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by dmonitor 1y ago
no
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by dmonitor 1y ago
It's about enforcing a power dynamic. Groveling and empty praise is about showing loyalty and control. Trump thinks enforcing this level of control over others is what success looks like.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
It's even weirder from Anthropic's standpoint. Your #1 customer is buying all your product to resell it at loss .
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by dmonitor 1y ago
I agree it wasn't the best example for the point I was trying to make, but it was the best I could find in short notice. It just sounded to me like the "save 2D" people you described were more focused on preserving a very par
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Is that still true for film? The distribution channels for that industry are so tightly controlled that indie film producers don't see nearly the same levels of success as video games. There's a good handful of new indie game mill
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by dmonitor 1y ago
How do you know if you enjoy playing the game without a guide if you don't do it? Looking something up to unstuck yourself is one thing, but following a guide from beginning to end is robbing yourself of the opportunity to enjoy the ga
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by dmonitor 1y ago
They actually have implemented this in a very limited context. You can download games from other machines on your local network.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
"actual 2D animation" being limited to pen/paper on animation cels is a narrow definition. Shows such as Primal are digitally animated using modern techniques, but it's still hand drawn rather than being fully puppeted l
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by dmonitor 1y ago
I've come to accept that a large amount of poorly made slop is simply a necessary part of the ecosystem. It means funding is aplenty and new hires have cheap projects to work on. The philosophy of only funding big budget winner project
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by dmonitor 1y ago
just look at Cartoon Network's programming block today Not a single recent new show in sight. https://www.tvinsider.com/network/cartoon-network/schedule/
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by dmonitor 1y ago
By "knowing what you're doing" do you mean "have enough experience to it by hand", "have experience with a specific AI tool and its limitations" or a combination?
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Insurance is just privatized taxation where the overhead goes to outlandishly rich middlemen
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Are you sure he didn't just order a meal that came with a drink? If it's the same kind of point of sale system I used at my fast food job, a meal requires something to fill the "drink" slot (even if it's "exclu
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by dmonitor 1y ago
They're just 1.75" snooker balls. It's very easy to get a big box of them. You'll also quickly notice why red never goes out of stock on Ploopy's website.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Using AI generated art in a blog post where one of the major points is big companies using AI art to replace artists is ironic.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Most AI applications are just enhanced google (to make up for how trashed google got by LLMs!)
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Youtube needs a far greater amount of bureaucracy than it has, despite how scary that word is to tech people. Google's automated approach is clearly not capable of keeping up with the scale and nuance of the website. It's worth st
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by dmonitor 1y ago
The open source / open hardware offerings from Ploopy are very attractive for people that don't want to take this route https://ploopy.co They've apparently suspended shipping to the US, though. Not sure who to bl
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by dmonitor 1y ago
racism
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by dmonitor 1y ago
That's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
the emergent behavior from ephemeral posting has become a feature by this point. and while it does technically have accounts, they don't at all work like a normal social media account. they aren't published, and using the "th
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by dmonitor 1y ago
> In my view it's quite an inconvenience: who carries quarters around anymore? I rarely have any cash with me, let alone loose change. That's what incentivizes you to take your quarter back. I keep a quarter in my car's ce
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by dmonitor 1y ago
so long as the protocol is simple enough to be recreated in nRF Connect, Bluetooth is fine. A proprietary bluetooth connection would be gross, though.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
So what's the goal? Summon a god?
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by dmonitor 1y ago
Do you think he is choosing to fart? It's not a voluntary action
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by dmonitor 1y ago
The rust belt can't really fall back on tourism like California can. Worst case scenario all software jobs evaporate and it becomes Florida with better weather
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by dmonitor 1y ago
> and then grab a beer at a bar to be social I feel like you're missing the point. The bar a necessary part of the equation because alcohol has a social monopoly on physical locations.
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by dmonitor 1y ago
aren't they going with open source firmware / OS this time around? even if it gets sold, user support will be possible
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by dmonitor 1y ago
7z also does this now FWIW I'd still bet it's Usenet users that installed WinRAR way back when and have stuck to it ever since
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by dmonitor 1y ago
they claim to love capitalism, but when the free hand turns away from them they call foul and institute social programs for the owning class

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