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- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 day ago:
That was also the period when the introduction of tire pressure sensors created brand new issue that people never had before.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 day ago:
However you probably don’t miss the manual choke valve, double clutching, hand winded starter crank, or even window cranks.
There was really no golden period of car controls. It went fluidly from one kind of shit to another kind of shit.
- Comment on ‘I’ve never used it and probably never will’: Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu says he won’t use AI to make music [VGC] 2 days ago:
I think the people who just pick up an instrument and fool around with it might be more tempted to use AI than an actual composer who knows and cares about music theory and sound production.
It’s all about what they want to do. You don’t ask a algorithm to solve your sodoku, because what
It’s a standing joke that composers actually make their living doing tedious tasks like commercial jingles and background music for radio shows. The AI can easily do that, removing both the tedious work, but also the payment.
Algorithm based music isn’t a new thing. One could argue that it was exactly what Bach was doing. His ideas were mostly simple three note motifs, and the rest of the hourly long concerts were just him churning out all the possible arrangements using strict theory. AI could do that faster than a human, but I also don’t think any human is really interested in doing it like that anymore. It was a huge accomplishment by Bach, but only because he was the first to lay the groundwork. It’s not interesting today.
Composition today is all about conveying an idea or emotion through sound, which would be rather difficult for an AI. It can probably fake it well enough, but it’ll be based on already existing methods, aka slop. There’s already enough human made slop in music to saturate the market for such. AI doesn’t really have an edge in doing it, except it might be cheaper for those that need it.
- Comment on do it cowards 4 days ago:
It needs the most advanced AI and direct access to LinkedIn to reach maximum efficiency. No prompting required and all cookies allowed. I want all 1049 partners to get an instantaneous feed from my butthole.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 6 days ago:
Japanese working culture is different.
- Comment on you have been defeated, you do not pass go, you do not collect your $200 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, nothing beats a clean rectum.
- Comment on When did Cash for Chritianity become a thing? When even Jesus the son of god wouldn't stand for it in a church? If they preach why don't they practice from the bible? 2 weeks ago:
Two beggars are sitting side by side on a street in Rome.
One has a cross in front of him; the other one the Star of David. Many people go by and look at both beggars, but only put money into the hat of the beggar sitting behind the cross.
A priest comes by, stops and watches throngs of people giving money to the beggar behind the cross, but none give to the beggar behind the Star of David.
Finally, the priest goes over to the beggar behind the Star of David and says, “My poor fellow, don’t you understand? This is a Catholic country; this city is the seat of Catholicism. People aren’t going to give you money if you sit there with a Star of David in front of you, especially when you’re sitting beside a beggar who has a cross. In fact, they would probably give to him just out of spite.”
The beggar behind the Star of David listened to the priest, turned to the other beggar with the cross and said: “Moishe, look who’s trying to teach the Goldstein brothers about marketing.”
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 weeks ago:
It’s more about set theory than the actual numbers.
Let’s say you have 100 people with everyone tied up across both tracks. Heads on one track and legs on the other. Let’s assume they die if the train touches any part of them, but you still need to choose bet running over heads or legs.
The best choice is then legs, because there’s a probability of some of them being handicapped and not having legs.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
Guess I was wrong. Maybe it adds up.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
I never said I was good at counting.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 weeks ago:
The real numbers also includes the integers.
The practical consequence of this example is that the integers die regardless of what you choose.
However infinitely many people will survive if you choose the first option.
- Comment on The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees 3 weeks ago:
I counted the letter “o”. It doesn’t match up.
- Comment on Trivago 3 weeks ago:
His name is Jürgen Klopp. Football coach.
He started working with Trivago on 2024. Prior to that, they used American actor Tim Williams.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 3 weeks ago:
Cheese hole
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 4 weeks ago:
It’s supposed to be Hong Kong, fwiw.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 4 weeks ago:
That’s unbelievable. The Greeks won’t steal anybody’s jobs.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 4 weeks ago:
Humanistic psychology has a way to describe things in very long and broad manners that might sell a lot of books to schools, but contain very little practical information.
Also, they often use specific terms that can mean one thing in psychology but means something completely different to anyone in any other field, who have not studied the exact psychology book that they’re referencing.
It’s a lot simpler than described on wikipedia, and you do not have to discuss feelings with your co-workers.
The point of including your own feelings in the sentence is to turn to the topic away from fruitless chasing of logical arguments where there are none or they are irrelevant. It’s about taking personal ownership of the problem, so that you don’t claim that it is the other persons problem, even if they are the one who needs to do something in order to solve it.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 4 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_common_misconceptions
The history list was most interesting in my opinion.
- Comment on cleansing 4 weeks ago:
Chrissy doesn’t even surf.
- Comment on Ibuprofen 4 weeks ago:
They’re all Old Spice now.
- Comment on Why didn't he just call on his powers to stop the bullet? 5 weeks ago:
Did he even say thank you?
- Comment on Clock logic 1 month ago:
Everybody loves composite numbers, but I’m missing the point in which this is advantage in the context of time. The only situation I know of where time needs to be divided is in paid work, and in this case it’s always converted to base 10 money.
- Comment on The only Charlie Kirk quote worth sharing 1 month ago:
Kirk was three small klan members in a trenchcoat.
- Comment on How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ? 1 month ago:
Now that is something I’ve never thought about before and also wish I hadn’t read.
Anyway, I googled it, and hemorrhoids are actually not necessarily open wounds, and if they are, at least the blood is flowing outwards which might hinder the bacteria from getting into the blood stream. The bacteria from the asshole doesn’t survive well outside the intestines, so there’s a low risk of them crawling back up into an open wound.
However it does happen, and that could cause blood poisoning, which is potentially lethal if untreated. You’d probably want to treat it though because you’d experience severe fever and other clear signs.
I’ll achieve this knowledge in the “don’t worry about it” folder.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 month ago:
They’ll sell it to pay for the elderly homes.
You’ll only inherit the clay ashtray that you made for them in 3rd grade.
- Comment on Metal genres 1 month ago:
Not really. Whether or not a piece of music is boring has very little to do with the time signature.
It’s more like a framework.
Perhaps it’s also boring that most paintings are done on rectangular canvases, but I don’t think a painting necessarily gets particularly more interesting by being done on an oddly shaped canvas.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 month ago:
That was a little later than 3210/3310.
- Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone 1 month ago:
Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.
- Comment on Anon is a fact checker 1 month ago:
It doesn’t have to be meaningless. It’s perfectly meaningful to have innocent fun with somebody else.
- Comment on how do you slice it?? 1 month ago:
It’s more of a journalist thing. They take the words out of your mouth to reach their own conclusion fast and deliver an answer that’ll fit inside the allocated screen time.
“When you heard that people use things instead of measurements to explain the size of other things, exactly how shocking was it to you?”