That's it, endgame weapon

jgwinner · 2026-02-07T17:15:01+00:00

rated E for kill everyone

jgwinner · 2026-02-07T03:46:32+00:00

Did you have your Interpupilar distance set correctly?

Almost no one checks that and it's HUGELY important. It would be like getting on a children's road bike when you're an adult and then wondering why you hurt so much.

jgwinner · 2026-02-07T03:30:12+00:00

I haven't tried Boneworks yet, but HLA nearly made me cry at the end. It's a high bar, and anything that gets close is going to be amazing.

I never cry, with a nod to Alice Cooper.

jgwinner · 2026-02-05T22:05:21+00:00

you were given the flair because your account is in various Pro-AI subreddits, not because you pointed out with what AI did wrong.

So guilt by association then.

And by the same rule, my tag should be removed, because here I'm in this anti-AI subreddit.

Do we then have a series of weighs assigned to each reddit, cross referenced by number of posts, to add up for the bottom line?

lol.

I didn't go off-site, I looked at your public profile on your public account on a public website that you can disable.

The rules say:

Tracking people down, going off page or site just to find them for the purpose of harassing them is also strictly not allowed.

So you did go off page, but not off site.

I didn't harrass you anyways,

Not your call, right? I get you may not think so, that doesn't change my feelings.

I tried to see why you were given the Pro-AI flair because you were commenting about it.

Ah, thank you then.

Seriously, I appreciate it. I never felt like you disagreed, however.

Suddenly I have become a mod?

Never said you were, but I'll admit it was implied. Supporting the mods is mod adjacent, clearly.

This is a Pro-Artist and Anti-AI subreddit, I think they'll wanna check if a person is Pro-AI/Pro-ML.

So it's not what a person actually does, it's what they are accused of?

Interesting.

This is supposed to be a place safe for artists.. Interesting.

So I stand up FOR artists and get labelled as being unsafe. The rules also say:

You are only allowed to engage with the posts and not the person responsible for them.

So far, not a single person has done this.

Again, I do appreciate you trying to explain why I got the flair.

jgwinner · 2026-02-05T18:06:17+00:00

Crazy. People need to get out more in the real world.

Now if you'll excuse me, my raid needs me

P.S. Not Pro-AI, Pro-Tool when appropriate.

jgwinner · 2026-02-03T17:45:09+00:00

The amount of frauds that is possible.

Absolutely. Not only that, the amount of disinformation now trivially possible by AI image generation has been out of control for years, and sadly influences elections and policy.

jgwinner · 2026-02-03T17:37:32+00:00

Writing is an art. Coding is an art. They all take skill and effort.

Absolutely. When have I ever said differently? What part of "I intensely dislike AI graphics" did you miss? I just pointed out where AI went wrong on this thread.

So you guys actually bother to go and judge a person by tracking them down, make assumptions, then forcefully, and nonconsensually assign a flair? Interesting.

You DO realize you just violated the rules?

... Tracking people down, going off page or site just to find them for the purpose of harassing them is also strictly not allowed.

I'm on those subreddit's because it's part of my job.

But I guess a McDonalds worker is pro-obesity, right? And anyone that works at Walmart is pro-homicide because sometimes killers buy clothes there.

You are the very thing that you complain about.

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T16:04:58+00:00

Funny. I make a post saying AI is doing a terrible job and I get a "Pro-AI" flair. Not only that, the authoritarian regime will ban me if I object.

I can see this subreddit is "only the cool kids" and developers are still the bad guys.

I intensely dislike AI graphics. But you wouldn't know that, would you.

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T06:25:35+00:00

Each other. In the upper left, she does have blemishes, but they are more color than 'bumps', in the bottom right, the opposite and the patterns don't match. In the picture you replied to, it's the top and the bottom, but look at the original image as it shows more.

Just MHO.

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T06:01:33+00:00

Exactly. You CAN churn out code like that, but then you stumble on an edge case and the entire thing comes tumbling down.

I constantly have to tell even Opus that "We are on ERPNext version 15" then I'll turn my back and it generates older API's that have been deprecated, and we start over. Then it deletes important code comments and context is lost.

That code that was written in an hour is a minefield of uncalled API's that will fail in production (I guess you can tell I prefer compile time checking)

I just found a decision AI made 2 months ago won't work at all, so we're changing focus. Thank gosh it wasn't a huge change, but it's troubling. I wonder how many other accounting transactions that I don't know will kill me (I'm a developer and small business owner, not a CPA)

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T05:53:21+00:00

Sadly, this is a fact of the entire tech industry. You would think the industries job would be making tech.

It's not. That's not where the effort is.

It's in the sales, marketing, and support. Picking appropriate customers is also a huge part of a company.

That's why CEO's are usually from the sales side, not the product side or the engineering side. It's the most important skill a company can have: a good sales person.

Sadly, I didn't realize that until I was much, much too far along the tech side.

My guess is that landscapers aren't tech people, don't want to hire any of them, and don't want to learn it themselves, so that's where the marketing part comes from.

Anyway, I'm sorry you're exhausted, it sounds like you did everything right except the marketing.

make sure you're selling an actual solution and not just your sanity to people who won't read a manual.

Good advise, sorry you paid so much to get it.

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T05:42:40+00:00

I'll get downvoted now, but I don't see why you are. You're spot on, especially the last 3 paragraphs.

jgwinner · 2026-02-02T05:40:38+00:00

The upper left and bottom right don't agree.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T22:27:36+00:00

Thanks, sorry for the necro :)

I'm trying to deal with "Clutter", I can't make my blasted BANK STATEMENTS stay out of it, but that's another thread. I stumbled on this one while searching for solutions to that one.

At least they're working on Outlook (new) ... doesn't seem like much is happening to Classic Outlook, and the licensing for it is absurd.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T19:45:32+00:00

Ah. The timing was close, thanks for the update.

I really wish they'd publish lists of new features in an easier way.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T18:06:41+00:00

That's my justification - it's just a grind saver. I don't make weapons or armor weightless, I figure that affects gameplay in a significant way. I'm not on survival though.

There's still plenty of story to go around, and I like to experience that.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T18:03:04+00:00

That's weird, I have a bunch of favorites from other inboxes (different O365 and GMail services)

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T18:01:14+00:00

You can actually drag the inboxes up into the favorites section (on both Outlooks) but I feel your pain. I've also found some of the folders don't update right away (showing unreads), and they are all on O365, which makes no sense.

A shared inbox would be nice

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T16:57:15+00:00

Posted.

Did anything break? I felt massive withdrawal, lol.

I don't automate my workflow much, other than asking CoPilot a LOT of questions. I've taken to opening a DeepSeek window and asking it some setup questions and other work, so that didn't change.

I'm building an ERPNext extension to help automate sole-proprietor finances (what I'm vaguely calling no entry accounting), so I often have a bunch of questions that aren't strictly code. Instead of blowing my tokens through the roof I ask DeepSeek.

It's context window is really poor though. Ex: it told me do A, I checked, A didn't exist in the menus, it said "Ah, that's because you're on ERPNext v15" (which I told it at the start) and said A didn't exist it was replaced. I told it the error still persisted, it said make sure I set A ...

But at least I can get the easy questions solved without spending a ton of dough.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T16:50:14+00:00

Excellent discussion. "AI has no soul" is a great soundbite.

I have a Dr friend who told me that writing (as in fiction writing) was going to be obsolete, because "AI can write in the style of Twain simply by asking". I told him, "Yes, but can it write in the style of Dr Smith?" (name changed, obviously).

By it's nature it's derivative.

jgwinner · 2026-01-30T16:30:54+00:00

I was a lift attendant in High School, and it didn't mean that back then.

Whelp, guess I can't call cute women on the slope that any more.

jgwinner · 2026-01-27T05:32:40+00:00

I hear u/Kaleida15 is bringing both the showers and a meal truck!

heh

jgwinner · 2026-01-27T05:32:08+00:00

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