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Alan Scott
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Different Alan Scott than the Green Lantern one, but we are both gay.

Were I ever actually to get off my but and post stuff, I'd be posting about Tabletop, Comics, Mixology, Current Events, and Retail Management.

Sacramento, California, USA.
That's not weird at all. Pretty typical for folks to move to California & get famous.
December 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
If I were a software developer asked to work on a tool like that, I'm pretty sure it would prompt a minor "are we the baddies?" moment.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There's no point in this though. The LLM isn't actually using any of these papers as a source--it's source is its training data and inputs.

So making sure the bibliography cites existing works is just taking one set of fake citations and exchanging them for a different set of fake citations.
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Are you familiar with this one?
December 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It is a crime that you can't date Waterboy
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
If she's working on an existing surface, she'll do a color match. I think the Swiss Coffee thing is for total repaints and new surfaces.
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
My roommate (Herself a Handyma'am) says that whenever anyone asks her to paint anything "White", she just buys Swiss Coffee rather than trying to get her customer to pick a shade.
December 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Reposted by Alan Scott
new york democrats shouldn't be let anywhere near power. the ideal democratic leader is a guy who won by 2 percent and actually thinks of the GOP, rather than other Democrats, as the enemy.
December 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I wouldn't have demolished the east wing.

But now that it is demolished anyway, I think you can get a dozen two-bedroom apartments into that same lot space...
December 3, 2025 at 6:04 AM
When we were kids, they didn't realize that T-rex had feathers. Today, we teach kids that dinosaurs have feathers. Imagine if instead we said "Sorry, T-rex has feathers so it turns out not to be a dinosaur after all". That feels like the equivalent to what astronomers chose to do with Pluto.
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And my feeling is yes! Count 'em. 50 planets. 100. Our mnemonics shouldn't be stopping with Pizza. The whole fuckin point of discovery is that you keep discovering. Deciding "These 8 only" seems like an insult to the whole process of scientific progress.
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
As a diehard "Pluto is a planet" guy, that's pretty much the opposite of my view. My objection is that these guys looked around and said "hey, there are a bunch more space rocks in the outer solar system, and if we count Pluto as a planet, we'll have to count them as a planet too..."
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I have been a ride-or-die Will fan since season 1. Happy they gave him stuff to do this time around--and teaming him up with Robin was genius.
November 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Agreed (but also let's not let this stop us from getting a "Check Please" adaptation, which would have the first kiss in the season Finale.)
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The characters in Stranger Things are not Millennials. I'm right on the border between Millennial and Gen X, and I was born during the time the first season takes place.
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So if your sales have *exceeded* your goal by 200%, that indicates that your total sales are 300% of your goal, and that your goal was therefore 2/3 of a copy.

But whoops, I bought a copy too, so now you've exceeded that goal by 350% instead.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This looks really cool, and I look forward to reading it when it comes out.
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM