It used to be, though.

Google started adding AI capabilities (context-aware background-blurring) into its phones with the Pixel 2.

It is AI. It looks realistic, but it doesn’t make sense.
Why is there no snow in a circle around the fire? Did someone sweep the place?
What’s up with the Christmas lights?
How do you chop wood on that chopping block that’s much too crooked?

If you took the photo with any recent phone, it’s been edited by AI before you ever saw it, which would warrant a 70% rating.

Read “The Mythical Man-Month”.

Basically, a team of 5-8 motivated developers can create high quality, medium complexity software extremely fast.
But if the project is just a little too complex for one team of devs and you need more people, then you’ll need a lot more people. And a lot more time.

Cause the more people you add to the project, the more overhead you have. Suddenly you need to pull devs off coding to bring new hires up to speed. You need to write documentation on coding style guidelines, hold meetings, maintain your infrastructure, negotiate with hardware suppliers, have someone fix the server room’s door locks, schedule job interviews, etc. etc.

The rugged survivalist aesthetic is diminished just a bit by the electric lights in the tree on the right, which looks like plastic.

All I want is an angle who’s acute and not right.

Also, if anyone has a recommendation for a similarly accessible explanation video for ipv6, I’d be stoked.

They were forced to cut corners in implementation.

You know why freshly mown grass smells so nice?
The smell is the grass’s defense against grazing animals, as it attracts predators.
It smells nice cause it tells your predator brain there are prey animals you can eat nearby.
So the grass is literally snitching on the animals that are eating it, announcing their presence to their predators.

Evolution is fascinating that way.

In IT, sometimes there’s security reasons for the designed detour.
But then good design would completely obstruct the shortcut from the user’s view.

They aren’t being ignored. The corner needs to be a right angle for compliance reasons.

Fixed. Added a wall with razor wire on top to prevent this.

I love this quote, thank you for that.

I disagree. I am just a lowly worker bee, but I wouldn’t switch with any of the billionaires. I have lots of things they could never even dream of:

• I know my wife loves me for me. Cause we got together when I was unemployed and facing homelessness.
• I know who my friends are.
• I don’t have enemies.
• I can go outside and take a care-free walk in the sun wherever I want, not just in spaces I own.

Trump strikes me as a deeply unhappy man. Bezos and Musk, too.
All their money and influence can’t buy them the feeling of being loved and respected for who they are.

I wouldn’t be too surprised if Musk and Bezos dressed up to beat up mentally ill people at night.

On the other hand, Nazi Germany killed an estimated 6 million people.
WW2 killed an estimated 70–85 million.

I know it’s a cynical comparison, and pacifism isn’t a popular stance in the best of times, but still…
IMO war is always the worst of all options. But sometimes it’s the only one.

I don’t think any country in history has ever recovered from hate like this without being invaded and militarily destroyed first.
Which isn’t an option anymore, due to nukes.

This election was special, cause the candidate who got the most votes actually won.

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