Day".

I will say, however, when it comes to manufacturing your design, that giving your drawing to a good technician to redline who can and will point out all the little things won't with the drawing, well that is worth more than the technician's weight in gold.

The engineer knows what all the gear ratios should be, and how to arrange them in the gearbox so that your input and output are where they need to be. But a tech can tell you when your method to actually assemble that gearbox won't work or is unnecessarily complicated.

Engineers know the math, specs, and reqs; techs know the tools and where your hands can and cannot actually fit.

I mean, I tied the prediction to a specific event. This next generation of CPUs from Intel are supposed to be a top-to-bottom redesign. Rumors are no more hyper threading, actually moving to a new process node (instead of their 10nm++++ process), and some whispers of a new, beefier iGPU thanks to their work on ARC and meant to enable on-device AI.

IF the rumors are true, and IF the price: performance is there, it will be a "Ryzen moment". Otherwise, more of the same from Intel.

Imo, they're just incompetent and unmotivated to do better. But potato / potato; outcome is the same.

Doesn't help that engineers are pushovers when it comes to demanding our compensation, either.

But if it works out for them? They're pretty much the only vertically integrated semiconductor company. It'll be a gravy train. Imo, their next generation of processors launching this fall will either be Intel's "Ryzen moment" or the point at which the mid-term bull thesis is disproven.

That's still probably going to depend heavily on your state's wire tapping laws.

Bro has a bigger sump than most people here even have for tanks. 👍

We were not the first to use slavery but we were among the first to put an end to it

Ehhhh.... We were "middle of the pack" if I remember my world history correctly. Most of the established European powers had already outlawed it by the time of our civil war, and this was the reason the Union was able to either get them to side with the Union or at least keep them from siding with the Confederacy: Lincoln emphasized the war was over the abolition of slavery and countries like the UK and France didn't want to get dragged into that kind of mess just so they could maintain their supply of cheap cotton imports during and potentially after the war.

Yeah, our ideal of "freedom for all" does generally lead us to eventually make the right choice (often after making a bunch of shitty ones, first). But we were hardly the among the first to outlaw slavery, and we happily practiced our own form of domestic appeasement in the run up to abolition (The 3/5th compromise, The Missouri Compromise, probably a few others I'm not thinking of right now)

Got news for you if you think Lockheed (or defense in general) is the only one that does that. I heard some wild shit when I did an internship at an MEP firm, and this was well before 2016, too.

I wonder if cutting it into smaller pieces and then wrapping them in something like cheese cloth or a stock bag might yield better results? Increasing the surface area should both allow it to absorb more salt with less potato, but also act as less of a cold spot in your pot (or at least for not as long).

I've seen those cards, and have also seen a lot of mixed reviews because they use seriously bargain basement SATA controller chips. Instead, I'm looking at something more like this:

https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-00TX-000E5?Item=9SIAN8JHSE1877

you don't have any excuse not to build that nasbaby today good sir

Well. Budget, for one. And Intel's new processor that is launching this fall is rumored to be a top-to-bottom clean sheet design, potentially with a new generation of iGPU (details are very light on the iGPU). If this is true, it makes sense to slow roll the build anyway, because Plex loves their Intel QuickSync iGPUs.

Also-also, HDR tone mapping transcodes are coming to Plex on Windows in the next ~2 versions (so, also around this fall)

So, for now, I have the case, I'll be getting the PSU and start working on the cables. Once we know more about the next generation of Intel processors, I'll buy the core components and get an OS installed (leaning heavily towards Windows and running Plex directly, so I can use their drive pool feature, Windows Defender, and Backblaze without having to trick it) and start checking out the hardware. Once I'm satisfied with Windows+Plex+Backblaze on the core system, I'll populate the storage drives into the chassis, pool then either with Window's own utility or use a third party RAID software, and transfer over my current library from my desktop.

I know this has me looking for alternatives. It's a tricky needle to thread: finding an OSS software package that is well designed, maintained, and easy to use, but it seems like the 2FA market might finally be getting there, since I'm finding a couple of potential candidates for OSS 2FA client.

Counter point, it used to be relatively easy to also exclude yourself from those books. Yeah, you still had to proactively opt-out and it probably took a little effort to make it happen. But it's not like the Internet where it's pretty impossible to remove your contact information once it leaks.

"The Americans have a plan."

A more accurate and funnier response line would have been "that's a first"

This movie was also written and filmed close to the peak of Russian progressive optimism: the Soviet Union fell just a few years prior, the various oligarchs of today had not yet solidified their hold on power, and the US itself was pretty popular with the average Russian (or at least their pop culture was). That scene was probably entirely to appeal a Russian audience

To be a little fair to these same people, the US has, like the 1st, 2nd, and 4th largest air forces in the world. In a scenario with an alien invasion gaining complete global air supremacy, you probably are hoping that the US in particular would figure out a way to at least contest that supremacy - because if the US can't do it with their combined air forces, someone like Britain or France sure as shit can't (simply on scale)

Yeah. I'm in the early stages of planning a new NAS/Plex server, and I've already accepted that I'll need to buy a SATA card in order to use all the hot swap drive bays in the case I've selected. They just don't make motherboards with too many SATA ports these days. 4-6 seems to be the new typical amount because they're directing all the PCIe lanes to NVMe ports.

Other time, industrial companies prefer the strongest parts possible, and cost comes second.

Do you have any brands you can offer as an example of one's preferred for industrial users?