NFPA 101 -
7.1.10.1 “Means of egress shall be continuously maintained free of all obstructions”
7.2.1.5.2 “Locks and latches shall not require the use of a key, a tool, or special knowledge or effort for operation from the egress side.”
To borrow a classic, ‘those who care, don’t matter, and those who matter, don’t care.’ People with something meaningful going on in their life are too busy to get caught up in celebrity gossip.
Option 1, admit you were wrong. Option 2, claim to be a part of a group hated by anti-racists Option 3, claim to be a part of one of the most hated groups in the world Option 4, 2 and also 3
Somehow they still preferred 2 over 1
Nero was in a position of power and hypothetically could have done something, hence the criticism of him for ‘fiddling while Rome burned.’ Are you suggesting the twenty-something year olds of this world have some power to turn things around?
You walked out and laid down in their home. What else do you expect?
The GUIs are nice, sometimes, especially for visual things. (Selecting an image, color, etc.) The terminal remains extremely powerful though in that it’s much closer to the object, as it were. If you want to, say, change a setting on your personal machine, as long as the GUI designer thought that option should be included in the GUI (because including every possible setting gets very large and unwieldy very quickly) you’re fine. But if you want to adjust that setting on 5, 10, 100 machines, that 30 second trip to the settings app turns into lots of work. If you want to set a setting that the GUI designer didn’t decide to include, you’re stuck. If you want to have an explanation of what you are doing, or what that other setting might do, terminal has man pages. GUI might have tooltips or a crowdsourced explanation.
I played another guy’s game (game dev thesis project) based on the Milgram experiment. It definitely didn’t have this level of graphical fidelity. I’d be happy to give some feedback. I’m running Bazzite at the moment so if you need someone to look at for proton compatibility, etc. I’m happy to be the guinea pig there as well.
Does anyone actually still do that? I haven’t heard anyone identify with their system since I was a youngling.
Somehow I think ducks would have an accent like the old ‘transatlantic’ accent used by actors from the 1940s.
Image generation is fun, and LLMs can be a great way to find a starting point for learning something already known by humanity as a whole, but not known by one in particular. Because they are statistical association machines, they are practically perfect for answering the ‘what word am I looking for?’ question when you can only ‘talk around’ the concept.
However, that’s not what they are being used for, and the user cost does not match the externalized cost. If users had to pay the real cost today, the AI companies would die tomorrow. (This is probably true of a great many companies but we’re talking AI ones here.)
One of the concepts I keep returning to is ‘X was cool, but then the idiots got it.’ Early internet? Absolute nerdity; the only people on there were highly educated, usually intelligent as well, and the new people came at a pace the community could absorb. Then the idiots came, including business majors, kids, and eventually just everyone. Early mass media? Libraries of printed books. It was still expensive, so no one bothered making and distributing 3,000,000 copies of Ted from the pub’s musings on redheads, but as it became cheaper, and eventually even cheaper in electronic form, gates were no longer kept, and the idiots got in.
In this same way, AI in the form of statistical analysis tools has always been fascinating, and kind of cool. AI assisted radiology is great. Data analysis tools are great. But the idiots have the controls now, and they’re using them to put shrimp Jesus on their deep fake pizza, at the top of GPT-generated ‘articles,’ and we’re all paying the price for their fun in the form of uncountable subsidies, environmental damage, and societal damage.
If you make a ‘feature’ opt-in, 3 people will use it, so the person who added it would have to work much harder to justify their paycheck. If you make everyone use your ‘feature’ by default, you can say ‘look how many people use the feature I added,’ while actually pointing at the number of people who didn’t turn off the feature according to the spyware metrics.
You might be surprised how many old people commit crimes. They aren’t tagging houses or robbing banks and museums (usually) but they can do a lot of other things. Petty theft, drunk driving, sexual offenses, etc.
And the effect of lead is subtle, like toxoplasmosis. It’s not a ‘touched lead, now I’m guaranteed to become a serial killer’ effect. It’s more like the lead dulls your ability to think ‘I probably shouldn’t do X,’ so you have a higher probability of doing things that get you into trouble.
I’d have to spend a long time travelling just to find the answer to this question.
It’s not January? When everyone stops stabbing them and cutting them up for pastry?
There’s no cheat code to get them to like you, dude.
This is a Monday comic.
What’s so hard to understand? There are only a few words in cat. Meow means ‘give me what I want.’ Mao means ‘why haven’t you given me what I want?’ Mrr means ‘what the fuck?’ And mrow means ‘what the fuck, give me what I want.’ The rest is context clues.
Tried the demo a ways back. Seemed okay. Way more into the use of Gealdyr as soundtrack than the game itself, though.
Better for the fool maybe. Idiots being more visible helps everyone else avoid them.