If you ever find yourself reaching for the phrase “unwashed masses” unironically, you’re the baddy.

They could send him the nests. Just mark it with an “H” so you know there’s hornets inside.

That’s crazy. You can’t do six. It’s seven! SEVEN MINUTE ABS!

“the serial output from my test unit turns into garbage and it happens at completely random times!”

“Did you make sure they were plugged in all the way?”

“WHAT?!?! ARE YOU SUGGESTING I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING?!?!”

Some time later

“Yeah, it turned out to be the serial connection was loose.”

As someone with a small flock, this is empirically accurate.

It was pre-NCLB, I think they had a lot more freedom on curriculum then.

The chef states are (from North to South) Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Those states, amongst others, grow a lot of food, Corn, wheat, rice, pork, beef, and soy, come immediately to mind. They’re certainly not the only ones, but they do a lot.

From 3rdish grade iirc, MIMAL (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and Louisiana) is a man in a chefs hat making lots of food for the whole country. MN being the hat, LA being the shoes.

Good ol MIMAL.

It’s a surprisingly good comparison especially when you look at the reactions: frame breaking vs data poisoning.

The problem isn’t progress, the problem is that some of us disagree with the Idea that what’s being touted is actual progress. The things llms are actually good at they’ve being doing for years (language translations) the rest of it is so inexact it can’t be trusted.

I can’t trust any llm generated code because it lies about what it’s doing, so I need to verify everything it generates anyway in which case it’s easier to write it myself. I keep trying it and it looks impressive until it ends up at a way worse version of something I could have already written.

I assume that it’s the same way with everything I’m not an expert in. In which case it’s worse than useless to me, I can’t trust anything it says.

The only thing I can use it for is to tell me things I already know and that basically makes it a toy or a game.

That’s not even getting into the security implications of giving shitty software access to all your sensitive data etc.

I don’t understand why anyone ever accepts a job from him. Everyone who works for or with him ends up owed a bunch of money and/or in a shit load of legal trouble.

Missouri AGs and being pieces of shit, name a better duo.

Fuck Ladders

Turns out everyone else online in the 90s and 00s got to meet Chris Hansen.

I try to not buy any Wi-Fi smart home devices anymore. I try to stick to zwave or zigbee, zwave I have better luck with generally. I even left my nest thermostat at my old house and installed a 10+ year old zwave thermostat at the new one. Way happier. I’m not relying on googles API to be stable anymore for home assistant interaction.

Beer Hall Putsch

I grew up in KC, and lived there as an adult for a little less than ten years until moving north last year.

I’ve lived in MD, AL, TX, MO, and MN as an adult. MO has the worst DMV services out of all of them.

If you’re a gardener, the growing season is long and you can grow a lot with very little effort depending on where you’re at.

The BBQ is unbeatable, but it’s not the only great food to be had.

If you are not a heterosexual white male, or at least present as one, it’s a very unpleasant place to exist, not the metro so much, but the state itself.

The politics are ever present and have gotten more and more hateful the last 30 years.

There’s a bunch of churches, if you like those.

The summer can get very humid and hot, and the winters can still get quite cold, though the amount of snow also seems less than when I was young, I’d have to check the data on that one though.

I witnessed a drive-by shooting a few years ago on the way home from work.

You maybe should take my experience with a grain of salt, I hate Missouri now. I was forced to move away from family and friends, the first home I’d ever owned, and am still dealing with the emotional fallout of feeling like the state is trying to criminalize your family for existing.

I’m lucky enough to work fully remotely now so I could choose where to live and I could afford to move pretty much wherever we wanted, and I chose to move to Minnesota.

So, grain of salt and all, but I used to be proud to be from Missouri, I’ve unironically said “That sounds nice and all, but I’m from Missouri, you’re gonna have to show me.” Maybe that sentiment meant something once, but the confirmation of facts and attitude of skepticism is long dead in that state.

If you have to move to the region for work or something I’d recommend Kansas over Missouri at this point. It’s slightly less determined to turn the clock back to 1860.

Oh that reminds me, Missouri Town is pretty cool, you should check that out.

ETA: Fireworks availability and legal weed are pretty dope too. So, bread and circuses at least. Eating some gummies and going to Missouri Town would be a vibe.

It would be such a shame if some people who lived near there read this article but disregarded all the warnings printed clearly on it.

Source: I’ve been an embedded sw engineer for 10+ years

This seems like a pretty decent resource generally speaking. I’ll add this caveat though.

If your threat model includes anyone with large state level resources, you should stay very far away from anything with a radio in it. Wifi, Bluetooth, NFC, whatever, it doesn’t matter. It is possible for it to be compromised at a silicon level, which means you can never be sure it is fully secure.

You have to assume that anything transmitted via RF of any type is capable of being collected and compromised.

All that said, if your concern actually does include people with black helicopters, you already know this, and if it doesn’t, just remember that these technologies are getting cheaper and more ubiquitous all the time (see stingray), so be careful.

Wild they’re announcing a recall already. I mean I didn’t like windows 11 but it seemed more or less functional, even though the ads really pissed me off.

They’re they’re, it’ll be all right.