skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on All downhill from there 21 hours ago:
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic but yeah. Head them off in the direction you want them to go, just like sheepdogs do.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 day ago:
AI seems to really love that extreme high contrast side-lighting on everything. Then the text itself is irregular in a very non-human kind of way, like there’s no natural processes that would result in an ‘E’ like the one in ‘BECAUSE’.
Then you’ve got the person’s face, which if it were drawn by an artist of the skill level we’d expect from the rest of the piece, one would imagine they’d do a better job of conveying some sort of personality or emotion.
AI Art is fundamentally antisocial because it’s the Art equivalent of the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle; it took less effort for OP to create that than it did to pick apart exactly why it feels so unsatisfying and unsettling in all the wrong ways. Always downvote AI Art.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 day ago:
Heat accelerates decomposition. Cold burns tissues. Water logfing from rain would be a nuisance, at least.
I think most “undead” type zombies handwave that sort of stuff away as part of the powers that animate them in the first place. It’s only really an issue for “virus” type zombies.
- Comment on All downhill from there 1 day ago:
I figured they chased them in a big circle. Or did laps. Or anything other than a completely straight line.
- Comment on Made Ya Look... 1 day ago:
Yeah. The problem with capitalism is that if you’re not willing to fuck things up for short-to-medium term benefit before moving onto the next thing, you’ll go out of business to someone who is.
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 day ago:
wtf is going on with his feet
- Comment on Viewers like you 3 days ago:
What would you have us use instead then? They were going after “empathy” last month. No matter what word you choose, Nazis are gonna Nazi.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 days ago:
“curtail developer choice” is such a weak argument because you could equally apply it to literally every piece of regulation ever passed. Of course it curtails choice, that’s almost the dictionary definition of an industry regulation.
- Comment on Anon describes experience 3 days ago:
I actually kind of believe it, because kindergarten/elementary teachers are often from arts & humanities backgrounds, and it’s not at all rare to find one who never passed a high school STEM class.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 days ago:
Absolutely. Every indicator available suggests Enshittification will hit the subscription models within the next few years.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
Pretty much, I mean that’s why we have judges, to look at all the facts of the case and make a decision on whether this is functionally the same group of people doing the same things as they were under another name. Legal loopholes aren’t as easy as some people think.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 days ago:
I mean ok but the drafters of the Terrorism Act did think of that already, changing your name doesn’t get you out of anything. Both the IRA and National Front were forever peeling off into splinter groups with new names back in the 20th century.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 4 days ago:
yeah I thought it looked kind of gay notthattheresanythingwrongwiththat
- Comment on They are so clueless they don't realize that this just pisses everyone off. Shove your banana 4 days ago:
- Comment on Gravity 5 days ago:
While reading this I had a sudden flash of inspiration in which I saw clearly exactly how gravity works, but then when I started typing I forgot again. It’s quite frustrating
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 week ago:
The people who complain the loudest about disrespecting the flag are the same people who ruined it in the first place.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 1 week ago:
Euphemisms like that and “job creators”, “wealth creators” are an instant tip-off that whoever’s talking is a weaselly venal slimeball.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
George Jetson’s work week was one hour a day, two days a week. That’s what we were promised we’d get once everything was automated, not that Spacely Space Sprockets would make us work 60 hours a week and pocket all the extra productivity for themselves.
- Comment on Bernie Sanders says that if AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week 1 week ago:
Most jobs I’ve ever had haven’t been about creating anything used directly by a normal person, they’ve been about optimizing things in ways that squeeze maximum profit for billionaires. I don’t think I’m alone, especially in the developed world.
- Comment on The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead' 2 weeks ago:
: goes to sign
: scrolls countries list
: no ‘United Kingdom’ option
: remembers
: sadface
- Comment on HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK 2 weeks ago:
those who haven’t watched much
I mean… I think I know what you’re trying to say, but this seems to imply that you think someone who doesn’t like a show should just carry on watching it anyway
- Comment on Too many non-working holidays in America. 2 weeks ago:
As far as I can tell the US has only slightly less than an average number of public holidays, but the amount of PTO is close to zero for a lot of people.
EU working time directive requires 28 paid days off per year (including public holidays) as a minimum.
- Comment on See where your tax dollars go 2 weeks ago:
That is such a weird fucking thing to say on every level.
These people really do just assume that everyone is as awful a human being as they themselves are.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
Interesting, I don’t see any huge red flags there.
I gather frequency penalties have fallen out of favour, due to the harmful side effects being worse than the very occasional loop trap.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
If his wealth were a US treasury bond, he’d have to spend at least $50,000,000 every DAY in order to not still keep getting richer.
Take a moment to think about how difficult it is to spend $50,000,000. If I gave you 24 hours to do it using Brewster’s Millions rules, you’d struggle.
There is no good reason for billionaires to exist.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
I guess Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning were just hapless chaps stumbling around in the dark, until Elon lighted their way with his genius vision of how to build an EV. So much so I had to google their names because even I can’t remember them.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
He could declare bankruptcy and be a billionaire again tomorrow.
And I don’t say this out of any kind of admiration for him; just there’s still enough moneyed rubes out there that he could set up a new company making plumbuses and it would hit unicorn status by the end of the day.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
What’s the associated system instruction set to? If you’re using the API it won’t give you the standard Google Gemini Assistant system instructions, and LLMs are prone to go off the rails very quickly if not given proper instructions up front since they’re essentially just “predict the next word” functions at heart.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 4 weeks ago:
What’s frustrating to me is there’s a lot of people who fervently believe that their favourite model is able to think and reason like a sentient being, and whenever something like this comes up it just gets handwaved away with things like “wrong model”, “bad prompting”, “just wait for the next version”, “poisoned data”, etc etc…
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 4 weeks ago:
You’re familiar with survivor bias, yeah?
