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  1. It’s hardly a free option, by your numbers it’d be a 20-30% discount.
  2. That's because the things we built on weren't slop
  3. Small business?
  4. I don’t know that I agree that it’s only now become acceptable. Successful artists have long employed others to aid in their work - see e.g. Leonardo and his studio assistants who helped paint probably large parts of some of the paintings attributed to him.
  5. Would it be more legitimate if the artists didn’t employ anyone else in the process?
  6. As someone living in a country where Abloy locks are used everywhere, I’m interested to hear what’s wrong with them
  7. It was Latin...
  8. This is very nice, not just for finger/mouse painting! I tried it on my Cintiq and it was actually a lot better for me than brush stabilization usually is - I think the logic is the same as seen in e.g. Krita, but the visualization of the cursor and where the paint will appear is very helpful. Usually painting software doesn't have such an indicator of where the actual stroke will be placed and when it will move.
  9. I once held my breath for 5 minutes when I was 14, sitting in class. I suppose it’s possible I was accidentally breathing through my nose a little as I wasn’t underwater.
  10. It seems hard to believe it was not intentional!
  11. That would be a compelling argument if procreation was somehow primarily driven by a need for people.

    As it is, we already have quite a lot of people and they’re not going anywhere, however many terawatt-hours we pump into AI.

  12. The ”not perfect” part really kind of ruins it for me. I can’t trust the LLM search’s answers and have to go find the source anyway, so what’s the point?

    I’m seeing people in chats post stuff like “hey I didn’t know this word also means this!” when it really doesn’t, and invariably they have just asked an LLM and believed it.

  13. The Roman destruction of Carthage seems like a pretty clear genocide.
  14. The US can always pay their dollar-denominated debt by printing more dollars. It wouldn’t be a case of being unable but of being unwilling to pay.
  15. What about recommended posts, do you still get all that junk in your feed?
  16. Why not make something new instead? Why is the impulse to use AI to generate more of the same old stuff we’ve already seen, just with a different look?
  17. The statements from the Finnish law enforcement agencies are basically that there is no evidence that the cables were intentionally cut. Then there’s reports citing “sources” in agencies that the incidents are thought to be accidental.

    Basically, I’m not sure the reporting is properly distinguishing between “no evidence of wrongdoing” and “it was an accident”. It wouldn’t be surprising that it would be very difficult to find evidence that an anchor was intentionally dragged across a cable vs. accidentally.

  18. Isn’t this kind of like saying the solution to robocalls is not having a phone?
  19. If they’re participating in illegal activity, isn’t that the definition of a criminal?
  20. Two knobs will do. The timer knob can be used to stop the microwave and it starts once the timer is set and the door is closed.
  21. The indoor example with the staircase and railing was really surprising - there's only one view of much of what's behind the doorframe and it still seems to reconstruct a pretty good 3d scene there.
  22. They’re in a shed, not in any kind of cover beyond that.
  23. I’ve only ever used alkylate fuel in the saws
  24. I got a Ryobi battery-powered chainsaw because I got fed up with the maintenance of gas-powered saws. I found I was spending as much time fiddling with the carburetor, changing fuel lines etc as I was sawing. I have two gas saws, a Stihl and an Echo, and I don’t think there was a single time I was cutting trees last winter that I didn’t run into trouble with both of them.

    The electric saw just works. Yes, you need to have multiple batteries. Yes, it’s not great for big trees ( 40 cm or bigger diameter). But at least it runs.

  25. It creates an incentive.
  26. One way AI may change that is by cutting entry-level creative jobs. If you can’t get a foot in, you don’t start your career.
  27. I’m puzzled by the poor texture quality in these. The colours are just bad - it looks like the textures are blown out (the detail at the bright end clip into white) and much too contrasty ( the turkey does that transition from red to white via a band of yellow). I wonder why that is - was the training data just done on the cheap?
  28. I have an 11-year old Kindle and while it can’t access the store any more, it can still sync over wifi if I purchase books on the web.
  29. I once plugged a USB type B connector into an external hard drive blind (it was dark) and was rewarded with a zap and a dead hard drive. The connector went in the wrong way without any particular force - either the jack or the connector must have been a bit looser than standard.

    The drive was fine once I took it out of the enclosure, fortunately.

  30. Well, faces and hands are still considered important. There’s a saying that if you get the face and hands right, you can get away with anything.

    Also common advice for artists is to group the middle and ring fingers together. It just looks better and they kind of tend to do so naturally anyway.

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