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re: Bing AI image generator try outs

Posted by MadDogs on 10/21/23 at 6:08 pm
That is a yet to be resolved issue with all of this generative AI. Several court cases still get to be decided. It is why our company has not adopted several tools to this point. We don't want to get wrapped up in IP disputes or rather to protect our clients. ...
I'm sitting at 185k on my gen1. It's in pretty rough shape now but still keeps ticking and doing the job it was designed for. ...
[quote]I honestly want to know, who uses these places? In the era of many people working from home, why would you leave your home to go work in an office that's not even the office of your employer?[/quote] I can't speak to WeWork's business model specifically but the company I work for moved out...
[quote]Early in my engineering career (e.e.) I started riding what became about 20 nuclear subs on new build and post dry dock sea trials. My job was to help calibrate the navigation systems and their interface to the Sonar and Missile Control Center compartments. They are the most complex and im...
[quote]Some are saying it's not possible to test the materials it was made out of properly. I have no idea if that's true or not[/quote] The only source I have seen claiming this is the OceanGate people themselves. Back when their chief engineer was fired, this was a claim they made to him. I'...
[quote]all their government would need to do in the requirement to get the permit to climb, is have a quota of trash each climber has to bring back.[/quote] That is something they actually have now but we are talking years of accumulation at this point....
[quote] I'm not sure what gas they use to blow ballast tanks, but if it were oxygen it wouldn't be liquid.[/quote] It is just high pressure air. ...

re: Flamethrower

Posted by MadDogs on 6/21/23 at 4:18 pm
I haven't used the Throwflame. I do have several Exothermic Pulsefire LRTs. It uses a gasoline or gas/diesel mixture. That XL18 looks to be next level. What are your intended uses?...
Most likely irrelevant as I would be shocked if the company is still around until next year. They are nearly out of cash and unless someone comes in and bails them out, these trucks will never be produced in mass quantity. I have friends that work there and it is a complete cluster. Their deal wi...
I can't vouch for this translation but saw it in the Twitter comments. [quote]Ukraine, native motherland, Lord, our heavenly father: bless us! Going to destroy the enemies of my native land. Murderers of my brothers, rapists of my loved ones. Let my hand be strong - to kill enemies! Let my...

re: West Memphis three

Posted by MadDogs on 5/24/23 at 10:15 am
[quote]It actually is according to the letter of the law. You do plead guilty when taking an Alford plea, are still convicted of a crime in the eyes of the law, and are treated as guilty just as if you were found guilty by a jury.[/quote] Yes, it counts as a guilty plea (and I'm not lawyer, maybe y...

re: West Memphis three

Posted by MadDogs on 5/24/23 at 9:47 am
[quote]To this day, they are convicted killers. They didn't get exonerated or pardoned. They signed an admission of guilt before being released.[/quote] No idea if they did it or not but this statement is not true. The Alford plea is not an admission of guilt and none of them signed an admission o...
[quote]This is old as shite but if I remember correctly, dude was fresh from prison and trying to turn his life around and the two broads picked the wrong one to mess with. Last I checked the NY jury declined to prosecute[/quote] You remember correctly. [quote]The McDonald’s cashier who was taped ...
[quote]This is an interesting article about how the Russians are evolving their tactics. I don't recognize the source but the article seems legit. Rusi.org[/quote] [quote]Russian electronic warfare (EW) remains potent, with an approximate distribution of at least one major system covering eac...
[quote]Just to be clear they don't detonate the mines they are just used to detect buried mines. Very cool use of O&G tech.[/quote] I've seen these things when they do road work around here. I couldn't figure out what they were doing but it makes sense they may be been trying to verify what was un...
[quote]My concern with this case specifically is not so much what he did but how did he get that clearance with the evidence of instability that was out there.[/quote] That and what is up with all of the warnings? The first time I did something suspicious like he did with classified material wou...
No way he sees 20 years especially with him pleading guilty. I'd be surprised if he even serves a year....
This because the project got canceled during the Clinton administration and reduced from the originally planned 29 down to 3. I was in the shipyard in New London, CT when the first Seawolf was being built. This was back in 1994. Very cool tech for its time. As others have mentioned, the reason ...
There are a lot of other countries where this is the case. Either foreigners are outright banned or they are taxed at a much higher rate on the transaction. In Grenada, the tax for a non Grenadian to buy property was something like 50%....