[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

Perhaps he used something like the program at Regal Cinemas. For around $20 a month, you can view unlimited movies.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

Ah. The Russian trolls/bots have discovered lemmy. It was nice while it lasted.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Smaller. Thinner.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Displaced would be a better word.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

As a bald man, I support this.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by lucidinferno@lemmy.world to c/cooking@lemmy.world

Google Bard recently gained the ability to watch YouTube videos and then answer questions about the video. I asked it to watch a video from a maker who doesn’t share the recipes directly in the description (though he links to it), Joshua Wiseman, specifically the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich But Better video. I then asked Bard to give the recipe, which it did, ingredients and steps! I double checked it and it was perfect, including the optional mushroom powder.

I then dropped in a url of a recipe with the ingredients in volume and asked it to covert it into grams, and finally gave it simply text of a recipe and asked it to do the same thing. It did both okay, with errors coming from the websites it crawled for the conversions.

Insane and revolutionary, especially the video transcription. Try it for yourself and let me know your experience.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The commenter is talking about adding heaters, not anti-aircraft weaponry. There’s plenty of examples of things developed by the military that are used in civilian products.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Small business owner here. Good regulations are what allows my customers to trust me, or at least trust that I’m not willing to go to prison for lying about my product, or worse.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

“Some of you may die, but it’s a risk I’m willing to take.” - Lord Farquaad and Musk

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I said pretty much the same in a comment above, but I'm not against filler, or bottle episodes, though I may have come off that way. I'm just against bad filler, stuff that would have never made it into a show if there was no predetermined season lengths. In a perfect world, it would be great if stories could be chosen simply because they were great stories. I'd like to know that something like the Fly episode of Breaking Bad would could still be filmed just because the show runners thought it was a great story, and not because they had a make a certain number of episodes and needed to save some money on one episode so they could spend more on another.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Part of the reason why TNG was good beyond the first couple seasons was because of the open script submission policy that's no longer in existence. According to ex-Trek producer Ronald D. Moore, they were reading something like 3000 scripts a year. It allowed them to be choosy (though there were still some stinkers). Now that the characters are established, if the seasons were longer, it might be cool to see the open script submissions come back (though, as I'm typing this, maybe implementing this during or shortly after a writers strike would be a poor choice, even though there were limits to how many scripts one could submit before going through "official" channels). Anyway, one could argue that a huge amount of ideas need to be generated for a show as great as TNG to exist, more than a small group of writers could produce. If outside script admissions were allowed, I'm sure we'd see some great sci-fi episodes from writers who weren't even thinking "Star Trek" as they wrote them.

I'm not against filler, and my post may have come off as being that way. Not every story has to advance character or advance some storyline. I'm just against bad filler.

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Strange New Worlds has been my favorite Trek since Next Generation, and if the quality continues, could easily be my favorite Trek ever. But with the e.p. wishing for more episodes per season, there’s a danger of diluting the show by adding weak episodes that would have never made it in a 10 episode season.

One of the things I’ve long admired with BBC shows is their normally low-episode seasons, which kept out a lot of filler that normally made it in to the broadcast shows from the states. But streaming (and before that, cable) changed things. Finally US based shows were able to create much lower episode seasons, allowing the creators to tell more of the story they wanted to tell, without stretching things out (too much), or being forced to add stories they weren’t thrilled with in order to fill the season. (Though, even with shorter runs, shows are still doing this. Picard season 2, for example, could have used some trimming. So, yeah, show runners are still being forced to fill seasons where X number of episodes were ordered before the story was fleshed out. Maybe it just seems more evident in serialized shows.)

I can’t help but think a longer season of SNW would be a “more is less” scenario. I’d much rather see Paramount create another Trek show that’s mainly episodic, that’s been shown the same attention to quality that SNW has received.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Either way I’m using induction, built in or countertop.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by lucidinferno@lemmy.world to c/cooking@lemmy.world

Besides not being aesthetically pleasing, what's the downside of strictly using countertop induction cooktops, both commercial and household varieties, as my burners? If I go for the individual cooktops, I could easily replace them individually if they break or if technology or features improve, plus I can put them away for when I need more countertop space. I do use my current built in cooktop as "counter space" during gatherings, but I'm always leery of doing this for safety reasons.

Edit: There's a wonderful community being built here. Thank you all for you responses and for the great thinking points. While I'm not entirely sure of which direction I'll go as far as countertop vs built-in, I'm definitely sure I'll be using induction.

[-] lucidinferno@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

How are they evil? After doing a google search to see how they perform as a news organization, I’m genuinely curious about your viewpoint.

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