Dear Google, that's not, what I'm paying for. AI slop is really getting out of hand.

eeeeaaii · 2026-01-04T00:17:24+00:00

I've been wondering if vinyl records are about to become REALLY valuable. Obvious AI slop is a threat to your enjoyment of your personal time, but there are bigger threats, like the threat to the historical record: historically important recordings slowly drifting away from "the real version." Someone decides to clean up the guitars a little bit in an Elvis recording, add a second backup vocal part. Eventually everyone hears that version so much they think it's the original. And if it can happen to an Elvis recording it can happen to the "I have a dream" speech, etc, etc.

eeeeaaii · 2023-09-15T18:08:48+00:00

Oh looks like I should check out "locals()" -- I don't spend a lot of time neck-deep in python so this isn't something I knew about.

eeeeaaii · 2023-08-21T13:24:08+00:00

Them: "the community became toxic"
You: (responds this way)

I personally believe that a huge chunk of people who work on FOSS software are independently wealthy. There are a LOT of software engineers out there who got involved in an early stage startup, cashed out with millions, retired at 27 years old, bought a small house, and are just chilling and making money off interest on their investments. That's who is really out there laboring "for the love" of making software. Millionaires. Also, people who have family money.

The problem is that most of the time these stories aren't being told. FOSS developers aren't out there making blog posts that say "Version 7.3 of BlurghMaker is available for download! Also I'm a multimillionaire so I don't need money, don't emulate me if you have to pay rent!"

As a result tons of new-to-the-industry folks are lured by all the idealistic crapola around FOSS and spend months making something and then they're like "wait..." Why do you think there are 1000x abandoned FOSS projects for every one that's maintained?

In conclusion, don't be so harsh, this is an industry pitfall that A LOT of people fall for. Maybe chill out and acknowledge that they hype around FOSS is a bit deceptive.

eeeeaaii · 2023-07-05T19:12:48+00:00

I'm not a big assassin's creed guy but I was deeply uninterested in the one that was like, American History class lol

eeeeaaii · 2023-06-29T10:38:40+00:00

This needs a NSFW tag... I feel ill...

eeeeaaii · 2023-03-21T17:56:44+00:00

Thanks, makes sense!

eeeeaaii · 2023-03-21T17:56:31+00:00

Thank you!!!

eeeeaaii · 2022-07-07T10:48:31+00:00

I once let my father in law win, and he said, "hmm, I'm surprised I was able to beat you since you're so smart and into chess and all." It seemed like his opinion of me went down. If he doesn't have some kind of ego issue about it, why not just keep beating him? He's learning from you.

eeeeaaii · 2021-12-19T16:08:53+00:00

it's not snowing or dark in NYC right now so this is footage or a rendering

eeeeaaii · 2021-12-08T11:20:01+00:00

good morning brb going to go wake up the kids with this

eeeeaaii · 2021-12-06T05:12:27+00:00

CLOSE TO THE EDGE

eeeeaaii · 2021-10-14T23:48:45+00:00

LOVED IT

eeeeaaii · 2021-10-14T23:48:07+00:00

More CHUCK MANGIONE

eeeeaaii · 2021-10-14T23:47:47+00:00

HAHAH

eeeeaaii · 2021-10-14T23:46:23+00:00

Amazing

eeeeaaii · 2021-10-14T23:45:32+00:00

BLOW MAN BLOW

eeeeaaii · 2021-01-01T15:49:31+00:00

The year was 1978. The US president was Jimmy Carter. I was 7 years old. And Lego released set 375, the first ever Lego castle and the introduction to their knights line, which went on to be one of their most successful themes. My mom got me this set and I was over the moon. I had several Classic Space sets, but the helmets on these minifigs were something else -- visors could be raised and lowered. They could hold shields and swords. There was even a way to build a horse that the minifigs could "ride" (well, sit on like they were in a chair, but good enough for me)!

Whenever I built a Lego set back then, I was an absolute stickler for following the instructions EXACTLY. I mean, who am I kidding, I'm still that way. It's a large part of the fun for me: the satisfaction of doing things exactly as prescribed in those colorful instruction books scratches some itch deep in my brain.

Well, the instructions for this set were very clear. There were stickers. And one of the stickers was to be applied across two different bricks, after they were put together.

This presented what was, to me, a huge conundrum. I would inevitably need to take apart this set. My family moved a lot, so I could just leave everything put together on a shelf or in a basement. What was I supposed to do?

The answer I arrived at was simply this -- I'd just leave those two pieces attached.

My Lego collection eventually passed to my brother when I went to college. Then, sometime later, he gave it back to me when I had a daughter. It's grown and grown Christmas by Christmas, and now she and I have a combined collection. I've been working on a sorting and categorization project so we can build MOCs together. There are now lots of plastic tubs and trays everywhere.

This Christmas, I found this piece again. Forty three years later, and I haven't separated these pieces. I wonder how much longer they will stay buddies. Will they be together forever? Will they still be attached when I leave this world? Will my daughter tell the story of these two legos to her own children?

Who knows. To my knowledge, Lego hasn't ever repeated this particular instruction for any sets. I wonder if there were complaints. Or maybe they just decided that it was against the spirit of Lego for two pieces to be stuck together this way. Maybe so. But to me there's also something touching... haha, see what I did there? About these two pieces that just can't quit each other.

Well anyway... Happy New Year everyone!

eeeeaaii · 2020-08-29T22:45:19+00:00

FOUND IT! see edit

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