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thinkercharmercoderfarmer

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  • Should I redo my bathroom plumbing?

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  • what's the advantage of CPVC over PEX? I've run a few PEX lines off my old copper pipes and didn't need any expensive tooling, just a ratchet cutter and sharkbite fittings, which were a little expensive but suited my small needs pretty well.

  • US has no regard for human rights or democracy – Lukashenko

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  • US has no regard for human rights or democracy – Lukashenko

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  • I always used to lose matches like this.

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  • Ooh yeah. I was imagining a modified chess engine controlling the red team but I like the dice. Simpler and possible to play with a regular set + red checkers for the queens (and dice ofc). maybe for each deadlock, roll a die and on a nat 1 both convert? That way there's always a risk to leaving them alone. maybe the threshold starts at 1 and increases each turn they remain deadlocked.

    For movement, each player rolls a die and moves the Nth queen, counting either up from a1 or down from h8, depending on which player is rolling. If the roll is higher than the number of queens, the farthest one moves. a d8 determines direction.

    You could even do everything with just d6s, if that's all you have. 1-4 is cardinal directions, 5 is diagonally toward the center, 6 is diagonally away from the center. Or something like that.

  • I always used to lose matches like this.

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  • Red Scare chess: if two pawns remain deadlocked for four consecutive turns, both pawns are promoted to red queens which are controlled by neither player. After each player's turn, one red queen moves. Red queens can:

    • capture kings
    • capture non-pawns
    • convert an adjacent pawn to red queens

    If a king is captured by a red piece, all their remaining pieces become red queens. the other player must eliminate all red pieces to win the game. It is possible for both players to lose.

  • An electric farm, an electric harvest …. electric everything

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  • Your op sounds... much bigger than mine lol. My place is less than a tenth of that. I could see running a battery car out to the equipment, then running that back to the barn to charge / swap batteries. I would love to build one but I don't think it's worth it at my scale.

    My rough plan right now is to throw a big old motor in an old tractor chassis, and have a bunch of lead acid batteries on a pallet that sits on top of the engine compartment, and put a solar panel roof over all of it to charge in the field + keep the batteries (and me) out of direct sun. I should be able to drive into the barn, fork the battery onto a rack with a charge cable, fork a new pallet onto the tractor, plug everything in, and get back at it in about 15 minutes, but that's 15 minutes from the time I drive into the barn to the time I leave the barn, it doesn't account for transit time to and from the barn, but that's only a few more minutes on a small farm.

  • An electric farm, an electric harvest …. electric everything

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  • I mean, diesel's expensive too. Batteries already look tempting and I think they're only going to look better as time goes on. The only real hurdle for me is the initial outlay for the new hardware.

  • An electric farm, an electric harvest …. electric everything

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  • I think there would have to be battery swaps. at large enough scales, it might even make sense to have a separate smaller vehicle just for running batteries out to the large machines, though fields swaps would be tough to keep clean.

    For smaller jobs though, I could see running the tractor for a few hours, heading back to the barn to swap out the battery pack(s), then heading back out after maybe 15 minutes of downtime. At the rate that batteries would need to be swapped out, I think it would make sense to have batteries on a forklift pallet that can be forked off the tractor and onto a charging cradle, then fork a fresh battery pack onto the tractor and head back out. or, there could be a specialized battery swapping deck that the vehicle drives over, which would be cool because the same batteries and swapping gear could be used for cars and trucks.

    With autonomous tractors, they could theoretically detect when they need a swap and orchestrate the swap automatically, making them capable of running nearly continuously, 24 hours a day. It would be very complicated and I don't doubt that early implementations would have their share of headaches, but that looks like where we're heading from my perspective.

  • ‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California

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  • Nice! I'm a little behind you, I think, but I'm determined to get there. The plan is to get my house, my farm, and the vehicles I use to 100% self-produced energy. It's going slowly but it's going.

  • ‘We’re harvesting the sun’: A huge solar project grows in California

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  • One day I'm going to buy the last gallon of diesel I ever buy. I'd like it to happen a long time before I die.

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    PEX Pipe Installation MASTERCLASS - Every Single Connection In A WHOLE HOUSE Explained!

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  • God damn it, I knew his voice sounded weird. I just assumed he had a stutter and was bad at editing. Thanks for the catch.

  • Is the internet getting emptier?

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  • Stealing this, thanks.

    Do you know what it's from? I can't place it at all.

  • A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It.

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  • and government handouts. If the government will bail you out no matter how badly you fuck up, it's pretty easy to ignore shitty policies.

  • A Republican Farmer Relies on Immigrant Work. He Sees His Party Erasing It.

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  • Here's a thought: if your business model relies on exploiting immigrants, fuck you.

  • Supreme Court says internet service provider isn’t liable for bootlegged music downloads | CNN Politics

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  • Reading through the opinion, I wouldn't be surprised to see this ruling come up in defense of chatbots trained on copyrighted works.

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A provider induces infringement if it actively encourages
infringement through specific acts. Grokster, 545 U. S., at
942 (Ginsburg, J., concurring). For example, in Grokster,
we held that a jury could find two file-sharing software com-
panies liable for inducement. Id., at 941 (majority opinion).
The companies promoted and marketed their software as a
tool to infringe copyrights. Id., at 926. The “principal ob-
ject” of their business models “was use of their software to
download copyrighted works.”

    "Sure, it can rip off copyrighted works, but your honor, we pinky promise that was never our principal object". I could see it flying. Interestingly enough, the US Solicitor General explicitly brought up DMCA safe harbor in its amicus brief (siding with Cox):

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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860 (17 U.S.C. 512), gave
service providers, including ISPs, a safe-harbor defense
to claims of copyright infringement. That defense
shields ISPs from liability for copyright infringement
based on, among other things, “the provider’s transmit-
ting, routing, or providing connections for, material
through a system or network controlled or operated by
or for the service provider.” 17 U.S.C. 512(a). To qual-
ify for that safe harbor, the service provider must
“adopt[] and reasonably implement[] * * * a policy that
provides for the termination in appropriate circum-
stances of subscribers * * * who are repeat infringers.”

    I'd expect this admin to brief the court in a way that favors Musk et al, and it kind of makes sense that you'd want to bolster safe harbor protections, but I imagine a safe harbor defense of LLMs would require the reasonable policy of not training your LLM on a bunch of copyrighted works without their permission, with the express intent of creating derivative works on demand for your paying clients.

    Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-171_bq7d.pdf

    US SG amicus brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24-171/359730/20250527172556075_Cox-Sony.CVSG.pdf

  • New kink unlocked

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  • The grant application practically writes itself.

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  • h8ers gonna h8

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  • Yeah, I know a bunch of people who grow zucchini and they frequently harvest more than they could possibly use. they literally can't give it away sometimes. maybe that's why people who don't like zucchini don't like gardeners? Because they don't want the produce zucchini growers are constantly trying to offload? Bit of a thinker.

  • Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’

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  • Right, i mean if you made the context window enormous, such that you can include the entire set of embeddings and a set of memories (or maybe, an index of memories that can be "recalled" with keywords) you've got a self-observing loop that can learn and remember facts about itself. I'm not saying that's AGI, but I find it somewhat unsettling that we don't have an agreed-upon definition. If a for-profit corporation made an AI that could be considered a person with rights, I imagine they'd be reluctant to be convincing about it.

  • Solarpunk Farming @slrpnk.net
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    Are there FOSS tractors?

  • Permaculture, Sustainable Design, Homesteading, Off-Grid Living, Natural Building, and more @lemmy.world
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    Are there any backup battery packs with replaceable cells?

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I defrosted my kitchen sink line.

  • Bathtub Thoughts @discuss.tchncs.de
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    "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    "Microwave Math" is a specific instance of a type of numbering system where place value doesn't necessarily correspond to the number of symbols

  • Solarpunk Art @slrpnk.net
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    The edge of a fallow field

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    The American Yawp | A Massively Collaborative Open U.S. History Textbook

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