@danielbruce ... at the same time chatgpt is a fiction generator so any recipe it gives you has a reasonable chance of including random ingredients that definitely shouldn't be there, or quantities that are off or....
so yes, but ph33r recipes generated by fiction generators.
@danielbruceright now (this will change) i think it’s dangerous to assume that. It's too hard to predict when it’s going to insert fiction. The problem is that it’s “mostly” good but you both don't know the percentage of “real” vs "fictional" in any given thing, and it changes for every response.
So many articles about it lying about company offerings, or making up APIs and... it all LOOKS good. I wouldn't want to play that kind of roulette with food.
Tangentially related:
I'm now down a rabbit hole of #rust WTFery and finding many packages that no longer build that used to build on my machine. Including, but not limited to, a crate that I maintain. It has a dependency on something that has a dependency on Tendril and that doesn't compile anymore. :(
Hey you know what is crazy, I've been playing TTRPGs since my first D&D game in 1991, buuuttt:
I've never played any form of Savage Worlds.
I was just asking Reddit to suggest a system for a game where the heroes are T-800s on the side of humanity, and immediate response: Savage Worlds.
And I see that response to a lot of similar posts.
@ConorMahood fast, easy, no classes, exploding dice are fun. Watch the first season of Me Myself and Die to see the joy and fun it engenders. I love how excited he gets when they succeed explode too
I cannot express how much i hate that people keep posting useful things on #Substack.
Every time i'm sent to a post their !@#$!@ "hey sign in!, or not!" overlay when i'm barely started reading. Today I went to someone's top level page there and it was ONLY that. I literally couldn't see ANYTHING by the author until i clicked through.
Substack may be easy/good for you as a creator but it's terrible for ALL of the people you're hoping to read what you create. It doesn't treat us with respect.
@Dragonwriterca usually I am just reading at some random page I have been linked to. I never want the newsletter. I just want the one article they told me to read that looked interesting. I do not subscribe to email newsletters because email is where information goes to die. (For me)
Lots of comments recently on my channel from people immediately NOPEing on an app with a subscription.
I'm starting to feel like the App Store wrecked people's expectations for what software they can use with basically zero cost. When everything was like $1-5, you could buy every single cool app that people talked about, and not really feel the pain.
Downside is companies could not sustain themselves on that little revenue, so many didn't make it.
You can't know what the average subscription lifespan is until you've existed enough years to have one. You can't exist for enough years to have one unless you've got regular income
For some strange reason the govt. is refusing to cover our cost of living for years while we figure out if we've got a viable product or not.
I get the sentiment, but it only works for long established products and even then it's a big risk.
@nicklockwood@gruber@matt $100 may be radically low and result in a loss of thousands over the lifetime of anyone who bought it, or hundreds of hours uncompensated labor by the creator. It all depends on the app, the usage, how much effort & time support (human & code) requires. Multiple companies have tried this and been burned by it. The only safe bet is to guess thousands of dollars too high, and then people get pissed at you for being a jerk with an outrageously high lifetime price.
@nicklockwood@gruber@matt Pixelmator for example is $23.99 annual and not a B2B app. I've used it on ios since it was released in 2014?. They weren't subscription then but if they were that'd be $264 from me. If the lifetime sub at $54.99 was available then they'd have lost >$200 on that. Once you deal with ANYTHING with real productivity value or pro use $200 is NOT an unreasonable expectation.
@nicklockwood@gruber@matt "an app that lasts 10 years is rare" yes! because non-subscription economics just don't work out it's nigh impossible to come anywhere close to the salary you'd make working as a dev for someone else, so apps are mostly side-projects that we can't afford to keep working on in between work, and kids, and general adulting... $100 helps get me through this year, but all future years that person just represents a drain on my resources and time.
Albert, the security slack thing, has just given me a heads up that I was in the luxottica breach. Given that the only info it has for me is my work email, probably, which luxottica doesn't have. A) i call bullshit B) i call "who fucking cares" because the equifax breach contained all my personal info + my SS and passport info.
Yes, companies should be better, but i don't understand why anyone thinks a new breach means "prepare for bad!" because it's too late for that by years.
side note: omg i hate albert. I hate albert so much. Albert can fuck off. telling people to prepare for the consequences of something that happened 2yrs ago. ARRGH. Pointless!
While @dachary played Zelda I sat on the couch and continued my rabbit-holing around e-ink devices. I really really want a color e-ink device that'll let me read all my RPG PDFs.
HOWEVER, they're essentially all 8 ½" x 11" (~A4) multi-column things (because... ?WOTC?) which wouldn't reflow well / at all.
I did learn that remarkable has stopped being 🍆's and made it useful without the subscription service AND they've dropped the price to $2 a month from $8 if you do want it.
I've previously explored their image export and the SVG drawing is actually "decent" & can be cleaned up fairly easily.
I was seriously tempted, because the reviews are just so good, and the price is reasonable, UNTIL i saw the ~200DPI and i know for a fact that that low rez + the shrunken fonts would bother me.
I guess i'm just going to have to go back to waiting for... i dunno another 5 years? I really don't understand why the e-ink tablet reader market iterates so slowly.