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Carrok··on "Final Usonian Home" by Frank Lloyd Wright Completed in Ohio
> There's always been a process of modification when the contractor gets onsite and builds something.

And famously, like in the case of Fallingwater among others I believe, he forced contractors to remove supports that the contractors deemed structurally necessary and had added, against his designs. In one case at least the contractors refused and Wright himself took a sledge hammer to them personally. At least that’s what I was told by the tour guide.

Carrok··on The Llama 4 herd
This is probably a better link. https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/ll...
Carrok··on Purple exists only in our brains
Are you sure about that?
Carrok··on Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point
That's certainly one way to misinterpret what I said.
Carrok··on Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point
I’m sure they did take away lessons. Are those lessons applicable to the real world is the salient question.
Carrok··on Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
These days? Doesn't seem that hard honestly.
Carrok··on An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
> It's just doing what many human artists would do

I really don't think so. If I paid a human artist to make the prompt in the title, and I didn't explicitly say "Indiana Jones" I would think it should be fairly obvious to the human artist that I do _not_ want Indiana Jones. If they gave me back a picture of, clearly, Indiana Jones, I would ask them why they didn't create something original.

Carrok··on John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
I think you're starting to make progress towards the point.
Carrok··on Apple's Cubify Anything: Scaling Indoor 3D Object Detection
I really want an app I can scan my whole house with the camera/lidar combo on my phone, and export it into Blender, where I can then rearrange furniture and stuff. Apps like Scaniverse get you pretty close, but everything is one mesh, would be great to be able to slide the couch around the space without having the manually cut it out of the mesh.
Carrok··on John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
To be a bit pedantic, those recordings are played at real time for normal speech, and have gaps between anything being played of centuries. They don't play continuously for that long, unlike this project which does play continuously.
Carrok··on Location data show that race affects citations and fines for speeding
You consider it _more_ palatable that every trip you take could potentially be publicly accessible information?
Carrok··on Kagi for Kids
If you think an 8 year old should read the bible, it makes me think you haven't actually read the whole thing. Some pretty atrocious stuff in there.
Carrok··on Village Roadshow Entertainment has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
I will gladly deprive myself of “art” made by admitted and convicted rapists. To each their own I suppose. I used to love Spacey.
Carrok··on What to Do
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Carrok··on Raising Kids to Have an Analog Childhood in a Digital World
> Are we totally rejecting the society we've built for ourselves?

Looks around at, everything.

Yup!

Carrok··on Take this on-call rotation and shove it
I've been on-call (sometimes on a rotation, sometimes always) for the past 10+ years. So, yes. It's common.
Carrok··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
> Not protesting is basically supporting

If you want to live in a world as black and white and clear cut as this, I don't think anything I can say will stop you.

Needless to say, it's not that simple.

Carrok··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
I promise you, despite whatever you've read or polls you've seen, Americans do not "largely support" going to war with Canada.
Carrok··on If you get the chance, always run more extra network fiber cabling
I recently bought my first house, and there was only one coax outlet in the entire place, and zero ethernet. I wanted to move where the coax terminated, and after some searching around, found MOCA. Had never heard of it before, but a hundred bucks or so later, and it's a fantastic solution.
Carrok··on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April
Welp. I can’t delete this apparently.
Carrok··on The Internet Slum: is abandoning the Internet the next big thing? (2004)
You should encourage them to move to Jellyfin. It's better, and actually free.
Carrok··on Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
And NIM, yes.
Carrok··on Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
This is probably true, but unlike every Nvidia product we tried, it did, you know, reply to inference requests with actual output. That said, you can serve vLLM with Ray Serve. https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/tutorials/vllm-example.h...
Carrok··on Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
Use Ray Serve. https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/serve/index.html
Carrok··on Nvidia Dynamo: A Datacenter Scale Distributed Inference Serving Framework
As someone who spent the better part of a year trying to get various Nvidia inference products to work _at all_ even with a direct line to their developers, I will simply say "beware".
Carrok··on GIMP 3.0
So excited to try this. I had the exact same experience.
Carrok··on GIMP 3.0
I’ve been using GIMP as long as I can remember, more or less. Say what you will about the UI/UX but it remains top tier free software. So glad to see this.
Carrok··on Occupry your next lease to negotiate a better deal
This is just adorable. To think that prospective renters have any negotiating power at all when the landlord typically (in my area anyway) receives triple digit numbers of applications.
Carrok··on The curious surge of productivity in U.S. restaurants
Is this a serious question? Because you're hungry, want to eat, and can't or don't want to cook (e.g., traveling for work).

Sitting at a bar with other people, suddenly you are not eating alone.

It's called socializing. Some people enjoy such things.

Carrok··on The 2008 coal ash disaster in Kingston, Tennessee
This article has some great writing overall, but ends with this

> How could this happen? Ansol wondered.

I wish it had dug into this. These sort of things don't just happen. There must be accountability, and journalists are who are supposed to start that process. This was clearly an environmental travesty of monumental proportions. How do we grapple with the fact this sort of thing is apparently just allowed to continue happening?

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