*poof*...gone

GIMP is a serious case of not-invented-here leading to abysmal usability. It can't even compete with Photoshop from more than a decade ago. It's embarrassing. Copy the good stuff.

You drooling idiot can keep accepting blame while the people who blame you fly supersonic so that they can be back from brunch in London for their meeting in NY or vice versa the same day.

I will not accept one more surcharge, fee, tax or fine in the name of environmental protection if rich people get to fly supersonic over millions of people's heads and homes. Planes need to be quieter, not "louder, but not as loud as previous supersonic planes". FUCK THESE PEOPLE.

W is J/s, but the "per second" isn't obvious from the unit W. The energy unit Ws (or kWh, as is more customarily used due to its scale) has the time in the unit, but it isn't actually time based, because the s cancels the s from J/s that is invisible in the W. We could use J for energy and J/s for power (or scaled versions of these units), but we don't. The cardinal mistake was to standardize on W as the unit of power and derive customary energy units from that, instead of standardizing on J as the unit of energy and deriving customary power units from that. The power units, not the energy units, should have the time in the unit. Time is not involved when you talk about energy, so why do we use units that reference it?

This pet peeve is never going to get solved, because the units are the "wrong" way around: The unit of power doesn't include any hint that time is involved, but the way we express energy does. It's exactly opposite compared to the units that laypeople use most often: distance and speed. That's why you see kWh written as "kW/h". It makes no physical sense*, but to someone who just needs to adorn a number with a "unit", it absolutely does make sense. We like to dump on AI for not "understanding" and instead just using probabilities, but most people don't do much "understanding" either.

*) unless you want to express a rate of change of power, which nobody who writes that ever does

https://youtu.be/TYsulVXpgYg?t...

There is only one rule: I have it on good authority, never type Google into Google!

You are their target audience.

This is not for you peasants. Feasibility has been demonstrated. They just need to make sure the people who still have it are not distinguishable from the masses who don't.

They do not.

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die.

You can't put anything ephemeral online without these people ignoring any and all "we ask that you do not archive this" signals. The future of the internet is closed behind access controls, not just because of AI: nobody else has any decency left either.

The real bomb is called "boom box".

The glory days of using AI to build a shitty web site with 20% fewer people hours, right before everyone realizes that there's no point to building web sites anymore.