Kbin is definitely the answer here.

All the trailers looked really good, reminds me of the Bollywood stuff I watched as a kid. American action movies definitely can’t work with anime, but I’d expect the Bollywood style to work extreme well with anime.

American movies take themselves too seriously and not seriously enough at the same time, always trying to avoid being “corny”. Indian movies seem to revel in this corniness, the stories are far more genuine and the special effects being bad is part of the charm

Wish they’d do these mukbang videos with relationship fights but instead of tomato soup it’s just bloody marys. Open bars make far more entertaining drama.

Why tho? It’s good information.

I know this is a real issue for some people, but holy shit if this isn’t a hilarious article.

What Balkanization does to a mf

Not necessarily getting away with the crime, but I was referring to Rita Crundwell, a town clerk who embezzled over $53 million dollars over the course of 30 years. The town had a total population of 15k. She literally just wrote fake invoices for shit and deposited it into another account. Then proceeded to spend it a prize horse and mansion with absolutely no explanation of where the money came from. She still was held responsible, but got off fairly light because she was so brazen that someone else should have caught it earlier.

Coincidentally, Ronald Reagan’s childhood hometown. Started during '83 as well.

Not Australian, but it’s a legal thing in America (for some crimes) where someone can get out of being liable for something if someone realistically should have stopped it. There are city clerks that have gotten out of embezzlement charges because their scheme was so obvious that someone should have noticed and stopped it long before.

Doubt this applies to being a pedo, but this type of thinking is codified in law. We can be disgusted by a pedophile being a pedophile, but this is a statement that speaks to wider systematic issues.

Louis Rossman. Right to repair is great

Yeah, I don’t think this will be as good as we want. The amount of technical debt I’d expect in these big programs would be off the charts. It would take a full team of people just to feed in corrections, and they would need to both know COBOL and be willing to kill all the COBOL jobs to do it. It’s a tough ask

I’m still optimistic though because it’s IBM and converting between languages is a billion dollar question. I don’t think IBM would do a truly irresponsible deployment of such big corporate changes. I’d expect IBM to do a LOT of testing before sending anything out that would actually change the world, such as banking software. But in could be wrong.

This is a great response. Like yeah being a landlord sucks, but if you’re only renting out one house, it’s really nothing that extreme. It’s not like your parents make enough that they could pay that second mortgage long term without being paid rent. We can criticize people for being the corrupt system as people, but I find it hard to criticize people who are just doing the most logical thing with their money. Land is and will always be the best thing to put your money into long term. Gold only has value because it’s shiny, land is extremely finite and inherently valuable.

This is gonna be controversial here, but it’s even possible to be a good landlord at a small scale. Had a landlord as a kid that had a solid 60 or so houses after doing it since the 70s, but was still his own basic handyman and lawn care person. His business model was to put all his money into real estate and continually reinvest and sell all the houses so he could retire. He didn’t trust any other method to make enough money for him to retire comfortably if him or his wife lost any sort of independence, and honestly he was right. Dude started out as a plumber though. Him and his wife understood that rent was kind of a scam on its own, so they made a really big deal out of just being extremely caring. They sent out an email in 2007 about how times were starting to get tough, so there was officially a 6 month grace period on rent and I know they went long past that for many people because they didn’t evict anybody until they got to 2 and a half years of non-payment. They would personally go out and salt every driveway in the neighborhood if it snowed, including the houses they didn’t own. Mowed the lawns, would be to your house within 30 minutes to do something small like snaking a drain and would actually fix things on a good schedule. They didn’t end up buying any more houses until 2012 because they took care of their tenants during the crash. Like yeah, being a landlord has issues that can’t be eliminated, it is inherently exploitative. However I find it really hard to fault the old couple that just played their cards really right but made it a point to not absolutely fuck people in the process and actually made full time jobs out of it. That old guy and his wife had the option to do things they enjoyed (lawncare, house maintenance, always being greatest neighbors, the ones that cater the funerals or even holding the funerals for people who don’t have families to hold them) and live comfortably by doing so, who wouldn’t? He lives in a fucked up system and did his best to make it work for him and the people around him.

He ended up selling the houses once the pandemic economy was over and retiring at the age of 80 or so because his wife started suffering from Dementia. They still don’t live in that good of a nursing home. Like they get taken care of, the food and atmosphere is different, it’s not bad, but I expected way nicer for selling 60 houses. It would be one thing if he retired to the fucking moon, but they didn’t because they didn’t have the money for anything better than a fairly modest middle class nursing home. A plumber from 50-60 years ago with the foresight to know that real estate was the only way for him and his wife to have the money to have a little bit of dignity in their final years. Like I said, being a landlord sucks, but he saw something coming on the horizon and did the most logical thing to do to get out of it. There’s only so much we can judge regular people for making the smartest decisions they can for themselves in the world we have.

I don’t think the LLM is gonna do that great of a job with it for this reason, but still worth giving a shot. ChatGPT is a well trained coding chimp. You realistically could get a well trained chimp to start off a lot of projects and have people finish it. The fact that it can correct itself after you explain how it’s wrong is very powerful as well.

LLM isn’t gonna be useful for converting a single program from COBOL to Java, it is gonna be useful for converting many programs from COBOL to Java. I bet IBM is trying this on their own shit first before they try to sell it to customers, because language conversion software would be a HUGE but very boom based money.

This is what in thinking. Even the few people I know IRL that know COBOL from their starting days say it’s a giant pain in the ass as a language. It’s not like it’s really gonna cost all that much time to do compared to paying labor to rewrite it from the base, even if they don’t end up using it. Sure, correcting bad code can take a lot of time to do manually. But important code being in COBOL is a ticking time bomb, they gotta do something.

Eh, I wouldn’t sweat it too much. It sounds like you’re a kid, you can’t legally go off on your own, you don’t really have control over that yet unfortunately. Even Mao was able to forgive members of Chinese royalty and let many of them lead normal working class lives after the revolution. The best thing you can do is just remember how growing up with that influence affects your thinking in other areas of life. We learn a lot more from our parents than we realize, just work on not passing that on. You’ll probably only learn some of these after making mistakes that make you have to reckon with them tho

Yeah, maybe not ebay. I used Swappa back in the day and that was cool. But phone hardware hasn’t improved THAT much in the past 5 years. You can go pretty far back and have a pretty decent phone. Android phones lose their value a lot faster so you can usually get them super cheap. Should probably buy unlocked

I mean this honestly isn’t a bad idea. If you had a particular need to rush home, I think you could probably reduce the time. Maybe a crockpot meal at home?

Yes and no. Humans are endurance creatures, we hunted things back in ye olden day by just chasing them until they got worn out. You’ll be able to bike to and from your house, that’s not really a problem. But I don’t think you’re make it in 20 minutes until you’ve been biking for a bit.