Kichae

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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago

It's like merging multiple communities together against their knowledge, will, or consent, because people are too fucking lazy to use the Subscriber feed.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

If only indigenous folks had money! Then you'd probably be defending them.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

I regretfully cannot attend, the kid from Air Bud just shit the bed.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

No, this is not obvious at all. It just come across as parachuting into a joke post that's getting attention and rambling about something completely off topic. Like if I spat out 3000 words about the market price of lobster in response to this post.

People can't hear your thoughts. If you don't include your priors or your thought triggers in the actual comment, you're just having a public conversation with yourself, in front of someone else's audience.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI is always great at things I don't know how to do, and right about things I don't know about, but bad at the things I know how to do (often in ways that are subtle but ultimately catastrophic), and wrong about the things I know about (often in ways that are sneaky or nuanced, but which lead to gross misunderstandings).

Not sure how they managed to tune it to me, *n particular, so precisely, but those geniuses working on it sure do know their stuff!

/s

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I think that's a fairly common sentiment. The severity of symptoms is a significant decider in how disordered someone is, and having clean deliniations makes sure that people with less disordered lives are not taking attenion awwy from the needs of those with more disordered lives.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Oh, I hope this kills them. I'm desperate to never use Confluence or Jira ever again.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

It's more like "since you imported the cars illegally, we're reposessing them".

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's because prices don't reflect costs, but what sellers believe we will pay. If people stopped paying them...

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's really not that weird. Most people aren't going to self-host... anything. A news magazine isn't going to bother covering it, even if it is focused on tech news.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

This is the WHOLE point of why these generative models have been pushed so hard the past couple of years. They tested the waters to see if people would accept "it's the computer's fault" as an acceptable excuse, and then slammed on the gas.

Accountability sinks, as Dan Davies has named them, are the whole point. It's everything a slimy corporate CEO or government official has ever wanted.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Saskatchewan isn't on DST, though... "Amazing how others have figured this out by doing the opposite of it" is not the winning argument you think it is.

 

Trump calls the US-Canada border an "artificially drawn line", in what seems like one of the most dumbfounding statements the "build the wall" president could possibly utter.

But which probably isn't, because it's Trump.

 

Crazy how the only one of these airing criticism that says the budget isn't doing enough is the publicly owned one.

 

Hey everyone, just an update to my last post from Sunday night.

The eclipse went off without a hitch -- thankfully, I am not personally capable of interfering with celestial events -- and I have to say, nothing could have ever possibly prepared me for the experience. No photo has ever actually captured what I saw Monday afternoon. I don't think any of them have come close.

Picture of my own attached for total lack of effect.

As I looked down at my camera screen and watched the last light of the crescent Sun disappear from my view, I felt totality occur. The umbra of the Moon swept over me while I looked down, and the world got noticeably chilly. The wind died down. The world was silent for a hiccup. I immediately and excitedly looked up, and I think my brain broke.

Hovering in the sky over Potato World was an black, alien orb, surrounded by a thin ring of brilliant white and pink shimmering fire. It was something straight out of a science fiction movie, and not necessarily a good one, either. It looked so incredibly fake.

It looked downright cartoony.

And it hit me like a ton of bricks. I wept as I stared at it, completely unable to maintain composure. I gawked at how bright the solar corona actually was -- I had completely expected to have to strain to see it. I marveled as I realized I was seeing, with my own two, naked eyes, solar prominences arching over the limb of the Moon. And I just sobbed through the whole experience.

My fiancee, whose interest in this had seemed to be primarily a mix between modest curiosity in a significant natural and cultural event and support for my interest, also cried at seeing it, while her son sat on the ground with his mouth hanging open.

It was both the longest and the shortest 3 minutes of my life. When it was over, I just stood in the field in a daze, periodically pressing my camera's shutter button. In just a few minutes following the end of totality, the field, in which hundreds of people had gathered, was nearly empty. Only a handful of us remained, and most of the others had heavier equipment than my DSLR and tripod.

At the end of the day, I didn't quite get the pictures I wanted. I had hoped to get bracketed exposures during totality, and I had assumed that my camera's settings for that when using the LCD display as digital viewfinder would be the same as when using the optical viewfinder, and they weren't. But I'm not too fussed about it. The pictures still turned out significantly better than I could have hoped for.

I'll be posting the rest of my photos -- including some pictures of Potato World itself -- to my PixelFed account, which can be found here, if anyone's interested: https://pixey.org/i/web/profile/384533916920271164

 

I'm sitting in a dark hotel room on the eve of my first - and possibly only - total solar eclipse, with my partner and step-son, and I am positively awash with emotions.

I have been waiting for this day for 30 years, since my first partial eclipse in May of 1994. That was an underwhelming experience for many reasons, but not the least of them was that I had nothing and no one to view the eclipse with.

Three decades, two astronomy degrees, 5 years operating a planetarium, and 5 years as a guide at the local observatory later, and I'm fully prepared. Today, I have more viewing glasses than i have fingers, two cameras with filters, I have my family, and I am smack dab in the middle of the path of totality.

And the forecast calls for clear skies.

I can't believe it. I can't believe that this is actually happening for me. That everything looks like it's going to work out.

The only disappointment is that I discovered that Potato World exists - it's the New Brunswick potato museum (and it's next door to my hotel) - but it's closed!

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