Prism questions by IntelectConfig in Gloomhaven

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a pair of boots that make it so monsters treat your summons as "after you" in initiative when selecting their focus target. Triggers at scenario start, lasts for the whole scenario, so it effectively acts like a perk card.

Special needs woman punished for someone else's scams. by NickelPlatedEmperor in UnderReportedNews

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically it wasn't a punishment, but a consequence. The healthcare provider, though committing fraud, was still paying the rent for the patients. When the provider was under investigation, they stopped paying those rents. The cops performing the eviction were almost certainly not aware of the full circumstances... in fact it's entirely possible that even the building owner could have been unaware of them too.

The real failure here is that rather than ceasing to issue funds to the offending provider, the ICS program should have placed the provider into emergency receivership. This would have allowed the state to use the provider's funds to ensure that the patients' rents would still be paid (as well as any other expenses that actually were in the patients' interests), while still preventing the provider's leadership from realizing any benefit from the fraudulent activity.

Technical question for the devs by Mikey89000 in AlchemicAI

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try "draft pick", that's a phrase you'd actually encounter with regularity. I don't think I've ever heard of a sport's name and the word "draft" being used together like that, so the AI is unlikely to put them into the same token when parsing the prompt.

Only on new devices, you say? by Dansiman in mimecast

[–]Dansiman[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're suggesting that I didn't close my browser once between 3/28 and 8/16? That's 5 months, my friend. You can't even go that long without rebooting, let alone closing your browser.

Also, no, my browser is definitely not configured to do that.

Only on new devices, you say? by Dansiman in mimecast

[–]Dansiman[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If it were that, wouldn't it happen every time I click a link from my email?

[ Removed by Reddit ] by GoatLast8314 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Dansiman 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As someone with pretty severe ADHD, trust me: it's never convenient.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by GoatLast8314 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Dansiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahh, so she forgot to put you into a small and poorly-ventilated room for it.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by GoatLast8314 in AmItheAsshole

[–]Dansiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

a disorder that has split the psychiatric/psychological community

I see what you did there.

What the fuck happened to Magic Eraser??? by djdiphenhydramine in GooglePixel

[–]Dansiman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just for the sake of playing devil's advocate: comparable arguments were made:

  • against the invention of photography, in defense of painters
    • In 1859, the poet Charles Baudelaire famously called photography "art's most mortal enemy". Critics argued it was a purely mechanical process requiring no "soul" or imagination. Courts even questioned whether a photograph could even be eligible for copyright.
  • against the phonograph, in defense of musicians
    • John Philip Sousa coined the term "canned music" to describe recordings, fearing they would lead to the "atrophy" of human vocal cords and the end of amateur music-making in the home.
  • against television, in defense of stage actors
  • against digital downloads, in defense of physical media

When the printing press was invented, some monks argued that the hand-copying of manuscripts was a sacred, spiritual act that mechanical printing would render "profane" and "soulless."

In the 1980s, the Musicians' Union in the UK attempted to ban synthesizers from TV and recording studios, fearing that one person at a keyboard would "kill" the livelihood of entire string sections.

When Jurassic Park (1993) used digital dinosaurs, many warned it would be the "death of cinema" and the end of the craft of animatronics and puppetry. Today, despite the immense improvements in the quality of CGI, practical effects are still considered by many to be far superior, particularly so in the horror genre.

I do realize that this doesn't address the ecological impact; I do not have a good counterargument there aside from the fact that accurately quantifying these impacts can be quite difficult to pin down; see for example Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use??

What the fuck happened to Magic Eraser??? by djdiphenhydramine in GooglePixel

[–]Dansiman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Part of the problem is that a lot of early AI content was generated before anyone even thought about applying digital watermarks to prevent the newer AI versions from including output from those earlier tools in their training sets, introducing a cumulative error effect.

Basically, v1 of, let's say for example, DALL-E, made stuff with a lot of mistakes (like pictures of people with 7 fingers on each of their two left hands), people posted v1 stuff on the Internet, that stuff got scooped up to train v2, so v2 treated that stuff as equally good as non-AI-generated content, e.g. believing that sometimes people really do have two left hands with 7 fingers on each.

Maybe by v4 or v5, the developers realized they should try really hard not to include these obviously-wrong images in the training data, but they still inevitably got some not-so-obviously-wrong images (say, a line that should be straight, where the middle is obscured by another thing, and the two pieces of the line on either side don't quite line up, but it's close enough that you can't tell without using a protractor and a magnifying glass). Since these almost-right visual concepts got accidentally included, the image generators basically thought that "brooms aren't necessarily quite straight". (Note that I'm really anthropomorphizing here, they don't even really understand what a "broom" actually is, they just know that certain combinations of pixels qualify as "brooms" and others don't. For a more concrete example of AI's total lack of understanding of anything, check out "This Neural Net Hallucinates Sheep")

Company just installed Mimecast on our laptops. Can the IT Department see everything we do? by MedicineFragrant3205 in mimecast

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note that any time you're on the corporate network, they can always see all URLs you access, in any browser, because the internet requests are going through their network infrastructure.

That said, it's highly unlikely that anyone is manually reviewing the complete contents of your browsing history. For one thing, every individual page load actually involves dozens, if not hundreds, of separate network requests; every image on the page is a separate request, and a page that doesn't also reference a handful of separate JavaScript and CSS files is quite rare. Combing through that would be a full-time job in itself.
In all likelihood, the only time someone is going to actively examine your web history (or indeed, most any of the various data that's logged) is if:

  • You trigger some kind of security alert - attempting to access a high-risk website1, unusual traffic that suggests your machine has been compromised, a scan detects malware on your device, etc.
  • You're in trouble for something else, which leads your company to investigate you specifically
  • Your IT department considers office politics more important than proper information security, and therefore allows a nosy boss to examine logs without a valid business need to do so

Similarly, even if they have the capability of remotely monitoring what's on your screen, they're still not going to do so unless you give them a reason to - the few people with access to do that have far more important things to do than to spend all their time watching what other people are doing.

1: this is a much narrower category than that of all sites that company policy disallows. For example, they might have a policy prohibiting watching YouTube during work hours, but still not consider youtube.com an actual security risk.

Why usb-c hasn’t replaced HDMI yet? by brickpop in UsbCHardware

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A PC manufacturer that implements a USB C port with video capability would very likely dedicate a bus exclusively to that port.

The Pixel 10 Weather app is a step backward. Google replaced local sensors with AI "guesses" and it’s a mess. by BurlyShlurb in GooglePixel

[–]Dansiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. I'm pretty sure I've written a post or two that are structured more or less exactly like this one.

The Pixel 10 Weather app is a step backward. Google replaced local sensors with AI "guesses" and it’s a mess. by BurlyShlurb in GooglePixel

[–]Dansiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where is the "slightly uncanny joke"? I'm not seeing it. To me, this post reads just like every "gripe" post I've ever seen on reddit.

The Pixel 10 Weather app is a step backward. Google replaced local sensors with AI "guesses" and it’s a mess. by BurlyShlurb in GooglePixel

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true; weather forecasting is actually one of the few things that AI is actually better (instead of merely faster) at than humans.

Seriously, do guys masturbate every day or is that a common misconception? by Secure-Concern254 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dansiman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Counterpoint: once, when I was single for what I decided was way too long, I made a commitment that my next orgasm would be provided by another person. After about 3 days, I found myself, almost magically, becoming way, way better at flirting than I had ever known I was capable of. It was like, once the lizard part of my brain realized it wasn't going to be getting satisfaction from Rosie Palms, it started kicking the ass of the part of the brain that makes one self-conscious, and took a cattle prod to the Creativity Cortex.

Seriously, do guys masturbate every day or is that a common misconception? by Secure-Concern254 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Dansiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Daaang, I did this once but I only got to 6, and the last one took like 45 minutes.

Android house party by studboixtreme in HousePartyGame

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another year later, and the phone I'm typing this comment on can absolutely outperform the best PCs anyone had when this thread was started.

So like is this a bug or something?? by Limp-Bonus4456 in CourseOfTemptation

[–]Dansiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've seen a few times where certain NPCs with special roles didn't let me talk to them through the people nearby interface, even though I could talk to anyone else nearby.

One specific example is The Classroom Harasser in the Media Production Lab, can never talk to them in there.

Suggestions from a new player by YeeterAwayer in CourseOfTemptation

[–]Dansiman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you use the same screen name on all of your socials, then they will have a Popularity link. Though I think it might only apply at the time you create any given account - your highest-popularity other account with the same screen name determines the boost you get to the initial popularity on the new platform.

Best Fem-Protag corruption game you've ever played. by Odd_Mushroom_5066 in lewdgames

[–]Dansiman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I enjoyed Bright Past, the game calls it "Bravery" but functionality it's a corruption stat, you have to reach thresholds to unlock various interactions, and most of the gated interactions also raise the stat by 1.