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by nkrisc 23d ago
The AI-generated video ads are getting really bizarre on YouTube. There's class of them that feature some AI-generated song with AI-generated animated characters. One song began with lyrics about having sex with a Jewish billionaire&#x
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by nkrisc 24d ago
But look on the bright side, now anyone can vibe-code their own, personalized to-do app. This is just the price we pay for progress.
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by nkrisc 24d ago
We could solve even more crimes if the police were allowed to install cameras in everyone's homes.
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by nkrisc 24d ago
Law enforcement.
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by nkrisc 25d ago
Something being an accident does not necessarily preclude negligence.
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by nkrisc 25d ago
People in the Amazon do eat tarantulas. They do roast them over an open flame first though to burn off the hairs as they can be harmful and irritating.
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by nkrisc 25d ago
Don’t worry, my kids eat the skin too. I guess we forgot to tell them not to and they didn’t find it unpleasant. I tried a bite for my own edification and I did not find it pleasant. That said, I usually eat peanuts with the shell and all.
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by nkrisc 25d ago
Not familiar with that one at all, was it also a doom conversion? I’ll have to check it out.
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by nkrisc 25d ago
The concept reminds of Chex Quest, a Doom total conversion based on Chex, the cereal brand. I loved playing it when I was 8 or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest
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by nkrisc 26d ago
Because my 12 mini still works just fine and I haven’t needed a new phone yet.
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by nkrisc 27d ago
Not that I’ve seen really, but I haven’t looked much outside the mainstream as my 12 mini is still going strong. But seems I’m either in a real minority with regards to phone size preference, or at least the manufacturers believe I am.
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by nkrisc 27d ago
I keep waiting but the phones only get bigger. Seems I’ll have to eventually replace my iPhone 12 mini with a 13 mini, or ditch Apple entirely. The Google Nexus 4 was my all time favorite smart phone in terms of overall size. But I suppose
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by nkrisc 27d ago
But consumers still pay it. No one has to play video games. I am in no way defending Sony here but I think it’s beside to the point to chastise them for selling a worse product (I mean revocable license) for the same price because consumers
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by nkrisc 27d ago
So users Adam, Anne and Archie all have the same profile image?
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by nkrisc 27d ago
Cold hard cash. If they want my input, they can pay me for my time. If it’s a small or local business that I like patronizing then I might do something small for them out of generosity and a desire to see them succeed in place of some large
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by nkrisc 27d ago
Procedural generation is not gameplay. Procedural generation makes your already fun game more interesting via more variety. If you don’t already have a fun game, then pro gen won’t make it any more fun than it already is. It turns a fun 1-h
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by nkrisc 28d ago
Some kind of infant and toddler childcare is necessary, whether it’s daycare, friends, family, or neighbors. Trying to raise an infant or toddler without other people caring for them at least some of the time will make most people slowly go
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by nkrisc 28d ago
Yes, kids pass germ to each other. This will happen any time lots of kids are in one place.
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by nkrisc 28d ago
Your phrasing betrays your bias. Having kids in childcare is not the downfall of society, and in some ways is similar to The Way Things Used To Be. My youngest goes to pre-school childcare where he gets to interact with kids and parents fro
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by nkrisc 28d ago
The lesson here is: don’t do free work for corporations.
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by nkrisc 29d ago
Given that these ad networks have actually served real malware on normally trustworthy sites (even nytimes was affected) the meme is essentially true even today. Ad blockers are malware protection.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
Sure, it’s nice, but it’s not necessary. Pushing a button when you get in to adjust everything is fine.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
There’s an easy solution that I’ve taken: just stop watching stuff. Choose not to participate in the bullshit.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
I have a 2019 Forester so I think I just missed that. There’s a panel where the preset buttons for seat position profiles would be if I had paid for that feature. Seat position profiles is a great feature, making it automatic is completely
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
This idea has been proposed as far back as 1729 by Jonathan Swift but it hasn't seem to caught on at all in the intervening years.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
That’s also a good question, but ultimately a separate one. My point is that replacing people with robots before answering your question is irresponsible.
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
So a robot takes his job: who feeds and houses him? Or is he supposed to just go down a few rungs on the job ladder and take a worse job robots can’t currently do?
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
Truthfully, it’s very hard to find them these days, in my experience. Around 2005-2015 they seemed to be everywhere and were tasty options on their own merits. Every once in a while I’ll still find them in the grocery store but it’s hard. T
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
Even though I do eat meat I still enjoy black bean burger patties far more than Impossible because a black bean patty is tasty in its own way and not trying to replicate meat. A black bean patty or similar is a tasty bit of food that works
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by nkrisc 1mo ago
It lived ~400 million years ago.

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