Living in Nashville, born here, but lived all over North America. Author, coder, gamer (the tabletop kind), and widower who has learned what is best in life is to have gratitude, experience joy, help everybody as best you can, and accept help as in the manner in which it comes.
Professional PHP developer since the 1990s.
One day, she called me "biscuit face" - clearly extending the pet name in an endearing way in her mind. But my mind lept to Red Foxx yelling, "You so ugly, I could stick your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies!" The third time, I had to explain that in no way, shape, or form did I enjoy that term of affection. I had a look or tone I didn't intent, as she was taken aback. I apologized, she apologized, and it was a sweet moment.
It's a married couple thing. She understood. She was bean.
The show also sparked a moment between my late wife and I. I used to call her bean (as in "human bean," from Roald Dahl's The BFG). At some point she started calling me her Bo-berry-biscuit, or just biscuit. Which was fine by me; she loved biscuits and had half a dozen shirts and hoodies from Nashville Biscuit House, one of her favorite places (only outnumbered by her Hooters gear... and her WKU apparel, of course).
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As a little kid I spent many a day after school watching Sanford & Son, as it was on either before or after Star Trek. To this day, the theme song (along with Night Court and Taxi) makes me wonder why today's theme songs ain't got no soul.
Best use of a bass harmonica, along with The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.
@zimzat This is something long recognized by groups like the Internet Archive project. My observation is not so much that this fragility is accelerating, but that offloading cognitive skills to tools is fine (make a list if your memory is bad!), unless those tools become unavailable after the skills used prior to those tools being available have no longer been passed on.
@zimzat I'm suggesting a flattening of the progress of humanity as a whole due to LLMs degrading due to recursive input.
Humans rely on current tools, be they oral tradition or printed books. That transition led to more permanence. We're now in a vulnerable position where human knowledge is in increasingly precarious repositories. If the generational passing on of skills is turned over to those fragile tools and they fail, that human slope will also trend downward.
Who else turns up the volume on your laptop or desktop when you walk away from your desk so you can keep listening... while you're using bluetooth earbuds or headphone?
@ezra There was a glut of terrible "Lain rip-offs" after it came out. A case where the original was one of the best examples of the genre.
It earned its following.
@blag I always prefer replies. I find people that way. Seldom do stars catch my attention.
"Highlighted" should really be "highlit."
[Random Thought] LLMs cause any singularity to move further into the future: they depend on human generated input data and a reliance on LLMs drops the quality of human created data for training both AI and humans. LLMs tend to flatten the slope of advancement over sufficient time.
So last night the Ents started marching in on me. I have the beard, but I am not Saruman.
Talk about the rules for relationships or marriage all you want. But when it comes down to it, what works is when what makes them happy makes you happy, and what makes you happy makes them happy. An inversion of self into the union. And there's no way to demand or force it.
A more relatable version of a meme floating around. At least to some folks (that poor half-a-goldie!)
Pop, coke, highways, and going to the hospital are disappearing. AI narration seems to ignore these in favor of soda, freeways, and going to hospital. And this is now what we are learning from.
Our language is going to become Applebees: the same everywhere, flat and riblets.
@pollita And yet a huge amount of overlap in users (bash and C). They have been my sweet, happy, comfortable place for decades. I'm not sure which I'd go with.
PHP and Python are currently neck and neck with 10 hours to go: 48/52%
Holy crap thought at 3am: did my dad like watching old Star Trek reruns, or did he like watching Star Trek with his eldest son?
I miss watching Trek with my wife and dad, who have both stepped into that Undiscovered Country, and while I enjoy it, I enjoyed it more with them.
A Star Trek fandom band that plays terrible music, each just a mess, and then as each player gets their solo, they break into perfect, wonderful music, then go back to slop when the band comes back in. Name: Ship of Barclays.
@ramsey I'll also say that while it is a great setting to see the teamwork, personal competence, and unity build toward the Starfleet we know, I wonder how it will play out as seasons continue. Eventually you do progress from student to Starfleet, and some of the adolescent Freshman mistakes just won't work in a couple seasons. Otherwise you have a ship of stumbling Barclays.
It would be interesting if this show progresses across new characters with different facets entering the ensemble.
@ramsey I quite like it. Like much of newer Trek offerings other than Picard or LD, it is more TOS than TNG: the setting is more chaotic, but allows the stories to lean toward highlighting that hopeful, rational, diverse, metaphor feel.
There's a split between faculty and students: the faculty have "Star Trek ethos" and the students are stumbling (a la Picard getting stabbed in a bar fight).
The first two eps were not enthralling science fiction, more political/plot/social to build setting.
