bryce.lol
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The lol TLD connotes cheap, not funny
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Game's gone.
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People are being paid to dress up and drop stuff on other people because their bosses have brain rot and you're a conference guy commuting between Geneva and DC to say things like, "These developments can lower the geopolitical risk premium and give policymakers space to act decisively."
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I looked at the puzzle, went to the comments, saw the answer was probably 10, and went about my day. Exams are a test of who works smart, not hard.
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This is twitter now.
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Imagine spending $10bn on a machine that finds averages and getting annoyed at the averages. Imagine scolding it in public, like Homer and the pet shop parrot.
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I'm not completely sold on that idea. CCTV is probably one factor but there's no obvious tells it's not installed. I think it's more that graffiti just multiplies in quiet places, as its existence is a signal to others that walls can be drawn on with no consequences.
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It has all the charm of the 1940s Routemaster and even lower reliability. Never expect to get to Willesden Junction if it's hot, raining, or Monday.
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Absolutely. Bakerloo line is uniquely vulnerable because the trains are already knackered and falling apart, so Broken Window Theory kicks in, and they meander slowly through the most deprived bits of Brent where the only people onboard will often be groups of school or college-age kids.
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It's partly that (the artists of Greenford and Northolt make plenty of use of the Central line carriage bays out that direction) and partly when trains have long stretches of very few passengers (such as the Bakerloo north of Queens Park).
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Yeah, that's cranky nonsense. It's all over the Central Line (train shortage and deadzone towards the western storage bays) and Bakerloo (train shortage and deadzone towards the north-western storage bays). I'm a fan. Seeing the community's new works each morning adds interest to my commute.
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Even if your brain hasn't yet been trained to spot the ugly forcemeat texture of all this shite, the picture says "adiåas" ffs. Have some dignity and show some shame.
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I'd be interested to know how often that happens already, because it seems like the tech doesn't have to be face mounted. (Ebay, because I occasionally search for old camera stuff, keeps trying to sell me a sugar cube-sized digicam for about £4.)
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Sure, but what do you do with the recording? Post it on socials? There are maybe half a dozen police forces in the world who will investigate low-level crime based on covert footage, and they don't seem like the kind of police forces we want to help too much.
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This, basically.
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Yes! It's always flagging correct words and trying to correct them by adding another syllable, like "syllableable".
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I'm a fan of Monkey Shoulder. It's whisky on easy mode, which is ideal when you're in a bar or taking the edge off the work day.
This has none of that, but is also being too floral to be used as a vodka substitute. It's weird. Cannot recommend.
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It's a nonstandard sentence construction, i'll give you, but we want more of that, not less. We'd be much more open to taking it seriously if it were on Trout Face Replica rather than The Blueprint 3. Which is our problem, not theirs.
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I've never understood this. It's a good lyric. She means: "Dreams are made of this concrete jungle". The sentiment is: "people dream of this place," not "this place makes dreams."
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It's one of the few places left that's not a vinyl boutique, and the Dutch auction pricing system means there are some (relative) bargains. If you're in the area there's also a soul/funk specialist hidden in a weird covered mall under the Westway at Portobello Road that's enjoyably chaotic.
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It depends entirely on what they're after. For random crate digging across decades/genres and prices that are not taking the piss, I'd head first to Music & Video Exchange in Notting Hill Gate.
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Yeah, it's entering the prog-rock stage. Gatefold concept albums about warlocks and hobbits.
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Sorry, I was busy working on a hypothetical super potato that exceeds the power of potatoes.
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That's three years before the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act and its "repetitive beats" clause. Impossible to remember now how exciting it was to have weird, dangerous records break into the top 40.
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Yep. Box office $ is back to pre-pandemic levels. There are people who'll tell you at length, if you're unlucky enough to catch their eye, about how cinema has repositioned to be part of the experiential economy so is no longer competing with Netflix.
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Attendance is down about a quarter Vs 2019 in most developed markets, but that's as much to do with shopping malls closing, tickets being priced like airline seats, and several big chains (AMC, Cineworld) being run into the ground.
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The only thing I'd predict with confidence about AI is that a great many more people are going to find themselves enslaved by a computer, but in the Adam Smith sense not the Asimov one.
Sorry for doing a thread, it won't happen again.
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As information systems grow more complex it's nonsensical to believe there will be less weeding and fewer fences. All that's going to happen is that marks will stop picking up the bill, meaning customers have to.
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Invariably, this involves hiring cheap labour to weed outputs and add single-use-case guardrails. Some companies will disguise these jobs better than others (data sanitisation, quality control, customer relations, bug whacking) but it's all pretty much the same job. It's gardening.
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All revolutionary technologies attract grifters. All revolutionary technologies make marks of otherwise sensible people. The grifters have raised more money than anyone can comprehend, and now they're spending a % of it trying to convince the marks that the technology does things it can't.
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Generative/transformer/tokenised/predictive AI (call it what you wish) is revolutionary technology that is changing the world in lots of ways. By trying to predict those changes, a great many of us have lost all sense of what the technology does and, as a result, have completely lost their minds.