qantravon

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[–] qantravon 2 points 1 year ago

May I ask what country? Yes, the person who needs the placard applies for it, but in most places that can go on whatever car they ride in, so long as they're actually in the car.

[–] qantravon 5 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, at this point, that's a distinction without a difference. Christian and Republican have been melding for decades, and now many people who profess Christianity really mean that they're Republicans.

[–] qantravon 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You misunderstand. You take a picture of, say your dad at a family reunion, and in the background the rest of your family is just milling around. That's not the subject, and so the AI model saves it as "people doing stuff" or whatever. When you load that photograph, the people in the background will be generated, and they won't be your family.

This is all beside the fact that the AI may decide your subject is different from what you think it is.

This is just an extremely unreliable form of data compression, and extremely unnecessary. Phones and cameras can currently save hundreds or thousands of photographs locally, and cloud storage can save millions for free, and even more for extremely cheap. You're solving a non-existent problem by shoehorning AI image generation in where it's not needed.

[–] qantravon 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pitch is that everything surrounding the subject is extra, and so it doesn't matter if it's the same every time. It's literally throwing that information away in favor of a simplified description. It's extremely processor-intensive data compression.

[–] qantravon 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm sorry, but no. Not only does that invoke a ton of extraneous processing on both ends (when saving and when recalling the image), but the rest of the image is still important, too! Can you imagine taking a photo at a family gathering, and then coming back later to see randomly generated people in the background? A photograph isn't just about the "subject", it's often about a moment in time.

[–] qantravon 2 points 1 year ago
[–] qantravon 9 points 1 year ago

Any discussion of planned or ongoing criminal activity was never covered in the first place. But, just because she flipped, doesn't mean that any communication outside that wouldn't be covered. If she was acting as his attorney, that discussion would still be privileged. However, if this statement by Trump pisses her off enough she could possibly use it and throw him under the bus with that information which, even though not directly criminal, could still be damaging to him.

[–] qantravon 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Douglas Adams would probably agree with you about Fenchurch. He is on the record about regretting how he wrote that book. Apparently he was struggling with depression when he wrote Mostly Harmless, and sort of took it out in his writing.

[–] qantravon 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's one of the pet conservative conspiracy/culture war issues right now. They're claiming that drag performance is synonymous with burlesque or stripping, and thus having people in drag in the same zip code as minors is sexual abuse. It's part of their assault in trans rights, as they're equating drag with trans people, and saying that being trans is inherently sexual. It's all a load of bullshit.

[–] qantravon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their ToS did say that updates would only apply to the current major version and newer of Unity when the updated ToS was released, but they removed that clause without telling anyone about a year ago and are claiming their changes are retroactive, so that can't even be trusted. At this point, I can't see any game dev beginning work on a new Unity project ever again without some kind of ironclad guarantee that this would never happen again. My prediction is we'll see maybe 1 or 2 years of games released on Unity, just from the ones that were already too far into development to start over on something else, and then Unity is done for good.

[–] qantravon 5 points 1 year ago

Districts need to have equal population, counties don't have that quality and thus won't work.

[–] qantravon 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Because of the rise of online stores and the decline of brick and mortar, there's actually a lot of stuff you can't reasonably get without shopping online now.

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