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Canopyflyer

@ Canopyflyer @lemmy.world

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  • Do you feel that use of generative AI and LLMs is ever justifiable? If so, when and where? If not, why not?

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  • LLM's have their use, there is no doubt about that. I'm in the middle of creating a home brew campaign for my D&D group and unfortunately I'm a lousy artist and I wanted a few things visualized. Well, I used a photo generating AI to create something that had the visual I wanted. I'm going to use it for my campaign and it will probably just sit on my hard drive after I'm done.

    My employer is rolling out AI and is asking us to find places to insert it into our workflows. I am doing that with my team, but none of us are really sure if it will be of any benefit.

    The problem right now is we're at the stage where idiots are convinced it is something that it is not and they have literally thrown 10's of billions of dollars at it. Now... They are staring at the wide abyss that is the amount of money they invested vs the amount of money people are willing to pay for it.

    I've seen arguments for and against the presence of an AI bubble... Personally, I think it's a bubble that's so large that it will take down several long established computer industry manufacturers when if pops. Those that are arguing its absence probably have large investments that they do not want to see fail.

  • (Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy?

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  • Mid-50's.

    Was looking for an alternative to Reddit, probably like a lot of other people, and Lemmy popped up as the first choice. It's really as simple as that.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • Now that you mention it, the scream in that clip is similar but a bit different. Good catch.

    The main point I was trying to make was that the person getting knocked off and falling is the person who made it popular. Personally, I hate the Wilhelm scream. It's way over used and really doesn't add anything to the scene it's in.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • Money enables art only to a certain point. Past that the stakes (money) is so high that all the decisions in making the movie is done by committee.

    Committees are incapable of making art.

  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • Is it possible to accidentally enter into a romantic relationship with a stranger?

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  • I am happy for you. Getting 4 kids out of that one night has to be some kind of record.

  • How do you intake caffeine and how much?

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  • I detest coffee. My caffeine intake is wholly sodas, specifically Coke Zero. It only has 34mg per 12oz, so I don't get a lot of caffeine every day.

  • What's your favorite animal?

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  • Birds

    Favorite bird? The Corvids, specifically crows and ravens.

    Freakishly intelligent and once you befriend them the Murder will stay friendly for generations. My grandparents owned a farm and my grandfather made it a point to be friendly toward the local Murder. By the time I was old enough to ask him why the crows all flocked around him some 30 years had passed. He barely had to do anything. He would put out straw during the mating season and food at other times. The Murder would be your friend too, if they saw you with him.

  • You there! What are your Hobbies?

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    1. Cooking
    2. Reconditioning old audio equipment
    3. Tabletop Role Playing Games. Rolled my first character back in 1978.
    4. Running... Kind of... I just completed Couch to 5K and am working on 10k now. I'm just doing it to help my health and not really trying to be a serious runner.

  • What kind of car do you drive, and what kind do you wish you did?

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  • 2019 Camry Hybrid XLE

    I don't wish to drive a car any longer. I'm done with them. They are a stupid form of transport in their current form. They should be used for local traffic only and all electric. City to City should be trains.

  • I'd like to ask everyone, which movie have you rewatched more than three times?

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  • Princess Bride

    Strictly Ballroom

    Paul

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    Star Wars 4,5,6

    LOTR all of them

    Operation Petticoat

    Dr Strangelove

    The Great Race

    Pacific Rim

    The Abyss

    True Lies

    Alien

    Aliens

    Clue

    The Cutting Edge

    Forbidden Planet

    Harry Potter series

    Kelly's Heroes

    The Last Starfighter

    Young Frankenstein

    Raiders of the Lost Ark

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Star Trek movies: Wrath of Khan, First Contact

    Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines

    Gumball Rally

  • How did you feel after your first breakup?

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  • My girlfriend of 3 years simply ghosted me. I was 22. In my naivete I attempted to call her to at least make sure she was OK for about two weeks. She never answered the phone, never returned my calls. We also had started talking about marriage as well.

    It was completely debilitating. Depression, anger, sadness, and a feeling of just being completely worthless. It catastrophically affected my dating life throughout my entire 20's. From the ages of 22 to 30, I had exactly one other girlfriend and she was more of a FWB than anything else as she was much older than me.

    I did start dating around when I hit 30, but it was just one disaster after another. So much so, that I considered myself to be the common denominator and decided to just be a permanent bachelor. It was fairly obvious to me that there was something wrong with me and that's why I was having such bad luck.

    Then I met the future Mrs CanopyFlyer in 2004. We've been together ever since. So it turned out that yeah, all those women I dated in my early thirties were all assholes. My wife is the best human being I have ever known.

    Hmmm... Maybe that just gave her the patience to deal with such a jerk as myself.... NO, it was all the girls I dated that were the problem!

  • What's a TV series that you really, really liked and would enthusiastically recommend?

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  • Farscape

  • What's the browser(s) you use?

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  • It works in Helium and Edge, the two Chromium browsers I have used for such purposes. All my other browser usage is through Firefox.

    I did find THIS tutorial to get Keychron to work in Linux.

  • How did you choose your username?

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  • Back in my skydiving days, I coached jumpers just off student status on their canopy flying skills. Everything from packing, to learning how to shoot accuracy. I even taught high performance landings, though I drew the line at hook turns.

    While I was never known as "CanopyFlyer" at my home DZ, I was known as someone that a student could come to and get good safe coaching. A couple of my students are now doing it professionally and you've seen them in the movies. Although, their skills have far outstripped anything I've taught them. I'm proud to have least provided them a foundation that they could build on.

  • What's the browser(s) you use?

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  • Firefox

    If I need a Chrome based browser, such as for Keychron Assistant, I use Helium.

  • What truly sucks about life?

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  • 3 years I had a normal blood pressure.

    5 years and 2 months ago I had a back.

    10 years ago I had knees.

    Oh, and I haven't slept more than 5 or 6 hours a night in several years and most of the time I'm lucky to get 4.

    I truly do not mind getting older. It has a lot of benefits, but damn... I'd like there be enough of my body left to enjoy it.

  • What old person thing do you do now that you wouldn't have guessed you'd do when you were younger?

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  • Pill box... I have take enough pills that it helps to have a pill box to organize them. Not just any pill box, mine has separate compartments for morning and night pills.

    I'm 55. Sigh...

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • Yeah, we lived in the Greater Cincinnati area. I moved there in 1991 for a job. She moved there in 1999 for her Fellowship and Residence. We moved to Wisconsin in 2006 and we like it a lot better.

  • How did you meet your significant person?

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  • Semi-blind date. We were setup by a friend of mine that worked with her.

    At the time, I was not in a good place and really was not interested in dating. My plan was to meet her, go to dinner, go to a movie then disappear. Why didn't I just say "No" to the date? My friend is a former Navy SEAL and is not one to give up.... Ever. It was just easier for me to say "yes" to the date, go, then go back to my life.

    Life had other plans. We met at Newport on the Levee, which is an entertainment/ Shopping complex located right on the Ohio river in Newport, KY. This was in 2004 and the complex was brand new and very popular. So when we exited the restaurant we discovered the line for the movie theater was literally out the door and that was on top of a back and forth line near the box office. So we decided to go to the Barnes and Nobles and get hot chocolate. Neither of us like coffee. We sat down and talked... For THREE hours. It was the best conversation I've ever had with another human being.

    We've been together ever since and that was in 2004. We have two boys and live 400 miles away from the Cincinnati area now.