[-] paraplu@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

The closing paragraph kind of undercuts that though. Like people may remember, but they'll think you're cool.

The takeaway is clearly to shart in public if you want people to look up to you.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 12 points 1 month ago

It is a myth. But if a particular soap is causing problems I'd stop using it. Especially since this problem is affecting other kitchen items.

OP might also want to photograph the ingredients on the back of the bottle. In the unlikely event another brand or brands cause this issue, I know I'd get frustrated if I couldn't figure out what not to buy. Or just return to a known safe brand.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

If you have a specific trigger you may want to research the movie ahead of time for content. Resources like does the dog die help. Depending on your exact needs you may be able to use other tactics like watching with a friend.

With games this is different in a couple big ways.

  • Difficulty is tuneable after the fact. The developer had to make choices about the numbers and implementing them in a way they can be scaled isn't necessarily more work. Lazy scale the number difficulties are still more accessible than single difficulty.
  • Games are often too long to reasonably ask a friend to help you re-edit it by dealing with a specific mechanic every time. It's also likely that a friend may not enjoy waiting around for their time to shine.

With movies, there are still accessibility things that people do rightly complain about, like the sound mixing. Whispery actors mixed purely for movie theaters is an accessibility problem, even if it's not typically framed that way.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago

Granular difficulty options also help. Things like being able to make the parry timings easier or harder than that rest of the difficulty.

If your difficulty presets are turning a bunch of levers at once, letting folks make their own can be very helpful.

There's also things that aren't often considered difficulty, but that can definitely make a game harder for some folks.

With Witcher 3 the only way I was able to play it successfully was modding it to be able to ignore a bunch of mechanics I found tedious. Things like ignoring carry weight, turning off item durability, lengthening potion duration, having items scale to my level, and hoovering up loot. Inventory management is often exhausting for me.

It's not an easy fix this can break a game's economy, and I think I had separate mods to reduce the impact of that.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago

But wages haven't mixed to match. I'd be very surprised if pipe fitters are making anything close to 175k.

100k and up is still frequently thought of as being a well paying job.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

To clarify, this is about LLMs and generative image creation. Other applications and technology are probably generally outside the scope of this community.

There are lots of other technologies that would've once been called AI, until we figured out how to do them. These are all fine.

There are a handful of problems these two specific technologies share which do not look like they're likely to be solved sufficiently anytime soon:

  • LLMs are predicting the next word that fits. If the answer to a given problem isn't prevalent enough in the data, or some of randomness inherent in the system makes a wrong answer fit the specific phrasing better, you may get an inaccurate result. These may be difficult to detect and make these technologies difficult to use safely for practical applications where being right, being safe, or simply not wasting the time of those around you are important things.
  • Providence of the training materials. It's matching patterns found in existing works. That's part of how you get realistic results, but it also restricts creation of truly novel works. Even if you can get around that, there's still:
  • A misunderstanding of what art is, and why we engage with it. Part of what makes art valuable is that it's a window into another human's brain. This is a conflict we've run into before with technologies like cameras, but there's still intentionality in shot choice, and the camera acting in predictable ways that allow the machine to disappear from the end result. This lack of the core of what makes art valuable makes creative applications nonviable for the moment.
  • These are being pushed into varying aspects of our lives by the hype of how close they look to solving real world problems. But until these issues are fixed, none of the products that are being pushed will really address the needs that they're supposed to or are ready for production environments. There absolutely are exciting developments, but they're kind of happening off to the side in much more specialized areas, like the geometry solver from Google. If these things were still confined to R&D, I bet communities like this wouldn't exist. Maybe all the hype and funding will help uncover enough similar applications quick enough to make it all worth it, but I very much doubt it.

There are more issues like rate of improvement appearing to taper off extremely hard, power consumption of training destabilizing local electrical grids and worsening droughts, AI related companies having overinflated market caps and making up too large a chunk of the stock market which risks another financial crisis, AI psychosis, our educational system not being set up to deal with students having easy access to plausible looking work without mental exertion or learning on their part, and probably others that I'm forgetting at the moment.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

I once gave a coworker a bit of prosciutto. She told me it was spicy.

Overall, this may also be related to a persistent refusal to distinguish between spicy and spices.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 9 points 3 months ago

Oranges are the worst kind of orange. They taste quite good, but if I need to use tools to eat it, I want something at least as good as a grapefruit.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago

The linked page is just the new additions to the list. If you go to the full list of recommended extensions that's where uBlock Origin is at the top.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago

I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone who has primarily hiked in the northeastern US, but I expect a lot of other places can also have surprise rainstorms or sudden temperature drops in the middle of summer.

Jeans don't handle wet well. They aren't very good at insulating while wet, dry slowly, and will be very heavy while wet. These problems aren't unique to jeans, but jeans are much more popular than other garments with the same issues.

It's not unreasonable to turn away folks who show up in jeans. Especially if they gave advance notice.

Even if it were unreasonable, it's their club. You can find others to hike with if you'd like to wear jeans.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 10 points 4 months ago

Lawnchair seems to do a good chunk of what Nova does. I haven't taken the time to fully recreate my setup, but most things I've tried have worked so far.

With Nova I have a setup that more or less fits everything on my home page without looking too busy. Lawnchair is letting me change the number of rows and columns, shrink icon size, choose a monochrome theme as a default, make folders, etc.

[-] paraplu@piefed.social 6 points 5 months ago

Do you happen to know the brand of mycelium bacon you had? I'd be interested to try it

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