Everyone is a tester. Anyone who says otherwise is from Venus or Mars.

Same people who did No Man’s Sky, in case anyone was wondering like me. Looks good!

What about the questions of reliability when it comes to evidence after so long? Most abuse evidence comes from testimony (memories worsen with time), physical (requiring near immediate collection), or forensic (degraded or contaminated over time). If there is digital evidence that stands the test of time it can be very good. But even it can be degraded or partly lost or incomplete.

Cases from a long time ago typically stand on testimony and expert witnesses interpreting behaviors and interviews. It is almost always colored by victim empowerment and the desire for justice and making an example of someone. You might think it makes a good deterrent to prevent abuse. But there is a high risk of false accusations, which even when wrong and proven wrong, completely destroy lives.

We need to concentrate on empowering people to come out immediately. That it is not “okay” for abuse to occur at any age.

Philosophical mustings?

An artificial tree offers superior value, particularly from an economic perspective. Consider my experience: I've been using the same tree for about eight years, which I purchased at about $100 during an after-Christmas sale. In contrast, a real tree might cost around $30 to $40 and is only usable for a single season before disposal.

The pressure to choose a real tree seems to advocate for a less capitalistic approach, effectively encouraging higher expenditure for a product with significantly less utility. Another guilt trip asking for me to change my “evil” ways, rather than for the system to change. Instead, we should be promoting incentives for utilizing efficient manufacturing processes, such as those found in Chinese production, which align with both economic sensibility and sustainable usage.

Does this support SDXL? Didn’t see mention of it.

I’m getting so exhausted with the constant outrage in every goddamn feed in my life.

Probably replaced by Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Yes but it takes some getting used to. Once you get it keyed in it’s fast and can produce some quality.

Also this one seems pretty cool https://civitai.com/models/200061/hephaistosnextgenxl-lcmbf16hybrid

Most interested in HDR. Game was super washed out and it was so distracting I stopped playing. Did it improve?

I save so much water since I started working from home.

I used to interview all the time. I thought it was a fun, important process, so they kept giving them to me… until one day a candidate stormed out. We had a panel on one side of the table that had devolved into one-upping each other on who could ask the best brain teasers. Finally the candidate literally said, “Fuck this.” Then got up and walked out. HR asked us WTF and we shrugged and blew it off, but I knew why. We all knew.

Sometime after that I changed my tact into making interviews conversations to get to know each other instead. If I did send someone to a whiteboard, I always got off my ass and joined them up there. Made it a collaboration exercise and never asked any bullshit. Did that for maybe six months to a year and got some awesome people from that process…

At the end of that stretch, HR sat in on one and saw the process for the first time… sometime later I stopped being asked to interview. No reason was given, the invites just stopped coming in. We kept hiring people but I wasn’t a part of it anymore. Coincidence?

Just a wild guess: A video that you have to sit through on YouTube about a list of books to read. Probably is deeply unsettling to people who like the world to make sense.

Anyway that’s why I personally closed it once I realized it was a video link.

Interacting with something consistent and deterministic while growing up in a crazy, random world. Also power. Power over my computer minions.