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  • Oh that one is a good one, it's very busy. Using the first method the trees are on the 'bottom' and everything progressively pops out with the fish/turtle on 'top'.

    The other way is reverse, the trees are on the 'top' and the fish are on the 'bottom' (like I'm looking in that 'box'). It's also really hard to see the whole picture this way, but that's just me.

    Also, 'In a Box' might not be the best analogy, you can make one that intentionally feels like you're looking inside something -- it's just that most of these are made to pop out at you.

  • The way this works is that the image is designed to appear 'beyond' the surface it is printed on. It's much easier to relax your eyes and pretend you're looking at what's 'behind' the paper. Kind of like 3d chalk art on the road in a way.

    The other way of crossing your eyes works because you're swapping the left and right eye, which gives a different, inverted appearance. Instead of a foreground image popping out of the background, it looks like the other way. Like looking in a box, kinda.

    I can do both, but the latter is more difficult, sometimes requires a specific distance, and can be painful if you force it. If the image is too big, you may only be able to see a part of it. I think the first method is easier to do and to learn/train. Either way, you aren't looking at what's 'on the surface'.

    ...

    The best way I can explain is: pretend you're sitting on the toilet, really tired and you have nothing to look at so you just lose focus and gaze at random stuff. When the tiles or cracks start to make pictures that aren't there, that's kind of the effect you want.

  • This. At some point, everything just happened to be 'AI'. It's stupid.

    To put it in perspective, I just watched a YouTube video where someone claimed that they wrote a program to win at minesweeper using AI. All of it was handwritten conditional checks and there was no training element to it. It plays the same way every time, but since minesweeper is random by nature it 'appears' to be doing something different. Worse, to 'win' is just to beat a level under a certain time, not to improve upon that time or improve win rates.

    The sad thing is that various levels of AI are/were defined, but marketing is doing a successful job at drowning out fact checkers. Lots of things that weren't considered AI now are. You have media claiming Minecraft is AI because it makes use of procedural generation -- Let's forget the fact that Diablo came out years earlier and also uses it.... No the important thing is that the foundation for neural networks were being laid as early as the 1940's and big projects over the years using supercomputers like DeepBlue, Summit, and others are completely ignored.

    AI has been around, it's been defined, and it's not here yet. We have glorified auto-complete bots that happen to be wrong to a tolerable point so businesses have an excuse to layoff people. While there are some amazing things it can do sometimes, the AI I envisioned as a child doesn't exist quite yet.

  • I feel that a lot of discussion is by people who have never taken ozempic or have and are successful with its treatment. For what it's worth, I'd like to give some insight to my own experience with it and why I'm not on it.

    I won't talk about all my medical issues, but to make it very broad - I have type 2 and a genetic disorder regarding my ability to metabolize. I was put on a trial of ozempic because of its apparent effectiveness.

    While on it, one of the first things I noticed that no one seems to talk about (so I don't know if it's just me or not): the feeling of being sated and hungry are two different feelings. It was weird being hungry and full all the time. A bit torturous, but something I felt was manageable.

    Unfortunately, even on the lowest dosage, the sated feeling was so strong I felt nauseous all the time. It eventually became a problem when I started becoming dehydrated because I couldn't even keep a glass of water down.

    I was removed from the medication and I had persistent side-effects afterwards. It's been years now and while the side effects have diminished, I still get random bouts of nausea for no apparent reason. It's unrelated to when I eat or drink, but it's something I've never experienced prior to being on ozempic.

    As weird as it sounds, there are some days I wish I could go back on ozempic. It is effective, but now doctors know I retained some side effects, they won't let me try it ever again.

    And I guess that's it. Nothing too horrible I guess, but even miracle drugs have side effects. Everyone is built differently, so there will always be outliers.

  • No. But I do sing the victory fanfare tune from final fantasy every time I do some small thing. Wash dishes? Victory! Laundry? Victory! Cook dinner? Victory! Take a shit? Victory!

  • This is just my opinion, and there are always legitimate use cases for wired or wireless. Losing connection at the worst time is the main reason. I play online, so it's a complete and absolute, non-negotiable dealbraker to me. Every other benefit wireless gives and every other negative wired gives is trumped by this singular requirement.

    I won't go into every situation, but almost every minor issue in wireless results in disconnects. This ends up with me using wired anyways, which leads to the problem in my previous post: worn out USB ports. Wired by comparison has far less disconnects.

    On a side note: I also wanted to add (but didn't feel it was worth editing at the time), razor is stupid expensive for just that one little feature. I've had this controller for years, and back then it was the only one I could find like it. To me, it has been worth - but if I was to buy another I'd definitely look for something similar that is cheaper with possibly more features. It wasn't meant to be a razor promoting post.

  • I prefer wired. The problem I have with most is that they are battery. Thus, the wired part is always a USB connection that inevitably wears out with use and disconnects randomly.

    It's not an innovative controller with programmable buttons or anything, but the razor controllers have a keyed recess that all but makes it impossible to disconnect or wear the port. It's really the only selling point, but one that has kept me from looking for anything else.

  • Land.

    Tap to not give a crap about the UK.

    Untap to give a crap about the UK.

    You may tap or untap this card multiple times during your opponents turn.

    You may only tap or untap this card once during your turn.

    This card does not untap at the start of your turn.

  • ^ This. There are A and B standards, and each standard has its own crossover. But there is also a crossover between A and B standards, which is typically what is used when referring to crossover cables.

    In other words:

    Not A-to-A xover

    Not B-to-B xover

    xover A-to-B

  • At the risk of sounding snarky, why is this a deal breaker? I can recover both bitwarden and my email if I was ever in a situation where I forgot one or both passwords. It also only occurs in a situation where you are signing into devices that you've never logged in to or purposely logged out of. I do use 2FA, but even if I did not it sounds like a lot of complaining about a situation that you should already be prepared for. Bitwarden could easily go down or your password vault could be corrupted or (at worse case) your vault compromised and passwords stolen. Make plans for such situations and you'll realize this is mostly a knee-jerk reaction to a non-issue.

  • I don't see anyone mentioning it, but what if you do forget (or don't know) your email password? Is there absolutely no way to recover your account? I'm sure there might be some services that are that restrictive, but I'd think that most are recoverable with some extra steps, no? Unless I'm missing something?

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  • Yes. They are bigger. It sends a message to the entire predatory ecosystem. Which would not happen if they went for a smaller Gacha game.

    Other than that, no, let's give them fines too.

  • I don't live in NY but as I understand it, they had to offer this service to every qualified individual. They most likely didn't have the option to only support certain or just existing customers.

    Think of it this way: Had ATT the option to exclude, they would have and abuse it as much as possible. They can't, so either they follow the law or take their business elsewhere. Leaving paves the path for another company or cooperative who does want to follow the new laws, rather than having ATT undermine at every opportunity. It hurts in the short term, but in the long term it helps. NY isn't the first place to chase big telcomm out.

  • I've also been involved in something similar. It costs a lot to expand infrastructure. Part of my job would be to plan and explain the costs associated with that. Wireless still needs a wired connection, and wireless still has connection limitations. You can't just add more users and expect things to work. And you can't just plop another receiver without it interfering with the others. It needs to be properly planned and something as simple as a building's signal reflectivity can mess an entire project up. More towers, more equipment, more redundancy, more personnel, more cables, more power, and forking all the money to do all this within the time limit or face fines is a huge task. And that's assuming it could even work on a technical level, sometimes you just can't do things (don't want to interfere with FAA requirements and such) and people don't understand.

    I hate ATT too, but from a purely financial and planning point of view, I've been there. You can't just snap some fingers and make things happen just like that.