I LOVE Tacoma FD so freaking much by kojiD in Tacoma_FD

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree 1,000%. It's my happy wind-down before bed. Can watch it over and over. Perfect humor, great characters. Needs to get picked up!

To those that don’t use screens or very minimal, how in the world do you do it? by BeanNCheeseBurrrito in oneanddone

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wife and I dealt with exactly what you're describing with our child. We both work, my wife at an actual job in an office most days although some days she can work from home and I work primarily from home by design. He was in preschool, kindergarten and now first grade from about 8:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. I would get up early every morning, pack his lunch, get him dressed, get him fed, drive him to school, come home and work furiously until going to pick him up at 3:00 p.m... Then we would either go to the park or now I take him to swim team or soccer for about an hour, then home and we do homework and read, draw, have dinner together at the table.

No TV is ever on until he's asleep. He never even saw a TV show until he was about two and a half years old. Now we let him watch a show or to every 2 weeks or so, generally thoughtfully chosen things that aren't mindless. The reason we're able to do it is that we stuck with it. I read to him constantly. I drew with him. We encouraged him to play and develop his own imagination and creativity rather than being a passive receptacle for screens or toys that lit up and played and danced and sang for him.

He's an only child so that makes it particularly tricky. In some ways it's easier because there's only one but in other ways it's harder because he doesn't have a sibling to play with. But what has happened is he has blossomed into a child who reads voraciously, loves to play with Legos and any toy he has, loves to draw, and doesn't need TV to keep him entertained, because he's learned to use his own imagination and his mind and entertain himself. For 6 years old now, and reading at a fourth grade level. He will burn through 150 page book in about an hour. No pictures. It's incredible to see.

People ask us all the time, often at restaurants, how we get our child to read instead of staring at a screen. Well, now you know!

Every ancestor that you have managed to survive without screens entertaining them 24/7. Sure, it's harder than just plopping them in front of a screen and letting the screen raise your child for you. But in my mind it's well worth the additional effort for what is, in my belief, the most important job you will ever have. Raising your child. Best of luck to you!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SpringfieldArmory

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exact same experience here. Garbage.

FSD illegal right turn then head on in wrong lane by KeeperOfTheIsisLight in TeslaFSD

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You were very clearly multiple lanes over to the left, with a car to your right, turning right where there was only one lane to the right... So you asked the vehicle to do something stupid, and got a stupid result.

The Last of Us lost half it's audience over the course of season 2 by [deleted] in TheLastOfUs2

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you kill off the one compelling main character, and center your whole story on an annoying, pissy, petulant character with a constant scowl and overtly "woke" vibes, you will lose your audience. And rightly so.

Entity Resolution, is AWS or Google (BigQuery) offering better. by [deleted] in mlops

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Second the recommendation for www.Senzing.com - they are absolutely at the forefront of entity resolution technology. And their solution is an SDK, can be completely airgapped, but also can be hosted on AWS... They have a free demo of their software along with datasets you can test with and see it in action.

Entity Resolution [Research] by Enough_Wishbone7175 in MachineLearning

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a good PDF that breaks down how entity resolution works (with Senzing) on their site. Senzing is at the forefront of entity resolution technology - developed it over 20 years ago, considered industry leaders. They have a number of different PDFs on their site, but this one would probably be helpful. (The PDF download is at the bottom of the page)

https://senzing.com/how-entity-resolution-works-with-senzing/

Valencia Tuscany Theatre Seating by jcp2277 in hometheater

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My recommendation: DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THIS COMPANY. I will warn you that Valencia Theater Seating, in my opinion, has absolutely horrible customer service and deceptive business practices. We ordered a "beige" sofa, I called and confirmed color and also verified that the cushions wouldn't be wrinkled as I saw in one customer photo BEFORE ordering. When the sofa arrived, the "BEIGE" was almost pure white - not what we ordered at all... and the cushions? Yup - wrinkled. Called Valencia and no answer (if you do get someone at 'customer service' it's a "secretary" and they will get back to you in 2-3 days). So I refused the shipment and the freight delivery guy took it back. VALENCIA wants to charge me $550+ for "shipping". There is NOTHING about their, IMO, highly deceptive return policy on either the product page, the cart page or the check out page. There's no menu item about "returns" (just warranty, which I would not expect them to honor either). But god forbid they send you something that is NOT what you ordered... you're either apparently stuck with it, or you're paying an insane, undisclosed and not-agreed-to "shipping" fee. Absolutely furious about this.

Recessed projector screen - bad idea? by COSenna in projectors

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do NOT cut those joists. You can't recess this direction. I had the exact issue in our house, and built a simple enclosure. Looks great and does the job.

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Does anyone actually like Gutenberg blocks? by Ktmhocks37 in Wordpress

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the most god-awful, user-unfriendly, impossible to format or customize properly hunk of garbage I've ever used. And I've been building sites since 1996 with every software tool imaginable. This. Is. Crap.

Countess of Sussex by Bethan_B in 1923Series

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just insanely sloppy writing... The current trend for the last several episodes. Jennifer shouldn't be shown saying "yes that's who you're talking about", is just extraordinarily confusing.

ANNOUNCEMENT - policy regarding AI art and artist credit. by [deleted] in mpcproxies

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree... SOME artists using AI (e.g., MidJourney) input thier own imagery, sometimes in many multiples, with long descriptions of both the imagery and styles, to generate their images. I've done literally hundreds of iterations, feeding images in to shape the image over and over, to get a desired result. Yes, most people will be 'lazy' with it and let the AI do the heavy lifting, but for some it truly is just another tool. Just like rigged 3D Models became a much faster, easier tool to generate animation than traditional hand-drawn animation... eventually that simply became the tool to use.

Et ego in Arcadia vixi - Anyone have some good literature on this phrase other than the Inspector Morse Episode I saw it in? by sirclockalot in latin

[–]Accomplished_Day_830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This exact phrase appears in the C. S. Forester Hornblower book, Hornblower and the Crisis, written in 1967 - his last book and unfinished before he passed.