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  • I couldn't find a picture, but i always made those hokey power plant where you raise one tile, add water, hydros all around, and a wind on top. I think I saw it in a magazine once as a weak option that is cheapest (beacause it lasts forever).

  • Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’
  • Taking a step back, i wonder... we are reading this stuff now, it effects us too. What if we have already stepped into a linguistic death-spiral of a telephone-game where each generation gets rehashed garbage from the last?

  • Yo dawg, I thought you *LIKED* unions?

    United Union-workers Union? UUU? U3? 3U? :)

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    Excessive beanage

    dalle3 prompt: A hand reaches out of a sea of refried beans, as a person has sunk into them like quicksand.

    Mostly as a reaction to these infinite-bean-lovers:

    Bonus shoutout to @SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world for help with the post title.

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    Should one say "too many refried beans", or "too much refried beans"?

    "Too many" kinda sounds right to my ear because beans is plural, but the second logically seems right because its served by volume and is not 'countable' as ordinary (non-destroyed) beans might be.

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    Do people actually get upset if you forget their name?

    If so, does that mean people actually remember a persons name & face after only one encounter?!

    If not, why do we pretend they will be upset, and try to hide the fact that we forget an unfamiliar name?

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    How to combat creeping firefox enshitification?

    I deal with a lot of VMs for varying purposes, and it seems frequent that my purpose for opening firefox is derailed by some kind of nag. For example, I frequently get the "you haven't used firefox in a while" in vms that I rarely use firefox and have to go disable the "meta refresh" option in the "about:config".

    Now, I've started seeing this one... it's not even one of the passive banners but a full-page stop-the-world w/ semi-transparent background and right-click prevention.

    Before I invest too much time trying to figure out how to disable these, or templating profile options en-masse, or the like... I thought I might ask... is there a way I can tell firefox that I only want it to only be a web-browser? i.e. an effective tool and not an attention sink or exciting video-game-like challenge of exploration and closing popups and suggestions while trying to remember why I launched it.

    Somewhat relatedly, there is some kind of irony with firefox prominently offering to copy a URL without tracking for other sites, but when it is their own ad (however benign it might seem) that they disable right-clicks and load up on the trackers. The above button links to:

    • https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-devices?utm_source=spotlight-default&utm_medium=firefox-desktop&utm_campaign=migration&utm_content=new-device-in-your-future&entrypoint=device-migration-spotlight-experiment-v2&utm_term=aboutwelcome-default-screen&as=u
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    I'm here to discuss your car's extended warranty

    dall-e v3 w/ minor post-generation mods. Prompt: A robotic solicitor knocks on a home's closed front door with his right fist knuckles. The robot is dressed in a suit which has a large corporate logo on it and holds a tablet in his left hand.

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    If someone were to call you a "full stack" developer, would that feel like a complement or an insult?

    I know managers love that term, but I think I've come to hear it as an insult... Sorta like being called an unprofessional "jack of all trades" budget handyman that does everything mediocre...

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    If they charge by the image, and there is any expectation that AI image-generators might produce garbage results, then AI providers are incentivized to make you pay for their experimentation

    without you ever knowing about it, as well as (perhaps) swapping in a cheaper-to-operate model some percentage of the time, perhaps as request loads peak, hoping you'll just roll the dice and try again.

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