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(Work on that X 😁)
Otherwise, waaaaaaaay better than my handwriting. That's for sure 👍
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Now show us "the stick" method.
Oh? Does he really want to set a legal precedent that a sitting president can undo the pardons of prior presidents?
Perhaps he's on to something! 🤣
Mourning doves are dumb as bricks though. We have an open doggy door (had to remove the flap because the chihuahua couldn't push it open) and every now and again a small bird gets trapped in our patio. It's almost always a mourning dove.
Robins, cardinals, orange-beaked birds (forget the name), and boat-tailed grackles can get out pretty fast on their own if I just open a door and shoo them around for a bit. Mourning doves will bloody themselves trying to get out through the screen over and over again until I catch them with my hands (which I've done at least six times now).
They're a staple food for the ospreys, eagles, red tailed hawks, and cooper's hawks though. I find bunches of their bloody feathers in the yard all the time 🤷
No, it could be true. AI—especially with .NET—tends to generate exceptionally verbose code. Especially if you use "AI best practices" such as telling the AI to ensure 100% code coverage. Then there's the, "let's not use any 3rd party libraries, because we are Microsoft" angle.
.NET is already one of the most absurdly verbose languages (only other widely-used language that's worse is Java). Copilot could easily push it over the top 🤣
All it would take would be for Microsoft to have AI rewrite some of the core libraries.
Here we go again. It would be strong evidence that if you elect a demon, you get a plague.
The "god sends natural disasters to punish sinners and non-believers" camp had it all wrong! Instead, it's, "god sends plagues to punish hate-fueled idiocy" (or just collective idiocy in general).
Note: I'm actually an atheist but it would be funny if this is how the universe worked 🤣
Note that there's more than one model to do pixel art and there's pixel art LoRAs that do a decent job. There's loads of flexibility when generating this kind of thing.
Also, you can just tell it to generate a thousand over like 10 minutes and pick the best one and use that as a base to improve upon. AI is just a single tool in the workflow.
I also want to point out that not everyone can just pay someone. Don't be paternalistic: If people want to use AI in their workflow for any reason that's their concern. To angrily throw your hands in the air and say, "I'm not touching it because AI!" is like giving free money to the big publishers.
You're setting a completely unnecessary high bar, "you must be this rich to ride."
This is my take at well, but not just for gaming... AI is changing the landscape for all sorts of things. For example, if you wanted a serious, professional grammar, consistency, and similar checks of your novel you had to pay thousands of dollars for a professional editor to go over it.
Now you can just paste a single chapter at a time into a FREE AI tool and get all that and more.
Yet here we are: Still seeing grammatical mistakes, copy & paste oversights, and similar in brand new books. It costs nothing! Just use the AI FFS.
Checking a book with an AI chat bot uses up as much power/water as like 1/100th of streaming a YouTube Short. It's not a big deal.
The Nebula Awards recently banned books that used AI for grammar checking. My take: "OK, so only books from big publishers are allowed, then?"
If you use a pixel art export node in ComfyUI that won't be a problem. There's a whole guide about it here:
https://inzaniak.github.io/blog/articles/the-pixel-art-comfyui-workflow-guide.html
Every modern monitor has some memory in it. They have timing controllers and image processing chips that need DRAM to function. Not much, but it is standard DDR3/DDR4 or LPDDR RAM.
No shit. There's easier ways to open the fridge.
He gets out of Windows! 😀👍
The fire extinguisher in my garage is almost 20 years old now and the pressure gauge is right at the edge of the red zone. That means it's time to order a new one!
Decided to get two because it seems like a good idea to have one out by the grill (and they're a better deal that way) 👍
Very excited because this means I get to ~~play~~ teach the kids how to properly use a fire extinguisher with the old one! Been a while since we used the fire pit out back...
Pool pump has been a bit weak lately: The stream of water pouring out of the hot tub "waterfall" into the main pool had become more like a trickle. This usually indicates a significant clog or that the pool filter needs cleaning.
Considering I haven't cleaned the filter in almost a year I figured that was likely the problem. It wasn't 😮💨
Turns out that there's something stuck in the intake at the bottom of the pool which means I have to dive deep with a screwdriver in the super cold water and carefully clear out whatever is in there. Probably a plastic bag or similar.
Note: Never attempt such a thing while the pump is on! In fact, lock it down with some tape and maybe a warning label that says not to turn it on while you're doing your difficult work.
Been a long time since I had to hold my breath under water. I wonder if I can still reach 2 minutes? 🤔 Probably not with this water temperature 🤣
I just watched the final episode of If My Wife Becomes an Elementary School Student and I had to write something about it... When I first read the description of this anime I thought it looked stupid, "Another low effort anime." But of course I watched it anyway (because I run out of episodes fast on Sundays, haha) and it turned out fantastic!
The description is accurate but severely understates the concept: It's not a comedy but more akin to sci-fi or isekai with a, "what if?" scenario. What would it be like if your dead wife suddenly appears in the form of a little kid, saying she reincarnated? It does a pretty good job of going into the emotions and real-world problems (Japanese 🤣) people would run into in such a situation.
For example, what about the mother of the little girl‽ Wouldn't she be like, "WTF‽" Ummm... Yeah she would! And the show explores that aspect of the concept as well as the family of the deceased.
I highly recommend this anime. It'd probably be a great show to watch with your partner too. Also, make sure to have some tissues handy to soak up the tears!
Electoral College elects The President. No other type of election works like that.
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I used to live down the street from a great big data center. It wasn't a big deal. It's basically just a building full of servers with extra AC units.
Inside? Loud AF (think: Jet engine. Wear hearing protection).
Outside: The hum of lots of industrial air conditioning units. Only marginally louder than a big office building.
A data center this big is going to have a lot more AC units than normal but they'll be spread all around the building. It's not like living next to an airport or busy train tracks (that's like 100x worse).