myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on Feeling weird about my career with respect to AI in ~life
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Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | X-Men teaser in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...functionally, the modern secret wars offered a plot device to integrate all the sprawling comic franchises into a single rebooted continuity; that's been the ultimate goal for their live-action......functionally, the modern secret wars offered a plot device to integrate all the sprawling comic franchises into a single rebooted continuity; that's been the ultimate goal for their live-action media since phase three and they telegraphed secret wars as the next saga shortly thereafter...
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
myrrh Link Parent...our CEO has thrived despite imperfect english for thirty years (example one in how ideas matter in our profession, not technical expression) and he's recently taken to writing whatever he......our CEO has thrived despite imperfect english for thirty years (example one in how ideas matter in our profession, not technical expression) and he's recently taken to writing whatever he intends to express, then running it through chatGPT for technical cleanup, then making a final edit pass to make sure his original ideas survive intact...
...that's one of the better examples i've seen of using the tool for its strengths rather than a BS generator...
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Comment on You are a better writer than AI (yes, YOU!) in ~creative
myrrh (edited )Link...about two-thirds of our studio speak fluent english as their second language and the incidence off LLM-generated slop i find buried in our deliverables is atrocious, so i resoundingly advocate......about two-thirds of our studio speak fluent english as their second language and the incidence off LLM-generated slop i find buried in our deliverables is atrocious, so i resoundingly advocate that original thought with technically-poor english conveys a VASTLY stronger product than vacuous but technically-well-composed filler, but have made little headway amongst staff with low confidence in their written english proficiency...
...i'm grateful to see this video convey that message, but fourty minutes' attention is too great an ask of peoples' time, which i suppose brings the issue full circle...
"IF ANYONE CAN GENERATE THIS SLOP IN TWO MINUTES THEN WHY IS OUR CLIENT PAYING US?"
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Comment on The first really new compass since 1936 (a new, public domain design without liquid in the dial) in ~engineering
myrrh Link...i believe that back during bush-the-lesser's administration, the USPTO changed their standard of novelty from prior art to first-to-file, which effectively means that nothing can be safely......i believe that back during bush-the-lesser's administration, the USPTO changed their standard of novelty from prior art to first-to-file, which effectively means that nothing can be safely released into the public domain without filing for a patent first...
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Comment on The Wes Cook archive in ~arts
myrrh Link Parent...compiled by cabel sasser, no less!..i've always appreciated his story of turning down apple's proposed acquisition way back in the nascent OS/X days, before itunes......compiled by cabel sasser, no less!..i've always appreciated his story of turning down apple's proposed acquisition way back in the nascent OS/X days, before itunes...
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Comment on What do you leave out for Father Christmas? in ~talk
myrrh Link Parent...fodder for their donkey-camels, like cut grass or hay......fodder for their donkey-camels, like cut grass or hay...
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Comment on What do you leave out for Father Christmas? in ~talk
myrrh Link...stateside we left milk + cookies on an endtable near our fireplace christmas eve, plus in puerto rico we'd leave a box of grass under our bed for three kings' day... (we'd also leave a case of......stateside we left milk + cookies on an endtable near our fireplace christmas eve, plus in puerto rico we'd leave a box of grass under our bed for three kings' day...
(we'd also leave a case of beer at the curb for garbage men the week between, because apparently they'd dump trash on your lawn if you didn't)
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Comment on I need to tell you why coffee makes you poop in ~food
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...hot tea, iced tea, chilled yerba mate drinks, anything with strong caffeine content will affect me similarly if my intestines haven't yet fully purged for the day, but uncaffeinated hot or......hot tea, iced tea, chilled yerba mate drinks, anything with strong caffeine content will affect me similarly if my intestines haven't yet fully purged for the day, but uncaffeinated hot or chilled beverages have no such effect...
(my gut motility is pretty active and i completely purge my GI tract daily; nothing stays in me longer than about 18 hours and when i've taken bowel-prep medication for colonoscopy it wasn't too different from a typical morning)
...morning, afternoon, evening, or night, the effect is the same but if i've already purged completely and it's been less than six hours since i last ate, strong caffeine carries no laxative effect for me...
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Comment on Proposed amendments to Denmark's laws on copyright and broadcasting would see VPNs limited for common uses under changes to combat access to illegal streaming services in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...i'd rather live in a world governed by freedom than by fear......i'd rather live in a world governed by freedom than by fear...
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Comment on The Windows 11 crisis in ~tech
myrrh Link...i was one of the last holdouts in our studio still running windows 10, but federal security requirements finally dragged me kicking-and-screaming over to windows 11 this fall, and: it's......i was one of the last holdouts in our studio still running windows 10, but federal security requirements finally dragged me kicking-and-screaming over to windows 11 this fall, and: it's alright, i guess; i'm still able to get my work done albeit in cumbersome fashion...
...i don't think i lost much more than a day's productivity researching + disabling all the sundry cruft to arrive at a reasonably-usable windows-compatible operating environment, doubtless hastened by having already wrested a similar result from our microsoft application/service suite's cloud-migration initiative over the previous year or two...
...mostly it's the little things which sap my productivity now, countless tiny delays which add up to a substantial whole, be they cumbersome UI choices, incessant pop-up dialogs, inconsistent-yet-persistent latency issues, and just a general design ethos of making the user a second-class-citizen in the operating system...it's a manageable productivity loss, one which tests my patience only when manifesting its paradigm of users serving the system rather than the inverse, which i've mostly hammered-out at this point: thankfully i'm one of the few folks in our operation provisioned a separate administrator account to do so...
...i think presentation disruptions are my last remaining acute pain point; i work around them as best i can but really the operating system has no business getting in my way when presenting something prepared weeks in advance...sure, everyone in my meetings deal with the same issues daily and i can take some recourse in that but it still looks unprofessional as hell...
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Comment on Lord of the Rings Extended Editions returning to theaters with a 4D twist in ~movies
myrrh Link...i preordered up non-dbox tickets for all three on the second weekend, at my local drafthouse, no less......i preordered up non-dbox tickets for all three on the second weekend, at my local drafthouse, no less...
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Comment on These travel influencers don’t want freebies. They’re AI. in ~travel
myrrh Link...whether AI or NI, it's tough to buy into an oh-no-won't-someone-think-of-the-influencers narrative when they're brazen sellouts either way......whether AI or NI, it's tough to buy into an oh-no-won't-someone-think-of-the-influencers narrative when they're brazen sellouts either way...
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...ah, our readings of godwin's law differ: it's not that nazi comparisons are inherently fallacious, it's that the tenor of discourse rapidly devolves to noise after they're introduced to a......ah, our readings of godwin's law differ: it's not that nazi comparisons are inherently fallacious, it's that the tenor of discourse rapidly devolves to noise after they're introduced to a discussion...
...in this instance, while the bad-actions present strikingly similar form, the nature of each event and the bad-actors' position as host versus participant are fundamentally dissimilar, enough to pose each boycott as a substantially-different beast...
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...the fact that zionists successfully campaigned my state to pre-emptively outlaw israel boycotts is a pox (among many) against the legitimacy of my state government... ...didn't citizens united......the fact that zionists successfully campaigned my state to pre-emptively outlaw israel boycotts is a pox (among many) against the legitimacy of my state government...
...didn't citizens united determine that money ≈ free speech in the united states?..that one breath legitimises foreign-nation lobbyists while the other prohibits private sanction is farce...
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
myrrh Link Parent...i did a good bit of reading on the 1936 olympic boycotts while composing my reply above, as the parallels are certainly topical, but ultimately decided that they weren't strong-enough to evoke......i did a good bit of reading on the 1936 olympic boycotts while composing my reply above, as the parallels are certainly topical, but ultimately decided that they weren't strong-enough to evoke godwin's law...
(the contemporary debate surrounding that boycott was extraordinarily-similar, though)
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Comment on Ireland among countries boycotting Eurovision after Israel allowed to compete in ~music
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...i disagree; bold statements (and public boycott absolutely is a bold statement) foment public discourse about issues which are otherwise conveniently ignored... ...the volume of that discourse,......i disagree; bold statements (and public boycott absolutely is a bold statement) foment public discourse about issues which are otherwise conveniently ignored...
...the volume of that discourse, and the international pressure which musters in its wake, comprise the best tools short of violence to force a regime to confront its atrocities...
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Comment on US shoppers, drawn by steep discounts, power through Black Friday in ~finance
myrrh Link Parent...i bought a couple of things from independent irish + english merchants; i think that's okay......i bought a couple of things from independent irish + english merchants; i think that's okay...
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Comment on Have you ever designed/created a spaceship for fiction, RPGs, etc? How did you do it? in ~creative
myrrh Link...ben milton reviewed a pretty cool ship-building tookit just last week on his youtube channel... ...as noted above, methodologies are highly dependent on the setting, but for generic space opera......ben milton reviewed a pretty cool ship-building tookit just last week on his youtube channel...
...as noted above, methodologies are highly dependent on the setting, but for generic space opera i've always enjoyed playing with found objects: tools, nicknacks, discarded packing inserts or containers, and visualising how they might function, what the purpose the various physical features might serve, and even cobbling together kitbash models in my mind if not in-hand...i've spent countless hours, weeks, months, and years poring over classic science-fiction artwork like the terran trade authority books, but simple doodling and daydreaming go a long way!..
...here's some fun inspiration along similar lines...
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Comment on Mystery Science Theater 3000 S11E01: Reptilicus in ~tv
myrrh Link...i tried watching this when it debuted on netflix and just couldn't get into it: i think there's a qualitative difference between seeing something resonate through the cultural backwash of......i tried watching this when it debuted on netflix and just couldn't get into it: i think there's a qualitative difference between seeing something resonate through the cultural backwash of collective broadcast space and watching something deliberately, and MST3K's forte really lay in the former...
...it's the same reason i couldn't get into it after season 5; deliberate production sapped the homebrew-rock-and-roll ethos behind its original authentic charm...
...the latter path treads perilously toward a paradigm of users serving the machines rather the inverse...