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Rechargeable means they can save a bit of money on the size of the battery, among other things.

I'm high enough functioning, but still get certain minor anxiety pangs around those who are more actively presenting. I feel a bit bad about it, especially when I know from personal experience that they're mostly normal and well-meaning enough.

With any game that offers crafting and deconstruction, I max out my deconstruction options. It lets me think less about resources themselves, and more about what to do.

For Cyberpunk, this meant that I had 'infinite money' by buying out every 10e priced beverage from vending machines, shredding them, and profiting on the resale value of the components. Not sure if that's been changed, but it was a FANTASTIC source of money and materials.

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Threaten the loonies too much, and they can throw big rocks at Earth.

They'd have plenty of brute mass up there.

I ain't rich enough to take a real moral standing in investing. The only principled buys I make are for ETFs/indices that sound like good ideas, but are nonstandard. Copper, Lithium, Uranium for now. The Earth isn't making any more of the stuff, and they're base resources for other processes.

My way of fighting the mentality is to be lazy. No joke.

I'm either Accumulating, Holding, or Looking to Sell. For stocks, I generally stick to #1 and #2. Buy if numbers/velocity looks good, hold if I don't like how they were doing.

When doing my taxes for FY23, my Robinhood showed zero crypto sales. Having seen a few winters, I am willing to wait 6 to 8 months before considering getting back in. Musk might tweet about Doge on the shitter again, and spike its price by +69%, but I don't have the patience to follow such micro movements. Show me the 1yr graphs.

I am technically a war profiteer due to stock trading. I bought and then kept trickling some money into an oil index fund when news was everywhere about negative $/barrel, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine made me $500 when I sold out.

(I don't actually feel like I did anything wrong, though. Just bought low and sold high, around oil macro events that anyone else could have seen)

I sold my crypto bags one by one this year. I felt fantastic for hodling long enough to swing +20% minimums on my btc, doge, shib, eth. Doge, I got +39%.

Then crypto kept going up. Whoops. Made money, but not all of the money. As a consolation prize, profiting any% on crypto probably puts me in the 1% of investors.

I will say I missed my best timing on Doge by literally sleeping on it another night. I was out at a bar with 2 of my brothers, and was joking that my Doge had hit +69%. Would have been up a few hundo if I'd sold then instead of day after.

I'm not an AI enthusiast by any means, but can still get behind this all.

If OP can productize and suddenly make an extra $1k/mo, more power to them.

When you boil everything down, most code can technically be recreated by any skilled-enough individual(s). Sometimes, an Enterprise License for some software saves a company enough money relative to the cost of building in-house to where they just want to sign a check and be given an API key, in order to focus on things they're naturally better at.

That's why I have a job. People want coded stuff, without hiring the coding people. My company allows another company to sign a dotted line, and get access to developer braintime.

I daily-drove an IBM Model M that was a few months older than me, for about a summer. I love it, but it's just so comically oversized for my desk, even while using a deskpad.

Modern custom mech boards, like my current TKL, allow for extra function layers. You can hypothetically set up a 'numpad layer' on '890', 'iop', kl;', actuated by a layer key that can be held with a finger on the left side of the board. Less overall movement of one's fingers and arms, with equal access to the numpad functionality, if one needs it.

If you want a proof of that concept, see the Planck. Hypothetically, this little thing could replace your desired 'Space Cadet' or 'Battlestation' style keyboard with less than 50 buttons: https://olkb.com/collections/planck

When people are already chopping out numpads, etc, in their custom designs, they can afford an extra horizontal inch of space on their keebs for fancy features, without getting too big.

For a large segment of people, a keyboard like this has everything they need on it: WASD, numrow, arrows.

If I look at the 3.5g bags I'm familiar with, I can't imagine smoking so much in one go. That would almost require the use of those novelty oversized RAW cones.

I dropped $200 on Dr Malcolm and some others for the Locust God promo. I'm very happy with it all, and now get to build an Egglord deck with Jeff Goldblum's face on it.

And, if you've only experienced a few set releases, price swings will seem weird. Keep in mind that more boxes will be opened for a while, thus making more copies of coveted things available. It's a different story when a set goes out of print.

I enjoy having high-value cards in my collection, but the best way to show them off is in a deck that uses them well. I'm not throwing my Surge Foil copy of The One Ring in a random Commander deck.

With MtG, I can go online and see what my odds are for just about any kind of packs I get: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/collecting-ravnica...

Not sure if they were always this forthcoming about the 'slotting', but I do appreciate it.

I copped this version of the Hidetsugu you're thinking of for $30 at my LGS a few weeks ago: https://scryfall.com/card/neo/432/hidetsugu-devouring-chaos

Prices of swaggy stuff is always irrational until the smallest attention spans have moved on.

I assume you know about Collector Packs, those are my favorites for splashing a chunk of money on a set. If I can afford to preorder a box, or pick one up on some random sale, they have the highest swag tier.

The only card I've sold in the past several years has been a copy of Parallel Lives. It got me enough store credit to cop a Chatterfang, and some other goodies to build a first Commander deck after not touching my cards in years. I had 4 or 5 copies, so it was easy to part with. I also gave one copy away to a friend who had just bought some sort of 'Hobbits and food tokens' precon deck.

I prefer a rich man's draft: Buy a box for myself, and see what I can cobble together.

- A magpie, with approx $300 of MtG on my desk rn

A funny edge case of those glasses might be accidental blurring of people's faces, if their face is prominent enough in advertisements.

I had an idea that you might be able to build, now that I see 'you' again:

Would you ever design an E-Ink "Life and token counter" aimed at people who play Commander format MTG? Given the amount of time and effort it would take me to DIY, I'd easily pay $50ish for a standalone device of the type.

Valorant has an option to disable corpses, replacing them with little tokens on the ground that mark the spot of their demise. I think there's also an option to tone down blood effects, etc.

I have similar feelings whenever I get something that's 'nice, new, shiny'. I feel an urge to protect/preserve it as best as possible, and worry more than I should.

One time, I bought a fancy wallet made of stainless steel (threads, woven into thin sheets, backed by plastic). For MONTHS, I was paranoid about leaving any scratches or blemishes on such a pristine, shiny thing.

Years later, it's still my wallet, and has enough blemishes and scratches for me to not care as much. One new scratch or blemish would be unnoticeable among the others. It still holds itself together just fine, and it still has the 'slippery' in-pocket texture that I like.

Point being, as long as you take decent care of Your Precious, it'll be fine with the exterior wear and tear.

I've also got a $4k-ish ring made with white gold, and it came with a fucking mirror-like polish. Tiny scratches or dings were 'End of the world", until I was able to identify "inside" and "outside" orientation via a small blemish on one side.

Current 'sociosphere' apology videos are already bad enough without being parody, why make it so difficult for JerryGPT? I feel like it's an interesting enough angle on its own, and if it turned out well, it would be a nice thing to have as part of AI history.

I'm more curious what the AI would do if asked to make an apology video.

How do you generate your dialogue? Is it tuned as "conversation between characters", or was the model fed sitcom scripts?

I couldn't figure out how to link the comment, but it was at least 9 months ago I said this, and someone was already working on it?? SUPER cool!

I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it could be done.

Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a show that was made by reusing old animations. If someone writes a script (use humans for now), then the AI/ML can stitch together the animation.

Once there's a corpus of material, start letting the AI determine plot points, and have humans vet and write it. Over time, let the AI take more and more control over the direction of the show, making sure to introduce new characters or events as needed.

I had an idea bouncing around, and now I've got it:

2d6, passed back and forth. First to roll a 7 "wins".

Chances of 1/6 chambers look similar to (2d6) = 7

Context: Lazarus Long is at least 2,000 years old, has gone through multiple 'Rejuvenation' services, and seen/done just about everything in the galaxy.

A quote from page 3 of my edition: "WHERE'S MY SUIDICE SWITCH?"

Incidentally, I'm about halfway through "Time Enough for Love" from Heinlein.

Lazarus is laughing at this man.

There's something sexy about the CZ Shadow 2, even though I don't own nay handguns.

My Logitech g500 from many years ago has a physical toggle for detent/freewheel scrolling, and I love it. Precise when I need it, and zooming up or down when I need speed.