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- Nairn3
The more I think about it, the more I want a sorta AI-trained smart interface with Illustrator (etc) where I can do whatever shit I'm doing on screen with a mouse and as I do it, explain what complex interactions I want thereafter vocally.
Like, you alt-mouse copy an object and you say aloud "name this new object 'left flap' and set its width to 120mm" so whilst you're dragging away the object to be copied and modified, you're giving it a name which you can subsequently refer to for modification later.
I mean, I don't particularly go out of my way to name objects in illustrator, because I don't much need to as it's all visual and that would just represent additional physical cruft on each operation. But if I could add that detail in by voice, in parallel? That could be handy.
I'm rambling. But I'm sure I have a point here.
The more complex the software, the more useful this kind of additional layer of interaction could be. Looking at you, 3D modelling and CAD
- Seeing how Adobe "finishes" off its applications lately, I wouldn't have much hope for it...OBBTKN
- Would be amazing if Adobe actually did some stuff like that instead of charging for generative fill. I hope things like that happen, would be coolPhanLo
- Haven't everyone wanted this though?canoe
- Say aloud? Nah, do it with thoughts.stewart
- the more u have to combine the more fun... as in know how.. and know what.... limitless combinatorial chicneverscared
- Charging for Generative Fill? I'm not paying for that. It's in the regular version of Photoshop, not even the Beta as of this month.CyBrainX
- Apparently this is what Misrocosft are moving towards.. https://jdmeier.com/…Nairn
- @cybrainx - i'm talking about something completely differentNairn
- Nairn3
Isn't all salt ultimately sea salt?
- Some is organic from "political party" tearsAQUTE
- All salt is Sodium Chloride. Not all salt is from the sea. Rock salt is mined from the earth.Morning_star
- Not all salt is sodium chloride - just the stuff we typically consume. Obviously that wasn't my point. And how was rock salt formed?Nairn
- Besides which, this is the 'idle thoughts' thread, not the 'Autistic wank off thread'.Nairn
- haha classic comments, I still love this place (mostly).fadein11
- No.i_monk
- perhaps the sea is a lake that got contaminated by rock salt?hans_glib
- Minerals are washed from rocks by rain into the sea. The sea evaporates and creates salt deposits. Salt deposits are mined. This takes lots of time.Morning_star
- The salt existed before the sea did.Brabo_Brabo
- Krassy3
if humans are so good at global warming, why not global warm the hell out of Mars so the ice there melts and turns to water so we can grow potatoes there?
- - that ice evaporates
- toxic af
- ~150 days in transport
next.sted - the process of terraforming would take thousands of years and could be potentially dangerous to Earth. It's a pipe dream although not unachievable.StoicLevels
- It’s fucking embarrassing that we destroy earth through recklessness and greed so we have to find another planet, and do it all again there no doubt.mort_
- Terraform Earthscarabin
- ^Krassy
- Terraforming earth is easy, just have to plant way more treesGnash
- Terraforming earth is easy, just have to
get rid of the humans.sted - ^Krassy
- Why would terraforming Mars be potentially dangerous to Earth?Nairn
- It could destabilize Earth.
https://www.youtube.…StoicLevels - Your video doesn't appear to make that claim.Nairn
- it's been awhile since i saw it, basically mars' atmosphere could fuck with Earths spatial relationship to the sun. i thought it was this video, maybe it isntStoicLevels
- https://www.nhm.ac.u…StoicLevels
- "Mars also can't support a thick enough atmosphere for humans because it doesn't have the same magnetic field as Earth does."StoicLevels
- Maybe changing the variables of Mars atmosphere's magnetic field is what would cause the effect to Earth.StoicLevels
- a) that sounds like pseudo scientific bullshit. b) terraforming mars would ideally use mars' mass itself = no gravitational impact on EarthNairn
- c) even if we had to add an atmosphere from elsewhere in the system, apparently the ratio of 'planet to atmosphere' is about 1:1,200,000, so ...Nairn
- would also not likely impact Earth's orbit. Presumably at that level of engineering, any effect would be taken into consideration, addingNairn
- or subtracting a relevant amount of mass to Earth to compensate.Nairn
- Also, you can nix the magnetic field problem by constantly replenishing the atmosphere. The amount of loss compared to the amount of replenishment is tinyNairn
- I suppose given Mars' lower gravity, the atmosphere:planet ratio would have to be significantly higher. Still 'no biggie' lol.Nairn
- you eventually came to the conclusion that I had proposed. What if "no biggie' actually were catastrophic.StoicLevels
- Anywhoo, the prospects for terraforming are so ridiculous and farfetched I think biospheres / terrariums make much more sense.StoicLevels
- well exactly - terraforming could, feasibly/optimistica... take 10s of thousands of years. Solar stripping of atmosphere takes 10s of millionsNairn
- - that ice evaporates
- Nairn1
What would a dinosaur steak taste like?
- Chicken, clearly.Nairn
- AgreedGnash
- Confirmed.palimpsest
- Bet it would taste fowl. (i'll get my coat)Morning_star
- Your joke is for the birds.palimpsest
- Probably like crocodile and chicken.NBQ00
- Meat from large animals tends to be tough and chewydrgs
- We know what mammoth tastes like https://www.mentalfl…scarabin
- No we don’t scarabin. You haven’t read that article-NBQ00
- Croc or alligator. And therefor chicken.jtb26
- Oh yeah, i guess they’re dead. Hopefully someone wrote memoirs or somethingscarabin
- https://www.theawl.c…drgs
- Nairn, you would have been a happy member of that club from the 19th century, the point of which was to eat as exotic an animal as could be found.Continuity
- Fucked if I remember the name of it, though.Continuity
- Darwin's Glutton Clubpalimpsest
- ^ That's the one.Continuity
- imbecile8
if grafician ever got a blowjob, all he'd think is "i could do better"
- Nairn6
the more i like someone, the shorter my sign-off in emails becomes.
- i just noticed this, scanning an email exchange with a client that had its ups and downs. Now we're besties and we just sign off with our first initial.Nairn
- Mine's lower case though, hers unrelentingly upper. Not sure if that's a power move.Nairn
- Dearest Pr2,
Please accept, Sir, the expression of my most distinguished sentiments and earnest salutations to end, henceforth, this digital communication.BaskerviIle - lolMrT
- heheheNairn
- BaskerviIle2
Why is legalising cannabis a big progressive move these days while at the same time we've been tightening restrictions on tobacco and smoking for years?
I understand the potential medicinal properties of cannabis but surely smoking it adds a bunch of negative health consequences – these are always discussed for tobacco but I rarely see enter the arguments on cannabis.
- Tobacco's necessarily and inherently physiologically-addi... Cannabis is not. Both should be on sale and taxed accordingly.Nairn
- Personally, I think there should be a distinction between a raw product (tobacco leaf) and a fabricated product (a cigarette). As too other legal drugs.Nairn
- If the UK legalised Cannabis, it would make a huge amount in taxes. So, if tobacco and booze are on sale - why not cannabis?Nairn
- Also, when legalised, as the markets have shown in America, it leads to safer forms of consumption. Edibles and vapes/etc aren't easy to come by here.Nairn
- Are there studies on the health effects of smoking cannabis? Does it cause lung cancer etc? I genuinely don't know. Just interested.BaskerviIle
- Less so than tobacco - perhaps only because you need only smoke less. Any inhaled combusted material is going to fuck lungs up, regardless.Nairn
- Agree that safer forms make sense. Just feels like smoking is the primary form for now. And it flies in the face of progress with tobacco lawsBaskerviIle
- I'm old-school, so smoke leaf/hash, but honestly - the US-led vape/etc thing's really becoming A Thing here. I know of a few converts.Nairn
- ^ those US vapes are good, I smuggle them down into Mexico, the entire country of MX is legalizing in spring, no more smuggling soonGuyFawkes
- I’m sure if one smoked as much pot as a smoker does cigarettes then risk of lung cancer would be similarGnash
- Drugs, cigs, everything should be freely available. And health care should be free. However we should have ID cards, and which each purchase of drugs/cigs, yourshapesalad
- healthcare budget is reduced... So if you want to drink and smoke yourself into a cancerous mess, so be it, but don't expect state to pick up tab. Welcome to geshapesalad
- get 3rd party private medical care.shapesalad
- If only there were a way to make smokers pay for their supposed increased healthcare costs over the span of their shorter lives.Nairn
- There are still WAY more restrictions on cannabis than tobacco and no one proposes banning any use of tobacco.CyBrainX
- Risk of lung cancer with joints likely higher as there's no filter just a roach ;)microkorg
- But in places where its now legal arent people moving away from smoking it, choosing to vape or buy jelly/choc etc?microkorg
- I saw some talk mid last year about UK Gov legalising weed etc to help pay for Covid debt.microkorg
- Fax_Benson3
If Covid passports come in and people are required to be vaccinated to travel, could we see people traffickers smuggling anti-vax Brits across the channel for their summer holidays? Drowned undocumented Brexit voters washing up on French beaches.
- LOL.
RIP trooperbill.palimpsest - no, but you can guarantee people will steal, fake and counterfeit any sort of 'I've been vaccinated documents.' Expect to see more granny muggings.shapesalad
- Guaranteed some scum will mug a granny somewhere, get caught and it'll transpire they were after the covid vaccine passport/card thingy.shapesalad
- You already had earlier in the year NHS staff mugged for their staff ID so people could jump the queue at supermarkets. . Scum everywhere fuelled by drugs.shapesalad
- I must admit, I've already half-considered forging the Covid Passport thing. The version I've seen seems stupid-easy to counterfeit.Nairn
- < lol, great imageGnash
- lol fax, just seen thisfadein11
- Now I'm picturing a drug-addled freak in a rubber gran mask sweating like a loon while queuing for a plane. Brilliant.garbage
- LOL.
- jagara5
"ice cream" pronounced in a Texan accent:
- You want some ass cream?
- Nah, I'm good".- The idle thought being the sentence "you want some ass cream" being repeated in my idle brain.jagara
- I asked for ice cream once in Texas and all I got was a mouth full of diarrheaYakuZoku
- You better say 'yes', because either way, Texans don't take no for an answerfuturefood
- Nairn6
"Do your own research" sounds REALLY fucking expensive.
How the fuck could I afford a fully-specced laboratory and the next 12 years of my life dedicated to that aspect of science.
God forbid I have to make my next phone from absolute first principles. I could barely make a sundial.
- I could totally build a sundial, for the record.Nairn
- One single person can't make a computer mouse. From the mining of the minerals, the individual micro components to the wiring and moulding of the plasticsIanbolton
- It's just too much for one person in a world built on collaboration and shared knowledge. "Do your own research" shows a breaking down of those mechanisms??Ianbolton
- Continuity1
Sigh.
I wonder how badly us psoriasis suffers will get the evil eye in public, with this whole monkeypox business.
It's all over my hands.
- Hadn't thought of that.. will be keeping my psoriasis ridden hands firmly in my pockets for a while!!dee-dubs
- It's really, really shit, trying to explain psoriasis to people. Tell them it's not contagious until you're blue in the face, and they still won't believe you.Continuity
- It’s all up my legs, so no shorts for me. Once got accused of wanking while sharing a bed with a friend. I’d actually itched in my sleep until it was bleedingIanbolton
- My psoriasis, not my dick!!Ianbolton
- Another reason to wear my ninja outfit...
Been on Humira for years. Just recently had an allergy test and changed my diet to see if it helped. It did a...bezoar - little bit, but better results with ointmentsbezoar
- LoL Ian, wonderful! hahahaNairn
- “It’s not the pox, I haven’t fucked a monkey since 2019” PROBLEM SOLVEDnb
- Bluejam3
- I think the use of paperweights decreased when we domesticated paper and started keeping it indoors, as opposed to hunting-gathering approachrzu-rzu
- Also, in the 1950s helium was added to paper to make air mail cheaper.Morning_star
- Pre-hvac systems, office interiors were controlled by windows that opened, as well as vents above doorways. This created airflow from room to roomGnash
- What is "paper"?CyBrainX
- Nutter1
I think Sex and the City did some good making sex more open to talk about, but also put a lot of unrealistic expectations out there. Maybe it was already like this, but the show perpetuated the problem.
Four young extremely successful women living in New York, dating and dumping guys for often very little reason, while chasing the "perfect guy". They even mention how few eligible single guys there are, and at a few points that they themself may be the problem for not finding mr perfect, they quickly carry on.
Carrie Bradshaw is obsessed with Mr. Big. But when he doesn't live up to her expectations, by not reacting or saying something other than she expect, she flips out and have a near mental breakdown. She acknowledges this behaviour, but never once seeks to solve it or talk to him about it.
The amount of times I've meet girls here in Denmark who reefer to someone as "the Miranda" or "Charlotte" of their group just means the show has stayed with a lot of women as something to identify with... which is a problem when its a show about fiction.
- i hated this show and everyone in it._me_
- This show was 128% true. Not a bit of fiction of it.grafician
- maybe as a slice of waspy New York life,_niko
- the psychology is so wide spread is nuts after all these years this is still relevant
do you guys even date?grafician - I ended up getting married in the same place as Cynthia Nixon's character. You wouldn't believe how many people told me that when I told them where it was.CyBrainX
- I have successfully never seen this show.bulletfactory
- Username checks outnb
- jagara2
What if there was a thing like masturbation, but for being hungry. I wonder what that would look like.
- Rubbing one's tummy and looking at cooking shows?jagara
- boogersrzu-rzu
- Bulimia?shapesalad
- cud-chewingsarahfailin
- Also masturbationdrgs
- sted6
- Nairn1
Why are there no positive diseases?
"Got myself a good case of the whew. Slightly runny nose, but I've been tripping balls and having karmic orgasms for three days and the best sleep I've ever had each night".
- this is a real thing https://www.youtube.…scarabin
- Interesting topic! This guy’s gut produced alcohol which kept him drunk all the time https://www.today.co…scarabin
- Qbn ate the link https://www.today.co…scarabin
- Would they not be called ‘eases’ then?mort_
- It seems to me you could induce brewers gut intentionally with some yeast and a time-delay capsulescarabin
- Interesting. I wonder why a virus hasn’t tried this route - seems like this would guarantee it’s transmissionGnash
- ^I think maybe some scifi stories have had plots like that Gnash, not so sure about real life.PhanLo
- This parasite can help make you fearless https://www.medicaln…scarabin
- There’s an element of bio-hacking here i find appealingscarabin
- Can't work out of that Medical News Today article is a pisstake or not. Is this the medical version of the Onion?microkorg
- Tapeworms could help keep you slim I guess.microkorg
- I don’t know anything about the site, but it’s a very well known thingscarabin
- You carry 5kg of bacteria in your gut. Genetic diseases which are good have simply become permanent features of our phenotypedrgs
- SteveJobs0
It just occurred to me.. chess pawns are female
- That means im still straightGuyFawkes
- ?colin_s
- I read this as cheese prawnsfaxion
- ^grafician
- @colin_s, they can become queensSteveJobs
- It's not quite that black and whiteNonEntity
- They can become anything. Just because they become a queen doesnt mean they are female (or even that the queen is)cannonball1978
- Nairn5
In the not too distant future we will have a service that literally transcribes hash values into a block of something permanent. Be it stone at a large scale, or something like sapphire at a micro scale.
This system will allow for the writing of permanent, one-time write values, and the reading of them, by some secure remote-inclusion technology.
Vast halls of stone, writ in CNC, or crystal etches all microfiche-like.
This system will be run by a long-view supra-government agency, rendered permanent and ultimately accountable by the highest orders.
The purpose of this will be to verify bullshit digital security, be it NFTs or ether hashes or whatever other pointless - but highly valuable - fuckery that comes along.
Full circle to the first clay tablets cast in ancient Sumeria, recording transactions as proofs.
- Morning_star0
1980 The Empire Strikes Back
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 Blade Runner
1983 Return of the Jedi
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomCan Harrison Ford's 'five in a row' be beaten by any other actor?
- I was pretty sure De Niro would beat that but the best he has is 4 in a row (imo) a couple of times and after 1995's Heat no chanceBluejam
- I was getting drunk with a buddy last night on a teams chat. 3hrs we tried to think of an actor that had, had a better run. No luck.Morning_star
- Temple of Doom sucks assnb
- Joaquin Phoenix is the closest but in an entirely different way.nb
- 2012 The Master
2013 Her
2014 Inherent Vice... only 3 I guess. Nevermind.nb - superb, watched them all yet again recently as well.fadein11
- Pretty damn good. Could Witness creep in at number 6?MrT
- It could, I’m almost tempted to stick in Apocalypse Now as well.Morning_star
- Al Pacino?
1) The Godfather – 1972
2) Scarecrow – 1973
3) Serpico – 1973
4) The Godfather Part II – 1974
5) Dog Day Afternoon – 1975Akagiyama - I despise Tom Cruise but I suspect he might have a good run of five.CyBrainX
- I'll second the notion that Temple of Doom is not up to par.CyBrainX
