I should be on the road for a whole long Sunday, so before I go, I’m preloading a cleanup post.
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“Fact-based.” “Following the evidence, the Science!, the good of the Party and the System.”
Air India 171, The Pattern Continues | STANDARDS (FULL DOCUMENTARY EPISODE)
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There’s a reason why the concept of “fourteen thousand years ago in the Magdalenian times” compels me.
And it has something to do with the fact that ‘farming’ as a lifestyle wasn’t even a realistic possibility, then.
12,800 Years Ago Something Stopped the World — We Still Don’t Know What
New Discoveries in the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
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Processor Options: Intel 20-Core i7-14700 (33M, 5.40 GHz)
RAM: 64GB
M.2 SSD Drive/’OS drive’: 1TB NVME SSD
Hard Drive: 4TB (NOT SSD, CMR, for data storage)
$2,965.70
All that wouldn’t cover is: any of the GPU necessary to run a local LLM.
Strangely, that might could be added on as a peripheral later
so long as there is a Thunderbolt 4/USB4 header (which my current laptop has)
and a Tbolt port (which it doesn’t?)
Anyway, yeah, three grand or so just to sit down at the table and get in the game.
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There’s a bunch more, on the spiritual side, but for now
and mention that just before you get to the fully mad state of sannyasa
there is a remote place called Forest Dweller; Vānaprastha (वानप्रस्थ)
and that it is where I will likely live the rest of my life this time
regardless of whether it happens in AZ or NM
and regardless of whether any ‘nice things’ are done for me or not
so i got that going for me