Ivain

64111 pts ยท February 25, 2015


I'll bet you 90% of servers at any restaurant most of us are likely to go to would struggle to even tell you the "pause vs finished" difference (which, incidentally, is the only one I ever learned).

2 days ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Am I the only one ti think this is all photoshopped on, except maybe the large black cross?

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

As soon as you understand how linear regression and similar ''predictive" techniques form the core of AI's "Pattern recognition" you should also get a better idea of how reliable (not) an AI's pattern prediction is.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You know, suddenly I appreciate the grocery gift cards I get from my boss monthly a lot more, even if the nearest store I can redeem them at is a 5km bike ride away (I don't have a car).

2 days ago | Likes 101 Dislikes 3

Yep, I'm into fanfiction and I've gotten to a point where I can tell if something is either AI-generated or AI-edited (Grammarly, a popular grammar check tool, is now AI-powered), possibly translated. So many otherwise cool ideas wasted on what I'll call "Machine style", which is technically perfect but just... a pain to read more than a chapter or two of.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

fortunately, the sound of coffee grinding isn't disgusting, it's just disturbingly loud. ESPECIALLY for something you do in the morning.

2 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Ah, so slightly less dystopian, but dayum. I have little experience with the difference between renting and leasing, and I live in a country with renter protections anyway (You can't raise rent more than x% per year on a current renter, and all 'extra' costs such as heating etc have to be itemized once a year so there's limits on what they can hide in there (not that they don't try).

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ironically, "Semites" are people from a collection of ancient civilizations in Southeast Asia, often defined by the language they speak natively. Which is Hebrew, yes, but also Arabic. So Israel's actions towards Palestine are incredibly anti-semitic. And those are just the surviving groups, Ancient Phoenicia is another.

2 days ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

... Just curious, does the landlord have any sort of contractual responsibility towards you as renter or can the house fall down around your ears without any recourse? And I mean that literally.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Congrats on finding someone that matches your tastes, that's really tricky for most people.

2 days ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

#1 you forgot "Gas is expensive mostly because you voted for the moron that started a war with Iran for no clear reason"

3 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

What in the actual blazes.... I mean, it was that hot about a week ago here, but it's FINALLY entered autumn weather here in Germany since then.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I mean.. I've got over 2 months' worth of salary, and still got several more years to go, so that's good, right?
Ofc I also live in Europe so I basically get part of it taken out of my paycheck and then matched by my employer. If I count THAT, I will likely actually make that deadline. Just a pity it's equally likely I won't be able to retire before 75 at the rate things are going.

3 days ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 1

The way our entire economy is structured around endless growth is one of the biggest problems. Even retirement funds are dependent on companies growing in value endlessly. I wonder if instead of stock market trading on shares, we restructured to dividend payouts, and how we could manage that. Surely some companies still do that, rather than trying to drive the share price up instead?

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I'd just say anything that leaves significant traces that aren't sweat or similar things.
Going there in clothes covered in wet paint or loose glitter would probably also be a bad idea.

3 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Unsuccessfully. I mean, they keep banning the accounts on a semi-regular basis if the empty results are a thing, but there's still tons of it on there.

Even funnier is DeviantArt, which sold out to AI slop almost immediately, but despite now being full of AI porn slop keeps kicking off legitimate artists whose content is 'too' adult.

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah I'll be honest the sheer amount of peace and quiet since a few of those got blown up is such a relief, we should all blow up some data centers some day. For legal purposes, that last bit is a joke.

3 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Literally the only reason I can think of to not be an organ donor (besides religion) is the off chance that if you're on death's door the doctor might not fight QUITE so hard to save you. But like, at that point, do I even want to go through whatever horrid recovery process I'd have waiting for me?

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, even here in Germany, bottles and cans of Arizona are still below 1 euro per pint (or 2 euro per liter). You can get 1.5 liter bottles for like 2-euro something pretty easily, and occasionally there's 2-liter bottles of Arizona available.
I'm enjoying it while it lasts because there's an extra tax on sugary drinks planned in Germany at the moment and I doubt Arizona's pricing will make it through the intended flat fee, they'd be heading straight into loss territory if they did.

3 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#7 Im somewhat conflicted, this shows all the hallmarks of AI-generated video but the IG watermark seems legitimate.
The short cuts, the weird angles, the 'everything looks slightly airbrushed' (especially the steps, which should be crisp), weird pumpkin colors, all of it. Only the surprisingly fitting lettering font above the door and the apparent lack of placement changes contraindicate it (and the apparently legit IG).

4 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 3

Unfortunately it's so detailed that most of it isn't legible.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I miss when advertising at least still involved art on occasion, and the better ads were something worth looking at even if you didn't like the product. Now it's just generated slop, which is even worse than poorly photoshopped stock fotos.

4 days ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 0

They're probably not going to straight up "Block" voting, but why would they need to in a winner-takes-all system where they only need to win by the barest of % to get total control?

4 days ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It's one of my nightmares, and one of the reasons I'm very glad to have a job, because that is basically the only alibi I have. I don't have clubs or people I spend time with, so I"d have no solid alibi against false accusations like that.

But the sheer amount of resources they poured into tracking someone that ALLEGEDLY stole a $25 package? The average package service causes that much in damages per DRIVER just by handling the packages roughly.

4 days ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

This is a really cool project, I had no idea this many native (northern) american languages were still preserved. (Some of the lyrics seem to have gotten lost a little, but that's hardly the most iomportant thing). I'm fairly sure I can identify the one native that sung in Nightwish's "Creek Mary's Blood" song as Arapaho now, or at least that's the closest out of these 17.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Hollywood loves going on about the drug cartels and whatnot, but if you look at the sort of cartels the US seems to have....

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In case you needed any MORE reasons to not fly casually. It must really suck to live in a country where rail lines are an objectively worse way to travel even accounting for the delays common in Europe.

4 days ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

This is going to be incredible when it's done, I can already tell.

4 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#4 I mean with such a short T-shirt sure. Now make it a massively oversized one so that it's practically a nightgown, and we're talking differently.

4 days ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Considering how much of an investment it is, I can understand not being able to sell it immediately but damn, you gotta at least try.

4 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1