Tar_alcaran

joined 2 years ago
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I used to have a "mistake" Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I've never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can't imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It's this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 25 points 12 hours ago

Oh no, people are being prioritized over profits!

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 12 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It's even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it's removable. It's kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that's also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

"AI", referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it's annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says "AI".

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean "we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense"?

we came to the conclusion that while Die Hard had done so much in fresh and interesting ways at the time, it had been so thoroughly copied from by so many other films that it offered little to an uninitiated modern audience, looking back.

This becomes SO obvious when you look at "the great classics". Citizen Kane is, by all modern standards, a pretty boring and uninspiring movie about a really lame topic.

But at the time, it was absolutely groundbreaking. It basically pioneered half a dozen techniques such as "letting foreground and background be in focus at the same time" and "nonlinear storytelling" (which of course was hugely telegraphed, because it was new) and "using a montage" with "Sound to make transitions". He also used such amazing techniques such as "long takes" up to several minutes. He moved the camera around, not just taking a stage-view, but low and high angle shots, and then he added lighting to make things stand out.

Stuff like that is now SO basic that they might not even teach it in filmschool, simply because people are inundated with it from modern media. Orson Welles basically invented all of that though, and it was revolutionary. Now it's just boring a movie about an asshole's sled.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Dresses with pockets exist. All of my dresses have pockets.

It does take a bit more effort to find them though.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you show a link that supports that? Because I distinctly recall these companies opposing this measure.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Quite a lot of issues the rest of us have would be fixed if more straight white able bodied cis men got the therapy they need.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

For example, [Hungary has] dropped to 26th place among EU members in terms of anti-corruption controls and to the last, 27th place in terms of the quality of regulation.

That's out of 27, just to be clear

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Blowing up 3 guns is impressive for a guy who started off with only 2 hands.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because dimension door makes the shittiest part easy.

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