It sparks joy

They can’t read your mind. A professional painter is going to make the exact image they want in far less time and with more accuracy than repeatedly prompting a black box to make small changes.

But if you’re an amateur and don’t really know what you want, or you’re not very picky or care about quality, then meh good enough. High level software developers know what they want. They are like painters. And at that point, the LLM isn’t really solving problems for you. At best, it’s putting the paint to the canvas. That is, saving you typing time.

But time spent typing is definitely not the limiting factor for productivity in software.

Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.

In coke, which is acidic, sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose anyway in the bottle before you drink it.

My partner and I quit watching these after I pointed out that they usually cover small town murders, and almost every time the crime is eventually solved, it’s because the local police suck it up and finally ask for help from the state or FBI who actually know what they’re doing. Similarly, the videos of cold cases that aren’t yet solved rarely mention any involvement of more competent higher levels of police in the investigation.

If you’re not planning to volunteer to drive political change, and you’re not going to seriously plan to expatriate, then I suggest blocking the news and the other anxiety-inducing content. I have keyword filters in Boost to exclude lots of political stuff. I also pick the “do not recommend this” for google news posts that are political. Has done wonders for me. All my digital content is fun, hobby related, or general interest news from my area.

He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔

I’ve run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.

Yep I walked out of the theater about halfway in

You’re magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.

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Neither of these topics should even be drawing media attention, considering how frequent and non-notable they are. They just report on this stuff every day because it’s cheaper and easier than exclusively finding and reporting on real notable local news, and television news needs filler content for selling ad spots. Ever had a day where there was no news, and they ended early?

Karlson died of prostate cancer on 7 August 2024 at the age of 82.

RIP

In India, this kind of thing is common, especially when the beggars are children.

Praying is just talking to your imaginary friend, and having it tell back to you what you want to hear.

These elected representatives are no more mentally developed than elementary school children. Must be from a state full of lead pipes.

They finally pissed off the mouse. AI image generators are cooked.

Sure, but I don’t think the price balance was historically close to today. Appliances may have been, relatively speaking, a much bigger investment to the point where paying a repair technician for a service call was usually the better option. Today, not so much.

I have a ten year old Samsung washer. It started leaking badly a couple years ago. I opened it up and replaced one small rubber tube for $5. If I had to pay someone $500 to fix it, I’d have been better off buying a whole new appliance. I won’t be surprised if this is the only repair I have to do for many more years.

I suspect this is actually what’s changed - labor is so expensive compared to the cost of the machine that people replace their appliance with a new one because it’s only a little more than fixing their old one. And when they replace, they tend to think of the old brand as bad, and look for a new brand.

So everyone has negative stories about their appliances across just about every brand, except Speed Queen because those are so expensive, you’ll actually pay a repair person to fix it instead of replacing it. It’s like how some sports car brands are notoriously high maintenance, but what Ferrari owner cares about maintenance costs?

Decades ago the relative cost of a washer or dryer was much higher compared to repair labor. You’d pay the Maytag man to come fix your dryer if it had a problem.

But, it takes a lot of work by designers to get the fake lighting to look natural. Raytracing would help avoid that toil if the game is forced RT.

It’s like a gambling addiction. “Just one more prompt, it’ll definitely do all the work for me correctly if I just tweak this verbiage.”