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I’m not an expert, but I’ve seen multiple reports that predict very large increases in electricity demand. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-...
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I have to say — I’m kind of amazed that anyone would expect privacy out of chat bot companies and products. You’re literally having a “conversation” with the servers of companies that built their entire product line using other people’s pro
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Nobody in this space gives a fuck about anyone outside of the people paying for their top-tier services, and even then, they only care about them when their bill is due. They don't care about their regular users, don't care about
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> Matter of opinion I guess. It's not. The discipline of statistics knows a lot about population sizes, sample sizes, margins of error, and that sort of thing. If you're going to seriously question the fundamental ideas in stat
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That goes without saying in the software business today. I was in software for decades and I’ve never seen it so cynical. Shameless profiteering seems to be the gold standard strategy. It’s like Gordon Gecko style greed.
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It’s somewhat subjective, but I disagree it’s easier to fleece photographers than audiophiles. There are professional art photographers that use Leica cameras because they’re great, and $250 is pocket change for a lot of serious optical equ
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Yeah. He seemed pretty torn up about it. I believe he said he “died a death” over it. Here’s more into for anyone interested. https://www.cinedump.com/reviews/2021/6/3/dune-alan-smithee-...
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This is the the most famous, if not the only instance of Lynch giving up control of the final edit. He seemed angry about the way it turned out.
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I’ve had too many bad sales experiences to deal with that. The second someone tries to force me into a sales call for a non-customized or self-configurable service or product, I assume they’re just shamelessly setting me up to extract as mu
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I don’t think qubes is targeted at mainstream users— even mainstream developers— and I don’t think something has to be targeted at the mainstream to be interesting, especially here. There are probably a lot of people here that won’t ever us
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Based on that and this article, it looks like they learned that people writing news stories on them either don't read or don't care about Reddit AMAs.
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Word. I was mostly just making a joke about FarmVille— the classic engagement-vampire facebook game.
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> I have no idea what game Meta is playing Based on their business moves in recent history, I’d guess most of them are playing Farmville.
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Nope. There’s a lot— a lot — written on artistic process and intention. What art is and what it means is a deep philosophical topic that has been pulled apart for millennia. The sheer arrogance of nearly the entire tech world reducing the
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Well, in web dev, people vacuuming up all of your code to feed a NN creates something that eliminates the tedious annoying parts and leaves the more interesting work. Conversely, even in the technical end of art, people vacuuming up all of
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It seems to me that for the most capable and useful models, openness almost exclusively benefits businesses, or maybe academic organizations with money for serious hardware. I know what I can run on my 4090 at home but the results pale in c
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Mexico is a lot cheaper though, no?
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Isn’t most of the manufacturing already done in countries with far cheaper labor costs? It seems like a design problem, to me.
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And at that level of expense, having no insurance, bad regular insurance, and catastrophic insurance is not much different. However, if you get into a car accident, have diabetes, eat a burger with E. coli oh157 which destroys your kidneys
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Blanket black-and-white statements about what will or won’t ‘solve’ gun violence can only exist in oversimplified worlds that conflate causes, catalysts, prerequisites, cultural influences, economics, etc. If anybody is expecting one sphere
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Nope. EMTALA means hospitals have to evaluate, and if necessary, stabilize you, and that’s it. If you’ve got a growing cancer or some expensive chronic disease that’s causing serious problems, they’ll do what they can to stop those problems
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I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. You can definitely use plugins in blender without recompiling it?
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I use Rebelle (which uses this) for all of my digital painting. It’s excellent . They do need a new UI framework and they say they’re working on it.
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I have found copilot autocomplete to be somewhat useful for small blocks of code. Coca-Cola and Toys R Us have found them useful for making terrible commercials cheaper than making terrible commercials by hand and way cheaper than making go
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Yes, that’s a good example, and I share your concerns. As an aside, I shudder thinking about what a heavily ‘SEO’d’ LLM experience would be like.
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This the end game that Silicon Valley created. An automation arms race between two competing groups that were initially trying to save a little time or cut down on staffing but escalated it to the point where the default approach would be c
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That’s cool — never heard of it. I’ll have to check it out.
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It’s not even like a language — it’s several languages spread across half a dozen purposes -built environments. I’m definitely interested to see where apex goes, but it’s going to need a lot of work in both the workflow and how they communi
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Oh and I forgot to mention that it’s all glued together with python, which replaced their previous non-compiled scripting language based on csh . (No shit. Yes, that csh. I do believe the first version of Houdini’s precursor came out in
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Houdini really is a different thing. Its procedural-only focus is all-encompassing, resource intensive, and difficult to combine with other paradigms. People that talk about Blender overtaking Houdini as a professional tool have no clue wha

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