myrrh's recent activity
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Comment on I need to tell you why coffee makes you poop in ~food
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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...
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Comment on Frame of preference: a history of Mac settings, 1984–2004 in ~tech
myrrh (edited )Link...i feel like this link was posted maybe late summer?..no matter; it was impressive then and it's still impressive now... edit: ...ah, no, i'm thinking of the day return became enter from the......i feel like this link was posted maybe late summer?..no matter; it was impressive then and it's still impressive now...
edit: ...ah, no, i'm thinking of the day return became enter from the same site...
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Comment on Crossdressing Garbage in ~creative
myrrh Link Parent...sometimes the absolute last thing i want in the world is to interact with cashiers, so self-checkout was a godsend... ...you don't need a band; get out and rock the world with your stage......sometimes the absolute last thing i want in the world is to interact with cashiers, so self-checkout was a godsend...
...you don't need a band; get out and rock the world with your stage presence!..
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Comment on A new era of intelligence with Gemini 3 in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...i was working (real-world) architecture in the bay area at the time, and the entire private-development A/E/C industry collapsed on the back of investment capital tied up in dot-com funds,......i was working (real-world) architecture in the bay area at the time, and the entire private-development A/E/C industry collapsed on the back of investment capital tied up in dot-com funds, despite none of our work being related to the dot-com boom...
...that was a really rough hit, as every single client called within the span of what felt like a week to suspend their projects and there was absolutely no work to be had for a year afterward; i ended up doing retail work to make ends meet and our entire staff in corte madera were absurdly overqualified people in similar position...
...took a two-thousand-mile migration and about five years to recover (seemed like half the bay area had the same idea judging by what's become of austin since), and really a decade to pick up all the pieces just in time for the great recession to clock us in the teeth again...
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Comment on A rare GM EV1 saved from the crusher is going to be driveable again in ~transport
myrrh Link...i actively sought an EV1 when shopping a replacement vehicle in the late nineties, and the roadblocks GM threw in my way were enough to dissuade me from considering any general motors products......i actively sought an EV1 when shopping a replacement vehicle in the late nineties, and the roadblocks GM threw in my way were enough to dissuade me from considering any general motors products ever again; i was glad to see them collapse under their own weight a decade later and disappointed to see them bailed-out to restore the status quo...
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Comment on The worlds on fire. So lets just make AI porn. in ~tech
myrrh Link Parent...i've read it through completely and contemplatively: it's a good rant but it still reads like a bloated first draft; i think you could distill his thoughts down to perhaps one-third the word......i've read it through completely and contemplatively: it's a good rant but it still reads like a bloated first draft; i think you could distill his thoughts down to perhaps one-third the word count and get his points across more-effectively...there's also a lot of shop-talk in the first third which could use either contextual exposition, narrative generalisation, or a bit of both to make easier-to-parse for general audiences...
(and of course it's still rife with pervasive editorial, grammatical, and word-choice errors, but that's a job to execute after hammering the content into form)
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Comment on ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie first look reveals Link and Zelda in live action in ~movies
myrrh Link Parent...it's telling that overtly blonde-hair/blue-eye/fair-skin casting of established protagonists is conspicuous in today's media landscape; whether that's telling of the source material, the......it's telling that overtly blonde-hair/blue-eye/fair-skin casting of established protagonists is conspicuous in today's media landscape; whether that's telling of the source material, the culture to which it's being adapted, or the culture which is producing the adaptation i think warrants contemplation...
...there's an ethnic sameness to both link and zelda which carries a lot of cultural baggage, baggage which proactively-diverse casting seeks to redress, and also baggage which the japanese market largely ignores, whether by ignorance, indifference, or choice...had this film been produced thirty years ago or (hopefully) thirty years hence with the same faithful casting choices, it'd've been wholly unremarkable, either due to ignorance of demographic inclusion in the former case or (hopefully) irrelevance of cultural redress in a more-inclusive world...
...but we're here, now, in an early-twenty-first-century global culture which feels more divisive and intolerant than any era of that sixty-year window, so the choice is conspicuous, really either way...while avi arad isn't ike perlmutter, his track record isn't exemplary either and he's earned his share of controversy, too...
...there's nothing in the lore which compels zelda + link's ethnicity to be cast any particular way, so i ask: could disney have pulled off this casting without comment?..if not, why do sony (columbia) and nintendo get a free pass?..japan carries an entirely different set of cultural baggage which isn't entirely pretty either; should it be subjected to the same scrutiny?..
...when does proactive diversity become irrelevant?..when should historic media be respected?..what assumptions in the adaptation of historic media belie biases in the interpreter?..
...i think these questions are all topical to salving today's clash of cultures, questions made conspicuous by this casting decision...
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Comment on McDonald’s is losing its low-income customers in ~food
myrrh Link Parent...mcdonalds is a real-estate and franchise-business company; as long as they can cover those operating costs, they're happy......mcdonalds is a real-estate and franchise-business company; as long as they can cover those operating costs, they're happy...
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Comment on ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie first look reveals Link and Zelda in live action in ~movies
myrrh (edited )Link Parent...disney's aggressively-diverse casting of historically-eurocentric characters brings out the ugly in a lot of people, unfortunately; meanwhile, casting a major franchise this straight is i think......disney's aggressively-diverse casting of historically-eurocentric characters brings out the ugly in a lot of people, unfortunately; meanwhile, casting a major franchise this straight is i think something only a japanese corporation would attempt today, due to cultural differences...
...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...