August27th

joined 2 years ago
[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 28 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If you thoroughly enjoyed the show, you will be tickled by The Good Place: The Podcast. Mark Evan Jackson (Shawn) hosts it, and it's truly excellent. Lots of behind-the-scenes info from people who are truly dedicated to their craft. If you thought the characters were great, the people and writers behind them are even cooler, and you get to hear so much neat stuff about the show from them.

Michael Schur also wrote (an often hilarious) book called How to Be Perfect, about what he learned about philosophy from the research he did in order to write the show. If you get the audiobook version, parts are narrated by some of the actors from the show, and it's just a delight as a fan. I don't think anyone would become a philosophy expert from the book, but it's an introduction to it, and amusing to boot. A good book IMO.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What a world when you have to mod chip your bed.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

IIRC this concept was predicted in Gates' book "The Road Ahead" ... in 1995.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Boop? 😂 Is your first name Boop?

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Really? The closest thing in the US -- at all -- is from the 60s? Why do you suppose that is?

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Trump would be impeached

Let's assume that happens. What would that do, exactly? Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before? What was the net effect?

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

"They're never going to call a train to take us to the bad place. They can't. Because we're already here. This is the bad place."

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 18 points 9 months ago

the developers of WeChat [...] have modified the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 protocol, creating a version called MMTLS.

Man in the Middle TLS

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"We will provide you with a tool to emit garbage and a platform to share content. If you put the two together, you are liable."

Attractive nuisance much? Is it too much to ask that they should have to label it a garbage generator instead of "AI"? Why does honesty always have to take a back seat?

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

Tell me you had a 2.0 GPA without telling me you had a 2.0 GPA.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When a former employer sent me on business trips, the bean counters would complain that my descriptions for the purpose of meals on my expenses were not descriptive enough, as if the purpose of eating was not obvious. I ended up writing something like "nourishment to remain alive while traveling for XYZ project" out of frustration after that. That did the trick and shut them up. I suppose it was hard to argue that description, because if they disputed it, they'd basically be admitting they were sending me away because they wanted me to die.

[–] August27th@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because wherever you go, there you are.

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