Yeah, this book resonated with me and my experiences so profoundly that I could only read a chapter or two at a time before needing to put it down for a few days to process all the eureka moments. I recommend it to everyone I can.
I don’t know, I struggle with this advice. On the one hand, in the grand scheme of things you’re probably right. On the other hand, I have a hard time knee-capping my future self with bad credit, which would seriously limit my ability to get any kind of loan. That’s kind of what my pre-college self did by saddling myself with all this debt. It wouldn’t be small dings, it would completely wreck my credit.
Blaming consumers is never going to get you anywhere. I understand the sentiment, but we’re kind of self-selecting here: if you’re a Lemmy user, fine, you probably know better than to use Microsoft products. But try to think about that older person down the street who has only ever used Windows, or that random small business that built their whole infrastructure on MS products in the early 2000s. They’ve probably never heard of Linux, and that’s not their fault. Almost nothing you say will get them to switch operating systems or word processors. And why should they have to? It’s the corporations limiting user options and locking them in to shitty/scammy products, not the consumers who just want a computer that works.
And yes I’m a Linux user, but that’s the point, I’m tech literate, while most lifelong Microslop users won’t have the ability to switch easily, and might not even know they’re locked in.
Empathy is easy, I recommend re-upping your supply and rethinking who is actually to blame for corporate chicanery.
I graduated in 2009, and my loan balances have only ever gone up, even after consistent payments this whole time (excluding the COVID pause). Thanks to this hypocritical Supreme Court that struck down student loan forgiveness because it was initiated by a Dem, my monthly payments for my federal loans went from around $100 to nearly $600. $600 is the bare minimum I’m allowed to pay now, and even after making those payments for the next 20 years my balance is still only expected to go up.
I’m just throwing my money away as my debt continues to increase, but I can’t stop making payments because it would ruin my credit, which I would need if I could ever afford a mortgage, which I’ll never be able afford because all my earnings go to rent, student loans, and food.
It’s all a scam to keep us poor. If you’re thinking about going to college, you should think equally hard about not going.
It’s bad. I wanted to like it, and tried a bunch of different times to get into it, but I just couldn’t. The characters were superficial and forgettable, and the performances were inconsistent and unremarkable.
I recently rewatched Foundation, which I loved, and sadly there’s no comparison. Wheel of Time feels like a badly written B movie compared to Foundation.
If you want something with a fantasy vibe playing in the background while you do something else, go for it. Otherwise, meh.
It’s annoying, I see it a lot too. I think it’s mostly people second-guessing or regretting their own comments or posts. I’ve had great conversations with people, only to go back and find the whole thread was deleted. That has happened way more than I would have expected.
I don’t think it has anything to do with LLMs or slop (and I hate the slop), just people afraid of admitting they’re wrong or leaving an unpopular opinion out in the world after it’s been sufficiently argued away.
I have a couple suggestions, the first may be obvious, but Jellyfin settings can be pretty convoluted so you never know.
What you may be looking for is the difference between “Up Next” and “Latest” (or “Recently Added?” can’t remember exactly, I already powered down for the night). You can add one or both as sections to your home page, which should keep all your latest additions front and center, while also keeping track of the stuff you’re currently watching, if you want.
My more advanced suggestion is to check out the SmartPlaylists plugin. It may not do exactly what you’re imagining, but it’s surprisingly powerful once you get used to the slightly weird UI and rules setup. You can build playlists based on very specific fine-tuned rules, so you could pretty easily set up playlists to only show what you want to see, and they automatically update as your library changes, which is pretty cool.
For sure, I took no offense, and I can totally understand how anyone might assume that AI would be good at producing a map, so, until it’s possible I feel like I have to keep showing my job’s still relevant! Pretty fucked up actually.
Yeah, but that’s the thing, the experts (GIS people and cartographers in general) would immediately tell you that AI can’t make accurate maps. As someone who makes maps as a chunk of my job, I’m not at all surprised.
Which, like you said, is telling about LLMs in general, but it should also remind all of us that for the most part, people get paid for their job because they have cultivated their skills over the course of their career.
I can make a really good data-driven map from scratch in minutes. That’s a skill I have devoted years to, and I get paid because my employer likes the quality of the maps I make and how fast I can make them.
It’s exhausting to see people try to take my job by generating the shittiest potato-quality crap, and thinking it’s acceptable.
Damn, that kinda sucks, I really enjoyed it. To be fair it doesn’t really need a second season, the story was relatively self-contained. But watching Yahya Abdul Mateen and Ben Kingsley together was a joy. They’re both amazing actors.
The court should be made up of a rotating panel of judges, made up of judges from the district courts, or lower courts in general, so the judges themselves are also subject to the court’s rulings, rather than a few permanent power-hungry narcissists imperiously sitting above us all with no accountability.
Each judge must be part of the Supreme Court for a year or two at a time, call it a “detail,” then they go back to their normal job as a judge.
He touches on this a bit, but we absolutely can prevent the new kinds of wildfires we’re seeing, but not all of them. Some are unavoidable, but if we put any amount of attention to fuels management and prevention strategies, and actually enforced it, we could absolutely prevent the deadliest outcomes.
It’s a lack of imagination and political cowardice that prevents us from preventing wildfires.
I just bought a copy of How to Sell a Genocide, which talks about western media's complicity in the atrocities, you may be interested. It goes hard on the NYT.
This is just an opinion piece, though Kristof does have a history of doing pretty solid reporting for his opinion pieces. He’s the one who exposed all the illegal and exploitative shit on mainstream porn sites years ago, which led to a serious overhaul of content. So opinion pieces can still matter, though they’re usually not meant to have this big an impact.
All that to say opinion pieces are not subject to the same journalistic rigor as a standard article, though proper NYtimes journalism leaves a lot to be desired, especially when discussing the genocide in Palestine.
That may be true, and I hope it is, but if Nolan’s weird deal with Morocco to film in occupied Western Sahara was better publicized, he’d probably lose them on that. Some serious colonial bullshit he pulled for this movie.
If you don’t want to spend a premium on a commercial product or a large computer monitor (which will be more expensive than an off the shelf modern tv if you want high resolution), then I’m sorry to say your best bet is to simply never connect your tv to the internet. I have a Hisense U8H 55” tv, and it’s amazing. It has all the stupid shit included, but I literally never see any of it, because it’s not connected to the internet and my input is either set to my Apple TV or my computer’s HDMI port.
It’s 4K, has Dolby Vision, HDR10, filmmaker mode, etc., all the bells and whistles and it has never touched the internet, despite being capable of being a huge piece of shit if I ever did connect it, so I just don’t. It’s also about 4 years old at this point, and its software has never been updated (because I won’t connect it to the internet), still works like the day I bought it.
I don’t see anyone ignoring this kind of violent rhetoric. In fact, the very article you posted is from a left-leaning organization attempting to shine a light on it.
What do you suggest, specifically? If your answer is the same kind of rhetoric and advocating for violence against the right, then you’ve already lost me. Violence, despite what many here may want to believe, is never justified and will not achieve the outcomes you hope. I realize that may sound naive to some, but it’s what I firmly believe.
Yeah, this book resonated with me and my experiences so profoundly that I could only read a chapter or two at a time before needing to put it down for a few days to process all the eureka moments. I recommend it to everyone I can.
I don’t know, I struggle with this advice. On the one hand, in the grand scheme of things you’re probably right. On the other hand, I have a hard time knee-capping my future self with bad credit, which would seriously limit my ability to get any kind of loan. That’s kind of what my pre-college self did by saddling myself with all this debt. It wouldn’t be small dings, it would completely wreck my credit.
Blaming consumers is never going to get you anywhere. I understand the sentiment, but we’re kind of self-selecting here: if you’re a Lemmy user, fine, you probably know better than to use Microsoft products. But try to think about that older person down the street who has only ever used Windows, or that random small business that built their whole infrastructure on MS products in the early 2000s. They’ve probably never heard of Linux, and that’s not their fault. Almost nothing you say will get them to switch operating systems or word processors. And why should they have to? It’s the corporations limiting user options and locking them in to shitty/scammy products, not the consumers who just want a computer that works.
And yes I’m a Linux user, but that’s the point, I’m tech literate, while most lifelong Microslop users won’t have the ability to switch easily, and might not even know they’re locked in.
Empathy is easy, I recommend re-upping your supply and rethinking who is actually to blame for corporate chicanery.
I graduated in 2009, and my loan balances have only ever gone up, even after consistent payments this whole time (excluding the COVID pause). Thanks to this hypocritical Supreme Court that struck down student loan forgiveness because it was initiated by a Dem, my monthly payments for my federal loans went from around $100 to nearly $600. $600 is the bare minimum I’m allowed to pay now, and even after making those payments for the next 20 years my balance is still only expected to go up.
I’m just throwing my money away as my debt continues to increase, but I can’t stop making payments because it would ruin my credit, which I would need if I could ever afford a mortgage, which I’ll never be able afford because all my earnings go to rent, student loans, and food.
It’s all a scam to keep us poor. If you’re thinking about going to college, you should think equally hard about not going.
It’s bad. I wanted to like it, and tried a bunch of different times to get into it, but I just couldn’t. The characters were superficial and forgettable, and the performances were inconsistent and unremarkable.
I recently rewatched Foundation, which I loved, and sadly there’s no comparison. Wheel of Time feels like a badly written B movie compared to Foundation.
If you want something with a fantasy vibe playing in the background while you do something else, go for it. Otherwise, meh.
Just a reminder that this complete piece of shit has consistently voted against paid leave, and has been getting paid to be on leave for weeks.
I know pointing out hypocrisy doesn't do much anymore, but this is next level.
It’s annoying, I see it a lot too. I think it’s mostly people second-guessing or regretting their own comments or posts. I’ve had great conversations with people, only to go back and find the whole thread was deleted. That has happened way more than I would have expected.
I don’t think it has anything to do with LLMs or slop (and I hate the slop), just people afraid of admitting they’re wrong or leaving an unpopular opinion out in the world after it’s been sufficiently argued away.
I have a couple suggestions, the first may be obvious, but Jellyfin settings can be pretty convoluted so you never know.
What you may be looking for is the difference between “Up Next” and “Latest” (or “Recently Added?” can’t remember exactly, I already powered down for the night). You can add one or both as sections to your home page, which should keep all your latest additions front and center, while also keeping track of the stuff you’re currently watching, if you want.
My more advanced suggestion is to check out the SmartPlaylists plugin. It may not do exactly what you’re imagining, but it’s surprisingly powerful once you get used to the slightly weird UI and rules setup. You can build playlists based on very specific fine-tuned rules, so you could pretty easily set up playlists to only show what you want to see, and they automatically update as your library changes, which is pretty cool.
Yeah, he’s playing the same character (Kingsley plays Trevor Slattery, the actor who plays Mandarin).
For sure, I took no offense, and I can totally understand how anyone might assume that AI would be good at producing a map, so, until it’s possible I feel like I have to keep showing my job’s still relevant! Pretty fucked up actually.
Yeah, but that’s the thing, the experts (GIS people and cartographers in general) would immediately tell you that AI can’t make accurate maps. As someone who makes maps as a chunk of my job, I’m not at all surprised.
Which, like you said, is telling about LLMs in general, but it should also remind all of us that for the most part, people get paid for their job because they have cultivated their skills over the course of their career.
I can make a really good data-driven map from scratch in minutes. That’s a skill I have devoted years to, and I get paid because my employer likes the quality of the maps I make and how fast I can make them.
It’s exhausting to see people try to take my job by generating the shittiest potato-quality crap, and thinking it’s acceptable.
Damn, that kinda sucks, I really enjoyed it. To be fair it doesn’t really need a second season, the story was relatively self-contained. But watching Yahya Abdul Mateen and Ben Kingsley together was a joy. They’re both amazing actors.
The court should be made up of a rotating panel of judges, made up of judges from the district courts, or lower courts in general, so the judges themselves are also subject to the court’s rulings, rather than a few permanent power-hungry narcissists imperiously sitting above us all with no accountability.
Each judge must be part of the Supreme Court for a year or two at a time, call it a “detail,” then they go back to their normal job as a judge.
He touches on this a bit, but we absolutely can prevent the new kinds of wildfires we’re seeing, but not all of them. Some are unavoidable, but if we put any amount of attention to fuels management and prevention strategies, and actually enforced it, we could absolutely prevent the deadliest outcomes.
It’s a lack of imagination and political cowardice that prevents us from preventing wildfires.
Oh man, I just started this game last night. Counting down the minutes for the end of the workday so I can get back to it.
I just bought a copy of How to Sell a Genocide, which talks about western media's complicity in the atrocities, you may be interested. It goes hard on the NYT.
This is just an opinion piece, though Kristof does have a history of doing pretty solid reporting for his opinion pieces. He’s the one who exposed all the illegal and exploitative shit on mainstream porn sites years ago, which led to a serious overhaul of content. So opinion pieces can still matter, though they’re usually not meant to have this big an impact.
All that to say opinion pieces are not subject to the same journalistic rigor as a standard article, though proper NYtimes journalism leaves a lot to be desired, especially when discussing the genocide in Palestine.
That may be true, and I hope it is, but if Nolan’s weird deal with Morocco to film in occupied Western Sahara was better publicized, he’d probably lose them on that. Some serious colonial bullshit he pulled for this movie.
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If you don’t want to spend a premium on a commercial product or a large computer monitor (which will be more expensive than an off the shelf modern tv if you want high resolution), then I’m sorry to say your best bet is to simply never connect your tv to the internet. I have a Hisense U8H 55” tv, and it’s amazing. It has all the stupid shit included, but I literally never see any of it, because it’s not connected to the internet and my input is either set to my Apple TV or my computer’s HDMI port.
It’s 4K, has Dolby Vision, HDR10, filmmaker mode, etc., all the bells and whistles and it has never touched the internet, despite being capable of being a huge piece of shit if I ever did connect it, so I just don’t. It’s also about 4 years old at this point, and its software has never been updated (because I won’t connect it to the internet), still works like the day I bought it.
I don’t see anyone ignoring this kind of violent rhetoric. In fact, the very article you posted is from a left-leaning organization attempting to shine a light on it.
What do you suggest, specifically? If your answer is the same kind of rhetoric and advocating for violence against the right, then you’ve already lost me. Violence, despite what many here may want to believe, is never justified and will not achieve the outcomes you hope. I realize that may sound naive to some, but it’s what I firmly believe.