HamsterRage
@HamsterRage@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 1 month ago:
Take a look at this:
This is in the Museum of the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome, and it comes from an ancient Roman Villa in Rome. Probably painted in the first or second century CE. There’s walls of this stuff in the museum.
It’s not realism, but minimalistic sketches that, in many ways, outdo realism in artistic quality. To me, this looks more like something that you might find in Leonardo’s sketchbook than on the wall of on ancient Roman Villa from 1200 years earlier.
- Comment on Can I offer you a tan egg? 2 months ago:
What about the Nutria? Literally named like it’s food!
- Comment on New tech discovered 4 months ago:
You mean “flavour”, right? Another small but important difference.
- Comment on New tech discovered 4 months ago:
I think it’s a bit more than that. I think that the idea is that you simplify the problem so that the rubber duck could understand it. Or at least reformulate it in order to communicate it clearly.
It’s the simplification, reformulation or reorganisation that helps to get the breakthrough.
Just thinking out loud isn’t quite the same thing.
- Comment on If it ain't broke 5 months ago:
COBOL is not hard to learn. But it takes years to develop the muscles in your fingers to the point where you can write a subroutine in a single session.
- Comment on Protesting is getting weird... 6 months ago:
As a Canadian driving around the UK I always found these signs strange. When passing one we would raise our fists in the air and shout, “End road work…end road work everywhere!!!”.
It amused us.
- Comment on I this a firm and polite way to tell an opinionated coworker to stop pushing his agenda I don't care about? 7 months ago:
There’s two kinds of issues: instance and pattern. The first time or two, it’s instance. You deal with those with specificity. Something like, “I would prefer not to talk about this subject with you, please stop”.
If it persists, then it’s a pattern problem. You deal with the pattern, not the instance. “I’ve asked you not to talk about subjects like this in the pant, but you haven’t stopped. This makes me feel like you don’t respect my boundaries and it’s making it difficult for me to work with you. Why are you doing this to me?”.
You can escalate from there, and this might involve management involvement but at least you’ll have the clarity of having made the situation clear before it gets there.
Honestly though, unless the coworker is actually deranged, they’ll be mortified when they find out they are making you uncomfortable and they’ll stop right away.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 7 months ago:
I think that a good starting place to explain the concept to people would be to describe a Travesty Generator. I remember playing with one of those back in the 1980’s. If you fed it a snippet of Shakespeare, what it churned out sounded remarkably like Shakespeare, even if it created brand “new” words.
The results were goofy, but fun because it still almost made sense.
The most disappointing source text I ever put in was TS Eliot. The output was just about as much rubbish as the original text.
- Comment on Spiders On Drugs 9 months ago:
It helps if you are an old enough Canadian to remember the original “Hinterland’s Who’s Who” shorts.
- Comment on Truly inspirational 11 months ago:
Stone only makes sense for people used to pounds, shillings and pence. For instance, “This costs 3 pound, 4 shilling and 8”, and, “I weight 12 stone, 6 pounds and 3 ounces”.
- Comment on Mobile roaming: EE prompts anger as it increases price by 150% | Mobile phones | The Guardian 1 year ago:
Try living in Canada. Pretty much all the providers charge $15/day for roaming! No monthly plans available.
- Comment on How do you call in English 1 year ago:
“Row headers” seems wrong to me. Maybe “row labels”?
