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…that’s why.

/s it’s a safety issue, kitchen workers aren’t allowed to use them either

As a teacher: I don’t get summers off.

As a waitress: Carrying food or drinks to the table is the least significant part of the job.

What’s your opinion of the Designated Hitter rule in Major League Baseball?

/thread

Strongbad

As a transmillenial student of AI / ML, great write-up.

Loudon Wainwright

They had the AI models of those days.

There’s no point and the meaning you have to make yourself.

nihil novum sub sole

Thankfully, my parents never tried to undermine my self-esteem like that.

Yes, if I realized later it detracted from the discussion.

I grew up reading the comics in the newspaper, now I read webcomics.

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Let me ask you: What’s the difference in result?

You need a repeating visual pattern, a fairly busy one. Then you need a greyscale image of what you want the “magic” picture to be. You deform the repeating pattern by the intensity of the greyscale image.

When your two eyes overlay the background images, your brain highlights the distortions and interprets them as depth… at least if your eyes are good enough to give your brain that information in the first place.

If you want to know more, the algorithm to do this is public, and you can set it up in eg. javascript in an afternoon.

Yeah, I’ve had a continuous blog since… 1999? Since before “blog” was a word. Self-hosted since 2003, write my own blogging software in 2007.

These days I also have a bullet journal for notes and tasks.

Nope! But I’ve made them. I needed to go find someone with more normal eyes to test my creations for me, though.

I read a book. It’s quiet, it’s restful, it often helps me get back to sleep but even if it doesn’t it’s still relaxing and worthwhile.

You mean… this one?

They’re reactionaries, and deeply regressive.