From the very beginning of the article:

Netflix revealed on Tuesday that, in addition to the 11 episodes already announced, a bonus twelfth episode will drop on July 31. The bonus episode is titled “The Sandman Presents: Death: The High Cost of Living” and will focus on the character Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste).

As previously announced, the first six episodes of Season 2 will debut on July 3, with the next five premiering on July 24. Netflix has also revealed the 11 titles for those episodes, which can be seen below.

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Meh, don’t really have interest in this, but I love Amber Midthunder in everything she does so I might check it out just for her.

I stopped listening to a daily news podcast partly because the hosts did this live on the air. They’d ask ChatGPT for a statistic, then say “ChatGPT says it’s 37% of Americans” or whatever. They never fact-checked it, and based on how consistently wrong LLMs have been in my experience, it called into question everything else they said.

It’s a great way to instantly lose trust in another person’s abilities.

Sounds like it was always going to get a proper ending. From the article:

“It was a decision we made three years ago,” Heinberg shared about when the call was made to wrap the series with two seasons. Based on his conversation and reporting from EW, Warner Bros. Television had a writers’ room in place to chart out where the adaptation could be heading before the first season premiered. Heinberg shared that “lots of different versions of what season 2 could be,” were put into play before the decision was made to focus on Sturridge’s Dream. “There are some volumes where he just appears in two scenes,” Heiberg explained, noting how focusing on Dream’s direct story reduced the amount of source material dramatically. “There’s so many protagonists in Sandman, but you think of the whole thing as his story.”

“It turned out to be about another season’s worth of story, without leaving out anybody’s favorite moments or scenes. We managed to add a great deal of material, as we did in season 1, and a lot of really fun surprises for fans of the comics who know the entire story. We pulled from a lot of different sources. We took a lot of the single-issue stories and wove them into the fabric of Dream’s narrative,” Heinberg continued.

I come back to this problem every year or so because I’m never satisfied with my music metadata. Years ago I had my musicbrainz picard settings dialed in really nicely, where I could drag folder over and it would spit out the right thing like 7 out of 10 times. It still required a lot of doubled checking and manual oversight though, so I was never satisfied.

I tried mediamonkey for a while, because it has decent metadata support and plugs into most of the expected APIs. But when all is said and done, all these tools use the same data sources, and none of them are exactly consistent with each other so matches aren’t as straightforward as they should be.

Lidar never quite did it for me, so I haven’t looked at my install in a couple years. But based on @skoberlink@lemmy.world’s recommendation I’ll try a fresh install and see if get I better results this time. I’m always happy in the arr interfaces.

lol that’s excellent

Wow…I didn’t know that. Totally tracks.

Every time I see his face, I get the chills. He genuinely creeps me out.

Yeah I’m not that upset about it, but I was at least a bit disappointed that Jimmy Smits couldn’t make it work with his schedule. That’s all it was though, a scheduling conflict. He played the role as recently as 2022 in the Obi-Wan show.

I think this is a bad idea, and I don’t want it, but the one upside is it might help me finally understand the game’s storyline…

Yup, and that’s just one of many things that make me confident in my impulse to never trust OpenAI or any company that is just so obviously a money-grabbing grift.

[OpenAI and Microsoft] came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. Source.

What a ridiculous way of thinking.

Yes! I haven’t watched the movie, but apparently a few of the older cast members on the show were also in the movie. I’ll definitely check it out!

If anyone’s interested in sumo but doesn’t know where to start, I recently watched Shiko Funjatta! (Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t!) and really enjoyed it. It’s a lighthearted show about the struggle of keeping a very old college sumo club running in the modern era. Serves as a very cool intro to the sport, but it also has great drama and an excellent cast.

Asking a coworker for help is usually a much better way to get a relevant and correct answer on the first try. On my work computer I can’t reconfigure anything, so I’m forced to see chatbot results for my basic web searches. When I need a quick answer, I search myself before bugging anyone. Since I have to scroll past the “AI” answer to get to the relevant results, I’ve often checked to see if it’s right.

It has never been right.

I gotta stress that. It has never given me an answer I can use. I work in a field that isn’t particularly niche, and use software that millions of people use. If I need to figure out how to do something in an application, the chatbot answer will literally invent entire menus that don’t exist, just to show me exactly how not to do the thing I need. It’s all made up. I wish it would just say something like “Sorry, we don’t know how that software works yet.” But nope, it just makes shit up.

So if I still can’t figure out how to do the thing without wasting too much time researching, I send a quick slack message to a coworker, and in 30 seconds I get a screenshot with big red arrow pointing at what I need. Humans win every time, and it’s insulting to your coworkers when you don’t take advantage of their experience. Bonus you’ll never need to bug anyone about how to do that thing again, so everybody wins.

That article feels unfinished, but at least the author pushes back a little. Those numbers cannot possibly be true. And if they somehow are, based on my experience cleaning up that code will take nearly as long as a person writing it from scratch.

I kind of get it in cases where no one has commented yet, and the OP realizes a mistake or how stupid a question it is. But once there’s engagement, I wish the OP would leave it up.

I’ve noticed this a lot lately: I’ll comment, my comment will get engagement, so I’ll check the thread again to reply or read other comments, do that, then come back later to follow up again, and it’s all been deleted. Like, even if the original post was stupid or embarrassing, the fact that there was genuine engagement, to me, means it shouldn’t be deleted.

But again, I understand the anxiety of leaving your own stupid words up if they really bother you, so I won’t lose sleep over this.

Yeah the single camera thing is a lot. I usually get used to it, but it’s a ton of movement.

It’s really funny, but it’s also kinda hard to watch. That’s probably at least partly the point, Rogan’s character reliably makes the wrong decision or does the most cringeworthy embarrassing thing possible, in every situation. I’ve started guessing what wrong thing he’ll do, and he always does it. It’s a really well-made show, with an absurdly good cast, but I have to be in a specific mood to enjoy this kind of comedy.

In my experience, the invite-only ones are cleaner, index releases faster, and have less junk. They also typically have active support communities so you can talk to a real person if you need to. There are some open paid ones that are great (nzbgeek is pretty solid), but the invite-only ones index significantly higher quality content in many categories. Though to be honest, depending on what you’re looking for and how picky you are about quality, a couple of the standard paid ones would probably sufficient.

Some of the invite-only indexers do open their registration periodically, so I’d recommend keeping their registration page open and just refresh it every day if you can’t get hold of an invite. Drunken Slug, for example, opens their registrations to the public every so often.