Senior devs love vibe coding because they have the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors. They hate it because it makes morons think they don’t need the knowledge and skills to recognize and fix errors.

For what it’s worth, Vantablack isn’t a pigment, it’s a process for applying carbon nanotubes that absorb light. They don’t sell the “paint” part by itself because it requires special equipment and it finicky. They don’t sell it because then a bunch of social media influencers would try to spray their bathrooms with the stuff and make a bunch of videos about how it doesn’t live up to the hype.

The owner of the exclusive license to use it for art might be a douche who uses the licensing to make himself feel powerful, but there is a justifiable explanation for why the licensing exists in the first place.

Isn’t that how you’re supposed to do it?

The water wars will probably kill us off before we run out of oil.

No, I’m sorry, the answe is “profit.” The US has a lot of natural gas, and the people who force it out of the ground bought enough politicians to build pipelines everywherr so we could sell gas to more people. Electric and heat pumps are far more efficient, but the cost per btu of heat is so cheap for natural gas that it doesn’t make sense to switch to electric even when the energy costs are low, and the cost to install a heatpump or geothermal might reduce monthly costs, but it would be decades before it pays for itself. Most people don’t expect to live in a house long enough to reap the benefits of more efficient investments.

“Effective” is a relative term. Going meatless won’t fix the underlying problems that allowed factory farming to destroy the world. Why aren’t electric cars mandated? Why do we pipe natural gas into homes? The same shortsighted, profit-motivated decision processes will still exist even if we make better personal choices.

Wait, is it milk made by stoats, like goat milk, or milk made from stoats, like oat milk? Which ilk of milk is in the same boat? Do you bilk the stoat out of it’s milk? Or is there a moat of smote stoat passed through silk on a float?

4k tvs existed before the content existed. I think the larger issue is that the difference between what is and what could be is not worth the additional expense, especially at a time when most people struggle to pay rent, food, and medicine. More people watch videos on their phones than watch broadcast television. 8k is a solution looking for a problem.

This is to science what homeopathy is to medicine.

I don’t. It’s part of the call and response of the meme.

https://www.reddit.com/r/KenM/comments/4f27ka/ken_m_on_being_british/

But I should have anticipated that people would misunderstand what it meant.

Speak for yourself

Ugh, fine, I’ll eat the poop I guess.

Ok, but like… Couldn’t they isolate and identify the bacteria strains and then make them fresh? Maybe 2 or 3 generations removed from direct poop? And like wash your hands between handling the poop and making the pill? Or does that defeat the purpose?

Isn’t this just binge eating? I assumed I had a disorder.

How much privacy for children can you buy back with the $30 million?

The torture department has been outsourced and will be delivered via zoom. Please make sure your laptop is plugged in and your camera is working prior to the next millennium.

Sure, and I recognize that it’s not a great metaphor. But I’m thinking about it from the developer side. Open Source software is not motivated by profits, and profit motivates a lot of developers. Some of the best software projects were actualized by a few committed individuals who were passionate about the purpose. But then you have Microsoft which tries to tie bonuses to lines of code, and ends up with bloated garbage because peoples is peoples.

Open source is good, in the same way free lunches for school children are good. The benefits are innumerable. But it’s not feasible to expect every developer to commit to open source projects when their efforts might not be rewarded.

“I only eat food that’s free.”

I fully support open source software, but it’s not feasible under the current economic system to expect everyone to exclusively contribute to open source projects.

Literally cannot imagine the word “bunghole” except in his voice.

It’s actually a funny story.

Emilia Clarke is watching Kit Harrington read the GoT finale script with the cast at the table read. Clarke had already read the whole script to prepare for the role, but Harrington wanted to read it for the first time with the rest of the cast. By chance, they were on the same flight to the table read, and she was bursting because she wanted to discuss the direction that the show was going, but Kit refused to budge.

The result is, because the table read was filmed, we all get to see Kit have an emotional breakdown as he realizes how shitty the final season was going to be, and we simultaneously see Emilia cringe into the floor as she watches Kit fall apart, giving him reassuring nods every time he looks up at her, like “Yes, this is really fucking happening, and it’s every bit as bad as you think it is.”

That, plus seeing Cersei console The Spider because he cannot hide his disappointment at his character’s fate, made these videos a thousand times better than the actual episodes.