Yeah. Even when you read it "right" it's still wrong.
There's no solution here
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He didn't get jail time for falling for a scam, he got jail time for stealing people's money.
This illustration makes it all look rather pleasant, rather than absolute hell
Yes Daddy uwu
That's the strategy, yes
Why is "helicopter" commonly shortened to "helo" rather than "heli" ?
Of course. The definition of what is ugly and what isn't is subjective and nostalgia obviously plays a part in that.
But I think it's quite fair to say that almost nobody would consider a postbox to be an eyesore. It's a functional design but it also has aesthetic elements to it which exist purely to make it look nice, and it's doing an okay job at that.
Contrast to a telecom utility box which is purely functional, a rectangular box coloured in a drab gray or green in the hopes that our eyes might just wander over without noticing it is even there. Intentionally avoidant because nobody wants to see it.
So I very much stand by my opinion on which "needs" painting and which does not.
I can easily see both sides on this one.
In one way I have little sympathy. It's the same as parents complaining after they show their child a violent anime, that it was a 'cartoon' and so it must be for children - having made that snap judgement without investigating the contents in the slightest.
On the other hand, as the article rightly suggests, there are established conventions in the publishing industry and this book defied them.
They are conventions I personally kinda hate, because they are the reason every Crime paperback looks the same as each other, and every Sci-Fi book is instantly recognisable as that genre on the shelves. But the conventions do exist.
In mass-market publishing terms, sparkly happy cartoon = children.
The publisher and author totally knew what they were doing here and they did it anyway. It's wilfully misleading.
Whether established standards should be enough to absolve a parent of the responsibility to understand what they are giving to their child, though, you decide.
This might be alright if it wasn't such a bad job.But even so, don't paint postboxes. They're iconic as they are.
There's a street artist in my area who paints all the utility and electrical boxes with interesting designs that celebrate the local community. And that's great, because they were just boring ugly boxes.
If you're going to paint something, paint something that needs it.
These are gorgeous.
Hugely reminiscent of the fascinating and old-school cutaway drawings you used to get in "how stuff works" books for kids, that I had as a child. Nostalgic!
Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I'm glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)
I'm sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren't new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!
AI is absolutely going to be transformative but a lot of the hate right now isn't the technology itself but the way companies are jumping on it and forcing it down the throats of people who don't want it, in a way that worsens their customer experience. Yes, let's force AI into every software product. Yes let's take away the humans you used to talk to and make them all bots instead.
Even from within tech itself there is huge resentment because you've got corps pumping billions into AI while at the same time slashing their workforce to afford those billions, with no clear return in sight.
Tech is treating AI as the next dotcom boom and pumping everything into it, but just like it did then the bubble of investment will burst, and there will be losers as well as winners.
I'm running self-hosted LLMs at home and I'm having huge fun experimenting with their capabilities. I just wish LLMs could have been implemented in the real world with space for ethics and the human factor, not the pure profit chasing bullshit we actually got.