Gyroscopic Investing

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 7:37 am Not that I expect you to change it, Vinny, but Grok and I have been working on my ideal avatar of you

{ Oh damn, why won’t it upload ?? }

We are completely opposite in changing them. You do them weekly? I do them about every 3, 4 years?

I’m going to email it to you (subj: Avatar) just for laughs

Is it maybe too big? What error do you get?

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 12:13 pm Is it maybe too big? What error do you get?

Says It could be that it’s too big - 1.7MB in this case. However, I used to attach images all the time without much thought given to size. And they just have to be smaller than Smithers’ memes.

I think this started a month or two ago, for me.

Lookin good, Vinny

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:13 pm Lookin good, Vinny

That's because it had excellent creators! Thanks! Though I only weight 150 pounds at 5'7" and I think I look much heavier than that.

The one detail that Grok did on its own which I did not specify was extending your Yankees cap in the back into a wizard hat. That is a very non-human thing to do, keeping both the regular brim *and* making it a wizard hat. Hilarious. I love it.

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 10:13 pm Lookin good, Vinny

Indeed.

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 9:36 am The one detail that Grok did on its own which I did not specify was extending your Yankees cap in the back into a wizard hat. That is a very non-human thing to do, keeping both the regular brim *and* making it a wizard hat. Hilarious. I love it.

Yes. That was quite good and creative.

As for your weight, I didn’t use a photo of you or anything. I just gave Grok a basic description based on the t-shirt.

Vinny's desk isnt that clean.

For any other vegetarians wondering https://cooking.stackexchange.com/quest ... -cut-sirlo

boglerdude wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 11:01 pm Vinny's desk isnt that clean.

For any other vegetarians wondering https://cooking.stackexchange.com/quest ... -cut-sirlo

Today it is filled with computer equipment. But in the days before monitors .... each day when I'd leave my office there would be absolutely nothing on my table / desk.

First thing I'd do is put my Compaq portable (28 pounds) computer on it and then only had the paper on it that I was actively using.

Always liked to start with a totally clean slate each day with nothing out of place.

Smith,

Your Celeron logo reminds me of good times. I want to say somewhere around 1998, during that weird time when CPUs were in slots, the bottleneck for overclocking was the level 2 cache. Since the main difference between Celeron and Pentium was that the Celeron didn't have any level 2 cache, it was a monster overclocker. A Celeron 300 which was meant to have a 66MHz bus could regularly be run on a 100MHz bus, resulting in 450MHz instead of 300.

Another neat thing was the Abit BP6 motherboard from (IIRC) 1999. It was the first dual-CPU motherboard not intended for servers. It was dual sockets, so it wasn't the weird slot CPUs, but two Celerons absolutely shined in that motherboard. You could do things with Celerons that Intel only wanted you to do with Xeons at many times the cost. Good times.