The Alters used AI for translating subtitles. That's not a decision made by a random member of the development team; their producers signed off on that shit. Moreover, the studio leadership is enamored with GenAI, proudly using it in marketing.
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Alters used AI for translating subtitles. That's not a decision made by a random member of the development team; their producers signed off on that shit. Moreover, the studio leadership is enamored with GenAI, proudly using it in marketing.
There hasn't been growth since 2020, though. In fact, outside China, the audience for video games has been shrinking in favor of video.
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
There hasn't been growth since 2020, though. In fact, outside China, the audience for video games has been shrinking in favor of video.
They sure do love their Photoshop.
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
They sure do love their Photoshop.
What if pressing X results in neither a sentence nor an explosion?
August 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
What if pressing X results in neither a sentence nor an explosion?
Not sure if 'sql' qualifies as an "otherwise good API", but Rows.Err. For over two years, GitHub had this Copilot demo on their front page, showing the bot generating buggy code (not checking rows.Err after iteration), presumably from being trained on thousands of human examples of the same error.
July 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Not sure if 'sql' qualifies as an "otherwise good API", but Rows.Err. For over two years, GitHub had this Copilot demo on their front page, showing the bot generating buggy code (not checking rows.Err after iteration), presumably from being trained on thousands of human examples of the same error.
It's hard to explain *why* the examples work in 300 characters, but "The Fake" (2013) does something of what Jon's describing, and I always liked the tagline of the movie "Gravity" (2013) for the same reason.
March 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It's hard to explain *why* the examples work in 300 characters, but "The Fake" (2013) does something of what Jon's describing, and I always liked the tagline of the movie "Gravity" (2013) for the same reason.
The rest is very Hedjet, though.
September 23, 2024 at 8:55 PM
The rest is very Hedjet, though.
![Doonesbury comic for September 18, 1990. The Gulf War.
Officer: Okay, gentlemen, here's the irrigation drill… [begins unloading bottled water] To fend off heat disorder, you gotta hydrate! Six gallons a day – that's 24 of these bottles! That breaks down to 96 eight-ounce glasses a day, or one glass every ten minutes for 16 hours a day! Better get started.
B.D. (next to the growing pile of bottled water): Um… what if we're attacked?
Third soldier: I'll cover you while you drink.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3nfqltodzmsigycqhrio7et/bafkreib3vz5rjguaxx7e6xtdbsmnqmxyoaaayoei33o3wixqkmsxntmipe@jpeg)
Between letter 219 and the cats of Queen Berúthiel, it would definitely seem that he wasn't a cat person.
![(from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
219. From a letter to Allen & Unwin, 14 October 1959
[A Cambridge cat breeder had asked if she could register a litter of Siamese kittens under names taken from The Lord of the Rings.]
My only comment is that of Puck upon mortals. I fear that to me Siamese cats belong to the fauna of Mordor, but you need not tell the cat breeder that.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3nfqltodzmsigycqhrio7et/bafkreifi7i42433tadkbtk6h5ulap2tdgr2bdf3zpuvur6lqzvwmuyj7jq@jpeg)
August 17, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Between letter 219 and the cats of Queen Berúthiel, it would definitely seem that he wasn't a cat person.
When the ISS got its projector in 2015, the first film they screened was Gravity, so…
August 4, 2024 at 7:51 PM
When the ISS got its projector in 2015, the first film they screened was Gravity, so…
West Germany wasn't stomped that hard. Nazis went straight into the post-war government, and there was little reckoning with the crimes until decades later, when a generation of post-war Germans came of age and collectively went "What the fuck did you do?!" at their parents' generation.
July 27, 2024 at 1:30 PM
West Germany wasn't stomped that hard. Nazis went straight into the post-war government, and there was little reckoning with the crimes until decades later, when a generation of post-war Germans came of age and collectively went "What the fuck did you do?!" at their parents' generation.
Gabriele misread the study though. It's 142 murders in 9 years, not 40. Still, that's a homicide rate of ~20, about that of Houston, Texas. On par for an excessively armed society, perhaps.
July 13, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Gabriele misread the study though. It's 142 murders in 9 years, not 40. Still, that's a homicide rate of ~20, about that of Houston, Texas. On par for an excessively armed society, perhaps.
I'm personally fascinated by the possibilities of differential privacy. But ultimately it is a cryptographic system that I need to trust is 1) secure in theory, 2) secure in practice, and 3) designed to serve my interests. And the technical documentation do not inspire confidence about this.
July 12, 2024 at 10:24 PM
I'm personally fascinated by the possibilities of differential privacy. But ultimately it is a cryptographic system that I need to trust is 1) secure in theory, 2) secure in practice, and 3) designed to serve my interests. And the technical documentation do not inspire confidence about this.
No, you see, it's fine, because "PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone."
Instead, Firefox merely "submits a report" if you "visit a site and do something", which is totally different from "sending data" about "browsing activities".
Instead, Firefox merely "submits a report" if you "visit a site and do something", which is totally different from "sending data" about "browsing activities".
![Screenshot from a mealy-mouthed Firefox support page.
Privacy-preserving attribution works as follows:
[…]
2. If you visit the destination website and do something that the website considers to be important enough to count (a “conversion”), that website can ask Firefox to generate a report. […]
3. Firefox creates a report based on what the website asks, but does not give the result to the website. Instead, Firefox encrypts the report and anonymously submits it using the Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) to an “aggregation service”.
[…]
PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone. […]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3nfqltodzmsigycqhrio7et/bafkreidk4voehgvmyu3rn2zcmvuasndu2jtebif5nbvkjkebjxjigt5zta@jpeg)
July 12, 2024 at 9:59 PM
No, you see, it's fine, because "PPA does not involve sending information about your browsing activities to anyone."
Instead, Firefox merely "submits a report" if you "visit a site and do something", which is totally different from "sending data" about "browsing activities".
Instead, Firefox merely "submits a report" if you "visit a site and do something", which is totally different from "sending data" about "browsing activities".
This is some fine pulp writing.
June 24, 2024 at 10:18 PM
This is some fine pulp writing.
B is a classic monster, ferocious, bloody.
A… A is just a li'l guy, hanging out, in the sea, eating an even littler guy, as one does.
A… A is just a li'l guy, hanging out, in the sea, eating an even littler guy, as one does.
June 20, 2024 at 10:10 AM
B is a classic monster, ferocious, bloody.
A… A is just a li'l guy, hanging out, in the sea, eating an even littler guy, as one does.
A… A is just a li'l guy, hanging out, in the sea, eating an even littler guy, as one does.
His license was originally suspended not for any kind of traffic violation, but because of a failure to pay child support. WTF? How is denying him use of a car gonna help make him pay child support? This is getting more absurd every moment.
June 4, 2024 at 10:45 PM
His license was originally suspended not for any kind of traffic violation, but because of a failure to pay child support. WTF? How is denying him use of a car gonna help make him pay child support? This is getting more absurd every moment.
The Comex 10 dive experiment reached a simulated depth of 701 m without any special protective equipment (but using very special breathing gases). Seems the limit is entirely vascular, and that from a purely mechanical perspective, we could easily go much deeper. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
June 1, 2024 at 9:33 PM
The Comex 10 dive experiment reached a simulated depth of 701 m without any special protective equipment (but using very special breathing gases). Seems the limit is entirely vascular, and that from a purely mechanical perspective, we could easily go much deeper. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
That picture, however, is not history, but a (pretty blatant) forgery. FWIW, here's the real Sunday headline.
May 30, 2024 at 10:04 PM
That picture, however, is not history, but a (pretty blatant) forgery. FWIW, here's the real Sunday headline.
Would not recommend! Because that definitely depends on the bike's value and location. Bicycle thieves will do a lot to get their hands on an expensive bike. (Also, leaving your bike unlocked is technically a traffic offense.)
May 21, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Would not recommend! Because that definitely depends on the bike's value and location. Bicycle thieves will do a lot to get their hands on an expensive bike. (Also, leaving your bike unlocked is technically a traffic offense.)
This is the satirical cartoon that she finds "anti-American" and argues warrants the killing of journalists: A run-of-the-mill satire drawing that correctly predicted that the war in Afghanistan would be followed by wars in Iraq (2003), Libya (2011) and Syria (2014).
May 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM
This is the satirical cartoon that she finds "anti-American" and argues warrants the killing of journalists: A run-of-the-mill satire drawing that correctly predicted that the war in Afghanistan would be followed by wars in Iraq (2003), Libya (2011) and Syria (2014).
Oh, but it's right there in the article. The intent during the shoot was for it to be a fake, but in the edit, the intent shifted to it being real, hence the discrepancy.
May 10, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Oh, but it's right there in the article. The intent during the shoot was for it to be a fake, but in the edit, the intent shifted to it being real, hence the discrepancy.
This really hammers home what's been normalized in the last decade. "Sure, Facebook wiretaps its users, sells user DMs to partners, enables misinformation, genocide and the overall dismantling of democracy, but then, what big tech company doesn't these days? At least Zuck's not an out-and-out Nazi."
![For Mark [Zuckerberg], Elon Musk’s incredible two year effort to light his own reputation on fire has also had the remarkably convenient knock-on effect of making him seem reasonable. “Yes, Zuckerberg’s companies ransack private data and tear apart societies, and he does openly thirst for world domination,” some reasoned, “but you also don’t see him promoting creepy eugenics theories, blowing up rockets in environmentally sensitive areas, or directly meddling in the Ukraine War.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:z3nfqltodzmsigycqhrio7et/bafkreic5ieonpi25ghvngifzymaojqipayqrkohmtaf3uofsb3dnwqlaiy@jpeg)
April 7, 2024 at 5:36 PM
This really hammers home what's been normalized in the last decade. "Sure, Facebook wiretaps its users, sells user DMs to partners, enables misinformation, genocide and the overall dismantling of democracy, but then, what big tech company doesn't these days? At least Zuck's not an out-and-out Nazi."