#programs with common sense

[dosesofcommonsense]

They start young. Kids YouTube, Nick Junior, some on Disney, Nickelodeon, gaming, scroliosis, instant gratification, sexualization, grotesque becomes normal.

“It’s a slow fade.”

When you allow programming to raise your kid(s), your kid(s) get programmed.

[wikisix]

Me: *taught myself coding and javascript because i was bored*

Also Me: help how do i hang up a group call??? whats a driver?? IM SUPPOSED TO UPDATE THEM? WHERE ARE THEY??? HELP??

[lotus-pear]

I ADORE UR ART SO MUCHHH!!! It's just so pleasing to look at!! So smooth!!! 💕💕

also was wondering what kind of brush(es) you use? ❤❤

AAAA TYSM🥺🥺 so for coloring i just use a basic inking brush to block out colors and then i use a round brush to cell shade on hair and clothing. for blush and skin i use a watercolor brush and rly blend into the skintone

[seariii]

Wait what do you mean people don't normally talk to themselves and give themselves therapy-

[hippo-pot]

Btw, re: my opinion that computers are not gonna be able to translate sign languages in our lifetime, it's not that sign languages are necessarily More complicated than spoken/written languages (I truly don't know how you'd measure that but I'd assume they're equally complicated). But video is, in terms of sheer data, much bigger and presumably harder to process than audio. I cannot imagine this happening without *astounding* computational resources which would take far more energy, water, and money than a human interpreter (and, more importantly, wouldn't work as well, at least for the foreseeable future). I assume the computation would happen off site in most cases if it did work, meaning the Internet connection is gonna need to be phenomenal (there is already widespread dissatisfaction with VRS human interpreters used in medical settings because half the time the connection drops). Speech to text, with all the issues it still has, seems like a breeze in comparison to 'understanding' a video.

I also cannot wrap my mind around how a machine would handle depictions. Like, with some practice behind me, my human mind is now able to understand (some) depictions I've never seen before (thank goodness, because there will ALWAYS be new depictions I haven't seen before, bc Deaf people are resourceful and creative), but I don't see how a machine would. That's pure sci fi to me. I also wouldn't expect a machine to do a good job translating stuff it's never heard before in a spoken language (e.g. wordplay, or the way you can sometimes tell the meaning of a new slang word from context, or an uncommon name even), but the thing is I think depiction is a much bigger part of daily life than wordplay is?

[zukkaoru]

forming one-sided beef with my sister's english teacher

[ebonyheartnet]

“It’s been several months of warnings across the practice, but we’re still experiencing a rash of missed punches.”

MAYBE IF Y’ALL MOTHERFUCKERS DIDN’T HAVE ONE CLOCK FOR PAY AND ONE CLOCK FOR ATTENDANCE, WE WOULDN’T HAVE THIS PROBLEM

[awesomecooperlove]

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️AUDIO BOOK ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[endlessbittersweetdreams]

I am beyond sick and tired if being yelled at for absolutely NO GOOD REASON. So FREAKING WHAT if I have my headphones on while I am watching a movie on my damn laptop? If you have something to say to me, come into the room that I am in. Use polite methods to get my attention. Wait until I have paused the movie and removed my headphones. Then speak. But don't freaking YELL at me from another room, knowing that I have my headphones on, and then throw a freaking temper tantrum when I don't respond. Because guess what? I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! And do NOT act with surprise or offense when I don't respond like an emotionless drone when you yell at me because YOU didn't use common sense.

[youngpettyqueen]

I have to summon up the will to do what is likely going to be 3 - 4 hours of new job training that is entirely unpaid

1 like = 1 prayer

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I’m not really one to enjoy proving other people wrong. Simply knowing they’re wrong and I could is usually enough for me, (i.e. my dad’s insistence that Spock and Kirk are straight when we ALL know they’re not),

but last night I was given the immense satisfaction of explaining to my step father why his opinion was wrong is such detailed that the Asshole Who Knows Everything actually said, “You’re right.”

I shall be lording it over him for the rest of existence.

essay in the tags

[jenjenthevirgo]

👆🏽👆🏽👆🏽

When schools offer free meals for everyone, local families reduce grocery spending. Large chains respond by dropping prices, amplifying benefits to the broader community.

Education and nutrition depend on each other.

[death-rebirth-senshi]

Sometimes I read an article and it's like "I'm so stupid I can barely understand this"

[rotarywires]

i’m really considering doing paid readings once i have more experience under my belt—the father keeps pestering me about a job once i move back from uni next summer and i just do not think i will be able to work a standard job with my health being the way it is

[sharlmbracta]

Actually, no

source:

source 2:

the video:

It’s not terribly mysterious why shit like the load-bearing coconut happens. Usually it goes something like this:

Goal: the programmers have a bunch of data they need to have access to in every scene  

Problem: the game engine they’re using does not support a global scope  

Solution: create an invisible game object that holds all of that data in its attributes, and make sure it’s the first thing that loads in every scene  

Additional problem: the game engine requires every object to have a texture assigned to it, even if it’s never rendered  

Additional solution: assign this random stock photo we just happened to have lying around as the texture for the fake global scope object  

Result: the resources folder now contains a random JPEG of a coconut that can’t be removed or else the whole game stops working

One might think that this understanding would make load-bearing coconuts less funny, but this is not in fact the case: it makes them much, much funnier.