Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)YO
Posts
0
Comments
390
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • I've bumped up against some federal govt (US) contracting work, and have seen this for sure. I've seen some (decision-making!) individuals who behave this way, impacting progress so badly that it truly smells like a compromised person / spy. It's really that nuts sometimes, where the more plausible answer is that the person in question is not acting in good faith.

  • I'm fairly strict about content and usage with mine, and she plays the heck out of Roblox. I've played with her. This has not been my experience at all.

    I've heard there are some SERIOUSLY dangerous people / groups on the platform, but that's true everywhere to some extent and we haven't had issues. I don't think I've ever come across something inappropriate, in fact. What makes you say it's a cess pool of porn and Nazi shit? Not attacking you, genuinely just want to know for my / our benefit.

  • Senses

    Jump
  • This is why I like strongly opinionated frameworks! People get hung up on whether they agree with the opinions themselves, which is valid, but I think kinda misses the point. The great strength of opinionated frameworks is the speed with which you can get "everyone to think about a shared goal in a similar way", to use your phrasing. They do have their problems of course and if you ask me in 5 years, maybe I feel the opposite way about it.

  • And this is the heart of our predicament - the ones in control understand this. If they keep our misery at a low simmer they get to extract everything from us, slowly, we won't revolt. I worry that our only hope may be that they miscalculate and the pot boils over. I really don't want that, but I'm having a harder and harder time imagining real improvements anymore.

  • Not the person you replied to, but I think you're both "right". The ridiculous hype bubble (I'll call it that for sure) put "AI" everywhere, and most of those are useless gimmicks.

    But there's also already uses that offer things I'd call novel and useful enough to have some staying power, which also means they'll be iterated on and improved to whatever degree there is useful stuff there.

    (And just to be clear, an LLM - no matter the use cases and bells and whistles - seems completely incapable of approaching any reasonable definition of AGI, to me)

  • I get mileage outta this one in particular too. Still sometimes get turned around and bamboozled, overall I've kinda learned to treat the info as more like...the Platonic ideal of a perfectly modeled store, lol. The many changes and failures and surprises just make me even more grateful that any of that info is in there and works well. Really convenient.

  • Currently rehabbing an old drive or two to begin my transition away from Windows during some upcoming time off! Enough is enough, MS has made it abundantly clear that users should not expect to own or control their Windows installations anymore. Complete deal breaker and I doubt I'll be back.

  • Damn, I never considered how much the marketing of the earlier eras must have contributed to toxic gamer culture, particularly misogyny and eventually inceldom.

    I'm a little uncertain how much credit to give it, I feel like that kinda stuff was commonplace in advertising in general. But that was a long time ago and it'd be easy for me to just think that since I saw it in gaming and beer marketing that it was "everywhere". Maybe it was way more uneven than I'm thinking, or something. Sure feels relevant.

  • Hell yeah, I'm a goddamned fortress by now. I shrug off everything but a multi pronged attack, no matter how sustained. Pretty much have to be badly under slept, kept in tight quarters, and exposed to something virulent.

    My immune system is like an advanced alien race just crashing through whole galaxies and annihilating weaker species. As it should be.

  • LOL, perfect reference. Hope that's not where I got the idea haha.

    But damn, ya know what, I need to watch this whole entire show again, it was fucking AWESOME. Avasarala herself (not in this clip of course) is dope enough to merit a re-watch, and there are so many cool characters and excellent performances, the writing is great, the universe is great, fuck. I'm not even a TV or really movie watcher.