The Cell - Trailer here:

https://youtu.be/eIpy4p_yMV0

Weird how, on the cat, you have ⚫ ⚫ and then 3 tiers of stripes, but on the tattoo, they only do the top 2 tiers, leaving out the one on the bottom…

Impress a cat.

Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.

65" and it’s impressive with ONE drawback… Samsungs HDR implementation SUCKS. Suuuuuuuucks.

Without HDR, everything is bright, crisp, and clean.

With HDR, it’s dark, muddy, and unwatchable.

I’ve done all the firmware updates, RTINGS calibrations, NOTHING works.

Well, nothing except disabling HDR on every device attached to it.

I bought one on the premise of both PS5 and Xbox Series X releasing 8K content.

We got:

The Touryst - Not a bad game, but not needing 8K either.

https://youtu.be/DNGA_XnWVMg

Ori and the Will of the Wisps supported 6K, GREAT game.

https://youtu.be/4nUYBcp_WP0

On the PS5 Pro (through PSSR upscaling)

F1 24 (at 60 FPS)

Gran Turismo 7 (at 60 FPS)

No Man’s Sky (at 30 FPS)

Pure Pool Pro (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

[REDACTED] (at 60 FPS)

The Callisto Protocol (at 30 FPS with ray tracing)

And that’s it…

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They can, but they also don’t meet the corporate dictate of “Everyone use AI.” 😉

So, a couple of things… Fighting stage 2 colon cancer right now.

6 months ago they found 17 polyps, 2 were an unusual size, 20mm and 30mm.

Rule of thumb is “Anything more than 5 or anything bigger than 5mm.”

But - not cancer. Repeat in January. 6 more polyps including one that’s 20mm and stage 2.

So it went from 0 to stage 2 in 6 months. I’m going to lose my entire sigmoid colon and all the lymph nodes around it for biopsy.

If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, that’s stage 3 and I’ll have chemo, but we won’t know until after the surgery.

Don’t sleep on this. My symptoms were anemia and tiredness all the time.

Yes, colonoscopy prep sucks. I had to drink 4 liters of fluid, wait 6 hours, and do it all over again. I lined up 10 glasses and drained one every 12 minutes for 2 hours.

But - you can mix in gatorade powder so long as it’s not red or purple. 😉

March is colon cancer awareness month, wear blue!

"The judge disagreed, finding the stalking charges did not amount to “crimes of violence” and dismissed two counts in Mangione’s federal case – the murder charge and a related firearm offense.

“The analysis contained in the balance of this Opinion may strike the average person – and indeed many lawyers and judges – as tortured and strange, and the result may seem contrary to our intuitions about the criminal law,” Judge Margaret Garnett wrote in her ruling. “But it represents the Court’s committed effort to faithfully apply the dictates of the Supreme Court to the charges in this case.” "

Supreme Court: “Not like this…”

I had a cat oddly addicted to the flyers printed by Lincoln Automobiles.

Went to a car show, got a bunch of pamphlets, he’d pull out the Lincoln one and roll on it.

Coincidence? I’d stack them all up, square off the stack, he’d DIG through the pile until he found Lincoln and walk off with it. LOL.

Expensive tastes!

Not at all wrong, just showing what can be done with virtually zero effort and time.

I could most likely perfect it in a few minutes more, still a fraction of the time of doing it by hand. I’m not extending a proof of concept to win arguments on the Internet. 😉

But as I noted at the bottom of the comment, which apparently nobody bothered to read, there are ALREADY royalty free libraries for this kind of thing. So it also has to be faster than searching libraries that are already there.

Of course that action is it’s own time sink as anyone who has gone looking for “the perfect font” can tell you.

It did get maybe 90% there in a minute which is faster than a person would do it. Not a perfect tile, maybe take a few more interations. But not awful for cobbled together in a minute, and if your job is to come up with 50 or 100 different textures, still better than doing it by hand.

But as I noted, there are also already royalty free libraries for this stuff as well.

I mean, the UU church is still a church after all, but without a lot of the toxic trappings. You aren’t going to get anyone telling you the only way to get to heaven is through Jesus for example.

https://www.uua.org/beliefs/what-we-believe/beliefs/christianity/views-jesus

"UUs may view Jesus as a moral exemplar, practicing the compassion, generosity, and mercy that he preached. In his own life and in stories like the Good Shepherd and the Good Samaritan, Jesus calls us to connect: to transcend pride and selfishness and choose instead to love and serve, to do good, and to care for each other.

For some, Jesus is a prophetic leader and an instrument of the divine. They may or may not believe Jesus was the son of God or was resurrected but share with Christians a conviction that his witness has the spiritual power to redeem mistakes and save lives. Many describe a personal relationship with him that strengthens and inspires. Jesus calls us to discover new life and truth by following him.

Others view Jesus as a reformer and dissident, an underdog and ally. He was executed as a political criminal because of his teachings, but his life made an impact, then and now. He called out injustice in his own community and in the government. He stood with and spoke up for the most vulnerable, and he challenged his followers to feed the hungry and visit the imprisoned. Jesus calls us to transform, to resist the unjust systems that divide us, and reshape them for good."

Personally, I wouldn’t be comfortable with any field of thought other than “Jesus was a literary fiction, constructed by the early church as a method of control over an illiterate populace.” but then that’s why I don’t go to church. 😉

Well of course not, AI did it in 1 minute. 🤣

Check your local Unitarian Universalism (UU) branch.

https://www.uua.org/uuagovernance/committees/article-ii-study-commission/about-article-2

"Section C-2.1. Principles.

We, the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association, covenant to affirm and promote

The inherent worth and dignity of every person;

Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;

Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;

A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;

The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;

The goal of world community with peace, liberty and justice for all;

Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part."

Does it scale to other instruments? Violin? Piano? Ukulele? LOL.

I could see using AI for tasks that are so mind numbing and mundane it might actually be cruel to make a human do it.

“I need a perfectly tileable concrete wall texture for a video game, make it light gray with random spots of yellow and white paint.”

Took about a minute.

But then, if you’re going to do THAT, there are already royalty free libraries where it’s already done.

Remembering phone numbers.

I had to call THREE hospitals to get a CT scan in a reasonable amount of time. First one said “April” and I was like “No.”

2nd one said 2/18 which is better, but still 29 days out and I don’t want to sit and ruminate on the diagnosis that long.

3rd one? 1 week. 1/27! I think that’s about as good as I can get.