They could probably use it as a review quote
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RE: "I used to work for Tesla…"
@Benjamin-Hall said in "I used to work for Tesla…":
@Polygeekery And probably all that data is still available on their servers, just waiting for someone to crawl in and slurp it up. Linking it to people is trivial, since you have their entire driving history for a long time.
There's no way to tie it to an individual; it could be any Tesla owner who happens to park his car at 27 Shady Oak Drive every night.
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RE: "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents
@ben_lubar said in "Hacking" Teenager in trouble - for downloading public documents:
Or to scan your unlocked car for later 3D printing?
That sounds suspiciously like downloading a car, an act so heinous that even DVD pirates wouldn't do it.
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RE: OOP is TRWTF
Some might disagree with me, but the truth is that modern OOP has never been properly designed. It never came out of a proper research institution (in contrast with Haskell/FP). I do not consider Xerox or another enterprise to be a “proper research institution”. OOP doesn’t have decades of rigorous scientific research to back it up. Lambda calculus offers a complete theoretical foundation for Functional Programming. OOP has nothing to match that. OOP mainly “just happened”.
An organic development that wasn't "properly designed" at a research institute? *drops monocle in shock*
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RE: WTF Bites
Today I used the GIMP. For a simple task, shouldn’t be hard. And… well, it took less than an hour and left no lasting trauma, so I hereby bestow GIMP with the ‘Less Shite Than Photoshop’ award!
It’s certainly changed a bit since I last glanced at it. The UI is no longer spread across a half dozen panels and boxes – you can just ‘move’ the ‘window’, and all the toolbars will ‘move’ with it. I wonder what ancient, sacred temples they had to defile to dig up such arcane technology.
But… you know what thread this is. Well, you do now that you’ve looked. In approximate order of discovery:
Make a selection, fine. Use the move tool, fine. Click and drag and… the whole layer moves? What was the point of the selection? Set it to ‘move selection’… and the selection does indeed move, but not the pixels within?
Okay, whatever, I’ll just cut and paste. Cutting… fills the region cut from the layer with white?
Well I still have the selection so I’ll just cumbersomely erase it out… the erase tool just paints in the background colour?! If I wanted to paint, I’d use a paint tool!
As for inpainting… apparently that’s not a feature. Something so fundamental to Image Manipulation is, of course, not available in the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Looks like there’s some plugin for it, but of course 90% of the search results involve ‘stable diffusion’. Otherwise I just saw mentions of copying some texture in yourself and warping around it. Yuck.
Finally… use the text tool, it makes a new layer / text object. Sensible enough – desirable, even. So why does using the scale tool on this text object immediately rasterise it ‽ I don’t want to play font size bingo, just give me text [ this ] big!
The end result was fine and mostly unnoteworthy, but evidently Krita would have been faster.
In summary… 4 “It’s not Photshop”s out of 5.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@error Autoplaying with audio while the embed box is nowhere near being scrolled into my screen? Hilarious. Can we fix our embed plugin to a non April Fools Day version?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: WTF is wrong with YouTube. I don’t speak whatever language this is.
It's English. He's referencing an old meme from the mid-to-late-2000s.
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RE: Random thought of the day
@da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day:
Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse have the same last name.
While it's certainly possible for this to be the case even without them actually being related, you'd expect them to have a quick explanation worked out to offer anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship.
In Tony Toon Adventures, whenever Buster and Babs (Bunny, both) introduced themselves together they would quickly point out "no relation"
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RE: Is it a duck or a rabbit?
@dkf I've got a high-ish DPI laptop screen and I see the same effect as on my usual 1080p 23'' monitor, with the same intensity differences between the normal/blurred/colour-reduced versions across all screens
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RE: Is it a duck or a rabbit?
@remi I'm more fascinated by it after my experimentation. To my eyes, the reduced colour version has a weaker effect than the original, despite theoretically still having plenty of colour space for what's in the picture. The blurred version on the other hand has a stronger effect to me, but examining the reddest-looking pixels of that reveals that they are completely gray - RGB values equal. The only deviation anywhere in the can is in the other direction - lower R, from the cyan and black.