CoderKat

Jesus Christ, that stories gets worse and worse. The title underplays it. There was not even the slightest reason to detain her (let alone tackle her). And he tried to ban her from public transit for some reason, which was her only method of transportation and necessary for work.

That $75k should have been straight from the officer's wallet. And fuck everyone involved in perpetrating that bullshit situation.

Just regular ol' terrorist behavior. Like, literally the definition of terrorism.

That was great! I tried watching someone's playthrough before, but got bored and couldn't finish. The hilariousness of this one is great.

Surely CDs are both cheaper and easier, though?

That assumes you're viewing the "all" feed. The intended way to use the site is to subscribe to the communities you want to see and use the subscribed feed.

...except the communities are still regularly changing and there's so much fragmentation that I haven't yet bothered to switch to this approach here, despite the fact I never used to view the Reddit equivalents (all/popular).

Or some other bullshit thing that's so hard it'd be boring. Or require an entirely new playthrough just to get the one thing. The worst is when there's an achievement just for doing the game again on the hardest difficulty. Fuck that. If I can't get the achievements in a single playthrough, I won't get them (and in fact I'll stop trying to get any of them).

Horizon Forbidden West is one of the very few games I've managed to 100%. Helps that they broke their achievements into some form of categories, so you can get the "100%" platinum trophy but they can have the bullshit trophies acting as if they may as well be for a different game.

That's what I do. I wish them well, but I don't ask them questions.

Wow, you hate Monica so much she doesn't even appear in the list? I'd put Monica above Phoebe, personally. And Ross is by far the worst.

Especially with many audiences. On your own or with a romantic partner it's not nearly as bad, but watching a sex scene with pretty much anyone else feels so awkward, which pulls you out of the scene.

Yeah, over time, I've come to care a lot less for movies. For most things, I'd rather have a TV show so that there's more time to get invested in characters and do world building. Plus more bite sized viewing sessions.

Modern TV has such high production values that movies have lost their biggest competitive edge. Plus showrunners have more options for how to perform the show. No longer do shows need to be bloated with far too many episodes. Public opinion has also changed, so they don't even try to get away with bullshit like clip episodes anymore (mind you, those were mostly for sitcoms in the first place). Streaming has also made shows more accessible than ever.

As a dev, I honestly can't understand that. I probably use regex a dozen times a day. Basic regex is so easy and useful, but describing exactly what you want is so iffy for an AI. The basics of regex are also so easy. It's not like most people are trying to, say, parse an email address with regex. Most usage is basic, like "extract this consistent pattern from this text" or "remove this (simple) parameter from this function". It takes me seconds to come up with a working regex in most cases.

Especially where image generation is concerned, the infancy part can't be understated. It's growing so, so fast. A year ago, people would be dismissing AI art as "you can always tell", it largely couldn't do hands, and text was right out. But current cutting edge models can semi-reliably generate imperceptible works, needing only some fairly trivial manual curation to pick the best output. There's also some models that are now able to do basic text. Just comparing a couple of years worth of progress side by side makes it very clear that it's advancing rapidly and there's no signs yet that it's plateaued.

The big barrier to image generation, though, is profit. The images that it creates are useful, but current understanding is that they can't be copyrighted and there's ongoing legal challenges that make it very murky. I don't think these companies can stay in business from regular people who'll pay for some tokens to generate art. They need to be usable by commercial companies, and the legal issues will scare many of those away, at least for now.