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The linked borescope is no longer a UVC camera, it's a Geek szitman supercamera, ID 2ce3:3828 (no UVC support). There's the start of a driver here but it won't work out of the box.

I've had some luck getting an image to boot on this repeater but I haven't been able to get the network or radios working yet, see the forum thread.

Did you see a price different than the one in the video you linked ($4200)? I've been thinking about the RUiXU 12k inverter which is $3900, $3300 with the 600-off deal they're running. RUiXU has a continuous line wattage per-leg of 5.7kW in the 208V 3-phase config, I've been trying to find out the equivalent for EG4 but assuming it's 8kW it's $525/kW vs. $578/kW for RUiXU.

Thanks, I think I missed finding that video by a few minutes. I wish he'd have slowly panned down the specs but I got what I needed, it looks like it delivers less nominal power in the 208v 3-phase configuration but unfortunately the 18's specs aren't apples-to-apples and I'm not sure if they're waving their hands about something. Continuous line wattage is 4kW vs the 18's 6kW which doesn't seem like an upgrade...

Holy forking shirtballs the new design is terrible, it should have been opt-in (at least then they'd know nobody likes it).

Space Time has got you covered:

How Much Of The Universe Can Humanity Ever See?

This dipshit Texas judge should be forced to sign a non-compete and then dismissed from the court. California has the US's biggest state GDP and non-competes are illegal, businesses mange to retain the best talent in the world by offering higher salaries and equity. Apple Google Intel etc. had illegal no-poaching agreements back in early 2000 and that depressed tech salaries for a decade which caused tens of thousands of workers irreparable harm, further evidence that this judge is a complete moron.

The FAQs need to have information about setting up a bootable recovery image, for example if you need to run xfs_repair on a Tumbleweed root partition when there's no network available.

An evil that has no name: Zadar, Cow From Hell!

So if a president declares a state of emergency and suspends both houses of congress (or hell if they just have both houses packed with mindless supporters) they're suddenly an un-removable dictator? What an insane, un-American ruling.

The Japanese Tradition - Sushi

PBS Space Time is a great youtube channel that has covered various aspects of this question many, many times...

The manufacturer (S.R. Smith) docs that I can find say the base is made of "strong steel", it doesn't seem all that hard or springy and it ground like any other plate I've worked with. It flexes about 1/2" when I'm bouncing on it, most of the bounce comes from the board itself. If I temper it in the oven @500F for a couple of hours would that be likely to make the welds fail by bending rather than cracking? Given where the support is under the crack I'm willing to take the risk on that, the pool is too small for anyone to get too crazy diving and people mostly just sit on the end of the board chatting with other people in the pool.

The pedestal was in completely cracked into two pieces, I prepped the edges of the crack by grinding both sides down (front and back) into a 1/4" bevel so there wasn't any of the old rusty surface of the crack involved if that's what you're concerned about. I clamped the two pieces together using that 1.5" bar from the last pic as a support, and after putting a bead down the front side I could see the weld material clearly from the other side. I'm pretty sure the welds met in the middle, I could see the puddle melting the sides of the bevel all the way down past the bottom as I was making little circles with the rod on the back side. I did end up running pretty hot just like the youtube reviews of the Titanium pointed out it would for the given settings, I had it at 65A using the 120V mode and it ate up a couple of 3/32" rods for a 7" bead on each side.

Op here:

The diving board pedestal/spring is 3/8" plate and was cracked completely apart where I've welded it. After struggling with an ancient 80A HF welder I picked up a HF Titanium 225 stick welder and welded a couple 6011 beads over the mess I made earlier (I'd prepped the cracked parts by grinding down a bevel on both sides). After grinding down the beads I'm seeing what looks like a failure to fill the bevel up to the level of the surrounding metal, should I grind them out and start over or just weld over the top? I've got some 7018 that I could put on once I get a 240v plug sorted out if that would be better. I'm also considering welding a 1/4"x1.5" bar atop the welded crack but I'm worried that will cause more weak spots at the welds.

I'm 200lbs and can bounce up and down on the piece without feeling any give, and it's a 6' board for an 8' deep pool which we mostly just sit on or jump off of, no crazy Olympic-level stuff.

Before it goes down the memory-hole you young'uns should know about the "Project for a New American Century", which Cheney was involved with:

Written before the September 11 attacks and during political debates of the Iraq War, a section of Rebuilding America's Defenses titled "Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force" became the subject of considerable controversy: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."

Interestingly when I did a recent TW update (spurred by the whole xv mess) I got my default set to Wayland, which I'd never used before. I'm ashamed to admit I spent the better part of a day going slowly crazy tying to figure out what happened, eventually I thought to check the x11 version that was running and thus was enlightened. FWIW I think Wayland is not yet ready for prime-time compared to X so keeping that the default makes sense (better yet TW updates could try to do a better job preserving user configurations across updates, but that's another post...)

I'm aware that all kinds of models are used to simulate outcomes for hypothetical questions, do you specifically know of deep learning systems being continuously trained on current information and asked to make predictions about future world events? My big concern with this particular use-case is that it's happening in secret, and If it works even slightly better than chance it'll become so strategically important that alignment is probably an afterthought.

Nation-states already have way more data than they know what to do with. Feeding that stream into an LLM's training in near-real-time is well within the compute budget of even the smallest military black project, especially considering it's incremental training and not bootstrapping something from a cold-start. The more I think about it the more obvious it is that this must already be happening, probably in multiple competing agencies in multiple nations. I'd do it if I were in charge. This is even well within the capabilities of some of the bigger corporations out there. The only remaining question I have is "how well does it work in practice?". I'm guessing we're already in the finding-out stage on that one...

The interesting question is: what resource would be lacking to prevent them from already doing this as we speak? I can't think of any.

I'm talking about a specific use-case that wasn't obvious to me and doesn't seem to be widely talked about. I think you seriously underestimate the technical abilities and funding of the various world powers that would have an interest in making actionable predictions from very large, very fuzzy datasets. I found it interesting that Gemini does seem to have a buit-in prompt to avoid talking about this subject (see its "If you'd like up-to-date information, try using Google Search." responses), and I'm genuinely curious what other models have to say when questioned along these lines.