I picked up winsor newton acrylic paints from the craft store.

I probably should have watched a YouTube video on painting or something.

The white paint has pretty good coverage. I just need to learn brush control.

The red paint has good coverage as well, but it does need more than one coat and it appears much darker than I expected. The more paint I add the darker it looks. There are two shades of red down and they look identical on the paper.

It looks like for me going over the lines with the paint marker than painting inside that works ok for me.

The yellow is not going to work. It’s transparent and I worry it will be dark ans muddy by the time enough layers are built up. I’ll try painting white under, then yellow over.

This article seems to be focused on manufacturing for the Chinese domestic market, not the export of cars. They are worried about being shut out of the Chinese market.

So there is a joke in the USA that if you don’t have a girlfriend you pretend you have one. She’s always super pretty, but your friends can never meet her because she lives in Canada.

Let me guess, this super ai lives in Canada and we can never meet it, but it’s totally real.

There were many other formats that came and went between vhs and dvd. There is a lot of media history being conveniently forgotten to make it seem like VHS was the only video format until 1995.

I owned many of them at the time they came out. They all had advantages and drawbacks.

when using the tv’s in most homes at the time, the advantages didn’t matter. You needed to use high resolution composite computer monitors with the video sources and surround sounds equipped receivers to get a significantly different experience. That was such an expensive niche .

The killer thing that vhs had over the numerous formats that came and went was price.

Once dvd got inexpensive enough it took over. That was about a decade after DVD’s introduction.

I agree that dvd will likely outlive the legacy of VHS in pure years.

When an objects time was nearly 5 decades that puts a bit of context around it. By modern standards nearly everything from decades ago is garbage.

VHS has many competitors, but they were too expensive to really challenge for regular people.

The quality of the media determined the quality of your experience. Cheap tapes broke and looked bad. The fact that a tape could be rented from blockbuster dozens of times really showed the durability of the media. Many tapes I had were pulled from rental pools and they looked acceptable.

VHS stood for nearly 30 years before it was credibly replaced. Just because something was eventually replaced doesn’t mean it was bad. It was an awesome format because it was affordable. You could have always mortgaged a home and purchased a professional deck.

There were plenty of other formats that came and went during VHS. Many took away consumers control of content. Only when flash cards came commonplace was the VHS and the ability to make mix and match your own media replicated.

You could deck to deck make your own tapes if you wanted and edit with scissors and tape.

When you say cheap no-name. What is a name. I was just going to order from Amazon.

When it comes to paint. Are some easier to use than others? I know I’d have a challenge painting clean lines with the tempura paints I usually use with the kids.

This is a decent outline for how to use AI to improve a service.

A fully optional and separate product to interpret natural language interactions for a non-generative AI.

This seems like an appropriate use of AI.

This was a pro machine, so you’d be expecting only high end GPU’s to be slotted. However it won’t matter without drivers.

With the increase in thunderbolt capacity and the lack of gpu cards there wasn’t a lot of use for the pci- slots in 2026.

The new Mac studios really filled the needs for many that the Mac Pro targeted.

. Ai companies want to replace all YouTube , and TikTok,creators with ai video content farms, capturing the creator market and if it scales the streaming market. Instead of getting a cut gen ai would let platforms eat the whole pie alone.

A significant number of smaller creators I watch have drastically increased the quality of animations and b roll by using ai tools.

These tool are a big deal to a big market.

Obviously not true, do you think anything the US does is planned?

Yes.

I didn’t read this and just pasted this into a llm

This is clearly a situation where you are expected to spend 100% of a budget to keep your job.

That is not at all what the article says. It’s way more self serving than that.

So I found it kind of sucks to have those daily life tasks removed. I worked in a place early in my career that had on site catered food, on site laundry, on site massage, shopping services (before Amazon prime) and lodging for excessive overtime .

If it’s just leaving you more opportunity to work it sucks. I can’t be the only one who enjoys taking care of the daily life tasks Lê cleaning, shopping and cooking for myself. It’s what personalizes your life. When you do it for yourself, you decide what you eat and what you wear.

It seems cool but it’s offered so you never stop working and your life is never really your own.

I went looking for data and it seems cd sales are on the decline again. So my info is outdated. It looks like it was trending younger with Taylor swift and k-pop titles as the top sellers. It appears to be less of a revival and more of a fad.

It looks like vinyl is still growing in 2026 even while cd decrease again.

It’s a bummer since artist can get a bigger cut of physical media sales and cd are easier to make than a records.

In audio circles stamped cd’s have been making a comeback. It’s much like the last decades vinyl revival.

It’s not the older generations getting nostalgia, it’s the younger generations looking for ‘experience’ over content. Buying a physical thing, storing on the shelf, having a visible collection of disks to show off.

Additionally it is a revenue stream for artists, where despite the costs of mastering and pressing a cd, they can get more money from a cd release than from streaming. So artists have been incentivized do make releases a big deal since they money goes straight to them. It’s a bit like a ‘buy me a coffee’ but with a physical item.

You can buy brand new cd players, not just blueray players or vintage units that need service.

It’s a thing.