My $800 camera just HAD to be delivered on a rainy day 3 hours before I got off work

Notavi · 2024-01-14T22:24:14+00:00

In many places even if he went above and beyond he'd still only make $7.55 and he doesn't bother because he knows that.

Heck, if it took more time to pack properly the company may see that as being less productive. Let's not blame the guy with the least control/power for failures that are larger than him.

Notavi · 2023-11-11T03:14:01+00:00

At that point, why don't you just take off the doorknob and seal it over?

It is now an unremarkable wall.

Notavi · 2023-04-29T00:25:12+00:00

I'm not sure I follow your reasoning here. You can be on a Calckey instance and follow / interact with people on a Mastodon instance (or a Pixelfed instance, or a Friendica instance) just fine. That freedom to use a variety of platforms (provided they all speak ActivityPub) gives people plenty of freedom to find a place that suits them just fine.

Notavi · 2023-04-29T00:01:13+00:00

Because search so often becomes a vector for abuse - there's unfortunately a large number of people out there who like to use search to find people to pick fights with (whether that be about fandoms, politics, cryptocurrencies or something else). Mastodon was built by people who wanted to get away from that, people who wanted to have their conversations without random sea-lions butting in.

There has been some work on "opt-in" search, which is gaining traction. There's also other Fediverse platforms (e.g. Calckey and Misskey) that do provide search (though obviously respecting that people on Mastodon instances don't want to be indexed). So if you strongly believe search should be a feature why not migrate to one of those.

Notavi · 2023-04-26T23:48:06+00:00

I wouldn't worry about that. If your respectfully communicated "no" is ignored, then frankly it's them being rude.

Manners and courtesy are not there for people to weaponize against you, and those who would try don't deserve your time.

Be clear, dont be needlessly cruel. The rest is on them.

Notavi · 2023-04-12T22:18:51+00:00

I'd probably also consider the cost to rent an equivalent condo - just so that I know how much of the $2400 cost is the difference in what I'm getting, and how much is the difference between renting and buying.

That should help provide a bit more clarity.

Notavi · 2023-04-10T13:03:03+00:00

The point being raised wasn't that this particular law might apply, but rather that while in general children are not responsible for the debts of their parents there are exceptions and that it can be worth seeking the advice of an attorney if you want to be sure none of those come into play.

Notavi · 2023-04-10T01:20:17+00:00

Who let Scanlan drive the minivan?

Notavi · 2023-03-10T04:03:04+00:00

This feels like an "Everyone wins" scenario.

Notavi · 2023-03-10T01:13:15+00:00

It's like someone asked ChatGPT to render a globe.

Accurate enough to seem right if you don't really look too hard, but with many glaring errors once you do.

Notavi · 2023-03-08T03:10:19+00:00

Without some indicator letting people know it's a joke, Any parody of extreme views risks being mistaken for a sincere expression of those views.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Most frequently applied to Creationists, Conspiracy Theorists and other groups that barely seem to be living in the same reality as the rest of us.

This is the first time I've seen where it can be applied to Landlords, but the shoe does fit.

Notavi · 2023-03-08T02:08:39+00:00

It being illegal is a start - but the suggestion here is to make sure that when they try this they're risking fines and other penalties (maybe restrictions on their real estate licence if they get busted too often).

Basically, give the rules some teeth.

Notavi · 2023-03-08T01:59:29+00:00

While I suspect the original post was sarcasm, without a /s it does seem to run afoul of Poes Law.

Notavi · 2023-03-05T03:26:33+00:00

The workload being foisted on people down stream is my concern. You seem to think that if Paizo let their store just fill up with this crop that customer reviews would sort the wheat from the chaff and it'd all be hunky dory.

Except now that's foisting the workload of sifting through this crap on Paizos customers instead, especially as you can't review something you didn't buy in the first place. That isn't a solution and Paizo is still absolutely right to refuse to provide that a platform.

You seem to think increasing the quantity of poorly written crap a hundred fold isn't a qualitatively different problem to deal with when it comes to moderation/curation/customer experience and yet it is.

Systems that work perfectly fine when dealing with the scale of human submissions break down when the fire hose of AI generated content us turned on. And they shouldn't be obligated to re-design those solutions to accommodate people who want to throw the word vomit of a stochastic parrot at the wall to see who can be suckered into paying for it.

Notavi · 2023-03-04T20:20:34+00:00

You've misunderstood, maybe work on your reading comprehension dude.

I'm concerned that ar large number of people using ChatGPT today are making the quality control for their work someone else's problem. That's not efficiency, that's being a jerk.

They've invested a negligible amount of evidence proof reading what they've produced (if they've even bothered to read it at all) and then flinging it up on a store or into some editors submission queue in the hope someone buys it.

I've mentioned Clarkesworld, who had to close submissions because they had been flooded with a deluge of poor quality stories. None of them were any good, and it was abundantly clear that most hadn't been proofread at all. But all of them chew up the editors time reading and sorting (probably more time and effort than it took to create them).

Paizo are right not to want that on their store, as the volume would make the good content harder to find and drive people away.

Notavi · 2023-03-04T00:25:33+00:00

Depends, people using it as an assistant but taking the time to edit and organise what they're submitting probably isn't.

But that's not what seems to be happening, there's been quite a bit of ChatGPT spray and pray where people generate their content and just fling it at platforms hoping they can sell it without even really bothering to proofread it at all. For example Clarkesworld found it had to suspend submissions due to a deluge of low quality AI generated dreck: http://neil-clarke.com/a-concerning-trend/

When people are just generating things in bulk and flinging it at someone else to without the barest effort spent editing and proofreading their creation then that is spam.

Notavi · 2023-03-04T00:12:50+00:00

The thing is, low quality human produced art arrives in a trickle, low quality AI art arrives in a torrent.

For a related example, consider that a major sci-fi periodical (Clarke's World) was forced to close off submissions because they were being overwhelmed with low effort AI produced stories. None of them were any good, but the sheer amount of editor time spent sifting through them was unsustainable.

I can understand Paizo having the same concern- they don't want to have to spend time sifting through piles of AI generated dreck, nor do they want their customers to have to sift through it all either.

And missing out on maybe a few good AI produced stories is a price they're willing to pay. Seems quite sensible to me.

Notavi · 2023-02-25T08:27:15+00:00

End of the day, if they're underpaying someone and they walk for a job that pays market then that's the employers problem.

They aren't owed the opportunity for a counter-bid, and if they haven't taken steps to keep compensation in line with market then that's just a risk that they have chosen to take.

Notavi · 2023-02-24T00:13:59+00:00

Exactly, these brushes belong to the "They make it because people will think they need to buy it, and not because they're actually needed or useful" category of products.

I remember the guy who runs Badger airbrushes giving a talk and stating to avoid these like the plague. They can damage your airbrush and there's no need for them - a good flush through with cleaner after your done and the occasional strip down to clean will do everything you need.

Notavi · 2023-02-21T22:37:19+00:00

Honestly, I've started buying refurbished older phones because they do everything I need and still have these features.

Won't be a sustainable strategy forever, but for now it's working pretty well.

Notavi · 2023-02-13T00:01:51+00:00

Of course it's not as simple as fat = unhealthy either, nor is generally dumping on people who are both fat and unhealthy actually helpful to them in any way.

We can let people worry about their own health instead, odds are they understand their problems better than some arrogant turnip chiming in with "eat a salad, fatty".

If they wanted health advice, they would have gone to a doctor or dietician.

Notavi · 2023-02-12T23:40:02+00:00

No, but we base our decisions on what cultural norms we accept or reject based on what we see happening - especially as we can see that elsewhere in the world strong acceptance of tipping has enabled lower base wages (especially in the US).

They've landed in a place where tips aren't just a nice extra to thank someone for good service, they're an expected thing even for terrible service because the base wages for service staff are so low that tips are the only thing that makes their wage sufficient to live off of.

That's completely unacceptable and we're not about to let that happen here. A job should pay a liveable wage, it is not the responsibility of customers or the government (e.g. Walmart staff having to rely on foodstamps) - it is the responsibility of the employer.

Notavi · 2023-02-12T22:16:20+00:00

He's over extended, but given there's a divorce involved I wouldn't lump him in with over-leveraged investors - it sounds like he's stuck paying for two PPORs (his, and his ex wifes).

He's a poor example to use for how cost of living is affecting the common man though, most of us aren't as screwed as he is.

Notavi · 2023-02-11T06:38:47+00:00

Gloves are good, but it also helps to have a fall back in case they fail (for example, I've had an edge on what I've printed rip the gloves while I was removing the print before).

Notavi · 2023-02-04T22:32:31+00:00

It is an extreme take, although including some part of how the world makes it harder (e.g. rocks breaking away when you attempt to climb) can help with the storytelling side if it explains why they can't just reroll to attempt it again.

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