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I don't think anyone here is against this per se. It's just that this store was probably intended for other purposes than providing an infinite supply of digital waifus that will actually respond.
I'm all for degeneracy, everyone has a right to get naughty, just like everyone has a right to friendship, love and happiness. Which is why it is a good thing these exist. I just don't think they intended for them to be here, and in such large numbers.
Exactly what I was thinking. The whole AI hype has been cringe so far and this just confirms it. Seems that the ratio between legitimate use cases and fucking around is kinda skewed towards the meme side of things.
Or it might just signify our population has a HUGE lonelyness problem (for a myriad of reasons).
Have you seen the amounts of chaos farmers are able to cause?
Examples in France, the Netherlands and recently Germany?
You do not want that shit in the USA, because your farmers are not only equipped with heavy machinery but firearms as well. If they start blockading critical interstate or transit roads just to make a point, I think it is likely to end in deaths.
We've had one situation where a moment of panic resulted in a police officer opening fire on a kid driving a tractor. No one got hurt but because of how our law works, every time a firearm is used by regular law enforcement, a criminal investigation is opened. And the officer was charged with attempted manslaughter.
Would this have happened in the states, I'd have expected a different outcome.
Not necessarily a bad thing though.
Think of it this way: There's value in having access to a list of curated content others have deemed "worth reading or looking at". But there is just as much value in engaging in some banter, provided it doesn't lead to outright war in the comments.
I admit, it is tiresome trying to seriously discuss a topic when people haven't actually read the article, but there is still an upside to a topic triggering at least enough interest to where people actually want to engage.
Especially Germans, and your cousins who live in the swamp next door.
We can't help the fact our languages just arent't that elegant, no need to apologize for it.
"Weee-wooo weee-wooo weee-wooo... Sir, I've noticed that you've missed the cart return. That's okay, it's kinda hard to find. See, the cart goes over there."
cue incoming verbal violence.
For anyone missing the reference: CartNarcs Absolute treasure trove of comedy gold featuring entitled shitty people.
Had the exact same experience the other day. Fuck these machines, fuck printers, fuck microwave ovens, fuck software updates and fuck time estimates in general.
From personal experience working in a Microsoft ecosystem, it's mostly a matter of being able to hire the right people.
There is a near-infinite source of IT workers that have some expertise with Microsoft software and services. And those kinds of numbers simply don't exist for the Linux world, especially with all the different configurations out there.
Medium-sized organizations have to employ a strategy of throwing enough idiots at a problem in order to keep things running. This also creates some of the issues they need the idiots for because no one has detailed knowledge of how things work.
My attempts at proposing a linux-based application server have been met with all sorts of "but our domain policy", "we can't guarantee continuity", "none of my people know how to admin this stuff" type responses.
It definitely is a matter of mindset, but there is also a big commitment to make if switching systems to Linux. And that is a choice managers will only make if the benefits are clearly illustrated in a businesscase.
It's a global phenomenon, caused by infinite growth based economic modeling (you know, where you base your whole economy on extracting increasing amounts of value from finite resources).
This type of modeling has been proven wrong and debunked early in the previous century, but it is still practised because it works very well for those gaining most of the profits.
You'll usually hear the politicians promoting policies that help the larger companies argue that such policies directly create jobs and thus economic value for the people. But this is more of that trickle-down economics bullshit that doesn't apply in the real world.
Because politicians worldwide have been so fixated on financial gains as a measure of the economy, they fail to measure and correct on (mental) healthcare, housing, education and equality.
Just some context on how large our housing problems have become: There is currently a deficit of 450 000 homes, which is projected to grow past 500 000 by the end of 2024.
The time we stop running countries like we do companies is when we'll see things improve.
Certified European here, can confirm individual member states and EU as a whole as not being a utopia.
Especially us Dutch folks who have been fucked over and held hostage by a waaay to large upper middle class for years. To the point where we've managed to abolish the ministry of housing, open up the housing market to foreign investors, replace a functioning healthcare system with a healthcare market where insurance firms rule with an iron fist and demand more bureacracy than actual care being provided.
... and the list goes on.
It's a worldwide symptom of economic unequality and the decrease in social skills stemming from the fact that we live our lives increasingly isolated in our own online social bubbles. We're turning increasingly hostile towards each other because we're no longer confronted with all people and perspectives in our surroundings, but just the ones we like.
The United States, being a large country filled with very diverse people, despite all being taught to "love America", still deals with Nebraskan farmers having wildly different wants and needs, and way different social standards than the Californian yuppies.
You're a large country, with 334 million people spread out over a vast amount of land. Meanwhile, we're 18 million living on a patch of marshy land roughly 3/4th the size of West Virgina, and we're further from being united than ever before. The fact that you're even holding together as a country is nothing short of amazing considering the fact that your political systems probably cause way more chaos than ours do.
A lot of Europeans probably mean it when they say "How are you even a country?". And it's not so much an attack on the American people as a whole (though some of y'all deserve to be made fun of), but geniuine amazement at the fact that it has more or less held together since 1776.
While I'm not exactly an expert user of AutoCAD (my background is architecture, industrial design and full stack development), I know enough about the software where I can tell it's based on a lot of legacy spaghetti code.
It's the same for Solidworks, which I know through and through, including the shitty VBA scripting environment. My CAD teachers always used to say the software is built like a wooden playhouse, which has been extended over the years to include a second story, a slide, a swingset and a roof extension. But underneath it all, it is still the same "don't fix it if it aint broke" codebase that Dassault has taken their chances on since the '90s.
The second someone invests any kind of money into an open source alternative, the way Blender has done for the mesh modeling industries, both Autodesk and Dassault systemes stand to lose their respective monopolies on 2D and 3D CAD.
But the trend is not limited to CAD software only, it is also highly prevalent in software providers for governmental tasks. Most of which sell the same products for years without iteration on their codebase. The result is that government organisations have to deal with shitty software that requires their individual users to connect to the database (yes, you heard that right, every user has to manually input database credentials that include all grants on all of the relevant datasets). Most of these cronies are reselling badly thought out software, where they've outsourced the development to third-world shitholes. Is is a goddamn miracle that there aren't more major incidents with government organisations.
The only solution for this kind of bullshit is open standards that encourage an open source approach to these kinds of critical applications. Where more parties are actually encouraged to build their own software and where the businessmodel is built around being a service provider and not a magical black box salesman.
If you're able to stop worrying about generating revenue based on your intellectual property and focus on generating revenue from the service you provide, surrounding your product... you'll automatically build a better product.
Not sure if you're going to like the route they'll be taking.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autocad-webassembly
I bet AutoCAD will collapse either way if Microsoft decided to purge legacy components from the OS. Feel like the codebase hasn't changed since the early days and it probably depends on some APIs that have been there since Windows ME.
Holy crap, that would be dense.
Impact/TNA are weird.
They have had their fair share of bad decisions and behind the scenes controversies. Though probably not all the hate they get is justified.
I tend to look past the mediocre stuff because most of it is born from milking the same storyline past its due date. Aces & Eights comes to mind, and all of the EC3 stuff. Loved the concepts, they just took way too long to resolve, which kinda drains the energy.
Ultimately it's the small moments and unique twists that I'll remember fondly, such as Roode terrorizing Sting to the point where he took out his Insane Icon gimmick. Jay Lethal impersonating Rick Flair, the Joseph Park Esq. arc, Austin Aries bluffing his way into 'option C' for a shot at the heavyweight title, the introduction of The Rising during the Beatdown Clan time with the amazing speech by Eli Drake. All moments that were amazing within their context.
But my absolute favourite arc was when they brought in Taryn Terrell as a referee after Gail Kim discovered you can just seduce the male referees to win. Which escalated into one of the best feuds I have ever seen.
Great to hear that trans wrestlers are taken seriously. Really curious to see them in action now. Might look up some matches.
Just read up on his separation from AEW since I don't know the guy at all. Seems like a very annoying person to deal with. The wrestling world sure has its fair share of drama but those involved tend to be professional (in the sense that you keep your personal views from interfering with your profession).
Yet the industry keeps making the mistake of allowing aspects from the personal lives of the performers to mix with the storytelling. And it has never lead to anything good. (The whole Kurt Angle/Jeff Jarett debacle comes to mind)
Interesting, I might give AEW a shot then.
I've been watching TNA/iMPACT since I was a little kid and my friend introduced me to wrestling. Probably the first episode I've ever seen is the one where Abyss slams Brother Runt's forehead into a pile of thumbtacks, instantly sold. Little me couldn't shut up about it for weeks.
I stopped watching iMPACT because they've devolved into a shell of their former self with all the talent leaving and the new roster is more WWE-like. Never liked WWE because of their lack of creativity. Their roster seems to consist of "muscular man really wants championship"-type cookie cutter personas and I haven't heared of any interesting storyline that wasn't [insert character] turned heel and betrayed [championship contestant] at Smackdown.
AEW seems like its worth giving a go. I actually liked some of the things TNA has done through the years such as mixed tag-team matches where the women convincingly beat the men and they weren't weird about it. ODB carrying Eric Young around and "protecting her man". Christopher Daniels walking down the ramp like a bond villain wearing a scarf and drinking an appletini. And probably most of all, the X-Division where the original Mexican Lucha Libre style wrestling was much more promoted than anywhere else.
If AEW can scratch the itch for womens wrestling and wacky storylines I'll likely stick around. Especially interested in seeing how they position their trans wrestlers as that seems to be a hot topic in sports in the United States right now. I tend to get bored of the macho nonsense quite quickly (which explains my love for the X-Division, back in the day).
[consults with other DMs]: "Wait...they can't do that, can they?"... "Really? Well, damn".
Your intern somehow manages to convince the local forestry corporation to share an old field map of the region. Problem is, the file is not georeferenced and she is having trouble doing so. Not being familiar with affine transformations, she picks some horrible references and her attempt has an error of a couple meters.
This is your chance to teach your intern a valuable skill and you're very close to finalizing the map of the region. What is your next move?
Success! You manage to build a somewhat useful TIN from the data. Upon further inspection, the contours of the watersheds you were looking for are vaguely visible. Occlusion from the surrounding trees has had an impact on the dataset though, and it seems the noise wasn't filtered out of the dataset properly, leaving you with the occasional ridiculously stretched triangle to work with. Generating nice vector data from this will prove challenging.
How do you proceed?
You're now playing GIS DnD:
The LiDAR dataset you're using was scanned in a forested area and doesn't include any secondary return data. As a result, your watersheds are occluded and the data doesn't provide the greatest cartography.
What do you do?
Let's not pretend this guy might actually turn out te be a secret sith lord. He might be promoting radical ideas like Jar-Jar was in this scene, but let's not give him that much credit.
Besides he's not goofy enough. If anyone gets to be Jar-Jar it would be Thierry, he ticks all the boxes: