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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 20, 2022, 12:47:42 am »
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General Discussion / Re: DALL-E - Heiroglyphs Are Back Baby
« on: April 19, 2022, 11:23:58 am »
Since the results look fairly polished, it may have uses for places stock art gets used. 15min to generate an image from an obscure text prompt is fine, if you are say, spending an hour writing an opinion article, and just want a humorous image that is royalty free to tag it with.
I could see this being quite useful for such things.
I could see this being quite useful for such things.
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General Discussion / Re: DALL-E - Heiroglyphs Are Back Baby
« on: April 19, 2022, 11:04:23 am »
I'll wait for this to end up like wombo.ai, with an open prompt.
It should be good for a laugh or two when it is open access.
It should be good for a laugh or two when it is open access.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 19, 2022, 05:44:41 am »
And other "euthanisms"
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Losing Is Fun - Part II
« on: April 19, 2022, 01:43:55 am »
Beware!! This might be why there are no shepherding operations in the region! The poof goat mafia is muscling all the poor shepherd boys down ravines!
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 19, 2022, 12:57:29 am »
Depressive
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 18, 2022, 03:07:02 am »
Yet another day at the jet fuel factory
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 16, 2022, 07:42:59 am »
Whimsically named animal mascot meets ironic end at Japanese restaurant.
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General Discussion / Re: How to counter older people?
« on: April 16, 2022, 06:09:04 am »
I think people are misinterpreting the OP's petard:
It is not "Oh noez, old people!"
It is, "At the rate of technological revolution, and the increased technological training needed to adequately and meaningfully engage in the modern world, older people are going to become a growing population that gets more and more on the wrong side of the digital divide."
Which, again, I point cheekily at the 'extrapolation' cartoon. That kind of thinking relies extensively on accepting those extrapolated curves as "TOTALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN OMG WTF BBQ!"
Again, if that kind of curve were to indeed come to be the status quo, industry would be unable to train people-- the costs of training would never have an actuarial timeframe where they benefit the company. Workers would be obsolete, in terms of their skillset and knowledgebase, before they even leave highschool.
Since that is a functional singularity in terms of how young you can demand your workforce be, natural chilling effects will rear their head against such curves, and they will **NOT** follow that kind of LOG scale.
Additionally, the notion of the premise-- that people must be fully educated in the technology to meaningfully interact with it-- has been patently untrue since at least the 90s. I would know, I have been a tech-head that entire time, and most people I meet do not come anywhere near the "information technology expert" bar, but still meaningfully use technology daily.
So, again--- Beware extrapolation like this-- and, further-- Conclusion does not follow from premise.
It is not "Oh noez, old people!"
It is, "At the rate of technological revolution, and the increased technological training needed to adequately and meaningfully engage in the modern world, older people are going to become a growing population that gets more and more on the wrong side of the digital divide."
Which, again, I point cheekily at the 'extrapolation' cartoon. That kind of thinking relies extensively on accepting those extrapolated curves as "TOTALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN OMG WTF BBQ!"
Again, if that kind of curve were to indeed come to be the status quo, industry would be unable to train people-- the costs of training would never have an actuarial timeframe where they benefit the company. Workers would be obsolete, in terms of their skillset and knowledgebase, before they even leave highschool.
Since that is a functional singularity in terms of how young you can demand your workforce be, natural chilling effects will rear their head against such curves, and they will **NOT** follow that kind of LOG scale.
Additionally, the notion of the premise-- that people must be fully educated in the technology to meaningfully interact with it-- has been patently untrue since at least the 90s. I would know, I have been a tech-head that entire time, and most people I meet do not come anywhere near the "information technology expert" bar, but still meaningfully use technology daily.
So, again--- Beware extrapolation like this-- and, further-- Conclusion does not follow from premise.
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General Discussion / Re: How to counter older people?
« on: April 16, 2022, 03:25:11 am »
This line of argument presumes that decline in mental ability will persist, despite age extension technology.
The same medical advances that are being leveraged against such things as alzheimers, would apply here.
More, if that trend TRULY holds, society will need to learn to accept that such rapid advancement is no longer viable as a business tactic, as the human population would be obsolete by the time it leaves highschool. Industry would have to be tapping kids for talent before they are legally eligible to work, in order to meet those demand curves.
This is the danger with such kinds of extrapolation.
The same medical advances that are being leveraged against such things as alzheimers, would apply here.
More, if that trend TRULY holds, society will need to learn to accept that such rapid advancement is no longer viable as a business tactic, as the human population would be obsolete by the time it leaves highschool. Industry would have to be tapping kids for talent before they are legally eligible to work, in order to meet those demand curves.
This is the danger with such kinds of extrapolation.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Losing Is Fun - Part II
« on: April 15, 2022, 10:49:29 pm »The problem is that we need the tallow, remember? We have a task that must be done.
So unless we can figure out a way to get the tallow from them without harming them, I feel that I must vote against befriending the poof goats.
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Mutters incoherently about dwarfy molten lava facials
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Losing Is Fun - Part II
« on: April 13, 2022, 12:35:47 am »
I suggest areal combat; Goats get protective of the herd when threatened. Best to be unreachable by horned melee, no matter how much cute is radiated.
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General Discussion / Re: War in Ukraine News Update - Junior Reporter Edition
« on: April 13, 2022, 12:33:34 am »
Given how the US wiped their ass with the Ft Laramie treaty, VIs-a-vis, the KeystoneXL pipeline fiasco, I wont hold my breath on either.
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Life Advice / Re: The Generic Computer Advice Thread
« on: April 11, 2022, 11:32:48 am »
Is this system one of those "cloudbooks" ?
Some parts of the windows OS can be ... relocated.. using softlinks in the NTFS file system. An SDCard formatted with NTFS (that then has a "DO NOT EVER REMOVE ME!!" sticker placed over the slot) can then play the actual physical host location.
However, linux is the better option there. The main OS itself is rather lightweight-- maybe 16gb total, for a full deployment. User data is what gobbles down the space, and again, an SDCard with a sticker that says "NEVER REMOVE ME" slapped over it and the slot, can be used to supply the /home mount point. One could put a big, juicy 256gb SDCard in there. I did that with my hacked chromebook.
Some parts of the windows OS can be ... relocated.. using softlinks in the NTFS file system. An SDCard formatted with NTFS (that then has a "DO NOT EVER REMOVE ME!!" sticker placed over the slot) can then play the actual physical host location.
However, linux is the better option there. The main OS itself is rather lightweight-- maybe 16gb total, for a full deployment. User data is what gobbles down the space, and again, an SDCard with a sticker that says "NEVER REMOVE ME" slapped over it and the slot, can be used to supply the /home mount point. One could put a big, juicy 256gb SDCard in there. I did that with my hacked chromebook.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Word association game 2^15.57: exponential wordin'
« on: April 11, 2022, 01:20:24 am »
Sarcoptes scabiei