And everyone is trying to muddle through, including your heroes. I think it’s good to keep this in mind; both to avoid feeling inferior for not having your shit figured out (because nobody has) and to be tolerant of people making mistakes – nobody’s perfect and everyone has issues besides getting your order exactly right.

Be chill with yourself and with other people.

You’re thinking of Boom Boom Boom Boom. Boom Boom Boom was by the Outhere Brothers.

Oh, and AFAIK is basically that you remember a part of the song but not the end so your brain, pattern matching machine that it is, goes nuts trying to complete the half-noticed pattern. At least that’s one explanation for it that also explains why listening to the song fully can end an earworm.

I have screens on my 3rd floor windows. Mine are attached to the window frame with long thin velcro strips but I think there’s other systems as well.

It’s true that LLMs (and GANs) are taking over a term that contains a lot of other stuff, from fuzzy logic to a fair chunk of computer linguistics.

If you look at what AI does, however, it’s mostly classification. Whether it’s fitting imprecise measurements into categories or analyzing waveform to figure out which word it represents regardless of diction and dialect; a lot of AI is just the attempt at classifying hard to classify stuff.

And then someone figure out how to hook that up to a Markov chain generator (LLMs) or run it repeatedly to “recognize” an image in pure noise (GANs). And those are cool little tricks but not really ones that solve a problem that needed solving. Okay, I’ll grant that GANs make a few things in image retouching more convenient but they’re also subject to a distressingly large number of failure modes and consume a monstrous amount of resources.

Plus the whole thing where they’re destroying the concept of photographic and videographic evidence. I dislike that as well.

I really like AI when used for what it’s good at: Taking messy input data and classifying it. We’re getting some really cool things done that way and some even justify the resources we’re spending. But I do agree with you that the vast majority of funding and resources gets spent on the next glorified chatbot in the vague hope that this one will actually generate some kind of profit. (I don’t think that any of the companies who are invested in AI still actually believe their products will generate a real benefit for the end user.)

Blockchain is an adequate solution to a problem that already has other, cheaper solutions.

AI is an adequate solution to a problem that has no other similarly adequate solutions (classification of complex information). Unfortunately, all the money is in that solution being applied to problems where it’s not adequate (content generation, user interaction).

Downside: Many companies use open-plan offices, which means it’s too busy to concentrate. So everyone wears noise-cancelling headphones in order to be able to work at all.

The only time I actually felt that being present was a benefit was in a company that had one from for every two people.

More specifically, “absolute” refers to being above the law or other oversight. An absolute ruler is not bound by the laws that govern everyone else; being able to rule by decree is a consequence of that as there can be no laws that prevent this.

The live-action version of The Enigma of Amigara Fault is surprisingly adorable.

You pay five million bucks to the government, presumably to be pocketed by the president. Under the legal concept of l’etat, c’est moi you have therefore substantially benefitted the United States.

A good foam pillow under my head, a bit of my blanket between my knees. Sometimes I think about getting one of those knee pillows but so far I haven’t bothered.

I won’t go back to a down-filled pillow. Those will inevitably stop supporting my head during the night.

I wouldn’t say pure rage… They were certainly high energy but not super focused on being angry. This may in part be due to Fred Durst adding major frat boy vibes.

I have no idea what they’re like these days.

What happens instead is that the established parties decide they can win the voters back if they adopt far-right policies. We get extra-shitty governance and they still lose voters. It’s a lose-lose situation but they’re committed.

Isn’t the usual approach to just include every single one of them anyway?

And there’s your dressing.

By that measure, most movie theaters also shouldn’t be showing movies – very few of them have the precise setup a given movie was mastered for. If the movie was made with IMAX laser projection in mind, it should only be down in theaters with such projectors even if this excludes 95% of theaters. Likewise for rumble seats. Or theaters with Atmos sound systems if the movie was made with DTS-X in mind.

Of course this leads to the conclusion that it’s financially unwise to release movies at all because any movie will only ever be able to be shown in very few theaters and will not recoup its production costs.

Or, you know, you release it for multiple projection and sound setups and accept that there is a close enough level of fidelity for a given use case. Which leads us back to actually properly mixing it for the home release because the people who have IMAX laser 3D projectors and 12,000 W sound systems are not going to be using Blu-Ray in the first place.

In other words, movies are not intended to be played back at devices that aren’t connected to theater-grade audio hardware.

Of course this requires the question of why movies are even released on Blu-Ray, DVD, or streaming services at all instead of just using the existing distribution system for movie theaters. Everyone who doesn’t run an IMAX setup at home is too poor to watch movies.

Canonically she uses Copland OS, which is named after an abandoned Mac OS 8 prototype but is functionally completely different. Given that Copland OS is built to access what works like a crossbreed between the internet and and the Zone from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I think it’s reassuring that we don’t have it in our world.

Especially for her, seeing that we know she doesn’t use Windows.

I wouldn’t call that a good foundation for a diet.

yFood kinda sucks taste-wise IMO and I think meal replacement shakes from a sports nutrition company offer a better bang for the buck. (Plus the whole thing where Nestlé owns a share of the company these days.)

Went mask off early on, caught the heart of a neurotypical. A personality consists of more than dopamine effectiveness and sometimes the rest makes for what someone considers a compelling package.