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I met my wife online fifteen years ago. No idea how folks do it these days.

Yep.

True Blood

“I’m a fuckin’ fairy?!”

So good.

I never had a food-named pet until recently. My latest cat is named Triscuit.

I like scrambled eggs and omelettes, but that’s about it. Always with cheese.

I’ll toss in my two cents.

It’s mainly about handling and processing vast amounts of data. Many times more than you or I may deal with on a day to day basis. First, you have to have somewhere to put it all. Then, you’ve got to load whatever you’re working with into memory. So you need terabytes of RAM. When you’re dealing with that much data, you need beefy CPUs with crazy fast connections with a ton of bandwidth to move it all around at any kind of reasonable pace.

Imagine opening a million chrome tabs, having all of them actively playing a video, and needing to make sense of the cacophony of sound. Only instead of sound, it’s all text, and you have to read all of it all at once to do anything meaningful with it.

If you make a change to any of that data, how does it affect the output? What about a million changes? All that’s gotta be processed by those beefy CPUs or GPUs.

Part of the reason AI data enters need so much memory is because they’ve got to load increasingly large amounts of training data all at once, and then somehow have it be able to be accessed by thousands of people all at once.

But if you want to understand every permutation of whatever data you’re working with, it’s gonna take a ton of time to essentially sift through it all.

And all that’s gotta be hardware? You have to make doubly sure that the results you get are accurate, so redundancies are built in. Extremely precise engineering of parts, how they’re assembled, and how they’re ultimately used is a lot of what makes supercomputers what they are. Special CPUs, RAM with error correction, redundant connections, backups… it all takes a lot of time, space, and money to operate.

You have money. Go to school for something interesting. Find a passion.

Easily one of the funniest games I’ve ever played. I love The Part Where He Kills You.

BABIES! You’ll have 400 babies!

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And joysticks.

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My character is Lyn Burza, Air Genasi Storm Sorcerer 5/Tempest Cleric 4. Although at this point in the campaign we’ve magically swapped bodies with each other, and I’m in the body of Marcello Vittori, Human Fighter 2/ Hexblade Warlock 7. It’s certainly been different than I’m used to, but having played Baldur’s Gate III I fully understand the ‘Eldritch Blast everything’ play style.

Having a board game day with most of my D&D group. We all have some unexpected free time so we’re basically just gonna get together and hang out, play some board games, and chat. I’m really looking forward to it.

As a Texan with no hope of ever being able to leave the country: please. I’m ready for it to be over.

Soap. Start with the rough side of the sponge to get the big bits off, then the other side to finish it off. Dry with a clean towel.

Or toss ‘em in the dishwasher.

The Celestial plane, obviously.

Only if you already have a ton of money, and it won’t be what you think.

No, but that’s been the biggest barrier to these kinds of plastics reaching global adoption. The vast majority of plastics have something to do with food production, or are exposed to myriad chemicals and temperatures. If they can’t do literally everything that normal plastics can do for the same price or cheaper, they won’t penetrate the market. I’m all for them, but it’s gonna be really tough to make any kind of dent.