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  • Lpt: make friends with people at risk of Ctrl+Alt+Deleting themselves and offer to pay for their life insurance for a few years.

    Either having a friend will save them or having someone who will actively profit from their death will make them live just to spite you, or you get $250k profit and the knowledge you made someone’s last days a little bit better.

    Absolute worst case you’re out $2k but you get a good story to tell for it.




  • Do some training so that you could flicker at exactly 60 frames a second, and most cameras, assuming that you caught the right 60th of a second, would not even see you.

    You also might be able to time with the saccadic rhythm of the eyes and make yourself invisible to a single viewer while still retaining your vision thanks to persistence of vision.

    And, assuming you knew you had to walk in a straight line or something, you could just go invisible, walk straight forward to your destination, and then turn visible again.




  • And it takes time for people to transition. Think about a major corporation. If they want to roll out a new piece of software, that is a three-year commitment, minimum, just to get people to spend most of their water cooler time talking about how much they hate the new software.

    That is extra IT hours spent on training users over and over and over again on how to use the new software.

    And after three years, somebody will step in and say, “Hey, why don’t we try software Y, It’s better than the software that we just rolled out”, which queues a new three-year software rollout cycle.

    Extrapolate that out to 8 billion human beings, well over 2 billion of which drive vehicles or utilize personal transport systems that are internal combustion engine powered, and you’ll begin to get an idea of how difficult it is to transition everyone away from fossil fuels.

    The good news is that it is happening, and barring major accidents, we will probably get most of the way there during our lifetimes.




  • It’s the difference between minimums and maximums. In most American states you have to have $50,000 worth of liability insurance to legally drive, which covers the majority of financial consequences for accidents.

    That being said, now that cheap cars are $35,000 brand new, it might be a smart thing if you’re an American driver to have $100,000 or $125,000 worth of liability insurance to keep yourself from going bankrupt.

    The extra $100 a year for that coverage would totally be worth it if you ever have to use it.





  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldIs not you. I'm just lazy.
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    8 days ago

    If you’re like me and you work with computers for a living and you don’t really want to put in the hard work of fixing computers at home, you can do what I did. Which is to download an abliterated local AI and tell it what the problem is and what specs you’re working with and it will almost always fix it for you in like five minutes.

    And when it doesn’t fix it in five minutes, it will destroy your operating system with whatever commands it tells you to paste in a terminal, and you were going to be wiping and reinstalling it anyway, so nothing lost.