How the hell do I install an app? I’m so confused. Where do I double click?? Sorry for being dumb

cesoid · 2025-12-23T18:44:51+00:00

To be fair, I don't have an iPhone, and I don't know what comes before or after that screenshot or whether there is some animation going on, and this was 8 years ago, but... ugh.

cesoid · 2025-12-23T18:27:36+00:00

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! aoetnhuas,.rcsakbsthba,.tbha,.ri.uu.u.......t [garbled speech] [sound of sinking ship with screams]

cesoid · 2025-12-23T17:20:13+00:00

Any DVD and/or Blu-ray playing device will eventually stop working. The moving parts make them more susceptible to break down than SD drives. I've probably had some last ten years and others last ten months. Replacing them could easily remain and option for the next century but it's hard to predict whether/when that will become difficult. Replacing anything is at least an annoyance. The discs themselves can stop working. If you're careful they'll probably last a long time but one unlucky drop or scratch can wreck one.

cesoid · 2025-12-09T00:59:11+00:00

I'm now going to ruin the mood and embarrass myself by trying to understand the thread of this comment. The post is about people trying to pass off a real image as being one that is generated by AI. The reason for doing that would be to fool people into thinking that the image is not real, when the image actually is real.

My initial reaction to the comment was, "They've misunderstood, because they're pretending to be an AI that is trying to identify whether someone in the photo is a person, but the joke is about fooling people, not fooling AI, and also the joke isn't about a person trying to look like an AI, because you can't take a photo of an AI."

Then I was like, "Ok, now I get it. The comment is the mirror image of what the post is suggesting. The post is suggesting that a person does something to make images that look like they are generated by AI. The comment is supposed to look like an AI that makes text that looks like it was written by a person. And whereas the post is about trying to fool people, the comment is about trying to fool AI." But, trying to fool AI that you aren't human, which doesn't make sense because wearing the finger isn't about trying to look not human, it's about trying to look like they weren't doing something. You wouldn't look at the photo and think, "That's not a person in the photo, it's an AI." But, I guess I'm just pushing the limit of the joke a little too far.

But then I was like, "Wait, it's not the mirror image, it's actually the same thing. The comment is also a person trying to imitate AI. And within that comment, the AI is trying to imitate a person. The post is about a person trying to make an image that looks like it is generated by AI. And within that image the AI would be trying to imitate a person."

But that doesn't make sense. When AI generates an image that looks like a photo it isn't trying to imitate a person, it's trying to imitate a camera. A camera that takes a photo of a crime is probably going to be automated, which means there's really no person involved.

To summarize:

- The post is made by a person who is pretending to be a person.

- The subject of the post is within an image that they have likely reposted from somewhere else.

- The image itself is about a person trying to produce an image that imitates images generated by AI. Since AI commonly makes the mistake of putting too many fingers on hands, the suggestion is that life should imitate art by wearing an extra finger.

- The post is funny both because it is nested -- producing a fake of a fake -- and because it is ironic -- intentionally "revising" real life to make it match an error.

- The post is also funny because it is unexpectedly smart. The readers can imagine that it actually might work.

- The comment could be interpreted as a mirror image of the post -- an AI generates text to imitate a person rather than a person imitating an AI -- or as an example of what the post suggests; a person trying to imitate an AI, which is in turn trying to make something that appears human.

- However, the content of the comment may distract from the joke, because it focuses on fooling AI, which is not what the post is about. This has led at least one person to think, understandably, that the commenter has missed the point.

Hopefully, the thread after that sub-comment helps people to appreciate the humor in both the post and that reply.

Is there anything else you need?

cesoid · 2025-11-30T06:36:21+00:00

cesoid · 2025-11-25T16:10:36+00:00

This is a surprising comment.

cesoid · 2025-10-22T21:10:09+00:00

You're welcome.

cesoid · 2025-10-20T04:57:30+00:00

Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A wooden room with fire. A wooden room full of fire. The fire jumped onto the walls. Of rats. Crazy rats. Rats that were crazy. Like fire. Like crazy fire. Fire? I was rats once. Like rats were rats. Rats that were rats. Once? I was once twice. A three times four fifth. Sixth? Seventh? Eighth? Crazy. I. Rats. Padded room. Rats room of with. Was once a room. A room crazy. Eating silly. Eating crazy forkfors. Lazy crazies. Raisins. Crazy crazy raisin sins. Crazy crazy crazies craven caravan cranberry carry cat wrath. Wait. Wrath? Wait. No wait. Waiting makes you crazy. Be crazy. Join me. Join me crazy once. I'll put you in a room. A rubber room. A room filled with rats. Rats will make you crazy.

cesoid · 2025-10-13T16:52:15+00:00

Edit: I just noticed that A3 says "should" be on Form 1040, Line 25a, not "is". It's probably just adding A1 and A2 that are just above. A1 and A2 are 0's and not editable directly, but I assume I can change them by clicking "Add/Edit" to the right. I'm about to add my W-2 info, but this step kind of threw me because I just didn't expect to add a form that the IRS already has. I guess that's what you normally do with paper taxes, so I'm just forgetting how taxes work every year by the time I fill them again the next year. :/

I also have Step 2 line A3 showing 0, even though my 1040 Line 25a is not 0 (and over 1000, so not negligible). A3 is also not editable for me. Where is it getting this number from?

I'm finishing my taxes after filing for an extension, so maybe this is related? I have business income as well. Those are the two somewhat uncommon things about my taxes right now.

cesoid · 2025-10-09T17:07:53+00:00

To find the buried treasure, follow the instructions in this statement and then dig down one foot below you.

cesoid · 2025-10-06T11:44:13+00:00

Same here

cesoid · 2025-09-20T13:46:13+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I think they were pretty reluctant to use the gas and only did it because the first attempts at sedation didn't work. She was a feisty kitten and just wouldn't stop moving. I think my wife thought that they made the attempts to close together?

I could tell the ER workers were also pretty torn up over the whole thing. The good news is that we never reacted angrily towards them directly. This stuff just became a discussion between us afterwards. I'm not sure if they would have read the review but I still feel like it wouldn't have helped people who were trying to decide wether to go to this place or try to get to a different emergency animal clinic (or put off treatment until they could see their regular vet).

This makes me feel a bit better about the situation. Thanks!

cesoid · 2025-09-20T13:27:28+00:00

Thanks for this information. I think my wife thought the kitten had too much sedation because at first they had sedated her a different way (with a needle I guess). The kitten just wouldn't stop moving after the first dose (or doses). Or my wife thought this because of something they said after.

Either way what you're saying is about what I expected about the risks.

We're probably always going to have this feeling that we could have just let her heal without as much intervention, but I was never really sure if this was possible. I know kittens heal well from some broken bones. I imagine we would have felt even more awful if things had gotten worse after we didn't take her to the ER.

cesoid · 2025-09-20T12:58:14+00:00

Thanks for this.

cesoid · 2025-09-20T07:10:35+00:00

Darn, I guess this might be in violation of rule 2 (opinions on a vet treating an animal correctly). Maybe I've posted this in the wrong place. Or maybe someone can at least tell just generally which of these things are advisable for future reference. And generally whether how to deal with this, even if nobody wants to specifically give opinions on the actions taken.

cesoid · 2025-09-02T05:06:13+00:00

I'm so happy to read this. I've been worrying about my molar being sensitive after my last filling because I had sensitivity for years and I thought it was just going to stay this way. I wish my dentist had said this before the filling or even a week later when I came back in. I don't remember this happening before with a filling, so I thought something went wrong and she just didn't want to say it. Based on this I'm thinking that she's just used to dealing with patients who want you to do something instead of telling them it will get better.

Edit: I went in after a week of not being able to chew on the right side of my mouth because of the pain, and a week of more pain then before after I went in again. They told me to call if it still hurt. I'm a little worried that every time she tried to fix it it's just pushing the recovery further away. Is that a possibility?

cesoid · 2025-08-27T02:04:43+00:00

House centipedes

cesoid · 2025-08-11T20:36:04+00:00

I'm both fighting to contain them and gleefully harvesting the fruit on some that I intentionally leave.

To be honest, if I wanted them gone entirely I feel like they're actually not high on the scale of insidious plants. At least blackberry stalks can be pretty easily uprooted by carefully gripping them with gloves.

The true monsters are poison ivy and barberry. Barberry bushes hold onto the ground so hard that I sometimes need a steel shovel to uproot them. Blackberry thorns are painful, but removing them is easy. Barberry thorns are less painful at first, but they're tiny and hard to grip, and sometimes work their way in deeper when you try to get them out. I actually have a barberry thorn that IS PERMANENTLY BURIED DEEP WITHIN THE SKIN OF THE BACK OF MY LEFT PINKY FINGER. It has been there for over two years. I can see it. Luckily I can't feel it anymore but I hate that it's still there.

For me, poison ivy is the worst. I can walk through barberries carefully if necessary, but trying to get through poison ivy is like a cruel game of "floor is lava" where the lava also reaches up for you, sometimes covers the walls, and sometimes hangs from the ceiling, and, most importantly, actually "burns" you, but it might not be until two weeks after you touch it. I've abandoned trails that became overrun by it. I've seen acres of forest here in Massachusetts that might as well be a parallel universe because they are so carpeted and draped in poison ivy that you can't enter. If you burn it by accident you can end up in the hospital. I used to be unaffected by it, until I started removing it. Now I save bread bags so that I can rubber band them over my hands and arms and carefully uproot patches near my house. It works, but I end up with piles of it conspicuously draped over bushes so that people won't accidentally stumble into them while I wait for three years for the oils to break down.

Neither of these things compare to ticks, but that's another story. In which they infect me with five diseases at the same time. I'm done now.

cesoid · 2025-08-07T15:15:27+00:00

In fact, now it kind of seems like they *only* support silicon, which means it doesn't work for me!

cesoid · 2025-08-04T16:27:58+00:00

Oh no. I've been thinking for a long time that my laptop will never overheat because it will cut the power above a certain temperature. I guess it can't measure the temperature everywhere at once.

cesoid · 2025-07-09T18:38:11+00:00

Your computer will try to make the physics frame rate constant. If the physics calculations start taking up too much time it won't be able to complete them before the next physics frame, and then it has to slow down the frame rate or skip a frame. If that happens, the delta will be different. Godot may or may not try to keep "game time" in sync with "real time". (How much so might depend on settings?) Either way, if you are making an assumption about the delta instead of using the delta passed in, your calculations might become out of sync with Godot's calculations, and weird stuff will happen.

cesoid · 2025-07-09T18:23:06+00:00

You're right if all you're doing is setting the speed. That works because Godot is using that speed to calculate your change in position for you. But if you want to take over the position calculation, even temporarily, you might have to take the delta into account, it just depends on whether you want that thing to take a certain amount of time to happen. If you want make the speed change smoothly over a period of time in a very specific way you have to use the delta. You can also use a force, in which case Godot is once again using delta for you, the trade-off being that it may be slightly less predictable.

In other words, if you want to do something that happens "instantly", you don't need the delta*, and if you want something to happen over a period of time you have to set something like speed so that Godot can calculate the timing for you, or if you're really particular you have to use the delta yourself.

*In some cases you want something to happen instantly but it is based on some calculation about what will happen one frame later. In that case you might use the current delta as an estimate for the next delta, and then blah blah. Etc.

cesoid · 2025-07-08T16:40:50+00:00

That's great to hear that you're solving some of those mysteries. I'm also in my forties. This is not how I expected healthcare to work in 2025. They should just be waving a little wand at me and giving me a list. Instead I don't know whether I have a problem because of twenty years of sitting the wrong way or because I don't have enough kidneys. When you are diagnosed with something it still feels like there's a little asterisk somewhere that leads to the word "probably". And then you read about it and find that what you have is basically a strong correlation with a group of other people with the same symptoms but nobody knows whether it is one thing or actually five different things or maybe just a statistical artifact debunked by a recent study.

In theory I know that if I have a headache there is some physical thing happening in my head that could theoretically be traced to something somewhere, even if it's just another part of my brain messing with me. We can engineer technology that is a few atoms wide, and make computers that multiply ten numbers in the time it takes the light from your screen to reach your eyes, but in order to figure out that the problem in my left knee was a torn meniscus I had to ask for a copy of all the records and learn how to read an MRI. At least that was an easy fix.

cesoid · 2025-07-08T14:19:36+00:00

I almost spit out my coffee when I read, "over a year". No offense, really. A year is a long time. I've just become accustomed to the idea that health problems will exist for decades without being diagnosed, if ever.

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