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by mcphage 10mo ago
There's definitely software that wants to make people feel dread. Mostly horror games and Atlassian applications.
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by mcphage 10mo ago
This feels like the origin of a lot of these mistakes (and more besides): they weren't based on "what is it that lots of real designers are actually trying to accomplish?". Why did it take so long to get support for pinstrip
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> Disney is buying equity from OpenAI. Can you buy equity from OpenAI without also giving OpenAI a license to use your IP? Even if the equity is worth $1 billion, how much is Disney's IP license worth?
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by mcphage 10mo ago
> But for professionals who use these to solve complex problems and need correctness above all? Is that the same thing as making bootleg graphics involving Disney characters?
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by mcphage 11mo ago
This was a fantastic article. I loved this point near the top: > Digital transformation is the manifestation through commercialization — which is to say financial means and industrial availability — of tools and processes whose introduc
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> If the people don't care enough about it, using AI to create more volumes of data on it is just wild. They do care about it—they cared about it enough to get it, store it, preserve it. But they’re not good at storing the context
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Will there be taco trucks on every corner? We had been promised that if Hillary won, and I am still disappointed we missed out.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Is it that it’s dead, or that it never existed?
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by mcphage 11mo ago
I agree about Jefferson Airplane, but the person I was responding to claimed the pills came from Lewis Carroll.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> to tune out the corruption angle once the war started Oh man, wait until you hear about what’s going on in the US, we’re experiencing corruption to a degree you can’t even imagine.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
I’m not sure what you wanted them to do, that they didn’t do.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> The pills originally come from Lewis Carroll, where Alice could change size by taking them. Wasn’t it a cake labeled “EAT ME” and a drink labeled “DRINK ME” in Alice in Wonderland? I don’t recall them being pills at all.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Chuck Pahlaniuk then? He devised it. He devised it, but Chuck was pretty clear—Tyler Durden wasn’t the good guy. So don’t take what he said as an endorsement by Pahlaniuk.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Shouldn't there be just one, holding all the truth? How do you hold the truth? Even if there was only a single fact-checking organization, and they had no institutional or personal biases, they still wouldn’t own the truth.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Not everything can be owned by conservative leaning billionaires. Well, it can be, that’s the problem :-(. But it would really, really suck.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Let's not pretend that James "Avatar" Cameron is deep. It’s not, but it’s also now 3 films in 16 years. That’s not a lot.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Bigger than the market for $200 phone pockets.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> This also far more easily lets you have different butt images. Plus there’s a number of subreddits which specialize in those.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> If the people they are arresting aren't being punished they won't bother arresting them. That’s a weird excuse to be soft on crime. > If people aren't being punished then the population as a whole isn't going to
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by mcphage 11mo ago
However now we have more murderers, which is one of those “one step forward, two steps back” things.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> The amount of copper thieves is finite. If that were true, we could simply wait for them to all die out and be done with the problem for good. And since that won’t work, this claim can be dismissed.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> I specifically mean the left) has decided to nearly universally stop enforcing rules The left isn’t generally in control of policing.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Different strokes for different folks, I guess :-)
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by mcphage 11mo ago
I dunno, she tweeted (skeeted?) out something recently with position & rotation splines that was pretty cool.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Sometimes yes, but I think in this case the angry sarcasm is clear.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
Let me add in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022)
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Modern movies are obsessed with plot. Inception being an example of this. I don’t think Inception is a great example of this. It has plot, but the plot is all texture. None of it makes that much sense, nor does it need to.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> Contrast 2001 space odyssey to a 90s movie, it feels so slow. I believe it felt slow when it originally released as well.
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by mcphage 11mo ago
What does it mean to "cost the economy"? Is the economy owed some particular amount of money?
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by mcphage 11mo ago
> “It’s not just X, it’s Y. And the foo? It bazzed.” The common complaint to see a bunch of em-dashes in a passage, and assume it was AI written irritated me—because I like using em-dashes. But this writing… quirk. I don’t know what

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