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by leviathant 7mo ago
Nano Banana was the first generative image tool that seemed to understand architecture. I have some 18th century engravings that I've been trying to get AI tools to visualize as though they were photographs of real structures, and the
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by leviathant 8mo ago
The trick I keep in mind in situations like this is to look at brake lights ahead of me. If cars are braking and I'm accelerating, I'm probably going to end up driving very inefficiently. By letting off the accelerator, I don&#x27
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by leviathant 8mo ago
>How do you handle kids w/ a learning disability who can't effectively write well? It's embarrassing to see this question downvoted on here. It's a valid question, there's a valid answer, and accessibility helps
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by leviathant 8mo ago
An assault weapons ban went into effect in 1994, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Any guesses as to what trends in firearm related deaths looked like when the ban
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by leviathant 9mo ago
Legally speaking, the Republicans have been losing in court over and over. That doesn't mitigate the damage they're doing during the lag, and the consequences for breaking the law have never been as strong as they should be when o
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by leviathant 9mo ago
It's easy to look at the politics of individual states as a means of breaking things up if you ignore the economics. Things get very complicated, very quickly when you set a political threshold for breaking up the country.
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by leviathant 9mo ago
While you're remembering things you shouldn't forget, pay attention to how the Black Panthers are out in Philadelphia, and ICE isn't messing around over here. We chased those Patriot Front clowns out immediately, too. But yea
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by leviathant 9mo ago
...among the people who voted. There are a lot of folks who opted out that bear responsibility for the way this country and its power is being dismantled. He wouldn't win the popular vote today! Why is it that when you call yourself a
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by leviathant 9mo ago
If Trump were a Russian asset, would it look in any way different from how he's behaving today? The thing I find morbidly fascinating is that all the Republicans I used to know, who were vehemently anti-Russia for decades, who worshipe
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by leviathant 9mo ago
>Whatever Levi’s did, their jeans went from lasting years to literal months before they would rip. Before they went public, the trick with Levi's was to basically shop with two things in mind: price point, and finish. I personally s
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by leviathant 11mo ago
I was taking to a woman at a party a couple of years ago (an event related to a choir composition that my wife had done), and at some point she mentioned her son was a developer, specifically that he made video games. When I asked if she kn
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by leviathant 11mo ago
Fair enough! I suppose I've avoided that kind of "style transfer" for a variety of reasons, it hadn't even occurred to me that people were still interested in that. And I don't say that to open up debate on the topi
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by leviathant 11mo ago
I was kind of surprised by this line: >Nano Banana is terrible at style transfer even with prompt engineering shenanigans My context: I'm kind of fixated on visualizing my neighborhood as it would have appeared in the 18th century.
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by leviathant 11mo ago
It boggles my mind when, despite my general avoidance of advertising online, I see the language being used. Call me old fashioned, but "viral" is a bad thing to me. "Addictive" is a bad thing. "Tricks" are bad!
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by leviathant 1y ago
I don't know what series of events transpired that resulted in common, slightly irregular use of the word "kindly" by scammers, but I'm glad it happened. Immediate red flag, every time.
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by leviathant 1y ago
Philadelphia has an underground pedestrian concourse in center city. It is, however, not clean, well lit, nor as actively policed. In some alternate timeline, the stalls would be filled with shops, and it would be a great alternative to wal
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by leviathant 1y ago
I eventually gave up on this, but I always favored it because a period with two spaces after it very clearly designated the end of a sentence, as opposed to something like an abbreviation. It made parsing English just a little bit easier.
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by leviathant 1y ago
Folks, in case it wasn't clear, I was complaining about people downvoting a critical opinion, I was not myself downvoting a critical opinion. I'm glad to see the trend on the original comment has reversed.
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by leviathant 1y ago
Knowing my audience, I've blocked entire countries to stop the pain. Even that was a bit of whack-a-mole. Blocking China cooled off the traffic for a few days, then it came roaring back via Singapore. Blocked Singapore, had a reprieve
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by leviathant 1y ago
Sharing a critical opinion? That's a downvote for you! (Sheesh)
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by leviathant 1y ago
It doesn't have drums or their approximation, but Saunder Choi's "The New Colossus" is a very rhythmic and emotional work. The words are from Emma Lazarus' poem engraved on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty. https:
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by leviathant 1y ago
My wife is a successful Australian-American choral composer, and riding shotgun as her career has taken off, if I were to make a few observations right before I turn in for the night: "Choral music is harder to appreciate than say eith
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by leviathant 1y ago
>Sigh, still not going to pay more for a phone than I paid for my computer. As much as I loathe the consumerism of buying the latest phone every year, I realized that if the trade-in value is good enough, it's a pretty good strategy
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by leviathant 1y ago
> the AI integration on google phones is just amazing Genuinely curious, what's your favorite aspect of AI on the Pixel? I'm on a 9 pro, coming from a Pixel 6 and a Pixel 3 before it. I don't think I'm ever using AI o
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by leviathant 1y ago
>I don't want to sound mean but these are reachable with just another day at it. They really are. Semi-related, understanding Sketchup took a couple of false starts for me. The first time I tried it, I could not make heads or tails
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by leviathant 1y ago
No. If that's what you took from my post, I've miscommunicated. NPR has turned rightward. The entertainment shows are, without a doubt, liberal, on the American political spectrum. There are countless discussions and papers abou
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by leviathant 1y ago
> It's Fox, but for the Left There was a distinct shift to the right at NPR when Obama took office, and by the time he took his second term, NPR News' social media was posting clickbait trash instead of real headlines. "Th
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by leviathant 1y ago
Yeah yeah. If you want to find the Republicans in public broadcasting, look at the board members. Same thing happened with newspapers and local TV news after Bush 2 loosened media ownership rules. Next you're going to tell me the New Y
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by leviathant 1y ago
YouTube's initial success came from being able to serve, on a global scale, user-uploaded, largely uncredited copyright violations of both video and audio. Facebook's "pivot to video" similarly relied on user-uploaded un
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by leviathant 1y ago
I live in Philadelphia. We had a lot of manufacturing here, but most of that vacated the city center in the 1970s and 1980s. I recently was doing some research into urban renewal around my neighborhood, and found a paper about the city&#x27

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