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- Comment on Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time 2 days ago:
At the end of the day, it’s still CGI. How much fine grained creative control really needs to go into a building collapse?
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 days ago:
Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 week ago:
He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔
- Comment on Innocence 1 week ago:
You’re magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?! I hate anything that requires verification and codes! 1 week ago:
Crunch uses scammy tactics to stop you from canceling. They lied to me twice to my face. Tried to charge me a fee too on cancel. Can also only cancel in person at the original signup gym. Pick a better business to deserve your money.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 1 week ago:
Neither of these topics should even be drawing media attention, considering how frequent and non-notable they are. They just report on this stuff every day because it’s cheaper and easier than exclusively finding and reporting on real local news, and television news needs filler content for selling ad spots. Ever had a day where there was no news, and they ended early?
- Comment on AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios 1 week ago:
It’s not “learning” anything. It’s a computer program outputting text it was modelled to output.
- Comment on Perfect Anatomy 1 week ago:
Idk if this anatomy is accurate for terrestrial snails too, but to be fair for aquatic snails the turds float away immediately.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 weeks ago:
Praying is just talking to your imaginary friend, and having it tell back to you what you want to hear.
These elected representatives are no more mentally developed than elementary school children. Must be from a state full of lead pipes.
- Comment on Anon turns on raytracing 3 weeks ago:
But, it takes a lot of work by designers to get the fake lighting to look natural. Raytracing would help avoid that toil if the game is forced RT.
- Comment on In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high? 4 weeks ago:
Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.
If you’re not squeamish, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 5 weeks ago:
Just donate plasma. Works great, gives some other schmuck your plastic.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bit strange to think about, but our brains seem to have adapted to information accessibility today by more readily remembering how to find the information instead of the information itself. (See Betsy Sparrow et al)
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
Sorry I’m not into bracelets
- Comment on Check out this alpha male 1 month ago:
gotta blast
- Comment on What is people who are drug heads always caught with guns? I have done my fair share of weed mushroom X and such but it never crossed my mind to say hey right now i need a gun. 1 month ago:
When you’re involved in drugs, you are pretty likely to regularly interact with sketchy people who make you feel unsafe for one reason or another. That goes for both dealers and consumers, though moreso on the dealer side.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Idk, but I use Boost and added some keyword filters. Stuff like “trump”, “musk”, “israel”, “slam”, etc. And any time I still run across political crap, I either block the community or the user. Lemmy has been great now afterwards, no politics.
- Comment on Spotify 30 minutes of uninterrupted... Just kidding 2 months ago:
I quit using Spotify entirely after swedenherald.com/…/this-is-how-much-spotify-donat…
- Comment on unnecessary expense 2 months ago:
Correction: the board voted to hand the CEO that much worth of shares
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 months ago:
Beekeepers intentionally use smoke to make bees docile during collection time, transfers, etc
- Comment on What are some of your least liked genres within original television and streaming programming? 3 months ago:
Anything with a laugh track 🚽
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Why is the village depopulated, if there’s a huge industrial zone nearby presumably with lots of employees? I was thinking workers might want to buy or rent low cost housing near their workplace if the land is zoned for it and you could get electric and a well. But if they’re not buying in the village, might not be a great idea unless there’s something wrong or lacking with available properties in the village.
- Comment on Before you act, is this right for the company? 4 months ago:
Ayn Rand collected social security checks after retirement until her death.
That should tell you all you need to know about Ayn Rand.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 4 months ago:
If you plan to return
- Comment on What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies? 4 months ago:
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 4 months ago:
Maybe. But the biggest employers are national if not international. They’re gonna withhold federal tax.
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 4 months ago:
No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it’s impossible to opt out if you’re employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 5 months ago:
In this case, it is. The Republican candidate actually won the overall popular vote. Was this because of voter apathy? Probably. But we’re talking about “what the people who cared enough to vote” wanted.
- Comment on I'm just like some ordinary dude upset about what the government is doing. Doesn't anyone with any sort of means or influence care? Where are those guys? 5 months ago:
Technically speaking, you’re looking at what most voters thought they wanted. Seems like the people with the most means and influence are in favor of what’s happening too.
Are most voters easily conned? Sure. The NSDAP won its early seats freely until the other parties were outlawed.
You can at least take solace in that with the deconstruction of federal institutions, your state government and state institutions wield comparatively more power. Don’t live in a poor and/or conservative state I guess?
- Comment on How can Doge access critical government infrastructure and fire people if it isn't even a real department? 5 months ago:
Yeah anything involving human behavior is ultimately…just based on how people feel and act. There’s (currently) no Robocop programmed to enforce laws to the letter.
