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Looks like a davit designed for loading a small boat onto a larger boat.

Here, we apparently see the land lubber’s version of the same.

And it makes people who were already stupid think they’re smart.

Nothing quite like arguing against a second-hand LLM conversation in your area of expertise, being proxied by someone who doesn’t understand what either you, or it are saying.

I already live in NZ 😆

We had to travel to Iceland to find something that was sufficiently more impressive than what we have at home.

Funnily, a lot of people thought that the pictured Wharariki Beach was actually the (somewhat) similar looking Cathedral Cove, half the country away.

I haven’t actually seen the former in person, but it’s quite a trek from civilisation. Someday.

Except that people are also visiting it for real (this article posted a couple of days ago):

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/03/the-windows-10-lock-screen-photo-is-becoming-a-travel-destination-and-its-a-real-new-zealand-beach/

Considering when I first upgraded to a phone that included it, Gemini was incapable of setting a timer, I do not have high hopes for this.

This is to say, when I told it “set a timer for X minutes” it produced a UI on the phone that suggested it understood I wanted a timer, but failed the critical step of actually setting the damn timer. I immediately switched back to assistant, as there’s really no coming back from a fuck-up that comprehensive.

Two minds on this one.

You wanna buy an overpriced, terrible vehicle that’s the brainchild of the mastermind who was too weird even for Jeffrey Epstein. Knock yourself out buddy.

That I have to share the road with these chucklefucks, having seen how feverish they are to let the clankers take over driving said giant piece of shit vehicle? I would be lying if I said I didn’t have concerns.

The indifference ends at the point where I’m unable to opt out of participation in their bullshit.

I’ve done some truly horrible things with it.

Whenever we have big construction projects at work, I export footage from our CCTV system and time-lapse it.

But then one time I wanted to put two videos side by side. Difficulty that they were both variable frame rate (a quirk of the NVR, but meant that played at constant rate they wouldn’t line up).

It ended up with 5 copies of ffmpeg running at once. Because the most efficient way to create this monstrosity was 2 copies that stretched their input videos to 25fps (by duplicating frames), piped into two that ran the time lapsing, and both outputs into a 5th that assembled the video into one frame and encoded it.

I think you’d struggle to represent that level of kerfuckery in a GUI, to be honest.