Sure, he’s not Sam Bankman Fried. That said he headed the SEC during a deregulatory period that finished with the 2007-8 crisis. And he advocates for capital markets deregulation today.

The collapse is the point. They hope the pain will trigger a regime change.

• Zigbee > WiFi
  • Zigbee is a mesh, it’s more reliable, it’s low power so it allows for battery powered devices
• Z-wave
  • Perhaps even more reliable than Zigbee due to using a different spectrum

Home Assistant can run Zigbee and Z-wave radios simultaneously. I have two. Then you can pick devices from a wider range of vendors and models. When considering smart plugs, keep in mind that most have relays rated for non-inductive loads. Motors are generally inductive loads. I’m not sure if computer power supplies with their big capacitors would cause similar problems or not. If you want to be able to plug anything without thinking, make sure the plug you buy says its rating is valid for inductive loads. I have some units from Zooz which qualify. My IKEA ones definitely do not. Philips don’t either but they’ve survived switching some ductwork fans for a few years.

This is an improvement, right?

Nope, you subscribe to communities like subreddits.

Subscribe to communities that you like, subscribe to similar communities from multiple instances. E.g. there’s News in more than one. Then set your feed to Subscribed and sort by How, Active or Scaled (perhaps best). When you want to see what’s going on elsewhere, switch your feed to All + Top, or All + Hot / Active. If you want to discover small communities you don’t know about - All + Scaled.

Do Black Mesa before that.

Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It’s everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who’ve never played HL to just do BM.

As a lifelong Half-Life fan, I really liked some of Frictional Games’ titles. I liked Penumbra a lot and I think Soma was an absolute masterpiece. It’s at a level similar to Half-Life for me. If you don’t know anything about it, don’t read, don’t watch. Install and play.

Greater Canada

No we get to become the 51st state.

There are differences between oil trade and less ubiquitous materials.

In a shared 2.5Gb scenario as you describe, would fully pegged upload/download be 1.25Gb each? Could it do 2.5Gb in both directions simultaneously? Assuming no compute bottlenecks.

Of course. But this one comes with WiFi onboard and a case with antennas if you go for the clothed option.

WiFi

It’s funny to think we can sanction China in any sort of way similar to Russia. We didn’t have almost anything say Made in Russia on it but fossil fuels and rocket engines when we sanctioned Russia. I’m supporting local production as much as I can and yet the vast majority of things I use in my daily life say Made in PRC. Those things need replacement and often no one is making them locally. Can we change that? Absolutely. Is it going to be fast enough to avoid a cataclysmic economic event that will trigger a reversal of sanctions, I don’t think so. I don’t think China is deterred by sanctions nearly as much as they are by the threat of armed conflict.

But yes, it’s likely much more productive to go the diplomatic/subversive/interfering route.

Agreed. Fuck 'em. I’d have been bothered if the system held accountable the horrible people that are about to come to power. At this point Hunter’s crimes look like a joke on this background.

Priceless.

Pulled whatever is available on Ollama by this name and it seems to just fit on a 3090. Takes 23GB VRAM.

So you’re telling me there’s a chance.

Bird flu, ready, set…

Does anyone have an idea how much RAM would this need?