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  • TavTav Irish Minister for DefenceRegistered User regular
    I would buy so much more software if it offered a one time fee over subscriptions

  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    Weaver update for in case you didn't see it elsewhere
    Didn't go to the ER until yesterday but turns out I had a pulmonary embolism in my lower right lung Thursday night, so that's one thing that's still got me messed up and is gonna take a good while to come back from it seems, and now this morning my partner tested positive for covid; details about isolation being difficult can be found in the covid thread. At least we got to see a Star Wars burlesque show on Saturday, which while fun was rather difficult with an undiagnosed blood clot in my lung.

    Also I didn't get that job from last week.

    Did you see Emperor Palpatine's penis? That was the best part of the show IMO

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Feral wrote: »
    Weaver wrote: »
    Weaver update for in case you didn't see it elsewhere
    Didn't go to the ER until yesterday but turns out I had a pulmonary embolism in my lower right lung Thursday night, so that's one thing that's still got me messed up and is gonna take a good while to come back from it seems, and now this morning my partner tested positive for covid; details about isolation being difficult can be found in the covid thread. At least we got to see a Star Wars burlesque show on Saturday, which while fun was rather difficult with an undiagnosed blood clot in my lung.

    Also I didn't get that job from last week.

    Did you see Emperor Palpatine's penis? That was the best part of the show IMO

    I did! My fav was Notorious J.A.B.B.A though.

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    Hahnsoo1 wrote: »
    I found this NPC in BG3:
    He has my name!

    pe53crajav4k.jpg

    ... He was evil, and I blew him up. D:

    Did you steal his hat?
    I hope you stole his hat.

  • zepherinzepherin Russian warship, go fuck yourself Registered User regular
    credeiki wrote: »
    @Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud My job involves a ton of technical writing but it is very clear to me that the technical writing serves to clarify my thinking and understanding and to enable me to make funding recommendations, and/or set sensible requirements.

    Some of the writing feels stilted and formulaic but handing it over to an LLM would be a disaster for us because bypassing the writing process would cause us to bypass *thinking*, and we would make worse decisions as a result.

    I have found chatGPT useful in trying to figure out certain technologies, like when I just needed to ask it so many questions about certain optical techniques cause I was starting from zero there and all the reviews I was reading were either too technical or skimmed over the details and focused on applications. However my role as a writer was not to summarize the technique, it was to make a recommendation about which parts of a novel program were good and feasible and which parts were risky (but ok) and risky (but bad and should be changed). An LLM might be able to make that recommendation but I don’t think we wish to let it make that recommendation and it obviously wouldn’t reflect our personal idiosyncratic priorities, which is what we are being asked as experts to bring to the table

    (relatedly NIH people have been asked not to use LLMs in reviews lol)
    Yeah most agencies I’ve seen are hard no on LLMs unless you have exception from someone sufficiently high up that it keeps people from requesting to be lazy.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Weaves you go to that burlesque place down by Pikes? I've been there before.

    God damn I drank a lot of absinthe that night.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

  • marajimaraji Registered User regular
    zepherin wrote: »
    credeiki wrote: »
    @Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud My job involves a ton of technical writing but it is very clear to me that the technical writing serves to clarify my thinking and understanding and to enable me to make funding recommendations, and/or set sensible requirements.

    Some of the writing feels stilted and formulaic but handing it over to an LLM would be a disaster for us because bypassing the writing process would cause us to bypass *thinking*, and we would make worse decisions as a result.

    I have found chatGPT useful in trying to figure out certain technologies, like when I just needed to ask it so many questions about certain optical techniques cause I was starting from zero there and all the reviews I was reading were either too technical or skimmed over the details and focused on applications. However my role as a writer was not to summarize the technique, it was to make a recommendation about which parts of a novel program were good and feasible and which parts were risky (but ok) and risky (but bad and should be changed). An LLM might be able to make that recommendation but I don’t think we wish to let it make that recommendation and it obviously wouldn’t reflect our personal idiosyncratic priorities, which is what we are being asked as experts to bring to the table

    (relatedly NIH people have been asked not to use LLMs in reviews lol)
    Yeah most agencies I’ve seen are hard no on LLMs unless you have exception from someone sufficiently high up that it keeps people from requesting to be lazy.

    Asking a LLM a question that you don’t know the answer to is like one of those “one guard lies, one guard tells the truth” puzzles except you don’t know who’s talking.

  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    edited August 2023
    BLAH my roommate had a girl over on saturday who just tested positive for covid and now the roomie is sick so I assume it's in the mail for me too :expressionless:

    Jacobkosh on
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Weaves you go to that burlesque place down by Pikes? I've been there before.

    God damn I drank a lot of absinthe that night.

    Saw a genderswapped rendition of Romeo & Juliet

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Cinders wrote: »
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

    There was an opera showing that night too

    Worst fucking drivers in the world

    Saw some big brain moves

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

    There was an opera showing that night too

    Worst fucking drivers in the world

    Saw some big brain moves

    I lived near Mercer when I first moved up here.

    I know it's gotten better since they opened the tunnel, but I hate that street.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    full disclosure I like cats and dogs

    what the f

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Cinders???

    What the f

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Hey!

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    Hi Spool!

    How are you and Bel doing?

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited August 2023
    Tumin wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

    There was an opera showing that night too

    Worst fucking drivers in the world

    Saw some big brain moves

    Once I got onto 99 on the way home, some guy decided he wanted my lane and the way to do that was drive slightly past the hood of my car and just drift over, which is a move that gets pulled on me every time I get on 99 or I5 nowadays.

    Weaver on
  • zagdrobzagdrob Registered User regular
    Well that was cool, took the dog for a walk and found a $100 bill just laying on the sidewalk.

    Score!

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Cinders wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

    There was an opera showing that night too

    Worst fucking drivers in the world

    Saw some big brain moves

    I lived near Mercer when I first moved up here.

    I know it's gotten better since they opened the tunnel, but I hate that street.

    The Met Market there is where I used to cut meat! Also where I parked for the show because I still have a parking pass, haha, eat it event parking fees.

    Also @Tumin were you at the show on Saturday?

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    Well that was cool, took the dog for a walk and found a $100 bill just laying on the sidewalk.

    Score!

    dogs are the gift that keeps on giving

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Finally sitting down to watch Nightmare on Elm Street 3 since it came to HBO in August.

    It's such a good movie. I used to daydream about being someone known for being in 1-2 horror movies and maybe a commercial or two and that just being a footnote in a memoir.

    Weef and I have redubbed our "Spoopy Sundays" to "SAW Sundays" and for the last three weeks we've watched a Sam and Colby ghost hunter episode on youtube, and then a SAW movie.

    ngl it's a fun way to pass 2.5-3 hours on a Sunday night.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    zagdrob wrote: »
    Well that was cool, took the dog for a walk and found a $100 bill just laying on the sidewalk.

    Score!

    Low-stakes version of No Country for Old Men incoming

  • TuminTumin Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    This shows on Mercer?

    Cursed street

    There was an opera showing that night too

    Worst fucking drivers in the world

    Saw some big brain moves

    I lived near Mercer when I first moved up here.

    I know it's gotten better since they opened the tunnel, but I hate that street.

    The Met Market there is where I used to cut meat! Also where I parked for the show because I still have a parking pass, haha, eat it event parking fees.

    Also Tumin were you at the show on Saturday?

    Nah we were at the music thing in the park, heard some people talking about the burlesque show when we went to get dinner.

  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I've got two in person interviews this week. Kinda could really use a job offer.

  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    The elders have returned. Raise the altars. Break the tablets. We must begin.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    I've got two in person interviews this week. Kinda could really use a job offer.

    Fucking Dynes and Cinders in one day.

    Dyna you still in Texas?

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Also yeah I still have to apply to things for unemployment purposes, but this current health status in our household has really put the brakes on for the job search.

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User, Transition Team regular
    Cinders wrote: »
    Hi Spool!

    How are you and Bel doing?

    OK all in all! Some wild shit, some pretty bad shit, some good shit. You?

  • DynagripDynagrip Break me a million hearts HoustonRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Dynagrip wrote: »
    I've got two in person interviews this week. Kinda could really use a job offer.

    Fucking Dynes and Cinders in one day.

    Dyna you still in Texas?

    Yup, still here

  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Cinders???

    What the f

    She didn't mean to leave for so long. She's just been stuck in traffic on Mercer this whole time

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    All I remember from my time at that burlesque is that I made sure to look extra touristy and southern (this was easy as I'd been drinking since 5 and our show was at 11) and then they seated us right by the stage on that bench area to the right of it, next to a lady that came regularly (some older woman) who knew one of the performers from when she used to babysit him.

    She was delightfully plastered and we bought each other rounds and I very drunkenly told the performer playing the emcee for the evening that he was Goddamn smokin' (he was the one she used to babysit)

    I also remember the hangover the next morning, which was nothing compared to my second to last night at PAX South the year before they cancelled it, when $140 bought enough booze to make myself, my wife, and three graduating airmen vomit and then go to McDonalds upstairs.

    Apologies to Amy and Bleric for just bailing on them the following day as I ordered room service burgs.

    TL:DR AH goes hard at PAX

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    What a weird-ass video, I'd never seen it before until I was ready to make the obvious joke

    Adam Levine wut u doin

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    Oh that feels better.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    lol Summs my wife was a Maroon stan for years, went to the concerts before ticketmaster made them cost $250 instead of $50, etc.

    I mean we still rock out to their bullshit white pop music daily. I don't care it's catchy.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote: »
    Cinders wrote: »
    Hi Spool!

    How are you and Bel doing?

    OK all in all! Some wild shit, some pretty bad shit, some good shit. You?

    I'm surviving, and mostly just traveling everywhere for work.

  • SummaryJudgmentSummaryJudgment Grab the hottest iron you can find, stride in the Tower’s front door Registered User regular
    Here's a better getting-blood-rained-on video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAcXSMyCEw

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    Oh yeah, AH, I also now have a 4-day PAX pass I can't use.

  • CindersCinders Whose sails were black when it was windy Registered User regular
    The elders have returned. Raise the altars. Break the tablets. We must begin.
    Here's a better getting-blood-rained-on video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woAcXSMyCEw

    So Final Nights type of deal, yea?

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Zag I think I finally got shit sorted out with the loggers. That guy 100% almost went out of business and got a lifeline. (the logger, not the Forester. That dude has a baby coming on Wednesday and brought me a push mower today, he's A+ good folk)

    The end result is I'll get somewhere between 1.5 and 2.5K back for them fucking up and running into September/October, or the logger will fuck up again before the end of August and pack his shit and we'll bring in someone else for the back half and I'll get more. (or just leave it, since I already got paid the first go-around)

    Either way your wife was right to want to not deal with it right now, but if she ever does the Forester is still a recommendation.

    are YOU on the beer list?
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