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by Fricken 4y ago
I'm an ex editorial illustrator and midjourney can do the whole job often enough. With about 20% of ideas I try out I've been able to get submission ready work. Maybe another 30% can be cleaned up without too much hassle in Photos
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by Fricken 4y ago
If was driving only on quiet residential streets at speeds below 30 km/hr I wouldn't be very ambitious about using a seatbelt either.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I only wear a helmet on trails and long road rides. On trails, the false feeling of confidence I get from knowing I have a helmet gives results in faster times on my various trail circuits. Once I forgot my helmet and decided to ride anyhow
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by Fricken 4y ago
cyclists live longer than the average non-cyclist. Even cyclists without helmets live longer than the average non-cyclist. Going off the stats, even a bloody idiot non-helmet wearing cyclist has a better survival strategy a typical non-cycl
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by Fricken 4y ago
My city has the scrambles and the insanely long light cycles, they were installed about 4 years ago. It has really helped to scare drivers out of city centre. Cyclists and pedestrians have also learned to avoid downtown because waiting 4 mi
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by Fricken 4y ago
Laser is the sauce
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by Fricken 4y ago
It's been a good year for machine learning overall, and that includes autonomous vehicles. There's more optimism this year, the survivors are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I recall spending $86 on a pair of Gap jeans in 1992. It was a lot of money back then, I was 15 and had no job. Checking out the Gap site, a pair of new Jeans today cost $99 CDN.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Well Look at that. I'm totally not surprised, lol.
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by Fricken 4y ago
It's Midjourney. It has me wandering the uncanny valley for hours every day, there is so much undiscovered country. My sleep is disrupted. I'm in an altered state and I'm more tuned to recognizing coincidences and generally m
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by Fricken 4y ago
Weird. Earlier today I awoke from a nap after strange dreams and attempted to produce images in midjourney of a giant aquarium breaking. I must psychic or something.
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by Fricken 4y ago
This opens up ideas. One thing people have tried to do with stable diffusion is create animations. Of course, they all come out pretty janky and gross, you can't get the animation smooth. But what if what if a model was trained not on
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by Fricken 4y ago
I'd been saying for years before anyone had L3 out that the working definition of L3 is simply that the manufacturer will assume liability while the vehicle is in charge.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The problem isn't that AI art is garbage, it's that the whole history of art got retconned. To someone who doesn't know any better it may as well all be just as valueless as AI generated art. There's no difference anymo
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by Fricken 4y ago
I was an editorial illustrator, only for a couple years, a little over a decade ago now. Thank god I no longer have skin in the game. With Midjourney V4 I'm getting publication ready results about 30% of attempts, and the rest of the t
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by Fricken 4y ago
On the first page of r/popular there are not less than 450,000 updoots for the various posts about Elon getting booed. I count each of those updoots as a boo.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Yeah that's the thing. China rolled up it's sleeves and Americans bitched and moaned. HN is a particularly whiny place when it comes to China.
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by Fricken 4y ago
The problem is that if I don't recognize something from the pre-ai art era, then my knee-jerk assumption is that it's probably ai generated. So now all art is as worthless as the AI generated stuff.
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by Fricken 4y ago
In the early to mid-2010s AI hype peaked, radical Kurzweillean ideas became sales pitches from founders, and a great wave of discussion and speculation passed through the media public consciousness. For a time r/futurology was an inter
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by Fricken 4y ago
Here is my first attempt at "wooden pier beneath sea cliffs by Moebius --v 4", in Midjourney: https://imgur.com/KnNCFJQ
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by Fricken 4y ago
When I was working as an editorial illustrator, the goal was to have a distinctive trademark visual style, so that when art directors commissioned something, they had a reasonable idea of what they could expect to get. If they wanted someth
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by Fricken 4y ago
So long as you're content with some random crazy image, you can get fancy stuff pretty easily with Midjourney V4. Getting specific details correct, however...
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by Fricken 4y ago
The general air of sociability at my gym has gone up and down over the years. The culture seems to be driven by a handful of A-type personalities, and when less of them are showing up the place feels a fair bit less extroverted.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Historically Those are secondary benefits. The primary benefit was that locomoting got you somewhere you needed to go. That part isn't so important anymore. Most don't bother because it's optional.
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by Fricken 4y ago
Why walk when you can drive? Why hunt when you can go to the grocery store? Why do structured thinking when AI will do it for you? You could be in tremendous physical form, have awesome skills with a spear, and be an intellectual powerhouse
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by Fricken 4y ago
The majority of increases in wildfires over the last 2 decades has happened in boreal forests, largely in Canada and Siberia, and a bit in Alaska. There was never much fire management going on in these places.
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by Fricken 4y ago
I misread the wiki, you're right. The Favorite was nominated for 10 awards, it won only for Best actress.
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by Fricken 4y ago
"The Favorite" won best picture, director and original screenplay in 2019, and it's the first film in a long time a worthy film took the accolades. "The Favorite" is a black comedy and totally not the type of film y
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by Fricken 4y ago
Clipless clips are still a type of toe clip. You literally clip your toes into the pedals. Worst term ever. Many years ago, when I was still using clipless I lost control on a patch of gravel. Momentum had my body rotating away from my bike
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by Fricken 4y ago
It only takes an extra split second to twist your foot out of a toe clip, but in the event of a sudden and unexpected wipeout that split second can make all the difference.

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