Rhaedas

joined 1 year ago
[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Most of the value was probably with the brand itself. Which he then tossed away. Genius.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really surprising how many cities, even small ones, had some type of trolley system in place that got overrun by the automotive movement. And now can't figure out how to insert a good mass transit system into one that's made for cars.

Also, a song that came to mind in seeing this image is Dire Straits' "Telegraph Road".

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

So just keep the existing tests and change the passing ones to not get access. Checkmate robots.

Just kidding, I welcome our robot overlords...I'll act as your captcha gateway.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The interesting part of his shows back then wasn't him, but the group that was put together to talk about issues of the time. When he wouldn't butt in with his own thoughts. Terrible host, better hosts spark conversation and let the guests talk.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

The movie posters that I've seen literally say that in two sentences. Even the song says she's a Barbie girl in a Barbie world.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

93% with Firefox and Ghostery behind Windscribe VPN. I've got a few other addons disabled like Decentraleyes and Ublock, but a combination of those with Ghostery didn't do any higher. Pretty sure I disabled them because Ghostery did everything they did. The stuff let in are to make websites like Youtube and Google usable. It's a tradeoff.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

That the first season/part of first season was awkward qualified it as part of the Star Trek tradition, they all stumbled around to figure out what they were doing at first. I would say that it is Star Trek just as much as Galaxy Quest is a Star Trek movie, and perhaps that's the issue with some not liking it fully...it's a parody/alternate take of the idea carried out a bit too long, whereas Galaxy Quest was the perfect amount.

As a Star Trek fan since the 70s, I can say that all versions have their highs and lows, there isn't a perfect one. And from the Vulcan philosophy of IDIC (Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations), this is how it should be. The more the better, even some of Discovery. I think the idea of Discovery was great, it just wasn't implemented well, but again, I could point out other Star Trek that shared that.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This isn't really about the tool but the general idea of what to move. Like many I don't feel most of my posts alone were that valuable, but what was lost was the chain of conversation that they were part of. I had requested and received my data from Reddit after a while and looking through it I realized this. I suppose I could weed through the Excel file (!!) and grab longer comments that I've made in ten years of discussion, and it's always there to search if a memory is sparked, but I see no personal reason to dump it somewhere else.

I guess this is more a caution to not use a tool to mass spam just because you can. Not all posts are worth repetition, especially out of context.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's how language models work. It's grouped into AI as is so many things, but it's not AGI. It could open the doors to AGI as a component, but isn't actually thinking about its answers. And those probabilities are driven by training reinforcement which includes the bias of giving an answer the human will receive well. Of course it's going to "lie" or make up things if that improves the acceptance of the answer given.

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Even vanilla Firefox is better from a privacy point of view than something like Edge or Chrome (both from companies who really want your data), and if you just substitute the name IE for Edge you understand where a big chunk of their user numbers come from. Firefox is solid, even with bugs and glitches it's been my choice since the beginning (to replace its predecessor, Netscape, another solid one).

[–] Rhaedas@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Excel and Word in the cloud really suck, so let's do the whole operating system. Sure, why not?

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