A combination of pandemic lockdowns and work-from-home was practically an orange-pill recipe for myself and many others. There’s no looking back now, and there hasn’t been in over five years.

Yup. That’s basically what happened with TikTok.

I get where you’re coming from. For me, once I’m past/over the initial titillating shock of the scene or actors at hand, my mind turns to all the subtle things going on in the frame. After repeated watches, the things that seem to matter most? Authenticity. Those little fleeting moments when people drop their guard, stop acting, and really just enjoy themselves. A look, a touch, a lunging mouth, an orgasmic cry that is too real to fake… those moments that bring something real crashing through the fourth wall? Yeah. Absolutely.

Personally, I would call this “mono-romantic & poly-sexual” to avoid any ambiguity. “Monogamish” is right up there with “heteroflexible” - useful in a pinch, but requires a conversation to clarify.

There are also serious gains to be made in science on the back of AI models, just not the flavors most people are familiar with.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8633405/

Edit: The missing permanence might also be a reason for many of the issues of LLM’s, some kind of “self” with a sense of the passage of time to return to. I’m pretty sure i’m not the first one who thought of that, and there are probably a lot of people with even more PhDs at work here.

Image generation uses a concept of a LORA that is a bolt-on model to augment a base model. It can provide support for additional tokens (those map more or less to words and concepts), or bias the base model on existing tokens. For now, that’s probably as close as you’re going to get to anything resembling long-term-memory on an LLM.

Ah yes, C64 floppy drive “headbanging”.

IIRC this is because rather than ship a design with a limit switch or any position sensing at all, the drive software just rapidly slaps the read head home a bunch of times to ensure it’s properly aligned with track zero. I have a hard time believing this was to reduce part count, because the drive itself is a whole-ass 6502 computer; the sale price also reflected that. Instead, I think it’s a software fix for a “sometimes an issue” hardware problem.

The buildings are the low density and all the space between. That’s the problem.

• sprawling low density detached housing developments on at least 1/4 acre lots, each
• single-story shopping strips/plazas with massive parking lots
• werehouses and other 1 or 2-story commercial and industrial zones
• sprawling office parks with 2-story buildings and big parking lots
• the occasional undeveloped 100 acre lot or remnant of a working farm here and there
• lots of wide roads, median strips, with massive setbacks (stroads) to connect all of the above

I would argue that season 1 was so well crafted because it follows in the footsteps of the original feature film. From the start it had a clear destination, with the real story being “how in the world did we get here?” Constraints make good art and all that.

I just wish there was a way for new fans to experience the related ARG and fan-forums in chronological order alongside a watch. A huge part of the experience of this show was all the stuff happening in the fandom, during the week in-between episodes.

It’s just so damn good. It’s been a while, so maybe it’s time for a rewatch.

I had high hopes for 1899, but clearly Netflix had other ideas.

Yes, but don’t use a public service for this. Use a local LLM and maintain distinct profiles, one for each online account.

Besides, it’s a really bad form of ID. The numbers aren’t even unique, and up until 2011, a few digits are reserved for geographical information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structure

If I had to reach for a hasty solution, it would be to use the IRS taxpayer ID instead. Of course, that might weaken the SSA’s importance overall, so that wouldn’t be without consequences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Taxpayer_Identification_Number

The content inside the notepad edit window should probably be universally sandboxed from your local box

Sadly, this was already the case when Notepad stayed in its lane and only handled plain text unicode.

As they say: “never meet your heroes”. Two out of three ain’t bad.

Three times++, actually. The second attack was documented to have resumed after the third, with different payload URLs.

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/

As someone who is inside the IT industry, and has been for a while, I have some insight here. Yes, it’s stupidity alright, but a weird focused kind of stupidity like having a blind-spot. Money and ethics, IMO, are the only divisions that explain it.

We like to think of tech as being this rebellious, counter-cultural place. And that tracks when you start talking about “information wants to be free” and “the internet circumvents censorship”, but also “market disruption” and “move fast and break things.” But there’s this problem where that rebellion is actually multiple groups moving in a similar direction. If you look at the decisions people make, there’s a clear tradeoff of ethics in line with freedom and liberty, for cold, hard cash. The people we’re talking about went for the money. It took me a long time to reconcile this, and I’m now comfortable concluding that the rebellious spirit here is less “damn the man” and more “fuck you, got mine.” Nevermind that it’s not sustainable and always ends in a death-spiral of everything they built.

To put it another way, technohippies and conservatives agree about the broad strokes of personal liberty and rebelliousness right up until things like empathy all others get involved. Once you surrender those kinds of ethics, or figure out that having few/none is seen as an asset, bigger paychecks are on offer; its too good to pass up for some folks. It should come as no surprise that aligning one’s self with authoritarianism and even fascism is a small step from there.

And my personal experience - take with salt - there’s also a lot of people in security that are just VERY pessimistic, if not outright fearful, of their fellow man. A lot of them vote to the right, despite depending on an industry mostly fueled by left-thinking labor. They’re highly skilled, competent, and intelligent people in every other way. Once again, I think the fat paycheck smooths a lot of this over.

This is incredible! Thank you for sharing these great ideas.

Is that even possible?

Seems that way! These rules for this Bard subtype are pretty much centered on two things. One is that Bards are basically lightweight sorcerers in 5th ed, with very specific restrictions on slots and that their magic is performance/ritual based. Two, this subtype can imbue pieces of food with a spell, with the effects transferred to a creature upon consumption.

Role-playing aside, being able to choose when to start the clock on buffs and effects (within a single day) is kind of huge. It’s practically potion crafting, with virtually anything edible as reagents.

As a DM, I’d absolutely figure out some house rules for a Food-Wars style bard. Bards can already sway people’s emotions, so the fact they tend to disrobe while eating your food is just a fun side-effect, IMO. Or maybe we just make that a very specific cantrip?

All that I’m aware of. Or to put it another way: every typewriter you’re likely to encounter out in the wild.

It’s a common trope for old whodunit mysteries, so I bet someone solved this particular problem but I’ll also bet that they’re not common machines.