psycotica0

Learning programming, maybe, maybe not. But I have had success being like "assume I already know Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and Haskell. What are the quick pointers and cheat sheets for using R, especially the ggplot2 library"

I could read an R tutorial, but I don't need to learn about variables and what comments are or how to call a function. I just want to know the differences between what I'm already used to.

And I'll admit it was useful to already have that context to throw follow-up questions into when they came up, like "what's the difference between = and <-" which are famously hard questions to Google

I'm not sure this song ever made it out of Canada, but Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies has a verse where a girl in school wouldn't change with the other girls, and when they made her, she had, in what I thought the lyric was, "burn marks all over her body". I assumed the song was about child abuse, and they were cigarette burns. The other verses are about a kid with a shock of white hair from "a car crash" and a kid who always has to come home right after school, so it kinda made sense in a consistent enough way...

Anyway, for basically my whole life I thought that's what the song was about. Turns out the lyrics are "birth marks all over her body", and the point of the song is more about kids being othered for things outside their control.

I still think I prefer my version...

Get in the fucking hat, Remy!!!

Right, but what they're saying is that the human may be powerless, but he's not passive.

It's almost closer to non-consent, in that sex is being done "to him" without his participation. I'd say.

Well actually that's a bit more complicated. Some English accents will pronounce the "h" and it'll sound like, well, "herb", but other accents treat it as silent and it sounds like "erb".

I'm going to guess this author and/or style-guide pronounces it "an erb"

Okay so what, you hate elephants? You think they're ugly and gross? How could you? I thought you were better than this... smh... 😛

Okay, this could be a source of dysphoria, but hear me out. Elephant-themed bottoms with a trunk out the front.

Super cute, no unsightly bulge, maintains other lines, and it can flap around adorably. Win win win win.

I'll accept a billion dollars and the First Annual Trans Ally of the Year Award. Thank you, thank you.

Public key authentication is more secure than nothing, and is more convenient than shared secrets and symmetric encryption, but bit for bit the secret material necessary for public key cryptographic schemes to be secure is more data than is required for symmetric algorithms.

But more to your point, public key cryptography is basically a usability nightmare. In order to talk to anyone you need to first validate their key using an entirely out of band scheme you already trust, and if you don't do that then all the end to end encryption in the world is theatre.

Of course I'm being hyperbolic, it's the internet, but seriously there a lot of people feeling secure with public key systems that are either totally insecure, or could be insecure and they wouldn't know, or are secure to some random bystander but insecure to people and organizations that are often included in people's threat models.

It's not hypocracy. They know time off is great. They know medical care is great. They know it's great to be housed and fed and not worried about a single paycheck being late ruining your entire life. Their philosophy is not that these things are unnecessary.

Their philosophy is that there are people who deserve these nice things, namely them and people like them, and that other people deserve to suffer. And that every nice thing they get that other people don't, further separates them from the people they don't like.

Some people who believe these things may actually truly believe that the carrot of a better life ahead if you, and the sticks of poverty behind you, might motivate you to innovate or improve yourself in some way. Some of them might believe that the suffering is important, because without it no one would ever do anything.

But I think a lot of them don't even think that. They just like having things other people want.

I do wonder if they plan to draw a line somewhere in "how AI" the image needs to be. Like, if it's a raw photo, that's fine. If it's enhanced by filters or something, probably not AI fair to say.

But what about the, like, magic eraser and infilling? If I use a tool to erase a bunch of people from a bridge and draw new parts of bridge that weren't in the original photo... is that AI?

If I use AI to pull a mask and cut someone out from the background, and then put them overtop of a stock background, that uses AI to do work I could have done by hand. Probably fine. But what if I use AI to paint a new background that didn't exist before this photo. Is that AI?

If I take a picture of me in a real place, doing a real thing, and then use AI infill to paint a different face onto my face so it's not me anymore, but the rest of the photo including my body is real, is it AI because that person doesn't exist?

I just feel like if you've seen one comic about a dolphin tearing through someone's asshole and falling in love with a woman only to be cuckolded by her dog, you've seen them all...

I remember when art was creative, unique, and surprising...

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