I’ve never heard the term “sleep inertia”, but it makes sense and is certainly why my snooze pattern is the way it is. I’m a “multiple alarm” type (and naturally a night owl in spite of getting up around 6am). My first alarm starts at 5:10. My next alarm is around 5:30. My final alarm is at 5:50 which gives me a…

To be fair, the gumbo and po’boys are REALLLY good.

I was looking for The Others the other day. It’s not available streaming anywhere (well, possibly with the use of a VPN and accessing foreign services). It’s a recent movie. It was good enough that people would want to watch it again and/or share it with friends. But no streaming option is available within the US. I…

I don’t include optical drives in any of my computers.......but I have an external USB drive that can be plugged in to any of them.

How does it respond to sound waves?

q: Where are those people now?

I blame “early birds”.  Society has been set up for extroverted early birds.  This includes the patterns established with when businesses are open and when other resources that would encourage healthier behavior are available.

Why do you continue to deadname X? It’s very obvious that X has gone through gender reassignment. The shape of the Twitter bird was very Y-like which implies male (not 100%) and X implies female (again, not 100%). Regardless, please don’t deadname X.

Unless it releases around the same time, isn’t knowing that a longer cut is coming going to hurt the box office of the shorter version? I’m not one to see a movie multiple times in short order (I love Star Wars and have maybe watched it four times in total because I don’t need to watch it every week). Knowing that…

Or maybe.....it’s just the recommendation engine.  But, feel free to spread F.U.D.

The other thing they’re obsessed with? Taking a youngling of some sort somewhere else. The Mandalorian is obvious. But after the Mandalorian, Obi-Wan felt repetitive. But you can see elements of that same story in The Phantom Menace and A New Hope.

That’s very reductionist. One could say the same about....say....Jackson Pollock who’s technique is more akin to “throw some paint in some vague direction of a canvas” than it is to purposefully place paint in a specific pattern that results in an image.

I argue that with AI art, the prompter is the creative person in the equation. There’s a difference in what is generated if I ask for a picture of “a frog in a swamp” vs “a slimy yellow frog in a foggy swamp at dusk”. So, a “good” DAL-E artist would be one that can refine the prompt to generate something that people…

So, if they do overturn it, does the monkey guy get rights ownership back and can then sue PETA et al for the money? I mean, it’s either / or, right? Either you need a human or you don’t.

I much prefer the offline map experience of HERE WeGo. This is the same mapping data used in a lot of vehicle GPS systems. It was also once part of the Microsoft / NOKIA world. But it’s since been spun off to its own entity. With HERE WeGo, you can download maps at a Country / State level without having to draw a box…

Raul Urias watched a lot of that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 pinball video as a kid...... :)

That was my thought. It’s not savings.....it’s deferment. Unless they completely cancel the projects, they’re just deferring when those dollars will be spent. And likely, after the strike is over, they’ll be spending more money......

Yeah, I think it was less about the name change (which was stupid) and more about killing all of the content / shows.

So, you want me to enter my bank account info into a form in order to get paid because a company couldn’t be trusted with my info? Sounds sketchy.

When HOAs have rules about trees, they often just say that you have to have one. So, what a lot of people do it cut down a tree like an Oak that will be huge and replace them with something like a Crepe Myrtle which won’t grow nearly as large. This is often in response to dealing with things like roots in the pipes or…