nucleative 17h ago • 100%
A company cannot disrupt itself. Sears, Kmart, and their colleagues who have perished became particularly good at making a profit through one specific channel. So every executive, every performance bonus, in fact every person on the payroll was focused on maximizing their specific method of turning a profit.
Unfortunately for them, the world changed and the leaders didn't realize they were themselves being disrupted and therefore had no capacity to turn the titanic.
nucleative 18h ago • 100%
Dear higher power:
Please cause this guy to profoundly lose the election so there is absolutely no further attention given and the media networks can finally lay off the stories because all issues have become moot.
Ramen.
nucleative 2d ago • 100%
There are only a few counties in the world that draw the smartest and most accomplished from the rest of the world. The USA is pretty high on that list. This gives the USA an unfair advantage worldwide in several ways:
US schools and businesses get to pick from the best and brightest worldwide, promoting an atmosphere of high performance STEM jobs.
US replaces lost high education and high IQ population, since there is a negative correlation between education level and reproduction.
Finally, if you think in terms of winners vs losers, which I feel MAGAs do these days,, other countries lose their best and brightest, making them less competitive to the USA.
And of course don't forget that the vast majority of Americans come from families that immigrated, and few would argue that they themselves should be sent back "to where they came from".
No matter how you look at it, immigration is extremely advantageous to the USA if handled properly and an enviable position that many other countries wish they could be in.
nucleative 2d ago • 100%
It’s important to realize that in most democracies this isn’t a bug, it’s a feature of the system. The founders of these systems wanted to ensure that major decisions were deliberated, not rushed into, and that there wasn’t a lot of room for an executive power to make snap choices that would determine the future of the nation.
nucleative 5d ago • 100%
Naturally
nucleative 1w ago • 100%
Thinking way down the road
nucleative 1w ago • 85%
Before shrugging and moving on - ask yourself if you support any smaller private media companies in any way at all - enabling them to bring you news with less bias, less agenda, and more fact checking.
It could be by viewing their ads with your ad blocker off, paying a subscription, or donating.
If you are unwilling to support any such media company in any way, I don't think a complaint that media is all consolidated and doesn't have your interests at heart is particularly compelling.
nucleative 1w ago • 100%
That's kind of interesting. You mean candidate might start to reply and fumble their words and then ask for a restart?
nucleative 2w ago • 100%
Isn't Costco known for essentially talking very little profits on goods and earning much/most of their profit through the $65 membership fee?
Some people would do the math and decide if that's worth it for them or not.
Doesn't seem like exploitation, just don't shop there if it's not worth it.
nucleative 2w ago • 97%
- The media covers whatever gets them paid.
- Trump figured out how to hack the media cycle. When the news gets spicy, he just makes even spicier news. (Real life "one simple trick!")
- Everyone is so fatigued by the endless chaos that they start to tune it out.
- The eye of sauron shifts and nobody cares about January 6 anymore, because that mofo is an actual contender to be elected yet again. That alone is more palpably terrifying news.
nucleative 2w ago • 100%
I hate that my first thought is insurance will use this as a way to avoid paying out
nucleative 2w ago • 57%
A lot of speculation, not too many facts. Either way, fewer insurance options is yet another thing that makes these things unreasonably complicated and expensive to own.
nucleative 2w ago • 100%
I sure hope there is some mechanism to compensate content creators because without traffic, there will be no new articles.
nucleative 2w ago • 100%
I gotta work this weekend.
nucleative 3w ago • 100%
Bangkok AP —
Thai police have arrested the driver of a bus carrying young students and teachers that caught fire and killed 23 in suburban Bangkok, as families arrived in the capital Wednesday to help identify their loved ones.
The bus carrying six teachers and 39 students in elementary and junior high school was traveling from Uthai Thani province, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Bangkok, for a school trip in Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi provinces Tuesday.
... continues
nucleative 3w ago • 80%
Meh, your phone probably is. Also likely whatever else you use for connecting to the internet in the west too.a that irony isn't lost on the local but we'll educated in china, they just use a VPN. Those who aren't educated, well, they just don't know what's out there.
nucleative 3w ago • 76%
It's normalized in the US to be fat. All the people around are fat too, so they are rarely shaming. You'll fit right in.
If you're the only fat one in the group (like when you go to most of Asia) they usually make sure you know - repeatedly - that you're the fat one. It's a pretty big incentive to not be that one.
If everyone else is fat too, then why bother (aside from the million health and happiness reasons)
nucleative 3w ago • 80%
There is a Russian captcha solver bot called xevil that costs under $100 (I think, last time I looked) that has been able to solve nearly all captchas for years. You just have to supply it with relatively expensive proxy IP addresses because Google rate limits solve attempts.
So the title of this article has been true for a long long time. Capatchas are absolutely useless except against poor or uninformed script kiddies.
nucleative 4w ago • 100%
What is the state of I2P vs Tor these days?
Pretty sure I'm having heat creep up the Bowden tube, as it's getting jammed a few cm back from the hot end and then can't push the filament any more. When I get it out there's a little molten bulb at the filament. In this fail, I think it jammed as usual and the extruder found a way to keep going. I tried turning down the hot end from 215 to 200 and it's still failing. My cooling fan is running at 100%. This is the third time I've had this print fail at about this layer, around 1 hour into what will be a 26 hour print. Any ideas?
I'm in the process of hiring for a position and I have two candidates. It's a tough call because both are very proficient but each has some unique attributes. I thought I might ask ChatGPT's assistance with thinking it through. I recorded myself talking through my thoughts on each one as I read through their resume and the Q&As that I've done with each. Then uploaded the audio file to the whisper-1 api for transcription (for this I'm using the OpenAI API). Then I pasted the transcribed text into GPT4 and then prompted it with: "Above is my transcribed notes comparing two candidates for a position together. Help me think through this decision by asking me questions, one at a time." ChatGPT proceeded to ask me really good questions, one after the other. After a while I felt like it had got me to think about many new factors and ideas. After about 22 questions I'd had enough, so I asked it to wrap up and summarize our next steps, to which it spit out a bullet-point list of what we'd concluded and, what steps we should take next. I don't know if everyone is using ChatGPT this way, but this is a really useful feedback system.
This bike has a 10ah battery in the seat post and a 7 gear derailleur. Top speed is limited to 25km but I think it can be reprogrammed to remove the limit.
My project is a "breathing" white 12v LED strip controlled by an esp32 on a dev board, and switched with an IFLZ44N mosfet. In my video you can see it working but also hear the power supply complaining. I'm using the LEDC Arduino library which allows me to select the frequency and resolution for PWM. If I set the frequency too low the whine is extreme, but at this setting it's the best I've been able to achieve, which is about 9000Hz. Unfortunately you can still hear the sound from across the room! It is a cheapo solid state power supply that claims it can output 12v up to 25A. I tried my desktop supply and it emits some whine too, so I don't think replacing the power will totally fix this. Is there a technique for tuning the frequency or even just masking it somehow?
I own a business that sells directly to customers we find through local Facebook and Google advertising. Our profit model is just ok - the business pays its own bills but I don't feel that it's been worth my energy yet. About 2 years ago I opened a retail shop in the city, decorated it nicely, but in a poorly located building that doesn't have much walk-in traffic and very little parking. I'm considering relocating to an area that would be much better located for parking and walk-by traffic. Of course the price is higher, about twice as much. I'm looking for advice about how to decide if this is a wise move. I don't understand which metrics are important for retail as I try to spreadsheet this idea, and my background is in e-commerce and services businesses. I'd like to be able to make some educated assumptions about whether our sales will increase and by how much.
I live in a city where public transportation is overcrowded, there's constant vehicle traffic, and you can't depend on any commute time for a given day or hour. The average temperature is very high, so walking is a sweaty affair. The only way I've found to make this city more usable is with an ebike and scooter. It's like the perfect vehicle for these conditions. However, many people reject the technology and either choose their car or other forms of getting around. Is it because it's not well understood, or seems too expensive? I'm curious what sold you on the technology or what is the reason you're not making the leap.
Saw this come through from Octoprint remotely. It was an 8 hour print and died about at about the 7:15 mark.
Old habit, I opened rif and it loads current posts! What's going on?
Are you doing anything to protect yourself or your home from the risk of a fire?
This scooter features dual 4000 watt motors and can achieve 60+ mph speeds straight and level. But why? This speed is surely deadly in the event of a crash and it's hard to image it would even be fun to ride at such a speed.
Has micromobility already changed your commuting habits? What about your selection of place to live? I live in a huge city with gridlocked traffic, and an e-scooter enables selecting (much) cheaper condos further away from the public transportation.
Hopefully as micro-mobility takes hold, more and more cities will create spaces for parking and charging electric vehicles.
A new generation of e-scooters with solar panels means never needing to plug in. Is the trade off in weight and size worth the added flexibility?
Solid state ceramic batteries may greatly advance the future of micro-mobility. They promise higher energy density and less susceptibility to thermal runaway and can be used in a wider temperature range.