fmac
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fmac
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12hr ago
How many prompters are going to painstakingly describe every detail they just don't have the painting skill to put on canvas, and how many are going to go "hot woman in cyberpunk armor, in the style of studio ghibli" or whatever?
Very few, but who cares? The person who has the hot cyberpunk studio Ghibli waifu picture is now happier than they were before. Maybe 1 in a million will be so inspired (or so good) by this that they'll get super into prompting and become a legitimately good "chimera" artist who blends AI gen and human taste to make actually great art. That's a (tiny) win for the human race as a whole.
I have no interest in seeing their stupid waifu, but I also don't go on DeviantArt or whatever so this won't effect me at all. Maybe I'll see their great art 15 years later in an art exhibition on AI digital art.
I agree this will lead to massive explosion in slop, but human-generated slop was already at functionally infinite levels prior to AI, so I'm not sure if there's a net loss here.
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1d ago
They're implying that this illegal immigrant from Guyana is a sketchy character and it seems like he is a sketchy character
This is profoundly circular
"The media is trying to make them look sketchy, and from media reporting, they seem sketchy, so that makes sense"
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2d ago
It's the only other place on the internet (aside from here) I regularly interact with as the users don't immediately make me want to scream.
Best I got lol
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2d ago
Quite literally the old school definition of left but I admit at this point "left" means "shitlib" and not "Marxist" despite the old dictionary definition
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2d ago
link a mainstream left-wing forum, where the news broke, and everybody's aghast at what happened
https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1ndmpmj/charlie_kirk_shot_at_utah_event/
https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1ndpw16/charlie_kirk_has_died/?sort=top
Almost every top comment is some form of "oh shit this is gonna get worse" and "this is bad"
Maybe if you scroll hard enough you'll find people crowing about it, but all the top comments I saw were unhappy he was shot.
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2d ago
I think you're of the age where your school experience was a "last chopper out of Saigon" situation.
Grievance politics is larger now, although I strongly suspect it's incredibly school and teacher dependant.
In "generic suburban highschool #42 outside of Boise, Ohio" I bet it's similar to what you wrote. In "MLK Jr highschool in Bushwick" I bet it's a lot more grievance-y
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2d ago
What level of incompetence and acting like the elite in Versailles is required for the constitutional right to fight back to take effect?
It's simple. If the person fighting back is part of the in-group, they are based and understandable, if maybe a bit over the top.
If they're in the out group... They are horrible borderline terrorist individuals who are wholly representative of the entire out group, justifying why the out group sucks and must be crushed into impotence.
Why do you hate fun?
"Oh no, hundreds of millions of humans will be able to express themselves artistically in ways that were never possible before, resulting in an explosion of creativity and human expression"
You don't have to scroll the Facebook newsfeed or Tiktok brainrot. Both of which were absolute slop even before ChatGPT 3.5
It's not like HBO is going anywhere. In fact, I would assume AI lowering the cost of VFX, etc will result in more prestige TV, not less, as lower costs allow for increased scale and more risk taking. Plus lower barriers to playing with art may mean more people discover/develop latent artistic talent and get into the industry.
Low quality fan fiction has been available in infinite quantities for decades, and yet there are still high quality books being published. Low quality digital art exists, and there are still excellent artists. Quality art will always rise to the top (AI will probably help you discover it).
All I can think about when people get cranky about AI art is what portrait painters in the 1800s must have sounded like sneeding over how cameras aren't real art because it requires no skill as the camera does it for you.
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2d ago
I wouldn't say "This incorrect. Pant waist size means the number that a hypothetical tape measure would read when measuring around the waistband."
Because you're not a valuator.
"fair market value (FMV) is the highest price, expressed in cash, at which property would change hands between a hypothetical willing and able buyer and seller, each acting in their own interest in an open market without compulsion to buy or sell, and with reasonable knowledge of all relevant facts"
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6d ago
Suffice to say, no, its not a class thing, it is a race thing.
So you think the behavior is genetically hardwired?
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6d ago
At my white collar office, "yes sir"/"thanks sir" has become so overused I wouldn't be surprised if women are saying it to each other.
It's like a weird intersection of young people imitating "business speak" combined with frat dude culture combined with some actual respect, but taken to pantomime levels.
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6d ago
But at age 79, every bounce back will be just a little bit worse than the one before
Welcome to the Gerontocracy baby
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6d ago
Any schadenfreude from watching our userbase try to forget two years of anti-Biden rants
I absolutely cannot wait for this. You can already see it happening above!
It's not happening, but if it is, it isn't so bad...
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8d ago
While I am totally on board that H1Bs are an excellent wage suppression tool. My business autism compels me to point out that it's simultaneously possible for an essential skill/thing/McGuffin to be required but also have a higher marginal cost than the marginal revenue it provides. Your business doesn't work if this is true, but it's not impossible.
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8d ago
I've done it many times myself!
I always wanted to do a kerbal space program story run but got bored long before they added research and funding and missions
Maybe I'll fire it up this winter
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9d ago
Portal-ing metals is a world setting now thankfully, I get the idea behind the tension of having to get the mine home (or build more established bases to smelt on site) but it's just all so tedious
I'm already doing so many chores to keep us alive, let alone all that travel with such a terrible carry weight
Copper+tin is the worst too because you lose metal at a 3:1 ratio on the way to bronze
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9d ago
I think iron actually isn't effected by that setting lol, due to how is generated
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9d ago
Yeah realizing there was a setting to be able to bring metal through portals was huge
Also realizing I could turn loot up to 1.5x (I'll probably go up to 2x, I'm so sick of mining) has been a huge win too
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9d ago
Been playing Valheim (colonialism simulator)
Super fun base builder, decently challenging combat, tons of biomes ahead of us.
Very much recommend.
People are salty about what seems to be very slow development, but I just started playing (I've learned you always want to be a patient gamer with flavor of the month early access games) and it isn't an issue for me
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10d ago
For what it's worth, I threw this into some LLMs
Both ChatGPT and Gemini also think it's environmental. Both seem to think you should be running it at home on battery only, because if that fixes it your problem is the laptop AC adaptor or your electrical circuits.
Are you using your laptop cord at the shop, or theirs?
You could also disable the speakers in device manager, which will eliminate the speaker cause.
Try booting into BIOS and see if it happens there. If it's just happening in windows it might be from power settings.
"4. Fan resonance check.
Does the pitch change when you: lightly press near the left palm rest/vents, lift a corner, or place it on a folded towel? If yes, that's resonance at a specific RPM. Ask the shop to replace the fan module; cleaning won't fix a bearing or blade imbalance."
Try different wall outlets, and if possible, different chargers.
I'm so curious!
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10d ago
Best way to rule out speaker interference would be to take it to a cafe or something and do something on it (taxes? Minecraft? Watch a movie?)
If it happens in a different environment you'll rule out a weird EM field in your house (lol)
Sounds like you've ruled out fan noise. I guess you could try messing with the fan curves (you can in bios, but it's better to do it with an app that allows you to do it real time) when it makes the sound and see if the sound changes (when it's happening) with different fan speeds.
I am not an electrical engineer, but I cannot think of anything that could generate sound in a computer that isn't a fan or its speaker. I don't think solid state electronics can make noise?
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10d ago
Are you placing it on a different surface/angle when it's at home vs at the shop?
Buzzing a few mins after boot sounds like the fans (or a fan) kicking up as the laptop heats up, and then starts smacking into something in the case.
If your daughter has an angled laptop stand or something that may be causing the case to deform slightly in such a way that nudges something into the fan area and then pings off the fan as it spins.
Does the buzzing sound only happen with Minecraft? I had a laptop back in the day with a CPU fan and a GPU fan. So maybe the shop running the laptop at idle to see if the noise showed up never triggered the GPU fan.
That's fair
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