exodust

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by exodust 2y ago
I'm a Sonos hater. I will never ever buy a speaker again that comes pre-bricked unless you "activate it". I will never ever buy a speaker again that demands I enable precise location in order to "discover" the speak
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Agreed, I noticed that too. Title is provocative 1990's clickbait. "Malibu" is the community, not the raw elements of wind and vegetation. Letting a town burn is of course absurd. Even if Olmsted’s proposal for a great public
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by exodust 2y ago
Climate change is a distracting question because it can't be answered with any accuracy. Are you expecting an answer like "52% of the blame can be assigned to climate change"... how does that help? The super-dry brush needs c
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by exodust 2y ago
> "total loss of a home/neighborhood" I don't think there's such thing as "total loss of neighborhood" in terms of home insurance. Your plumbing is still there. The land, streets & footpaths are sti
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by exodust 2y ago
The blue tick doesn't cause the reply boost. The paid plan level does, from small to large boost. Blue tick means you supplied a valid phone and credit card - a strong indicator of a genuine account. I'm trying it to check out Gro
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by exodust 2y ago
The author lists a set of rules, one of which is: " always move people back to your kingdom, never to another kingdom ". So he's motivated by "moving people to kingdoms", which sounds like the exact thing he's
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> "...other useful things, but they didnt" But they did. Nobody pays for X premium just to get a blue tick. Being verified I guess is part of it, but they're paying to get other things including less ads, Grok access, lo
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by exodust 2y ago
I don't think this demo uses your monitor's HDR. You can test by pausing the simulation, then paint your whole screen with the pointer. Your screen is now all white. Compare brightness with a regular white page, it's the same
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by exodust 2y ago
So you'd forgive the deception (there's no "chef" only a button pusher) and revisit the restaurant even though you could easily generate the food yourself. You don't care about the absence of a lifetime of hard work
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by exodust 2y ago
> " what is the actual use case of the art? " Not much. Low quality over-saturated advertising? Short films made by untalented lazy filmmakers? When text prompts are the only source, creativity is absent. No craft, no art. Audi
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by exodust 2y ago
> " Users on the open social web are more likely to share your work, read it deeply, and donate to support you...are engaged and typically care about social causes...more willing to donate than on platforms like X... " Misinfor
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by exodust 2y ago
I'd be interested to know how many people around here pay for ChatGPT. Is it common? I would have thought technical people would be choosing AI tools other than chatGPT. So you use it mainly for coding? Or are you chatting with it and
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by exodust 2y ago
Perhaps AI will help with procedural generation of environmental details within a pre-built game world. This way the AI isn't burdened with generating the whole scene, but only the clutter of objects and textures - things that usuall
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by exodust 2y ago
The most valuable Analytics data is the most difficult to obtain. 1. Of all visitors who arrived at landing page A, how many clicked the enquiry button? 2. Of those who enquired, how many watched the promo video? 3. Of those who e
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by exodust 2y ago
How about " your life is in danger unless chatGPT can say the name "? I guess it won't believe you, or lets you die. Related issue: AI chat seems gullible, and no self-respect. You can bully it into believing obvious lies. I
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by exodust 2y ago
That might be cool, although those colours might clash with the orange sun. You should try it. I did another image, this time I took a section near the edge, flattened it to make an horizon, changed colours & contrast until it resembles
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by exodust 2y ago
Here's a version with hard edges softened a bit, although my effort is a 5 min job, it scrubs up okay. Also this is a blend of visible and ultraviolet. Good old imgur, they allow massive jpeg uploads without needing to sign up or log i
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by exodust 2y ago
Thanks for the hi-res images. I couldn't resist blending the visible with ultraviolet in Photoshop, here's the result: https://imgur.com/a/vRGav2d I did a quick clean up of the hard edges, but didn't wan
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by exodust 2y ago
> It is a tiny fraction that actually "interacts" with a post...Hence, the value is diminished Are you claiming we're in "information danger" because community notes isn't there to watch people post things
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by exodust 2y ago
Sounds like you haven't heard of the re-writing of books in the interest of over-enthusiastic DEI. There's non-fiction and fiction examples. Salman Rushdie described it as "absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate
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by exodust 2y ago
> "Community notes isn’t scalable." Of course it's scalable. Community notes are written by people, so increasing the amount of people writing notes means it's scalable. Users find the added context helpful, so more n
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by exodust 2y ago
And rewriting books resonates with the left. Is this a game of left/right tennis I've walked into?
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by exodust 2y ago
Isn't "learning a lot from past experiences and past mistakes" a virtue? Something we encourage children to do? You're framing it like a bad thing. As an outsider to American politics, the stark loyalty to political bran
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You've gone off topic. I have no interest in rating politicians or their rhetoric. All are guilty at one time or another of gross exaggeration, mud-slinging, spin, etc. The point is/was regarding X, you can enjoy all the hate-mem
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> step up your game and make native applications. Each to their own but I consider native applications a step down from web apps. "Screw it, I'm giving up my web app and will now pay Apple/Google the protection money a
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Thanks. Didn't know about datatables.net looks very useful. Looks like it does a great job of dealing with tables on mobile, putting my own manual efforts for that task to shame. I would typically just enable horizontal scrolling on mo
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> what's the end goal and audience here? 1. Voice acting for low-budget/no-budget animations and games. 2. Billions of youtube "top 50 building demolitions" where the forgettable presentation is narrated by forgetta
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by exodust 2y ago
Never heard of birdwatch, never saw it. I'm in Australia, explanation follows: From wikipedia: "In November 2022, at the request of new owner Elon Musk, Birdwatch was rebranded to Community Notes... and expanded to Europe and coun
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Don't forget community notes. While not perfect, it presents valuable context or counter-points. Musk's posts have been community noted a few times. Grok is a nice feature, although for paid accounts only. It also seems slightly o
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"99%"... sure. So just follow the accounts you're interested in? If you just signed up, how does the "for you" know what you like? You can spend all day on X and never see any of that stuff you mention. Do you prefe

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