After pretty much failing as an overambitious game designer...
rainynight65
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Someone among Linda Reynolds' advisors should have had the courage to tell her that persisting with this defamation trial, especially in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann trial, is really shitty optics.
And the fact that they tried to make it all about alleging that Higgins wanted to bring down the government, while putting Reynolds into the role of the victim, makes it even worse.
I really hope Reynolds fails in this trial.
No country exists in isolation. Why wouldn't it be fine to discuss events in another country even if you don't have a direct stake in it?
NaNoWriMo did not say that 'not writing your novel with AI is classist and ableist'.
What they did say however is almost worse:
We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege.
So you're classist and ableist and probably privileged if you're against the use of AI.
So first they force people back into the office because CBD businesses are suffering.
Then they want to ban people from going for a coffee?
Make up your fucking minds!
sew
Pronounced exactly the same as sow, if you mean the right sow and not the other sow, which is spelled the same but pronounced differently.
Re 1, 3 and 5, maybe it is upon the AI projects to stop providing shiny solutions looking for a problem they could solve, and properly engaging with potential customers and stakeholders to get a clear understanding of the problems that need solving.
This was precisely the context of a conversation I had at work yesterday. Some of our product managers attended a conference that was rife with AI stuff, and a customer rep actually took to the stage and said 'I have no need for any of that because none of it helps me solve the problems I need to solve.'
More recently, probably a wireless handheld controller for my model railway.
Model railway is a hobby for people with lots of time, space, and money. I generally fall short on two of those, although lately there is a bit more disposable income to go around. Last year I was able to splurge on the control setup that I always wanted, which is a stationary controller - basically you sit at a table and control the trains with two rotary controllers and a touchscreen for a number of other things. Looks a bit like this.
But since it's stationary and my layout is fairly big, sometimes it can be a bit cumbersome to test something that's five metres away. So I decided to also splurge on the matching wireless handheld controller, an Android-based device with another rotary controller and the ability to control almost all aspects of the stationary device.
Did I need it? Hell no. If I had waited a few more months, a perfectly suitable free smartphone app would have been available that I could have used for the purposes intended. But am I loving it? Fuck yes. Irresponsible to boot, but no regrets, not for one second.
Nobody should use songs by Die Ärzte in earnest for that kind of purpose - they're tinged with irony and sarcasm as a matter of principle. I love the band for that.
'Born in the USA' did not 'fail to convey' what it was about. It was just wilfully misinterpreted.
Thing is though, if that's his plan, he still needs to keep his base energised. If all they see him do now is slack off and visibly not care, they may just think he's given up, and not turn up on election day. Fraud will be harder to argue with meagre turnout of his voters. They may also be harder to mobilise in November if they got disenchanted with him in September.
So in a way, by stewing, sulking and slacking off, he may just not be doing himself any favours.
Make sure you don't pull a muscle performing all those mental gymnastics.