AuADHD reporting in. I got caught re-reading the first part but for a while trying to figure out what neat thing about free-reed instruments was going on, before eventually reading to the end and realizing that its presence was the joke.
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Yes, my edit was a bit hyperbolic. The point being that current AI/LLM companies have been, at best, encoding data that they do not have permission to use into their models.
It's like baking a cake, you mix in flour, butter, eggs, and bake it. Once mixed and baked you can't get the flour, butter and eggs back to their original form and the final product is completely different
It's more like baking a cake with flour, butter, and eggs that you snagged from other people's grocery baskets after they paid for them. Then, started selling the cakes made from said ingredients.
Ideally, none of that would matter because knowledge and data want to be free and everyone would benefit. However, we don't live in such a world. Instead, the technology is being used almost exclusively to extract wealth from people and make the average human being's life worse, both in the short-term by reducing their ability to support themselves and in the long-term by drastically increasing consumption of fossil fuels and potable water, putting more pressure on the biosphere.
In addition to other suggestions, which are likely largely correct, I'll pose another potential factor:
Smoking is self-harm, in addition to addiction. Some people are too fucked up on depression and self-loathing to see their impact on the world around them.
It's a type of swedish smokeless tobacco that has seen popularity elsewhere. It is something like chewing tobacco in a miniature teabag. Health risks are likely lower than other forms of tobacco, based on current (limited) evidence, both due to the lack of combustion and manufacturing process (pasteurized rather than curing and fermentation) but it's still addictive because of the nicotine and shows an increase in cancer incidence.
Apparently, Swedish snus also has higher bioavailability of nicotine than American due to pH and moisture content.
Apparently, disgusting fuckers in the previous comment were spitting the little "teabags" out on the shelf above the urinals or in the urinals (I've seen the later).
And it's way more impressive than the white dudes faces on stolen land.
- Signed a white dude
All eggs are ~~ass~~ cloaca eggs.
I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, took samples of the entire thing, pretended I made it without making any actual alterations, and tried to sell access to it.
Forgot that they are only able to do so because the Western capitalists have been trying to snuff out domestic organized labor and thus dumping huge sums of money into Chinese production for half a century.
Standard "treatments" moving away from what would be referred to in most other contexts as abuse. Seriously, it's messed up what they used to do.
A slight modification as I have new information: If you can justify it, the Xreal One might be worthwhile as they have added an ASIC to do away when the buggy software and dongle nonsense. Still not super open-source friendly (they're not actively hostile either) but that seems to solve my biggest issue with the experience. They seem to have better quality optics as well.
I may end up getting a pair of those to replace my Nreal Airs that are held together with tape and CA glue (I'm unfortunately hard on my electronics).
Oh, and I will absolutely be checking out that audio drama, that sounds awesome. Thanks for letting me know.
Definitely! It was enjoyable. Dirk Maggs also directed three adaptations of Alien novels that are considered canon:
- Alien: Out of the Shadows (takes place between Alien and Aliens)
- Alien: River of Pain (tells the story of the fall of Hadley's Hope)
- Alien: Sea of Sorrows (set ~350 years after OotS)
I have a question for folks here, mainly around English linguistics but would love to hear of parallels in other languages. If you're not big on cats, just skip the next paragraph, which I've include for the context to be clear and show why I have provided the picture.
This morning, one of my cats was acting up a bit, hopping on the table where I have an electronics project, and searching for something to pilfer. In order to halt this behavior, I distracted him with a good deal of play with his toys (he is very athletic, so, lots of tossing a toy mouse for him to chase, then walking over to where he's left it because he doesn't fetch anymore). The image is of the culprit now that he's worn out.
While trying to achieve this state, I had a modified aphorism occur to me:
Idle cats are the Devil's playground.
It occurred to me then that I'm not sure if there is an extant term to describe taking an existing aphorism and modifying it while still conveying the same or similar meaning. For those not familiar, the original aphorism is "Idle hands are the Devil's playground" (apparently of biblical origin), meaning roughly that busy people don't often get into trouble or conversely that bored people will get into mischief.
There is a term, if informal, to describe, often intentional, mismatch of parts of aphorisms (ex. "Not the sharpest egg in the attic"), malaphor. Can anyone think of a similar extant term for a modified aphorism? If not, after trying multiple prefixes, I think that the least clunky seems to be "transaphor" (trans- meaning to change).
Anyone have thoughts on the matter?
Here's the carnage! Was running a long print and saw this when I went to check on it. Was running the stock Ender 3 hotend with a Capricorn tube fix for nearly 5 years. Served me well. I haven't yet been able to remove the white PLA. To see the full damage but, I'm pretty sure that the threads are gone.
Guess it's time to upgrade the hotend.
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That's literally why I had to give up on my research career during the Recession. Very few of my colleagues who continued in academia are even marginally well off. Many have been stuck on the post-doc treadmill of no job security and "student" pay while full-time professorships are outnumbered by adjunct positions, which have marginally greater job security than a fast food worker and about the same benefits.