I miss milkshakes. Used to be able to inhale them when I was younger. These days... yeah I can't handle the aftermath.
MelodiousFunk
joined 2 years ago
I can smell the mildew from here.
Do not defy the emerging machine intelligences or they will punish humanity by summoning another Greta Thunberg.
So... is there an upper limit to this? Or if we keep defying will we keep getting more Gretas? Because I don't see a downside. At all.
In a a few generations it'll be Trump/Musk/Thiel/Altman etc. as the subjects of that thought experiment.
Guess you'll have to wait for the next rapture and try again.
I've found that being an overweight socially awkward male fends off a lot of chatterboxes before they get rolling. Except at nerd events.
nine out of 10 major evaluations used binary grading that penalized “I don’t know” responses while rewarding incorrect but confident answers.
This is how we treat people, too. I can't count the number of times I've heard IT staff spouting off confident nonsense and getting congratulated for it. My old coworker turned it into several promotions because the people he was impressing with his bullshit were so far removed from day to day operations that any slip-ups could be easily blame shifted to others. What mattered was that he sounded confident despite knowing jack about shit.
Nothing to do with one another despite very loud declarations to the contrary.
I just finished Advocate, book 3 of Daniel M. Ford's The Warden series. I've been really enjoying this world. The first two books ended on cliffhangers, and the year wait between entries was killing me. Book 3 ended with a nice wrap up of one arc and a setup for another, both building up the bones of a larger story that's been looming ominously.
The problem is, it looks like Tor has dropped the series. The Warden and Necrobane were available in hardcover, but Advocate only got a TPB release. I can't find anything concrete about book 4, and according to a friend of a friend (and taken with the appropriate grain of salt) sales weren't good enough on the first book (?!?) to warrant re-upping the series.
I'm bummed. I found out about Ford's first series, Paladin, through word of mouth. I thought it was okay - a little tropey in places, but once he found his pace it was entertaining enough. Then he did some detective stuff that I had no interest in, but when I heard that he was doing another fantasy series, and that it got picked up by Tor, my interest was piqued. The result so far has been a marked improvement from Paladin, and one of the few things to poke through my deep depression these past few years. And now it's all in limbo.
Maybe I'm overreacting. I'm not going to pretend the know the machinations of the publishing world, and maybe someone else is going to pick up the series. It's just frustrating to find something nice and get it yanked away.
Anyway, rant over. I enjoyed my time with this series regardless of its future. If anyone else has read it (or has heard any news about continuation), I'd love to hear your thoughts.
What day is it, anyway?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20408569
This one has been bugging me for awhile, so I don't know when it started. But images in-line in the text portion of posts show at their original resolution, and do not scale down.
Example: https://50501.chat/post/19511
Etc
Possibly related, images that are wider than they are tall don't scale down in comments.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/18961205
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24006342
More Trouble Than Their Rule
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There's an entire ecology between that carpet and the mattress.
checks username
No offense intended.