wewbull
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- Comment on well, at least I wasn't the only one to wonder 4 days ago:
Not so much that period, but the late 30s - early 40s.
- Comment on Somebody has a case of the Mondays... 5 days ago:
…may your conflicts be short, swift and decisive.
- Comment on Bears Cave 1 week ago:
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
Governments see inflation as a way of making things cheaper in real terms. Public sector wages should be index linked IMHO, but I’m always told that to do so would be “inflationary”. To put that another way - Not giving people real-terms pay cuts is, apparently, a driver of inflation.
Economists have built a system which relies on the buying power of the workers going down.
- Comment on UK needs cyber security professionals, but won't pay up 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help that GCHQ is mainly seen as a department that enables all the authoritarian aspects of government in the digital age. Nobody wants to have their work put to use against their own countrymen.
Now, the truth maybe different but GCHQ is so secretive, nobody knows.
- Comment on Britons are dying in a blizzard of cheap cocaine. Why is so little being done to save them? 2 weeks ago:
…and you need less of it.
- Comment on Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders 3 weeks ago:
Countries should not be pushing for reparations when it was them selling their people into the slave trade.
It’s historical revisionism.
- Comment on ‘Fight Club’ Turns 25 with 4K Remaster, Theatrical Re-Release 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s positive or negative. He’s a twisted product of a diseased society. What struck chords with a lot of men was the recognition of the disease. They felt a connection to Tyler. Not in his response to his life, but just to his life.
Millions of men live Tyler’s life and endure. Tyler is the one that cracked.
In a lot of ways it’s similar to Office Space, except that take a comedic instead of psychological look at the subject.
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 3 weeks ago:
Omg. It’s the Beavles!
- Comment on ComfyUI V1 Release - Fully Packaged Desktop Version 3 weeks ago:
Ewwww! Hard pass.
I’ll keep with the old way thanks. Sure, pytorch installs are a pain in the butt, but that’s why I’m pretty sure a pre-packaged version is not going to make life easier. I also despise electron apps.
I realise as somebody who isn’t afraid of a little command line Linux, I’m not the target audience. However, is anyone who is using diffusion models right now… especially someone who isn’t scared off by noodles… asking for this? The software is for experimenters who enjoy building their own flows. It’s mode of operation is “some assembly required”.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 4 weeks ago:
It always got me that the maths I was doing in electrical engineering outclassed what my friend was doing for his astrophysics degree. He was probably at the better university too (Debatable for the subjects in question, but both really good).
Did I need that level of maths? No, but it was compulsory for the first 3 years so not much option.
- Comment on Pick some unrelated lectures, they said. 4 weeks ago:
Well you need a good handle on probability to understand transistors these days at least.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 4 weeks ago:
Depends if you’re his assistant or not.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 4 weeks ago:
“XL Bully cats” implies large, aggressive cats that could eat small children,
They already exist. I think they are called tyjres or something similar.
- Comment on Eels 4 weeks ago:
🎶 When he bites on your thumb, and takes a chunk of your bum, that’s a moray 🎶
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Julia-Louis Dreyfuss.
- Elaine from Seinfeld
- Veep
- Some character in the MCU
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 5 weeks ago:
Same as it ever was.
- Comment on Question about upcoming trends and hardware requirements 5 weeks ago:
Yeah. I don’t think dual cards is a great solution as I don’t think they can both be made to work on the same job at the same time, but maybe if you were generating many images it would make sense.
I don’t know, but maybe somebody else has experience.
- Comment on Space Nazis 5 weeks ago:
What did Chaplin do wrong?
- Comment on Question about upcoming trends and hardware requirements 5 weeks ago:
I’ve tried to find comparison data on performance between AMD Vs Nvidia and I see lots of people saying what you’re saying, but I can never find numbers. Do you know of any?
If a card is less than half price, maybe I don’t mind it’s lower performance. It all depends on how much lower.
Also, is the same true under Linux?
- Comment on Question about upcoming trends and hardware requirements 5 weeks ago:
So you could buy 2xAMD 24GB and a good power supply to power them for a 4090.
- Comment on Question about upcoming trends and hardware requirements 5 weeks ago:
It’s the training that’s the issue more than inferring.
- Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 5 weeks ago:
Fact is, if you’re not tax competitive in the movie business then reduction shifts somewhere else. However, a production can employ thousands of people across a multitude of companies, all of whom pay tax.
What matters is the overall tax take, not the tax rate.
- Comment on Growth of far-right ‘active clubs’ in UK prompts call to tackle misogyny 1 month ago:
There are far-right groups actively recruiting, and they’re worried that they are mysoginistic? Is that really top of the list of major concerns here?
Maybe the incitement of violence should be a more pressing concern, or the general fascism.
- Comment on Comparative anatomy 1 month ago:
I was watching a Carrion Crow hop around just yesterday. Fast movement was a hop. Slow movement was a walk.
- Comment on Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects 1 month ago:
I think carbon landfill is a great term for it.
- Comment on Can relate. 1 month ago:
…because most don’t study the rise and causes of what happened. They only study the result. “Never again” refers to the holocaust, but nobody puts that sign on the the road that led to it.
- Wealth disparity and inflation
- Fear of “others” taking what little people have
- Traumatized populations from decades of war
With populations scared and desperate, they’ll latch on to any demigogue that appears.
- Comment on Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects 1 month ago:
£22bn to literally sweep the problem under the carpet, allowing the oil and gas industry to continue.
What’s the opportunity cost of this? What could that money have built instead?
- Comment on Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89 1 month ago:
Damn. I thought she was one of the immortal ones.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Otto Frisch is better known these days because he went on to work on the Manhatten Project. He appeared as a character in Oppenheimer.
