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by davely 3y ago
And a new one in the series comes out tomorrow, advancing the plot to sometime in the 1700’s. (For what it’s worth, I’ve genuinely enjoyed the books and look forward to reading it.) His Century trilogy is a good read, too. Follows 5 familie
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by davely 3y ago
> NFTs are a standard for non-fungible tokens This is a fantastic tautology.
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by davely 3y ago
Oh, man. I worked as a community manager for a free-to-play mobile gaming company in the US about 10+ years ago. The gacha mechanic just absolutely ruined games for normal, everyday users. You had random moms and grandmas write in with the
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by davely 3y ago
Hah! I remember running decompilers (of questionable utility) on various VB-created progs so I could attempt to reverse engineer them. It definitely got me interested in programming and the early-ish days of being apart of an internet commu
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by davely 3y ago
Yeah. I’ve been a loyal 1P customer forever. Still annoyed about the move to cloud vaults and making it really obnoxious to try and use locally. At this point, I think it’s just a matter of time before they suffer their own breach for some
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by davely 3y ago
I’m excited to finally try this out. I’ve been ridiculously impressed with the base SDXL model!
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by davely 3y ago
I believe OP is implying that there is a political party aligned with burning books appealing to increasingly unhinged followers that could explain this.
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by davely 3y ago
One fun thing about Calibre is that the library is stored in a SQLite database. So, if you write a wrapper to parse that data, you don’t even need Calibre’s content server running! I have the library stored on my NAS and am running a fairly
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by davely 3y ago
Apple isn’t doing itself any favors, but the status quo has been the same for years now. I consider myself a big old Apple fan boy, have various flavors of Mac machines around the house, etc. But my Steam Deck has been an absolute revelati
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by davely 3y ago
Oh, wow. I was excited for this but the website sure doesn’t make it obvious that most features are locked behind a paywall. (Sure, I see the very small pricing link in the header nav now .)
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by davely 3y ago
> Just thinking about how to productize this flow, it should be quite easy to implement the "thumbs up/down" feedback option on every image generated in the UI, plus an optional text label to override "wrong". Th
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by davely 3y ago
I hope you'll forgive me for a bit of a self promotion here, but I think I have an interesting example of SD 1.5 (what most people are familiar with and what most models are based off of) vs SDXL. Before Phony Stark shut down the Twitt
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by davely 3y ago
> But look at GitHub issues for any semi-famous project, and you'll see a lot of questions about misunderstandings This usually happens because people don’t read documents to understand why something isn’t working in the first place
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by davely 3y ago
Hah! I have a 2017 eclipse story related to this, too! A few days after the eclipse, we were driving through Custer State Park in South Dakota. There were relatively few cars on the road but Google Maps would inexplicably show these very sh
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by davely 3y ago
I’m about to go through the same thing myself due to my Facebook Marketplace account getting banned for… no idea? Some sort of automated moderation kerfuffle. No matter how many times I click “request a review of this decision” through thei
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by davely 3y ago
Nice! I love that app. It’s wild that I can generate images natively on my iPhone. I’ve used some of your ideas for inspiration for ArtBot (mobile friendly web front-end for the AI Horde distributed Stable Diffusion project). I love seeing
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by davely 3y ago
I just finished his book, “ The End of the World Is Just the Beginning.” It was a pretty fascinating (though alarmist) thesis on how a number of countries are poised for “demographic collapse” due to aging and shrinking populations and what
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by davely 3y ago
Hey! Creator of ArtBot here. Thanks for plugging the site! For those not aware, here's an interesting fact about ArtBot (and the AI Horde in general) -- we've been running an A/B test with Stability.ai for the last 3 weeks or
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by davely 3y ago
> but isn't it the case that reputable scientists have predicted an overlaid major warming over the next ~10 years due to the recent Tonga eruption's injection of unimaginable amounts of water vapor into the upper atmosphere? V
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by davely 3y ago
I feel like it harkens back to the days of lurking around IRC, chatting with randos about all sorts of stuff. I’ve gotten a lot of enjoyment from it. The main difference is that conversations are persistent and you can (sort of) search them
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by davely 3y ago
It’s awesome you’re remodeling your house, but I would equally want a citation that says this is a “most people” problem. There will be exceptions, to be sure! Remodeling your house (at least to western standards) is surely one. But then mo
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by davely 3y ago
There is probably some cognitive overhead required to actually not swear in certain situations, especially if you’re prone to doing it. “What the f… heck is this, kiddo?” Definitely gotta utilize those brain wrinkles in that case.
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by davely 3y ago
> Wading through a mound of Lego has to be one of the most satisfying sounds I know My friend, let me introduce you to this Spotify playlist: LEGO White Noise [1] [1] https://open.spotify.com/album/6qZUya0mkucuxvoIp4
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by davely 3y ago
Speaking of California, the Blackhawk Slide[1] in Southern California is pretty impressive. It occurred ~18,000 years ago and the landslide escarpment is still clearly visible today! [1] https://blogs.agu.org/landslideblog&#
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by davely 3y ago
There was a brilliant little Reddit app for the Apple Watch (!) called Nano. It is also dead. Such a shame. Made it super easy to browser Reddit anywhere. The same dev also has “mini” Apple Watch apps for Steam, Wikipedia, and Elon’s Musk.
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by davely 3y ago
Oof. That is hilarious and maddening. It’s a disturbing trend on any site we rely on or use for services. There is no recourse, once a decision has been made. Last week, I was banned from Facebook Marketplace because… I don’t actually know.
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by davely 3y ago
“I’ve broken some rules to make this, I think I’ve broken them with good logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium, there’s a rule you don’t do that – well I did,” said the CEO in an interview in 2021. [1] [1] htt
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by davely 3y ago
Hah! One of the knocks against me in my last performance review was that I had poor time estimation for completing tasks. I asked my lead for help in getting better at this and they were basically a real life version of the Neil deGrasse Ty
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by davely 3y ago
Off-topic reply, but this is an amazing resource. Thank you for creating and posting it. I’ve long suspected I’ve had it and so much of what you’ve listed speaks to me.
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by davely 3y ago
I think I was clear in my criticism with regard to the app pricing, which has nothing to do with your points.

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