Recent content by Umbran

It is about enough to raise one microgram of water one quarter of one percent of a degree Celcius, I think? I'm doing that math in my head, so I might be a bit off... But... no. Not a lot.

Increased use of renewables, efficiency improvements, and carbon offsets (which are not capture) are often used to claim reduced net emissions.

I think Sport and Theater are two different categories, with different broad goals.

Only China and Russia have built operational small modular nuclear reactors. There's like 120+ designs out there, but only a couple of implementations. I don't think that likely. There aren't many industrial scale carbon capture plants out there, and only like half a dozen are associated with...

Nope. "...whether the end result is my creation or not," is a legal question of ownership and rights. The provenance of the tools, and the nature of the creation with respect to other works, very much bears on who gets those rights, and has done since before generative AI.

No, you want to be considered the creator. But the credit of creatorship is a social construct, and is useless unless others agree with you. What really matters is if others accept you as the creator, for that is where rights and honors and profit lies. In effect, your piece was ghost-written...

I feel... meh? For D&D, I don't seem to get into settings qua settings. I typically pick up adventure content. For longer form adventures, I use whatever setting is implicit in it, but only as far as my players need it. For shorter pieces, I wedge it into whatever setting I am otherwise using.

In related news, OpenAI is killing off Sora, its video-making generative AI - both the app and the video-making model for developers. Why? Because they were asking for a $20/month subscription fee, but each 60-second video reportedly cost the company $15 to $18 to make. Sora would not be...

Determining that the process does not need to be justified is itself an act of justifying the process. Please note? You get snarky at me (QEFD? Really) and then try to justify your prior statement as, in effect, poorly considered? Yeah, not really buying that... justification.

Murderchickens, murderers, mules, and money.

Because it is likely one of the most expensive productions they have running, so it must justify that expenditure.

How do you figure that their goals for one show should bear up if applied to all shows at once? That makes no sense.

The stated reasons for the cancellation was ratings. At no time was Season 1 of Starfleet Academy in the top ten of Nielsen streaming rankings, so outnit goes. Those who didn't like a Klingon in a skirt will read into it, of course.

You said, "My initial reaction is that the process doesn't matter, that it's the result that counts..." That is an "end justify the means" argument. The result (ends) matter, the process (means) doesn't. If you don't want to be Machiavelli, maybe it is time to question that maybe the process...

The Toyota Way itself was formalized in 2001. However, Toyota's work with kaizen (what we might call "continuous improvement") that gave line workers power to control how work is done started back in the late 1940s, with Taiichi Ohno.