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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

I honestly ignored that Sweeney is a perfectly good looking woman because the whole premise is stupid.

The whole point of acting is to be whatever character. If people like one character enough, it doesn't matter how "good" your acting is. All that matters is that people connected to that character.

But also women bashing women for how attractive they are is definitely shit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Baum went on to call Sweeney and Glen Powell's smash-hit rom-com Anyone But You an "unwatchable movie," before revealing that she asked her students to "explain" the actress to her. "I said to my class, ‘Explain this girl to me. She’s not pretty, she can’t act. Why is she so hot?’ Nobody had an answer,” she said,

Yeah, seems like she had cause to say "maybe we don't have to hate each other for having success"...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I'm not an Xbox guy.

But if the PS Portal was $400 and played PS4 games natively plus did streaming like it does now, I would have been all over it. I like my steam deck, but there's a benefit to games hyper optimized to one system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

If those sites think that being linked to is a service they're providing Google (which demanding payment implies), then Google is just fulfilling their wishes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

This was really obvious a couple orders of magnitude ago, but I guess at least they stopped lying about infinite scale being an option?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mostly audiobooks, 2x speed, a lot of hours a day. I do use an ereader sometimes. I've started collecting (just regular hardcover, mostly) physical copies of some of my favorites, but I don't really read them like that. When possible I read entire series from beginning to end consecutively. Audiobooks and visual reading are generally different books.

Mostly mystery, in a wide variety of settings, tones, levels of intensity, but some pure fantasy. Nonfiction is mostly psychology, but some science, other stuff as well. (180 new books this year), but I re-read as much as I read new. I don't set goals or anything, just use the "goal" to see the number each year out of curiosity.

Mid-30s, IDK. I read a bunch as a kid, then stopped the habit through high school and college and took a while to get back into heavy reading.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Just for the hell of it, if you want a well researched book about the value of all sorts of Rest to dispute that specific point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All LEDs are backlit, and a full 1080p on a 7 inch LED screen is a dogshit reading experience that will make your eyes bleed in about 2 minutes. If you manage to find a terrible OLED at a low price, it's still emissive and still absolutely terrible for reading.

Free is obscenely overpriced for using a budget LED tablet as a reading device. It's terrible and has nothing going for it. Don't pay a penny for a device you intend to read on with any display that isn't epaper. You won't read on it because it will be a torture device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Add "please use this preview when you link to us" tags.

Claim they're stealing your content.

Cool?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"AI" long predates LLM bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I personally really like the trilogy still. I just see why I got a couple "push through and make sure you get to Wax and Wayne". I still teared up at the ending lol.

I know book 5 of the Stormlight Archive is coming in December. I'm definitely excited for that. I have no clue about more Mistborn stuff other than that the third arc is about the Ghostbloods, who appear in the Stormlight books.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hallucinations aren't a problem with the actually medically useful tools he's talking about. Machine learning is being used to draw extra attention to abnormalities that humans may miss.

It's completely unrelated to LLM nonsense.

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