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- Fri May 03, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144621
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Getting a bit off-topic here, but a couple of interesting observations: One is that the Web is already filling up with AI-generated crap. When you feed an AI AI-generated stuff, quality goes way down. A metaphor I'd like to invoke here is the state of your water jar after you've been painting for a ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 559
- Views: 277157
Re: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
Cool stuff, travis. How does doing all this in a Forth-style environment differ from, say, a more tradtional C-style one, besides the obvious? Is it easier or harder? Etc.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 461856
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Here's an exwercise for anyone who thinks Biden and Trump are for all practical purposes indistinguishable: Make a list of: - 10 important things which would be more or less the same regardless of which one becomes President - 10 important things which would be substantially different depending on w...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: A monochromatic consociety
- Replies: 8
- Views: 601
Re: A monochromatic consociety
I wonder - how would the world look like if humans could only see in black and white? Would the development of civilization be hindered in any way? I can't see how it would be, sorry. I see what you did there :-) Interesting question, though. I suspect humans would have become more sensitive to oth...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2900
Re: RPG thread
I also remember reading somewhere (though not where) that the Elves, Dwarves and Halflings were added in a late stage of the design in order to market the game to Tolkien fans. And Tolkien's estate didn't like them being called "hobbits", and forced a name change. In my personal opinion, ...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1963
- Views: 15044555
Re: Venting thread
This is quite true: it started out as a table-top wargame, and the role-playing bits were shoehorned in later.WeepingElf wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:57 pmI even seem to remember reading somewhere that D&D was initially marketed as a "wargame" and only latter called a "role-playing game".
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2100
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
I have been sent from the future to explain to you how to travel back in time, but you don't have the technlology yet.
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: United States Politics Thread 46
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 461856
Re: United States Politics Thread 46
Tangentially related to this, long ago, I saw a forum or comment section post by someone who claimed to be a former libertarian. That person claimed that, back in their libertarian days, when they were visiting libertarian forums, in the internal libertarian flamewars, they could always tell the pe...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2083
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Two, in fact; one always capitalised (it thinks it's a newspaper) and one sometimes capitalized (it gives us warmth and other things).
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Computer And General Tech Thread - Software, Hardware, Questions, etc.
- Replies: 559
- Views: 277157
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2083
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
We get a double eclipse over here: the moon eclipses the sun, and the clouds eclipse them both.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Voiced fricatives in Germanic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2544
Re: Voiced fricatives in Germanic
To confuse things further, I've seen initial /z/ and /v/ in Dutch transcribed with the under-ring diacritic for devoicing, which clearly indicates something different from /s/ amd /f/, but I've never understood what. From hearing sung Afrikaans, orthographic initial <s>, corresponding to orthograph...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Voiced fricatives in Germanic
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2544
Re: Voiced fricatives in Germanic
To confuse things further, I've seen initial /z/ and /v/ in Dutch transcribed with the under-ring diacritic for devoicing, which clearly indicates something different from /s/ amd /f/, but I've never understood what.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3793
- Views: 479228
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3793
- Views: 479228
Re: Random Thread
TIL that an exclamation point in front of conditions on a sound change means it occurs unless the condition is present. Despite being midway through my thirties and part of the conlanging community for about twenty years. At least it's nice to know I still have things to learn even in the basics of...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
- Replies: 668
- Views: 761213
Re: The Contradictory Feelings Thread
It seems I’ve gotten some sort of respiratory infection. On the one hand, this sort of thing really sucks, especially if you’re immune-suppressed. On the other, the past few years I’ve gotten an infection like this, it was like it sort of pre-immunized me to whatever was going around when I did wan...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144621
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144621
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144621
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
This is what I always hated about programming in Java -- conventional Java design standards greatly encourage boilerplate coding, to the point that you need to use a Java IDE* which automates much of the writing of boilerplate for you, as it otherwise becomes simply unmanageable. * And the only IDE...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
- Replies: 766
- Views: 144621
Re: AIs gunning for our precious freelancers
Well, someone has to say it: so are many sentient non-machines.