Please don’t lump us all together.

That’s how they stay alive in that place. Literally anything that wants to kill them just stops and goes “awwwwww”

The Quokka marketing department enters the chat…

Our point of sale software doesn’t work with it. So they blocked the update until it does.

You have more patience than I will ever have…

Oh wow! That is an incredibly inspiring story!

Time travel is possible. Changing the future however, isn’t.

It has to do with wave function collapse. The cat is both alive and dead until its observed, at which point the wave function collapses to reveal which it is.

So let’s say you go back in time and successfully kill Hitler. Well you’re now observing that outcome from a tangent timeline. In our timeline, that wavefront has already collapsed. There’s no takesies backsies. Its immutable.

If you can go back and try again, your just creating new wave funtion collapses, not changing the ones that already occurred.

Its like re-rolling a dice because you didn’t like the outcome. You can re-roll as much as you want, it doesn’t erase that first roll; its still there, imprinted on the quantum foam of the multi verse.

They’re ‘taking inspiration’ if you will, transforming it into something completely different.

That is not at all what takes place with A.I.

An A.I. doesn’t “learn” like a human does. It aggregates multiple chunks from multiple sources. It’s just really really tiny chunks so it’s hard to tell sometimes.

That’s why you can ask two AI’s to write a story based on the same prompt and some of their lines will be exactly the same. Because it’s not taking inspiration from, it’s literally copying bits and pieces of other works and it happens that they both chose that particular bit.

If you do that when writing a paper in university it’s called plagerism.

Get the fuck out of here with your “A.I. takes inspiration…” it copies nothing more. It doesn’t add anything new to the sum total of the creative zeitgeist because it’s just remixes of things that already exist.

“Lying Shit Heads Say Lies” More Breaking News at 11

They quite literally tried to claim that they invented the rectangle with rounded corners…

https://www.engine.is/news/category/in-apple-v-samsung-scotus-sided-with-reason-over-rounded-corners

That’s my strategy as well. I just don’t know how many of us there are that are that committed vs the people who are “temporarily irate” and then go back with their next purchase because its “easier”.

I get that. And, playing the devil’s advocate here…what happens in a couple of years when the time comes to purchase a new Laptop/desktop that comes pre-installed with Windows? Will your current ire and consternation hold up until then, meaning you’ll take the effort…long after this current “trust crisis” is over…to install Linux once again. Or, with this current scandal a faint memory from a few years back, will you just kind of shrug and say “Hey…it’s there, I might as well just go with it.”

I mean no offense, and I by know means want to presume your answer here. But I’d be willing to bet 90% of the people who, in a pique of ire, replace their current windows with a linux distro, won’t bother to do the same when they purchase a new laptop down the road.

I like Krita. But to be honest, after years and years of using GIMP, I ironically have nothing but trouble trying to rewire my brain to do things any other way. The same problem that many people have when moving from Photoshop to GIMP.

Also, i fundamentally need DDS files, which Krita (AFAIK) doesn’t handle.

I don’t think that’s an “if” at all. I firmly believe that that’s exactly it.

The same behaviours that we needed to evolve are harmful now that we’ve reached a potential “post-scarcity” stage.

To put it more bluntly, the drive to compete for resources in order to survive is what made us the dominant species. Now that post-scarcity is essentially upon us, our nature is to create artificial scarcity in order to satiate that drive for competition. And it will be the ultimate end of us.

I don’t know enough to know if my ideas are achievable, or if I’d just be bashing my head against the wall.

Achievable is subjective, and even if you progress a ways and learn something that makes you realize that that particular project can’t be achieved how you envisioned it, you still have the knowledge to either a) figure out new ways to achieve the same effect, or b) take to a new project.

Knowledge builds on knowledge builds on knowledge. If factor in not starting a project is not knowing enough to know if it’s achievable or not, you’ll never actually get the necessary knowledge to figure that out. You can’t know how to do something until you try to do it…fundamentally.

I’m 48. Last year, during a period of unemployment, I decided that to kill time I wanted to create a 3D aircraft model for my flight simulator (X-Plane). I had dabbled in Blender in the past, but nothing too in depth. So I sat down and just did it.

Some of the features I wanted to implement required plugins that had to made with Lua (a programming language) so again…I just did it.

Age and learning have nothing to do with each other. Regardless of the topic. I feel like maybe the only valid reason that such ideas took hold is because the older we get, the less time we have to focus on learning new things, and so it can seem as though we can’t learn, when in reality we just don’t have the time to. That’s certainly what I found to be the case personally. It wasn’t until I had literally nothing else to do that I could focus on really learning 3D Modelling and basic programming.

The solution to that, that I found, was to be project based. I wouldn’t have made as much progress if I didn’t specifically have some thing I wanted to make, whether that’s an app, a 3D model, or whatever.

I used Crucial brand in both my desktop and my laptop upgrades a few years ago (I don’t remember the exact model…mx500 maybe?) And I haven’t had a single issue.

Absolutely rock-solid.

Seven days into the past? Microwave electronic resonance craft

I feel like that’s a reference to a supremely underrated and long forgotten television show…

I hope you’re right. But my trust level for corporations is somewhere between 0 and 0.1

TypeScript is the new DOC format.

Create a language/format. Spend all of your effort making it ubiquitous until it becomes the default “standard” in the workplace. Then charge a metric fuck-tonne for the “official” software that makes use of it.

It’s how Office became their cash cow. They create the proprietary doc format, get everyone using it, and once it’s embedded in the workplace, charge exorbitantly for the software that uses it.

Once they get everyone using TS as a new industry standard, they’ll find a way to make people have to pay for it. Mark my words.