BougieBirdie @ Bougie_Birdie @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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This might technically count as physical, but when drawing or writing I really hate the texture of some tools or mediums

Dull pencils, dry markers, cardboard, chalkboards (or maybe just chalk) all make me super uncomfortable.

It's hard to describe. It's like getting shivers, I hate the sound and feel of it

Same, fam

It's never easy, but it does get easier

Unless it doesn't, but hey, I don't want to worry you

It's fortunate where I live that poison control just uses the standard emergency services number.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to recall the number during an emergency where time is a factor. Particularly if the number is like 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3

I hope your kids are okay

I forget which king it was (I'm sure someone here will tell me) but his solution was to divide his kingdom among his two heirs.

So the idea was that one heir would do the dividing and the other heir would then pick which kingdom they wanted.

This is a great solution to making sure people share a cookie / snack / etc fairly. The divider has an incentive to keep things as fair as possible.

I think this ended in civil war though, so your mileage may vary

Spotify has vaguely attributed the need for the API changes to improving security:

• In its blog post, Spotify says that it rolled out the changes with “the aim of creating a more secure platform.”
• In a community forum post, a Spotify employee says that “we want to reiterate the main message from the blog that we’re committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Spotify stakeholders.” The post has many pages of replies from frustrated developers.
• In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Brittney Le Roy says that “as part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges that many companies navigate today, we’re making changes to our public APIs.”

This is fairly disingenuous. The affected endpoints are all GET requests, which are read-only requests that provide some data about the track/artist/playlist/etc. There isn't really very much potential to do anything insecure here.

The only thing they're securing is their hegemony.

I believe this is indicating that it's using the Python syntax highlighting.

Which is still a failure, don't get me wrong. But I don't think that AI truly knows the difference between one language and another anyway

Correctamundo!

Not yet

That's an odd way to ask for clarity when you're looking for help

Squeaker, Fire-belly, Poison Dart, Ghost, Parsley

That's crazy, how can somebody not know what brand of laptop they...

HOLY SHIT ME TOO

I think the answer depends on how you define art.

Like, the artist in me wants to have a discussion about the appeal of abstraction versus impressionism, and whether you should compromise your artistic vision for the sake of commercial success.

The pessimist in me says that the most popular physical art is probably Pokemon trading cards and other merch.

"Physical Art" is a pretty broad category because there's still a million mediums you can choose from. Would making prints of digital art count as physical art? That might be a question for the philosophers.

Anyway, if you're looking to break into the scene then you should probably visit some craft fairs / galleries / tourist traps and see what they're selling. Talk to the artists in the medium you want to explore.

Yeah, I think these goofy names are all based on trends. There's probably some overlap between the people who would name their kids without regards for their kids' feelings, and the people who would jump on some bandwagon or claim it as their own.

A distressingly common one I've been seeing is "Nevaeh" which is "Heaven" spelled backwards. If you're devout enough to name your kid after the pearly gates though, you'd think you'd realize that backwards heaven is likely hell

Mom's lasagna is the best. It's the benchmark against which I compare any other lasagna.

She used to make a really great pizza too, but geez, it's probably been decades since she made one

We're not Italian, I guess I'm just nostalgic for the food of my youth

I had a kid at a summer camp where I was teaching have an unusual one maybe 5-6 years ago.

I'm going through the roll call, and there's a kid who's first name was listed as ABCDE. I think that's pretty weird, so I assume it's an error like somebody made a mistake on the intake form or the database garbled something.

So I skip over that one, and at the end I ask if I miss anyone. A girl puts up her hand so I ask for her name and she pronounces it like "Ab-siddy"

I realize they're the same kid, and that her parents fucked her. I think she knew what was up and was kind of ashamed. Poor kid, I didn't ask her to spell it

This might count as "unusual" punishment, but imo it's far less cruel than what's usually on the table on death row

Segue, what makes you more comfortable for B?

This 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑🌑
Or
That 🌕🌑🌑🌕🌑🌑

My first read I missed that the you were spinning the chamber between shots. I was thinking people pick B assuming its the first one and then get fucked the second way

Anyway, I think I'd go with C. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen, and I didn't get to death row by not believing in instant gratification

Mind the toothpick

If you're a roller coaster enthusiast, you might get a kick out of the Euthanasia Coaster, or as I like to call it The Sui-Slide

Obligatory XKCD

A common refrain I'm seeing in this post is that if there's something wrong with the model you can just retrain it. There's a couple problems with that assumption.

The state of the technology actually makes training a model somewhere between difficult or opaque. And what I mean by this is that in order to train a model you need to give it data. A lot of data. An amount of data that a single person frankly either doesn't have access to or has no simple way to generate. And even then, there's no way to be sure how the model performs until after the training completes, so even if you've collected all that data you won't know it's an improvement.

But for the sake of a hypothetical let's ignore the current state of the technology and imagine that wasn't a problem.

If an AI representative votes for me, and it gets that vote wrong, I won't know about it until after it has voted for me. And by then it's too late - I've already voted against my interest.

Also it seems that your position is that these AI reps are for people who care enough about politics to care, but don't care enough to do. I don't know that those people would ever confirm that their model is actually voting in their favour. If they don't care enough to vote, then they don't care enough to confirm their votes either.

The most damning thing about using AI for policy though - AI is NOT a decision making tool. Ask anybody who actually works on AI. It might fool the people who use it, and the people who sell it to you will tell you anything to make an extra dollar. AI is just a formula that spits out words instead of numbers. Sometimes it strings together a cohesive sentence and sometimes it hallucinates. There isn't any Intelligence happening under the machine, it's all Artificial.

AI is essentially autocomplete on steroids. It has no capacity to reason or argue, it just says what it's trained for you to expect. It's not a thinking machine and I sincerely doubt it ever will be