SatanicNotMessianic @ SatanicNotMessianic @lemmy.ml

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It was just so painful. I have no idea what they were thinking.

I’m not going to say the word I’m assuming for the removed substitution, but I will say that the Glee cover of Gold Digger was the most uncomfortable scene in the entire series.

That’s a fair point. Yes, nice skin care products can be a bit pricey. I only mentioned the Tatcha because it’s on my bathroom counter and I gave it a sniff to make sure I was remembering correctly. I don’t sell skin care products. I do math for a living.

My point was that splashing on Old Spice isn’t the best for your skin, even if you were to locate an unscented version. Someone in the business - whether at the counter in some fancy shop or a beauty advice vlogger - would be where I’d go if I wanted to get away from scented and possibly less than helpful products.

But just between us, the Tatcha product line is awesome. My partner got me hooked and I am a fresh faced math nerd as a result.

I know. I’m old enough that I worked through the Y2K problem. Not me literally - I was working on a different class of systems - but I literally sat next to COBOL devs who were paid to work on green screens on an IBM midframe for more than half their time to get rid of the two digit date representations on systems operating cellular communications as well as the ones that ran sales and services for a large telecom company. It was my first real job in the industry, and I remember the Gateway type computers sold at Sears with the “Y2K Compatible!” stickers on the front.

My phrasing was both tongue in cheek and a callback to another problem that similarly had some people dreading the end of the world with nuclear reactors running amok and planes crashing from the sky.

In any case, he had a bigger impact on the world than most humans ever will, and going out peacefully at 85 really doesn’t sound all that bad.

It would have just been really funny if his gravestone could have listed his dates as Born June 6 1936 - Died December 13 1901.

TFW when all of your bugs are like cockroaches that run away from the light but hide in the dark where you can’t see them.

I completely agree. I don’t want them to buy out the NYT, and I would rather move back to the laws that prevented over-consolidation of the media. I think that Sinclair and the consolidated talk radio networks represent a very real source of danger to democracy. I think we should legally restrict the number of markets a particular broadcast company can be in, and I also believe that we can and should come up with an argument that’s the equivalent of the Fairness Doctrine that doesn’t rest on something as physical and mundane as the public airwaves.

This is an actual OMG moment.

The next Y2K style problem will happen on this date, January 19, at pi o’clock in 2038. I was really hoping he’d get to see that.

He was ironically taken too soon.

The NYT has a market cap of about $8B. MSFT has a market cap of about $3T. MSFT could take a controlling interest in the Times for the change it finds in the couch cushions. I’m betting a good chunk of the c-suites of the interested parties have higher personal net worths than the NYT has in market cap.

I have mixed feelings about how generative models are built and used. I have mixed feelings about IP laws. I think there needs to be a distinction between academic research and for-profit applications. I don’t know how to bring the laws into alignment on all of those things.

But I do know that the interested parties who are developing generative models for commercial use, in addition to making their models available for academics and non-commercial applications, could well afford to properly compensate companies for their training data.

If I’m misunderstanding, I apologize, but aftershaves are one of the socially acceptable ways for traditionally presenting men to apply perfume. Colognes are often perceived as being a bit affected and in any case get used for special occasions or “going out.” In short, aftershaves are often designed to be used in place of colognes in addition to anything they’re trying to do for your skin (which if they contain alcohol is probably not overly positive in any case).

Is there a reason you would be looking to use aftershave in particular, as opposed to another skin care product? Tatcha, for example, has almost no scent in their water cream, and would probably be better for your skin.

I know that facial shaving can have a particularly strong reaction with some people, but to my knowledge nothing marketed as an aftershave would have a particular benefit over a facial skin care product.

When CrossFit Jesus comes to your party, He doesn’t just bring a six pack, He brings His twelve pack. Or it could be an eighteen pack. It’s a bit hard to tell.

So if an armed and violent group were to break down the doors and windows of the Supreme Court while it was in session with the announced intent to disrupt their proceedings and possibly commit bodily harm to the justices and their staff and personnel, that’s all cool?

People also like to argue it's an acronym, but do you pronounce NASA the same as you pronounce the first letter of each word of National Aeronautics and Space Administration?

Um, yes?

I’m assuming we’re talking about the two A letters here, since nothing comes to mind about a different pronunciation of N or S in American English.

In American English - at least in my experience - the first sound in aeronautics is exactly the same as in “air,” which is also the same as in “administration.” We don’t generally say it as in “ear-onautocs.”

Also, I’m curious - has anyone ever published a study describing whether or not the difference in pronunciation differs between sectors in the computer science community? Particularly, is there a difference between normal developers and those who write in a Lisp?

I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. I'll get you a toe by this afternoon--with nail polish.

Read the article.

Said “Fuck this fucking fuck” to myself.

Will forget his name by the morning.

I tried loading lunch meat into my canon but it developed a film.

1. It looks way too fucking cold to protest.
2. Those riot police would be completely fucked if the protesters actually engaged with them. They had a shit formation and shit equipment.
3. If either side had employed water hoses, it would have been over in ten minutes.

For the most part, I’m genuinely sad to say, the answer is going to be “no,” for a couple of reasons. For the most part, consumer grade items are pretty much crap. They’re functionally focused, as opposed to aesthetically focused. Yes, an old Apple computer signed by Woz will always be worth a lot of money, but they’re mass produced commercial items. No one is going to care for a first edition Apple Watch ten years from now.

Compare that to an Italian designer chair that sold for $700 in 1969 and now goes for $45000 in mint condition. Things like furniture (and to some extent cars) can increase in value because they’re aesthetically as well as functionally designed. No one, 50 years from now, is going to be impressed with an iPhone 8.

Yes, people who are against racism are indoctrinated. You’re totally open minded because you’re a racist, which proves you can think for yourself.

Honestly dude, and I mean this seriously, I hope you get the chance to turn 38 or something and look back on how much of a prick you were when you were 16 and say to yourself that you’ve got some ground to make up, karmically speaking.

Yup. I stop at racism. I think people should. You want to throw out some casual homophobia too?

Just curious - are you a racist troll or do you not get that your post reads as being extremely racist?