BillTheTailor

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Hell Nah! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

I'd be okay with that. Golf courses offend me. So much land wasted that could be put to better uses...like landfills, or cemeteries for the indigent, or nuclear waste storage. (Or housing, or growing food.)

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On the subject of Titanic as a grave (lemmy.ml)
 

Them. It’s eerily beautiful but it’s a grave site. Please respect that and leave it alone

Me. Sure, I agree with that, but I disagree with how that respect is shown. Being dead doesn't instantly confer an exalted, inviolate status. Let us presume that the wreck was never found: how many generations would it be before all those people would be forgotten, lost to time? How many websites would there be with the 2nd and 3rd class passenger manifests? Very few, I would offer. By studying and salvaging the wreck, we keep those people alive in the public consciousness. A living, breathing person drank coffee from this mug. Someone slept in this bunk, shaved in this mirror. To my way of thinking, willfully forgetting them is the disrespect.

STOP DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Developer here: can confirm. (#4 is actually true.)

With the talk about bird flu affecting egg prices... in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I think this is the answer. It can take a hen several months to start laying; meat chickens are typically harvested in six to twelve weeks.

What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

In my county (midwest America) communication between lawyers and courts is still entirely by fax. I don't know if that's the case of other counties in my state, but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

What's something that's seen as Obsolete, but isn't? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Developers. Yes, AI can sling a lot of code, but it can't make business decisions and it can't please a difficult customer.

I should buy a lottery ticket in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I haven't but fucked if I know how.

Time to ditch Amazon Prime? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

And execs wonder why we torrent.

An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

My dad wanted to move into one of these communities back in the seventies but it was Way Beyond his price range.

How to prevent cats from shitting on my lawn?!? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is hurting a feral cat a criteria for what he is allowed to do? A coyote would certainly have no compunction, why should he?

How to prevent cats from shitting on my lawn?!? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hypersonic deterrence have never been proven to work.

How to prevent cats from shitting on my lawn?!? in c/[email protected]
How to prevent cats from shitting on my lawn?!? in c/[email protected]
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Didn't notice this on several watch-thrus (Reddit hated this) (lemmy.ml)
 

The fabric on Admiral Marcus' uniform bears the same pattern as the carpet in the Overlook Hotel.

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Bacon-y edges (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
3 comments fedilink
 

Ordinarily, I wouldn't turn down bacon for any reason, but in PLA it looks kinda bad. Any ideas as to cause and, more importantly, prevention?

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Is there an AI tool that doesn't clutch its pearls when asked for questionable content? (lemmy.ml)
 

I'm writing a fiction story. There are two scenes where a woman is put in danger: one involves an almost-rape, the other the kind of language you'd get from an abusive relationship (in both cases the woman eventually comes out on top.)

I've never raped anyone or used abusive language, and as an autist I need something to go by if I'm in completely unfamiliar territory. I've been using ChatGPT for inspiration/ideas (not verbatim content), but when I bring up these scenarios, the AI gets all snooty and proper and lectures me on ethics, morals, proper behavior, etc. That's no help at all, as you can imagine.

So, is there an AI tool that doesn't clutch its pearls when asked for questionable content?

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Getting "pin feathers" on my print (lemmy.ml)
 

Ender 3 Pro, Slicr, retraction: 6mm; temp: 215; PLA+.

The pin feathers usually happen in the upper layers. Cura doesn't do this, but it's so desperately slow as an app (to load, to slice, to preview) that I'm trying Slicr, (which does everything almost instantly.)

Any advice how to avoid them?

(The top surface is another issue I can't seem to solve, but one thing at a time.)

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