He works for a marketing and web design firm. So the guy who designed their graphics is gone and they are using AI tools. Imagine paying for a firm to build you web and marketing materials only to have someone just use an AI.
Why bother paying the marketing firm at all?
Good. Hopefully AG Asshat will have to spend more money to keep the racists from splitting the vote and he will have less for the general election (or not even get through the primary).
Oh awesome. I'll have to try it again. I have a couple hundred hours in xcom 1 and play long war from time to time. Exciting to have a 'new' game to play!
I wonder if Open AI or any of the other firms have thought to put in any kind of stipulations about monitoring and moderating reddit content to reduce ai generated posts and reduce risk of model collapse.
Anybody who's looked at reddit in the past 2 years especially has seen the impact of ai pretty clearly. If I was running open ai I wouldn't want that crap contaminating my models.
And then there's XCOM... which thankfully 2 is amazing.
Really? It wouldn't play on my machine back when it first came out so I returned it and never went back after seeing a ton of negative reviews about the timed missions. Did they update that part or was the bad feedback overblown?
Yeah it makes me immediately suspicious of what they are up to over there.
I don't get why anyone likes eating super spicy foods. After a certain level of heat there is no more flavor, just spice, and it clearly can cause serious problems for your body. What is the draw?
Australia’s wealthiest person comes under the microscope after unsuccessfully trying to get the National Gallery to remove a painting of her by an acclaimed Aboriginal artist.
Thought you all might find this interesting. I like this artist, but can imagine seeing oneself portrayed this way could be jarring.
The nice thing about products that improve accessibility is that they often make experiences better for everyone just by having more thought put into the design and use.
I don't have any condition that would require me to need this controller but I'd love to try it out.
They must have fucked up some mundane detail like misplacing a zero or something.
It's an interesting way to manage the guilt of sending so many men and women to their deaths for nothing.
What are you talking about? AI is going to save countless money and make everyone better at their jobs!
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One of the reasons I've stood by them- they are generally already pretty transparent in their pricing. It's a no frills airline to be sure, but it's nice to fly with people who seem to be genuinely happy to be working where they are.
I wrote a paper on the whole reddit 3rd party app fiasco and because of the accessibility issues being raised I spent some time reading through r/blind and r/deaf. I didn't find it in the blind community but the deaf community seemed to have very strong opinions about medical interventions to restore hearing, and a lot were vehemently against it in all cases.
I think technology like this will be a contentious issue for them.
Yes I agree! have an TB external drive and a cloud backup on Dropbox (not my favorite but it does the job for now). I definitely need to get some better automated backup processes in place but it's a work in progress.
This bad boy is going to help a lot.
I don't get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
Lol it's so funny you say that. I got this because I've been wanting to consolidate 4 different drives in my gaming pc (about 5TB total). But as soon as I saw this I thought 'why should I get rid of perfectly good drives? I can have 17TB instead of 12'. It feels like I've got the seeds of a bad habit growing lol.
So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.
I hope this spreads to all Olympic sports so our teams each get a hype man (or lady), preferably an old school rap artist.
If people want to make computer characters date they should just save themselves the trouble and get the Sims.
Some interesting info in this article. If game pass hasn't really paid off (in maintaining growth of new or recurring users), this may be an indication that they will make some changes to it.
Yeah, some of these are just getting extra attention because the plane is a Boeing and media is on the lookout for it. (Probably) not Boeing's fault, but they will continue to be blamed for all issues on their planes until things are resolved with the investigation. Not exactly fair for Boeing, but they kinda brought this on themselves.
IRVINE, Calif. — With the release of Amazon’s TV adaptation of the Fallout game series being a huge success, Obsidian Entertainment has officially announced their…
If only...
IRVINE, Calif. — With the release of Amazon’s TV adaptation of the Fallout game series being a huge success, Obsidian Entertainment has officially announced their…
If only...
Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
Curious about everyone's thoughts on this.
Archive link : https://archive.is/Ql81V
Chase Media Solutions will allow advertisers to market to Chase bank customers based on first-party financial data
If you're considering opening a Chase account, here's some food for thought.
HEAVEN – In a desperate plea to get gamers into pews, the Almighty Father has announced double XP for all churchgoers this upcoming Easter weekend.…
Excited about this one. Lent debuff hit me hard this year.
Searches for "Texas VPN" jumped by 1,750 percent.
From the article: "Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for "Texas VPN" jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase "How to access Pornhub.""
I'm looking for a way to play games that are 20+ years old and not produced anymore. I'm thinking like the old maniac mansion games and other Sierra on-line stuff from the early 90s, but I'd love to be able to browse old games and check them out. Happy to play in browser or download if the source is reputable.
Here's a few places I've come across in my search. Would love thoughts or recommendations on these sites or others that are good places to check out.
A 19th-century book helped crack the code in cryptic notes found in a dress bought at a Maine antique mall.
TLDR The messages were shorthand meteorological readings for multiple locations at specific times. It was a unique form of code used to transmit weather data via telegram back in the 1800s that is the predecessor of the shorthand used today.
They made America richer, promoted equal rights, and invented the internet. Why don't boomers get any love?
TL:DR author's positing that despite the public narrative we (gen x and millenials) are mostly better off (especially financially) than prior generations and at least partly due to actions from boomers.
Thought this was an interesting read. I don't agree with all of the author's points but figured it would generate good discussion here.
This was a pretty interesting video on the progression of world records on NES Tetris and the code that creates the kill screen.
Non-paywalled link: http://web.archive.org/web/20231231152109/https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/12/31/long-covid-symptoms-treatment-research/
[Mortgage Is 'Just A Fancy Bullsh*t Word For Paying Rent For 30 Years To The Bank,' Says Real Estate Billionaire Grant Cardone — Here's Why Renting Could Be A Better Financial Move
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Not sure what is going on, but over the past few weeks I've been having recurring issues with Firefox freezing up requiring restart (of the app).
Seems to happen when I have multiple tabs open but no particular sites that I've noticed. Multiple updates have come through. I'm on windows 11, using privacy badger, unlock origin, one password and the capital one shopping app (disabled most of the time).
I'm working on setting up a shop for selling my art on squarespace so I'm on there a lot. I'll be in the middle of editing something and then it stops responding and I get the pop-up asking me to wait or close the app. Waiting has never worked so I just close and restart. It also can't reopen my tabs when I restart so I have to do that manually.
I've tried reinstalling it. I've cleared out the cache though it's set to do that at closing anyway. Nothing works. This happens randomly, not every time I open the browser.
Does this sound like anything you are experiencing? Any ideas on other things I should try to fix it?
Glory (2022) Acrylic, ink, and paper on canvas.
In an interview with NBC's Kristen Welker, the West Virginia Democrat said he first has to explore whether there’s an appetite among voters for a moderate candidate like him.
"Manchin said he first has to explore whether there's an appetite among voters for a moderate candidate like him. "
Ugh.
There's supposedly a variety of different spectroscopy methods but what drives the choice of one method over another? If elements drive the colors, how do you parse out individual elements from a compound?
Is there a consistent pattern to how the emission lines relate to what the element looks like before going through the prism? Is there a resource that shows examples of emission lines along with the visible color?
The Department of Justice and Google just rumbled their way past the halfway point of a landmark antitrust trial vying to answer a potentially industry-rupturing question: Does Google maintain its ironfisted stranglehold over internet search results because of its superior innovation or as a byprodu...
tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back.
Advertising team wants to find any way to make people search for as long and as often as possible ("increasing the journey length") even if it means delivering less relevant search results.
You can actually read many of the trial documents here - https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-google-llc-2020-trial-exhibits
this file was particularly interesting. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf