spywaregorilla

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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Strongly disagree. Horror is the best genre for interesting artistic conversations. What are we afraid of? Should we be afraid of it? How do we overcome it? These are great questions that are easier to coexist with fun action sequences wi
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Glossing at their financial statements, about half of that is due to deferred revenue (stuff they sold but haven't delivered on, which I'd guess is sales of their currency that haven't been redeemed). No particular insight on
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
For example, killing someone by ignoring their allergies? I find it very odd that someone would live in the US for years and have that be their main takeaway.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
> "Notably, the Pixel Watch 3 doesn't include dual-frequency/multiband GPS/GNSS." That doesn't mean "no GPS" Weird cherry pick from a larger quote that clearly implies it has GPS: > Again, this
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
> Do we not understand metaphor here? Revenue exists when paying ourselves but disappears when we owe a cut to others. Hollywood Accounting. No you just don't understand accounting. Hollywood Accounting has nothing to do with hiding
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Sure. But that's not a metroidvania.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
"Hollywood Accounting" refers to exaggerating losses on items so as to avoid paying dues on profits and is completely irrelevant to this situation. The "App Store" is a platform that offers reach in distribution channels
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
The problem is not that selling access to users has no value. The problem is that it is anti competitive to sell access to these users in the first place by virtue of putting up barriers for other companies to distribute to customers
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Bad analogy. The ad company is purchasing slots from the network. This is more like the TV manufacturer demanding a cut of the ad revenue because they've demanded all incoming feeds go through their middleman software layer.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Seems very unlikely to work. Most metroidvania mechanics are not "useful", they're just "required" like barrier breakers or hazard resistances. Players don't actually care about having the latter. Taking away t
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Which is completely fair because Apple does not "own" those users.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
No directly. but it encourages iteration on the same seed and then on specific details rather than just trying different prompts on different seeds from scratch over and over
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
That is not accurate. Many state owned Chinese companies have been cutting ties, including off the top of my head, Bank of China. It is, without a doubt, driven by western sanction threats, but it does include state owned enterprises.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Damn what a compelling anecdote. I guess that's case closed.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
A dollar tree is sort of the opposite of a bulk discount store. It's a specific brand but it's sort of the modern evolution of the role of a dollar store of decades past. It optimizes to make the absolute price of goods small even
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
1) You have a supermarket and not a shitty dollar tree 2) You have a fridge to put those spoil prone foods 3) You have time to prepare those foods 4) You have transportation for the raw foods or can drive them and buy in bulk
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Ok, but you're severely misrepresenting the importance of things. Base SDXL is a fine model. Base SDXL is going to be much better than a materially smaller model that you've retrained with "good data".
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
custom models perform vastly better at the tasks they are finetuned to do
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
You should cite net income when trying to make a point on this.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_JSON Looks pretty sensible to me?
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
That sounds like a negative to me
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
The "nations" in Africa courting Russian influence are largely militant groups that have claimed dominion over lands. Those particular people in charge will probably selfishly benefit a great deal.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Videos are still very much in the baby phase. There are way, way easier tells when a video has been faked. We're talking about images. Turned head images are very much in scope.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Is that easy? Sounds not too difficult
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Surely we can juice up a dead thumb to make it work, though, right?
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
The commercial use cases for generative art is not to make images that experts cannot discern as fake. It would be very expensive to annotate training images to have physically correct reflection images and the value would be negligible. Re
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
You think we can't generate a picture of a head facing sideways? Obviously incorrect.
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
It wouldn't work. The models could put stuff in the eyes but it wouldn't be able to do so realistically, consistently or even a fraction of the time. The text describing the images does not typically annotate tiny details like cor
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
Right now workers do those jobs, because if they don't, they will die or become destitute. If you change their incentive to be they can work an unpleasant job while rent and food is guaranteed, you're going to find that the margin
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by spywaregorilla 2y ago
The "B" in UBI demands that the income be sufficient for basic needs and other social welfare systems observably do not provide that unconditionally.

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