benignintervention

joined 2 months ago

I order a lot of takeout and recently stopped using online ordering because a bunch of them in the area stopped allowing orders as a guest. They force to log in or sign up. I've found that calling the store is easier and faster

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

By sheer coincidence, I just made an install image yesterday and will be switching soon

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There's some debate on this! Most movie dialogue is designed to convey the impression of conversation, but this is naturally unrealistic. People stutter and start over and get distracted in normal conversation much like you described, which can become very burdensome on the screen. Like when your boss won't get to the point in the standup. Overly precise dialogue is equally burdensome and often fails to maintain attention (see: the Time 1776 AI videos). A lot of the discussion around how best to balance those natural pauses and disruptions around the otherwise "eloquent" speech in movies to best convey a characterization.

I'm sure others out there can point to legitimate sources, but I'm not super read up on it

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Do my 600 applications mean nothing?!

(Yes, they in fact mean nothing)

Stromae is fantastic! I just found out he did music for Arcane

Sweet thanks, adding to the list

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 23 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

If it doesn't feature 4NonBlondes and What's Going On, then I'm not interested

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I forgot about the nebulas! My list just grew

[–] benignintervention@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I really enjoyed those books! I found them when I was digging through the Hugo's for something to read and these definitely seemed like they deserved it. I generally avoid mysteries because it seems they have a tendency to intentionally mislead the reader but these felt complete. Every detail is important and contributes to the story without being out of place or a distraction. Highly recommend

Well I just dumped windows and MS office. For machine vision I'm only dabbling with openCV, so that's already open source. The switch to libre office has been pretty nice though

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