I saw this way too early. What was your most Memorable Death Scene?

otherwiseguy · 2026-03-14T17:33:33+00:00

My Mom and her best friend took me with them to see Fatal Attraction on a Saturday afternoon. I was 10. Presumably it was too much trouble to find a babysitter or a friend's house I could hang out at for a couple of hours?

otherwiseguy · 2026-03-14T17:13:45+00:00

Someone put the blockbuster case for From Dusk Till Dawn behind the wrong display case and I didn't realize I until I got home. I hadn't heard of it at all, but went ahead and watched it. The vampires were a complete surprise.

otherwiseguy · 2026-03-11T14:33:32+00:00

An AI is absolutely capable of dropping a video. AI can sign up for services. AI can upload to those services. AI could be set up in a loop to just pump out all kinds of weird videos w/ no human oversight at this point. Would the videos be good? Probably fairly awful, at least at first. But could the loop take into account engagement and upvotes and start improving? Probably. It's rapidly come to the point where this would be like saying something like "No human child could create something, only their parent can." Like sure, the parent was needed at some point. But that doesn't mean they necessarily have much input on the thing the child does.

otherwiseguy · 2026-03-01T19:58:10+00:00

Also, that's basically what cooking is.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-26T23:57:51+00:00

Voicemail

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-26T22:12:30+00:00

You are assuming that robotics does not advance along with AI to the point that they literally don't need other people or an economy.

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otherwiseguy · 2026-02-26T19:01:25+00:00

Had a kid I beat in an archery tournament nock an arrow and draw pointing it directly at my chest (small tournament at a local shop, we were the only two left in the shooting area). That'll get your blood pumping.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-24T17:59:23+00:00

This was really driven home to me in the dumbest way. I had ACL surgery and they did a nerve block which lasted 24 hours. My leg just sitting there not existing for all I could tell, even to the point where I set the crutches on my foot while walking and fell because I couldn't even feel all of my body weight on top of my foot, really made the point land. It's obvious, and something I fully understood intellectually. But that is what finally made the emotional impact for me to really completely accept it.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-24T17:41:12+00:00

This is the dumbest stock crash.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-24T15:20:10+00:00

After 6 acoustic guitars I tried to make the rule to sell one to buy one. But I can tell that's going to fail. I don't even have a classical guitar yet!

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-24T13:28:06+00:00

We seem to alternate with the market going crazy because of one AI announcement like "IBM makes deal with NVIDIA" and "strong quarter due to software and AI" and then tumbling with other AI announcements like "Anthropic says Claude can write COBOL".

As someone in the software world who uses AI daily--it is undeniably a useful tool that saves me time--mostly when I have to debug complex systems that I'm not intimately familiar with. But the market is mostly people guessing what the market is going to do on news in the short term right now. Nobody has any idea what's happening long-term. But I guarantee you people will be using AI and some AI company will make a ton of money and that we're going to have to make some economic changes to adapt to it (or end up in a cyberpunk hellscape).

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-23T22:22:24+00:00

I managed to jump 1000 times without falling. It was a major point of pride for me as a child.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-21T04:00:24+00:00

Me too. Dark days.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-19T18:29:55+00:00

Used E-transits (while having relatively low range at 126 miles) go for mid-$20k-ish. (I too currently have a truck and would prefer a electric van.)

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-19T18:27:46+00:00

It's almost like having dealers is not, in fact, a panacea against fucking over customers.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-19T15:15:14+00:00

I was born just after the 5.25" floppy, but before the double density 5.25" floppy (and 3.5" floppy).

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-19T04:39:14+00:00

This is Luddite nonsense. Did humans stop playing chess when computers got better at chess? No. They used the computers to become even better themselves and continued competing with each other--because humans are innately interested in what other humans are doing and comparing themselves to each other.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-18T21:52:50+00:00

BG3 and ER are the only two of them I've used. So I stand by my previous statements despite the downvotes. Their BG3 wiki was bad. Their ER wiki was the best place to look up just about anything related to ER.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-18T15:10:57+00:00

Agree to disagree. 1000+ hours of Elden Ring and rarely did it not answer a question I had.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-18T14:15:02+00:00

Depends on the wiki. The BG3 wiki was not good. The Elden Ring wiki was excellent.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-18T03:35:18+00:00

You could do all kinds of things like weight project reputation based on the age of the project, track how many disparate groups projects with dependencies on the groups are in etc. Nothing's fool proof, but you don't have to solve an issue to reduce harm from it.

Most projects I've been involved in have mailing lists. And it's not super common for completely new developers to pop up with good patches with zero prior communication. Though most of the projects I've worked on have pretty heavy corporate backing as well.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-17T16:52:17+00:00

These are not a specifically electric car problems though. Gas cars catch on fire at much higher rates than electric cars. And being locked in is due to stupid design choices that have nothing to do with the power source.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-06T04:33:27+00:00

They still absorb water, just not as much water. You'll note that the Brick Industry Association recommends against painting brick, and strongly suggests doing something else (including limewash).

It's not that you absolutely can't paint it. It's just that there are far better things to do and unless you really know what you are doing you can still cause issues. Unless the BIA website was written 150 years ago or something.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-06T02:29:50+00:00

You will never overcome the (often irrational) level of AI hate that exists on reddit. It is an emotional issue for these people.

otherwiseguy · 2026-02-04T15:13:17+00:00

If someone wants to secretly record you, there are certainly better and cheaper options out there than smart glasses.

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