Octoplicity

It's not necessary to rethink and micromanage the hell out of every word. Don't let the trolls get you down. This is a disease from that other site that we are free to leave behind now.

Just hurling an invoice over the fence at you doesn't count as communication either way! This one is totally on them.

What you did differently that anyone else, I bet, is that you did not call them to nag them!

Yep exactly www.avsforum.com/threads/vide...

The downside is that your display will probably nag you to run the wear-leveling process occasionally to keep the image uniform.

If it helps, newer OLEDs are expected to last a lot longer by the simple expedient of being more light-efficient (they are driving the OLEDs much more gently for the same amount of brightness), and because they have a lot more spare dynamic range set aside for wear-leveling.

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: report | TechCrunch Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/m...

How will we recognize human-equivalence? As a profitability threshold of course!

From Google search suggestions: "Is IHOP a cult?"

A product photo with a supposed hospital employee wearing a vest with three visible pouches that are made of probably nylon and mesh, and they are buckled closed like the buckles on bike helmets, and in each pouch is a baby doll

I have to take an annual fire safety training for work, and I am reminded that I asked some of the folks who manage these things how they evacuate the NICU and apparently they have vests you can load up with babies

Claude Fights Back ...

www.astralcodexten.com/p/claude-fig...

Some Asimov shit going down here

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft The project’s leader says that allowing everyone to access the collection of public-domain books will help “level the playing field” in the AI industry.

www.wired.com/story/harvar...

Data hoarders, prepare your hard drives

Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature Can civilizations really expand technologically until they build Dyson Spheres? Or do they need to conform to biospheres to survive?

www.universetoday.com/169993/advan...

I like it. There is no great filter - the elder races are just so damn solarpunk you can't see them

whoever finds all 9 wins nothing except the knowledge that they’re old

That may be Puddle of Mudd instead of Hole

Tidus and Yuna laughing in a famous scene from FFX

I seriously had to do a Poe's-law doubletake on this ragepost.

Always seems like no matter how hard people try, you'll always find a fundamentalist to demand perfection yesterday.

because it's a goddam cognitohazard [affectionate], that's why

if they have a 23-page menu, you should check to see if the hotel is secretly a Cheesecake Factory

"if you haven't read this and can cite where this is recommended, don't tell me how to run my domain"

One time I asked the IT lead to give me a separate non-admin account for my daily use, and he responded by printing out the entire 300-page Microsoft AD best practices PDF, dropping it on my desk, and saying >

OH: "I play Trivial Pursuit with real cheese"

There Is No Antimemetics Division An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it. Antimemes are real. Think of any piece of information ...

Author page plus bonus material: qntm.org/scp

"There Is No Antimemetics Division" is a rock-solid psychological/SCP-type horror story. It's several cuts above most stuff in the genre.

Read here for free or there's an actual print novel you can get: scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics...

bluesky moderation warning: "Stupid"

This is why "extremely divorced man" is a meme.

update: Yep, it's them big oggs. I'm getting ~80kbps downloading them

My browser became increasingly unhappy in the "progress bar" phase and dev console suggests it's loading audio assets? And then when I try to refresh, etc, the server is being slow with me. Any chance there's some rate limits, etc?

Looking forward to being able to exist in a place where misery isn't literally money.

I think air fryers may usually be black pods of sadness because eventually the grease is going to turn into a rock-hard brown sheen on everything and it's better not to be able to see that.
However, if you have faith in the air-frying gods, Fritaire does look pretty cute.