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Loops finally sent out emails: I have early access
  • Between the demand to install an app we are prohibited from even "decipher"ing and the theft of content, I don't think this service is anything I want to be a part of. I thought they were trying to be something better.

    The contract language that informed my opinion follows.

    When you post Contributions, you grant us a license (including use of your name, trademarks, and logos): By posting any Contributions, you grant us an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license to: use, copy, reproduce, distribute, sell, resell, publish, broadcast, retitle, store, publicly perform, publicly display, reformat, translate, excerpt (in whole or in part), and exploit your Contributions (including, without limitation, your image, name, and voice) for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise, to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, your Contributions, and to sublicense the licenses granted in this section.

    As a user of the Services, you agree not to: Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.

  • Conrroversial
  • If I pushed an albatross down a well and attached a crab to it to harrass it on the way down it would also fall, despite being a fantastic winged flier.

    Imagine them with wings ill suited to vertical flight and hovering, but very fast in the sky while soaring, and with the endurance to keep going for hours.

    It's my headcannon, but I give Gandalf points for forcing the fighter jet into a helicopter arena.

  • How did you spice things up in your life?
  • (The choice between a "daemon in the sheets" or "cronD in your log folder" joke is left as an exercise for the reader.)

  • It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it?
  • I saw Nick Cutter and wanted to ask this as well. The Troop was such a fantastic book with vile description and really left an impression on me. Fuck you Shelley.

  • Rock and Stone
  • Can someone explain the fourth panel? What's the significance of the big red X and why is the background a pair of idiot knife ears making out in that wooden hellscape? I know it's nauseating to look at their weird bald faces for too long but I'd appreciate the help. Probably some human nonsense.

  • Science fact
  • There's also going to be a stop motion tribute for OtGW released by the folks who make Wallace and Gromit on november third!

  • *Permanently Deleted*
  • If you still have that save file, you might consider tasteful use of an editor to give yourself a chance. If not though I'm sorry to hear that. BG1/2 were a huge part of my childhood and my longtime favorite villain came from the second.

    https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Save_Editors

  • I am tired of all my friends viewing me as a child.
  • she viewed all of her peers as children since she felt she had more lived experience which is fine

    That's not fine. Her lived experience doesn't seem to be translating to maturity at a rate worth bragging about whether the claim is true or not. The foundation of any healthy relationship is respect. I think that whether you want to confront anyone about these events or not, you would benefit from seeking out mutually respectful relationships.

    Consider whether her actions can really be caused by a fault of yours if she belittles almost everyone in the same way.

  • Dayuuum
  • So you took the literal scenario (woman in wheelchair gets insulting comment asking if her disability affects her sexually) and inverted it so that the insultor is disadvantaged against a hypothetical celebrity who causes them social harm. Why? Autism isn't a fucking pallisade and it shouldn't be used to counter attack legitimate points. You're the one doing damage to perceptions of autistic people. Please stop.

  • Illegally parked bun

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    How can a sole trader/small business owner use AI to their advantage?
  • Black hat and Defcon just ended and I'll share my impression from LLM related talks given there. Microsoft VPs charged additional money to CISOs attending the summit talking about how AI will disrupt and be the future and blah blah magical thinking.

    Meanwhile Microsoft engineers and others said things like "this is logarithmic regression for people who are bad at math, and is best for cases where 75% accuracy is good enough. Try to break use cases into as many steps as possible and keep the LLM away from any automation that could have any consequences. These systems have no separation between the control plane and user input, which is re-exposing us to problems that were solved 15 years ago."

    I think there are some neat possibilities that are lost in marketing hype as venture capitalist anger grows that they might have been scammed by yet another hammer in search of nails.

  • Which part of a PB&J is the meat, and which is the condiment?
  • "Nut meat" is a common phrase so I would guess the peanut product is closest, but please stop this line of thought for your own safety.

  • Opinions [Extra Fabulous Comics]
  • I don't presume to know your situation or the people you've dealt with so I'll be charitable and imagine you cut your losses and quit similar situations in good faith, but you and I are both ignorant about the lives of others. It seems to me like the behavior you label an abandonment of principle leaves the door open to future redemption of a loved one. That's worth fighting for. On that ground, I think you should stop sharing this opinion even if it's true for you. If they don't want to damn their own mother to a propoganda echo chamber full of malice then I'm rooting for them.

  • nother babie
  • A baby rabbit is called a kitten. A baby hare is called a leveret!

  • Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky
  • Children render frames incredibly slowly, and usually in crayon. I can't imagine between that and lack of necessary math skills you wouldn't get better performance by replacing the family with additional steamdecks of any storage capacity.

  • Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky
  • You're doing great lol. Back in my helpdesk days I loved talking to people who overshared to be helpful.

  • Just an fyi for those of you that have the 500gb model and enjoy no mans sky
  • I think that OP is providing all details they think might be relevant, so whether they a little confused or not they got the spirit and I appreciate it.

  • Double bun alert

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    What was the first effective cure for a disease in history?
  • Confusingly, there's actually two similar staves that get mixed up. The helix patterned one with two winged snakes I think you have in mind is called the Caduceus, but the the single wingless version I meant is the staff of Aesculapius (multiple spellings out there).

  • What was the first effective cure for a disease in history?
  • Go check out the alledged link between the snake wrapped staff that's used to represent medicine and the treatment for guinea worms. Googling puts that theory with the Ebers papyrus from 1500 BC if it's true!

  • It's so perfect
  • Art by Jesper Ejsing in case you want to see the wider frame version!