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Integrated car seats were popular in some minivans and SUVs a number of years ago. Then they fell out of favor. I think it was because safety standards changed faster than the vehi…

There is a dual ladder setup. Where you can have Administrator, Systems Engineer, Sr. Systems Engineer, Lead, Architect, Sr Architect, etc. These will have parallel tracks to equiv…

Couldn't a stroke of a pen (executive order) specify that US markets must be saturated prior to exporting?

Don't forget that you are having the cloud hosted services generate and send executable code to a device inside your corporate firewall. I can see all kinds of potential issues cor…

The biggest issue with a Linux tablet, is you don't have a lot of tablet apps for Linux. Desktop apps don't translate to tablet usage that well. I found that out when I was using a…

"Create a single page web app scientific RPN calculator" Qwen 3.5 122b/a10b (at q3 using unsloth's dynamic quant) is so far the first model I've tried locally that gets a really us…

Except that no one has been preaching at you for your entire academic life that you MUST drive a car into someone's house at 18 in order to be able to get more than a minimum wage …

My problem with stock photos is that unless it is clearly a stock image, it can mislead. For example, when looking up information on the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installe…

Honest question. For the purpose of adding a throw-away visual to help set the tone of an article, is there really any difference between shitty AI slop vs shitty Photoshop slop? E…

> Property taxes are usually % of value, so dependent on absolute value changes, not changes relative to the rest of the community. I may be completely wrong, but this is what I've…

Also current homeowners don't care about house prices, since they are locked into fixed mortgage payments - other than how it affects insurance and property taxes. And taxes are ma…

If the motor is geared it could make a difference. For comparison, most people put out about 100 watts with their legs, but need to downshift to go up hills. This looks like a mid …

What I'd like is for the AI to interview me for what my personal preferences are, and for what policy areas I feel comfortable enough with even if they aren't my personal preferenc…

How many pixels can be defective on a display before you want to return it?

Especially when it was caught early on, and was one of the few variations of a horrible cancer type that could have been successfully treated at that stage, but that treatment plan…

A one time pad would be unreasonable. Edit: Unless the one time pad is a well known relative document, such as the Declaration of Independence.

I had the double whammy of property taxes AND insurance increases on my last house. Budget was a bit tight, but that almost sent me over the edge. I learned my lesson on my next ho…

I take a hybrid approach. I will describe a simplified problem to the LLM, have it generate a well commented and reasonable approach for the problem. I then use that as a cheat she…

They also tell you if a product has a high return rate, which is helpful.

Wouldn't the interstate commerce clause automatically override any state level regulations on AI, except in cases where a company and its customers are all in-state?

The courts have ruled in several cases that a work someone created was too close to another work and therefor infringing. If you are looking at someone's painting or photograph, an…

And,even if customers are slower, having 20 self checkout kiosks is still faster than 3 cashiers. My biggest gripe with self checkout is if I make a mistake, they call it theft. I …

I was going by the number of memory channels the CPU spec says it supports (12). But apparently I was wrong, as that gets bottlenecked by the number of CCDs on the chip. In which c…

You can also get an Epyc 9115 for $800, motherboard for $640, and 12 16-GiB ddr5-6400 dims for $1400, that gives you 614.4 GiB/sec, for around $2800. You may also want to add in a …