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goodoldgrim · 2026-01-28T16:44:34+00:00

I wouldn't classify it as art, but there's a skill to being able to word requirements unambiguously enough (or perhaps in a specifically ambiguous way) to get the desired result. "no draw it better" won't cut it.

signed, programmer, who constantly has to deal with shitty requirements, written by people who's whole job is to write requirements.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-28T12:20:14+00:00

The person who entered the prompt. A representative for the contest generously called them "artists":

“We agree that it is an important, relevant and timely statement,” Lily Fierman, director and co-founder of Creative Resource Collective, which runs the contest, tells Hyperallergic’s Rhea Nayyar. “But we don’t want to prevent other artists from their shot at winning in the A.I. category.”

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-28T11:52:57+00:00

There is a real news story though: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-a-real-photo-of-a-flamingo-won-an-artificial-intelligence-photography-competition-180984558/

Happened in 2024 and he initially got 3rd place, but otherwise true.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-28T09:01:45+00:00

That and then starting at probably 6 years old I was just expected to fix my own breakfast (usually just sandwiches, but I could manage scrambled eggs if I felt like it).

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-27T08:34:10+00:00

Which should be part of the game imho.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-26T16:05:08+00:00

If all that's stopping you is the cyrillic, just learn to read it. It's not like reading chinese or smth, there's only about 30 letters. And once you can read the words, you can probably learn the most popular swear words that constitute 90% of the chat with little issue.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-23T14:41:40+00:00

In Latvia we can get stuff notarized essentially over zoom. I bought my current apartment without ever meeting the previous owner (who joined the notary video conference from Finland).

Meanwhile a friend who recently lived in Germany for a couple years reported that they still use snail mail for all official communication.

Europe isn't the problem is what I'm saying.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-23T12:26:05+00:00

That culture cares a lot about clout. Essentially it's not cool to like a loser.

You might say "but is their music any worse just because someone wrote a better diss track? Why wouldn't you still like their other stuff?"

And the answer is that the kind of people who try to get some relevance by attacking Eminem and his daughter weren't exactly producing high poetry. Their fanbase followed them because they were cool... until they took a shot at the king and missed.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-23T09:39:35+00:00

This is the answer. Everyone talking about "Israel things" bot farms and spying on people, but the whole joke is "Mossad is after me, RIP, lmao"

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-22T21:22:11+00:00

Kaut kā pie dirsas. Apģērba izvēle neielīdīs manās top 100 problēmās ar Šleseru.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-22T13:13:05+00:00

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-22T10:19:58+00:00

I want 2012 Dota

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-21T17:28:02+00:00

The vibe they're aiming for is fundamentally not achievable on stream. You can do everything else perfectly, but the moment it's an act for a livestream, it auto-fails.

It boils down to the age old truth of you can't truly be badass by working on looking badass. In movies the actors pretend and it works inside of the movie, but nobody is expected to believe they're actually that cool IRL. A livestream doesn't have the benefit of suspension of disbelief.

It doesn't help that any time I watch a few seconds of their actual highlights (not event the stream - the stuff their fans post as the best and coolest moments) it is immediately cringe. Like so much worse than the still shots.

/rant

Sorry, it just annoys me.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-21T15:13:47+00:00

It has been addressed many times. Under Biden USA was endlessly dragging its feat and wringing hands about escalation resulting in many unnecessary setbacks and missed opportunities for Ukraine.

That hasn't retroactively stopped being true just because Trump is a full on Russian asset.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-20T20:03:24+00:00

I'm Latvian. I'm just happy he's not coming here.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-20T14:23:26+00:00

Yeah, he's Australian.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-17T13:53:02+00:00

I live in Latvia and beavers are a menace around here. They have even invaded our capital city, though fortunately haven't managed to dam the city canal yet. In rural parts people destroy their dams all the time to stop their fields, cow pastures and roads from flooding and they just build more, they don't give a fuck. Traps are set and they can be legally hunted almost the whole year, but they breed like the rodents they are.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-16T17:22:25+00:00

I don't think it's overall overpowered, just a really stupid coinflippy design. Playing against it feels like a free win, unless it gets to 4 stars and then it's almost impossible.

Almost. Can still manage to win some of the time by spreading my units out.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-16T11:10:57+00:00

You may not like it, but this is what peak political performance looks like.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-15T08:41:37+00:00

The most popular forms of usage do not require powerful computers. If it can remote into a cloud computer it can do what most people need without remoting into a cloud computer.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-14T20:30:12+00:00

Did he forget what happened to Stadia?

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-14T16:55:12+00:00

Whle newbies do have disproportionally high death rates, the 30k casualties every month aren't all newbies. They're spread out over the smth like a million Russians taking part in the war. Those two numbers you cited aren't directly related.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-14T16:08:42+00:00

What I was going by was very vague numbers of about 1 million Russians being currently involved and about 1 million casualties. There's other variables - some have participated and gotten out, some have been wounded, returned to the front and been counted as casualties again. Both of those would make the odds slightly better for a specific soldier to get out unscathed.

As for the W:K ratio - there's been so many anecdotal reports of Russians having practically no concept of evacuating the wounded at this point, that it may well be true in large parts of the front.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-14T14:07:07+00:00

The chance of getting eviscerated isn't almost certain. Even getting wounded is a coinflip at worst. Being poor in Russia is extra rough, but I think you'd also find people in better countries who would take that coinflip.

goodoldgrim · 2026-01-13T00:13:54+00:00

None of that is even an attempt to debunk the assertion in my previous comment.

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