It could be worse… I’m just glad it wasn’t “AIpple”
It could be worse… I’m just glad it wasn’t “AIpple”
So, this is gonna sound weird, but I actually find a lot of these bands calming to listen to. I’m autistic, and have a lot of weird sensory issues because of it, so music that’s too simple (a lot of pop or punk or other genres that show up on the radio usually) doesn’t fully grab my attention. Like, there’s not enough happening at once for me to feel immersed in it.
So I’ll end up listening to Power Metal to fall asleep sometimes because I can hear every instrument individually, and my brain switches focus to each one at random times, and it’s stimulating enough that I can be completely distracted from my other senses and calm down. Dragonforce is my go-to because they even have two lead guitarists at the same time.
That said, I do have songs of every genre in my library, and if I do want something slower or simpler, there’s a ton of Metal ballads that aren’t necessarily high energy. Try something like Crimson Day by Avenged Sevenfold, Remembrance Day or Trail of Broken Hearts by Dragonforce, Christmas Truce by Sabaton, or Mother Gaia by Stradivarius.
There’s a lot more examples, but you can certainly have slow, calm metal. I could probably make a decent sized playlist
I will!
Metallica for a dark, thoughtful mood
Dragonforce for fun, energetic, silly moods
Mick Gordon’s DOOM soundtrack when working out
Avenged Sevenfold for a carefree, fuck the world attitude
Blind Guardian when I’m looking for high fantasy, “take me away” mood
Sabaton when I want some motivation for work
Rhapsody of Fire for when I’m cleaning alone and want to get into some classical feeling stuff
Killswitch Engage when I’m feeling edgy
Korpiklaani when I’m wanting to go on a run
Parkway Drive when I’m angry or sad
There’s so many more than this, and much of these have overlap with specific songs instead of general artists, but this gets the point across, I think
Now imagine the scraping of steel against teeth on this and it just….
Reminds me of a short YouTube recommended to me here. In the second part, it talks about a guy who just tells himself “FORTIFY!!” As a similar vein, it’s pretty funny.
iPhone 13 Pro. Will probably keep it until the 16 Pro later this year maybe, or I might go another year. Nothing wrong with it so far, I mostly just want a type-C connector for convenience at this point
Don’t see ads for it anymore either. I kinda miss the old “how it feels to chew 5 gum” ones
Not offended. Technically, if the descriptions are to be believed, then it’s going to be the happiest place to be. So if I’m so happy, I probably won’t care
Furthermore, licensing a patent can give credibility to said patent, making it more difficult to prove in court that it was ever invalid in the first place.
I know. That’s not my point. I know that technically, “AI” could mean anything that gives the illusion of intelligence artificially. My use of the term was more of the OP, that of a machine achieving sapience, not just the illusion of one. It’s just down to definitions. I just prefer to use the term in a different way, and wish it was, but I accept that the world does not
For real. Like some enemies in Killzone 2 “act” pretty clever, but aren’t using anything close to LLM, let alone “AI,” but I bet you if you implemented their identical behavior into a modern 2024 game and marketed it as the enemies having “AI” everyone would believe you in a heartbeat.
It’s just too overencompasing. Saying “large language model technology” may not be as eye catching, but it means I know if you at least used the technology. Anyone can market as “AI” and it could be an excel formula for all I know.
Fun fact:
28 Zebraforce is equivalent to 1 Dragonforce
Remember the Name (feat. Styles of Beyond) - Fort Minor
Me using a late 90’s model car from 2002 that I plan on keeping for a million miles if it will let me
Many states have laws prohibiting the use of anything that isn’t hands free, including integrated media controls. Won’t stop anyone, but just because it’s illegal doesn’t mean people won’t do it. Same as speeding, or eating/drinking while driving in many states.
My wife and I have a pretty simple method. First, we each have our own bank accounts with our own spending money. Then, we have a joint account that we use for bills. Finally, we have a separate bank that we use for groceries and gas.
With these allocated separately, we can each have our own spending money, and have enough in every other account to take care of what we need. The paycheck just gets split between these in different direct deposit amounts.
The most important thing is to understand your costs, plan them out, and be aware of what comes out and when. Then, you just follow that plan. The biggest part is making sure you know that you can only spend exactly that much on yourself, which is where our individual accounts come in handy. Whatever we want to buy, we can, because we know safely that our needs are taken care of.
Since we have our math to allow more money in than money out, each account (minus our spending ones) accrue their own savings, and can be transferred between at any time. Overall, it works for us.
I couldn’t agree more!
IMO, ISO 8601 is better for computers, people working with multiple time zones, or critical logging.
RFC 3339 is better used colloquially, while still remaining unambiguous for the use cases that most people use dates and times in.
Z indicates UTC. Alternatively,
2023-12.12T21:18-05 for time zone as central. The UTC time zone code at the end just tells you where the time is taken from. Usually Z is used since, well, it’s “universal,” but having a +13 or -06 or whatever else brings context, and allows computers to synchronize the string of text into a comparable time for event logs and such.
I wanna know what kind of mouse/rat that is, ngl