celluloid_dream
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celluloid_dream
2mo ago
Dictionary? Translation? I guess, but in the current year, if you're not running every page through Claude to see what you missed, what are you doing?
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
Half the items on that list are not end goals, but (to them) necessary intermediate steps before tech or progress finds a better solution. Barring extreme identitarians, most fat/disabled/trans people wish they weren't and would like to change their situation. Antifa/BLM/squatters would similarly (I think) claim to not want to exist in an ideal world.
The rest are preferences. Would you agree that there is at least some contention over the aesthetic value of piercings/tattoos/graffiti/drugs? It's not like there's no precedent for them in human civilization.
celluloid_dream
9d ago
Yes, actually just get a good LLM to read over the chapter you just finished and catch anything you might have missed. I feel like I got SO MUCH more out of the books this way.
celluloid_dream
1mo ago
Yes, absolutely, and I do, but a lot of drivers aren't paying as much attention.
celluloid_dream
1mo ago
To get those numbers, I assume housing supply is rising, but is still artificially held back in order to keep it as a viable-but-not-good investment?
That sounds a little crazy to me. If you could fix the problem faster, surely you should.
celluloid_dream
4mo ago
Speaking of taste, lately 4o has very much been passing the vibe check, and 3.7 Sonnet very much hasn't been.
I'm now using Claude almost exclusively as a workhorse and ChatGPT as more of a conversation partner, when it used to be the other way around. 4.5 is even better
I'm a great fan of "meaning" names - especially ones evoking natural beauty (Brooke, Cliff, Dawn, River..), months/seasons (April, May, June* Summer, Autumn..), animals (Bear, Fox, Raven..). I feel they have a certain metaphorical upside. They're ripe for wordplay, poetic double-entendre, etc.
You're safe to pick from a huge number of respectable options, but on the other hand, someone has to blaze trail and name their son Marmot first. It's going to weird the first time. Everyone hears it, rolls their eyes, doesn't like it. Then someone "does it well", owns the name, normalizes it and gives license for future use.
*June is kind of a double reference, if you think about it
"Generational warfare" was perhaps hyperbolic. I mean that the government is propping up assets that, absent their meddling, should come down in value, if things were at all sane like in the US.
It doesn't help the younger generation of Canadians now if their parents will eventually croak in 25 or 30 years and leave them the house (along with god knows what owed in deferred property tax. Have fun with that, kids! Edit: actually, maybe this is only a BC thing), nor does it help those who can't bank on an inheritance.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
Sure, I'll grant they reduce auditory awareness, and possibly lead to accidents like this (though, snowboarder should have shoulder checked, and skier should have seen them since they were uphill).
On the other hand, accidents like that happen regardless, and if they're going to happen to me, I want to be wearing goggles that won't shatter into my face like sunglasses, and a helmet that will protect my noggin.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
Text-to-speech while doing something mindless.
That helps a bit, but ultimately it's a problem of too much content, too little time.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
This one reminded me of @Primaprimaprima 's post on internet addiction a while ago. I think I'm still of the same opinion.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
It's a useful distinction, and I see you've taken care to avoid "good/bad" judgements, but it's interesting you're still making positive claims under aesthetics which I think demand justification. For instance, that certain colours "will work". Oh will they? Why? Because something something colour wheel theory? What if I like the wrong combos? On what basis can you object? Pure appeal to popularity?
I don't think aesthetics are so quantifiable because year after year I see things that were once explained to me as hard fast prohibitions with hand-waving justifications like "because it would ruin the silhouette, obviously" then become the next big trend. Maybe I'm misreading here and you mean aesthetics are totally value-free. There's combos on the colour wheel axes and off, but it doesn't weigh in on whether either is more correct than the other.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
Yeah, trumpet and other brass instruments are miserable because you lose your emboucher without continual upkeep. After enough time off, you physically can't play the notes, even if you remember how. Oh, and the noise. There are harmon mutes for that though.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
I hear that. The headphone jack was a great standard. You could bring along a cheap male-male cable and interface with nearly any device with a speaker.
The good news is that Bluetooth in the current year is that universal standard. It's supported by as many, if not more devices. I initially thought charging the headphones would be annoying, but I find I rarely need to do it. The charging case keeps them topped up. Plus, you can still use your wired headphones with a lapel clip BT adapter. It's much better than trying to use the awkward phone port ones that always come loose.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
There are natural and unnatural game politics. Example: SSBU (online). It's a fighting game that is most often matched as a 1v1, but occasionally puts players in 3-way 1v1v1s.
Now, the natural politics that happen in a 3-way (IMO) is that all participants begin by attacking each other equally. If player A gets too far ahead, B and C focus attacks more on them to pull A back down to their level. If player C drops too far behind, A and B avoid trying to "finish them off", since either A or B spending time attacking C leave themselves open for the other to attack them in return and take the lead. As a result, 3 evenly matched players usually end up with a close finish where anyone could win. Exciting!
... except this rarely happens. In actual play, A and B immediately begin the match by signaling that they want to form an alliance against C. A and B then easily double-team C until C is eliminated, then finish the match as a 1v1. I consider this much less exciting than the alternative, but dynamics demand that players play this way, because if they refuse to ally and the other player does ally, they become C, and lose.
I consider the first situation to be natural, because the politics are dictated by the flow of the game. The second is unnatural because players are plotting on a social level with each other before the game begins.
celluloid_dream
2yr ago
It's "out of game" in that it is strategizing one level up. It's not playing the current instance as the game, but instead the full set. If that's the level you want to analyze, fine, but I think it's fair to say it is tainting single-game strategy with meta strategy.
I also sign on to @MathWizard's game ethics here and have always had the feeling that caching chess opening strategy is distasteful - sort of against the spirit of the game - yes.. even in the face of hundreds of years of the top players doing just that.
celluloid_dream
2mo ago
Yes. Classic WoW has a lot of dynamics to it that keep people playing against their will, sort of. In some real sense, your guild has invested in you, and your character, by taking you along, giving you loot and such, so you feel like you owe them your participation, so that your friends can get their rewards too, and your group can keep progressing.
Probably better for Bubbles long term, but it was shitty the way it went down that night. She probably cried. Like getting dumped by your long term friend group and finding out half of them never liked you and were talking about you behind your back
celluloid_dream
2mo ago
Having wasted far too much time playing Classic on and off since 2019, the ratio there is probably closer to 20% total, and 10% of serious raiders. Fairly confident in that estimate based on experience in raiding guilds and hearing everyone's voices in discord.
celluloid_dream
2mo ago
Just try and give me a single example of LLM output that's remotely comparable to quality human work.
I just fed it a video transcript of a recent press conference by the new Canadian PM, and got this article.
I'm not going to get into percentiles, but I would say it's fine - comparable to human work for an easy quotes-and-summary article, and free of annoying media clickbait traps like making half the article about Trump.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
Depends on the flooring. It's probably fine to wear shoes in this house, but you would never wear shoes in this one.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
I do this all the time! That is, just piggyback on someone else's order, and find it slightly pleasing/harmonious if others at the table do as well.
I feel like it's a minor bonus to group cohesion if we all do a thing together. (eg. if everyone has poutine, or everyone orders a Caesar). I'm pretty indecisive, and not too picky, so anything that helps tip the scales one way or another, I'll just go with it. There's also some consideration for kitchen/bar/server efficiency.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
Cardio: Mirror's Edge chase mix. Background music for a game about running makes for pretty good running background music.
For pushing through something: French screamo
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
Your first takeaway is interesting, because when I used to play over a decade ago, the social aspect was the hardest part of winning. It was crucial to keep your team focused on the game, and not arguing in chat.
There was one strat - split pushing - that went against the expected meta at the time. It was basically an aggressive fork, going too deep, too quickly in order to make the opponent commit to defending one side, and gain momentum on the other. I was really good at it. Experience seemed to confirm it worked. The problem is that (at the time), it was just seen as a "thing you don't do". Doing it (or worse, letting the team know ahead of time I was going to try) would prompt such a raging backlash, it was actually counterproductive. The strat was sound, but tilted teammates typing in allcaps for thirty minutes don't win matches, so I stopped trying.
celluloid_dream
1yr ago
I like https://spotwx.com/ . Zoom in, pick a location. Select the model for the area / time span you want, and then you get a nice readout like this.
Sure, but why is the thing good?
In its original form, it was good because it served a functional purpose. Thereafter, each copy was only good because of nostalgia or familiarity, and I think it settles for being merely good, when it could innovate using more recent techniques, new materials, creativity and perhaps be better. At least, that's the ethos I got from the book (and, I'm told, it's kinda-sorta what the Modernists were going for).
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