sturger

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The problem is 100% crappy people. However, there are things you can do photographically to "help". If you're willing to spend the time to learn the "art" of photography, there are tricks to enhancing some aspects while playing down others.

For example, wide-angle lenses will distort faces in unappealing ways. For 35mm cameras, 70mm is the recommended lens for portraits for that reason. There are secrets to posing, lighting and dress that help make more flattering pictures.

Tailors have to (used to?) deal with similar problems with people. There are tricks to make a suit more flattering for a person, but there are no perfect solutions.

If you want to keep taking pictures professionally, you'll probably want to learn how to dress, pose and light people for the most flattering effect. You'll also want to take social training to learn how to use spoken and body language to help sway/calm/reassure people. You might also find an assistant who is really good socially do to the posing. That will let you stay behind the camera and focus on the technical aspects, if that is the part that appeals to you.

on ex-kakapo · c/science_memes · 31 pts · 207d

Replace "dig a hole" with "live in mom's basement" and this describes another common species as well.

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Sam Altman is a CEO. What you've written is his job description. Hype the stock, take the fall. Only in his case, the "fall" will be to having to cry himself to sleep on top of millions of dollars each night.

He's not going to be charged with a crime because this is how American big business operates these days. He doing the task he was hired for. If anyone threatened him, 10,000 "millionaire defenders" will pour out of their trailers and blame Obama instead.

He even cowrote a book with Gene Kim called Vibe Coding. Well, I say “wrote” — they used a chatbot for “draft generation and draft ranking”. They vibed the book text.

So how does one “vibe code” a book? Input a prompt and the LLM expands it into a book using statistically likely words?

Why not save everyone the trouble and just publish the “vibe code” prompt?

on Dear Republican Women · c/microblogmemes · 10 pts · 209d

Ok, so science story time. I’m not a doctor.

The female human’s reproductive tract is somewhat loosey-goosey. There is a direct path between the outside world, through the vagina, through the cervix, through the uterus, through the fallopian tubes and into the female abdomen. Not literally, but figuratively the ovaries “float” in the abdomen, just outside of the entrance to the fallopian tubes.
While discussing this with a doctor once, I asked, “Since the ovaries are not directly connected to the fallopian tubes, when an egg erupts from an ovary, what ensures that the egg enters the fallopian tubes and heads to the uterus?”
She replied, “Not much. Occasionally the egg will stay in the abdominal cavity and implant there.”

So think about that for a second. It’s not uncommon for a human eggs to float into the female abdomen, attach and begin growing. That’s called an “ectopic pregnancy”. If you know enough women who trust you, you’ll likely know at least one who’s had surgery for an ectopic pregnancy.

So think about that for another second. If you know someone who is against abortions, be sure to ask them how they suggest solving ectopic pregnancies.

If they don’t have an answer, consider what it would be like to die from one.

on Shower Thoughts on AI · c/fuck_ai · 2 pts · 215d

It‘s crazy what you can get away with if you‘re bold enough.
That’s the key to con(fidence) men. If you state anything confidently enough, some number of rubes will believe you.

on Shower Thoughts on AI · c/fuck_ai · 3 pts · 215d

might be complete garbage code or might work fine, total toss up.

Many state that the “AI hallucinates 30% of the time”. I really appreciate the observation of someone else online who observed, “No, it hallucinates 100% of the time, only sometimes the output happens to be useful.”

So they discovered a way to demolish their competition by laying off their employees and still produce products in record time? Before the pink slips are all printed they jump on the internet to tell everyone their most valuable business secret in 100 years?

You can tell how valuable this “business advantage” is by how willing they are to tell the world about it.

‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’

Half of America’s trailer-park residents pass out because he dared to attack our beloved billionaires. “But what about when we become billionaires!?!”

The reason we have had to deal with this over the centuries is half our population is authoritarian. The idea that someone can punch up as a violation of the laws of man.

It should be the other way around. AI should be reviewing code. AI should be debugging code. Instead, it is allegedly doing the opposite. It’s creating code that requires human review and is generating code that requires humans to debug. This is the opposite of useful.

Having a huge existing codebase and having an AI that scan the entire codebase and find actual bugs would be a godsend. Giving humans more drudgework is the opposite of helpful.