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Known as "DC brain worms" here in the US

Listening to your favorite new song everyday for a week is spaced repetition and very enjoyable, no pain whatsoever. You'll quickly learn the nuances of the song that you didn't pick up in your first few listens. Also a great way to memorize lyrics.

I think strength naturally begets respect in men, has nothing to do with T levels.

Why do you complain about someone else complaining over someone else's complaints?

> might be better in terms of making sure all born humans get what they need.

Might be. Or might not be. Who knows? Let's leave it up to random chance and see what happens! No point in trying to understand this phenomenon right?

It would surprise me if it wasn't a factor. Probably not quite as clear-cut as "less T => more left" but I do view the left as more "nurturing" than the right. Not gonna die on this hill though, humans are complicated :)

We should do both. However, the Dem leadership are not interested in doing both, they only want the quick and easy win (which turned out to be neither).

What a joke, we just wasted 2 years on an empty promise that was doomed to fail from the start and now all the people who have been waiting and suffering are getting nothing. All we get now is a blame-game of finger-pointing instead of any solutions. We got teased and led on for years. There is no alternative plan to the one proposed, all eggs in one basket on such a monumentally important issue.

What a great victory!

Except it was rejected, so it didn't fix anything for anyone. It just wasted a bunch of time (it was doomed to fail from the start) and tricked people into thinking something was being done.

Aka, politics as usual.

This is so far off the mark I don't even know where to begin...

I feel like my IQ has dropped 10 points after reading that article

As someone who has been on the fence about this for awhile now, thank you for your valuable anecdote!

Great tips, thank you! It feels like I'm right behind you in terms of where I'm at so your input is very much appreciated.

3. Train for only 1 epoch - interesting, any known rationale here?

5. I just read somewhere else that someone got good results from mixing their custom model with the original (60/40 in their case) - good to hear some more anecdotes that this is pretty effective. Especially the further training after merging, sounds promising!

I've also been using kohya_ss for training LoRAs so great to hear it works for you for models as well. On your point about the inference tricks, definitely noted but I did notice that you can feed some params (# of samples, negative embeddings, etc) to the sample images generated during training (check the textarea placeholder text). Still not going to have all usual the tricks but it'll get you a little closer.

Hopefully my 12GB is enough!

Very nice! Love the site and content. Small issue - 500 error page (nyan-flavored!) when clicking the logo.

Curious - what makes react state a mess? Is it just that there's not much batteries included?

Full stack dev going on a decade here. Stack traces and errors in React are pretty awful, fully agree there.

I've never even thought about the social aspect of being a react dev - is there one? Frontend sure, but react specifically? It's just a tool, nothing to get ideological or bent out of shape over.

Couldn't give a shit what Abramov says beyond what is useful in my day-to-day. There are probably a lot of junior devs who are starstruck but I've never seen any hint of ostracization (lol). There are tons of junior web devs (and more everyday) though so I can understand how one could form that perception.

Yes to less celebrities and more problem solving.

Hooks are fantastic and so much more composable than the class methods. I use 100% hooks and functional components in my code nowadays and it has never been easier to build and understand my UIs - especially those with non-trivial logic and state. Never had a problem with them being "simple on the surface" but ymmv I guess.

I've been playing with SD for a few months now and have only watched 20-30m of YT videos about it. There's only a few worth spending any time watching, and they're on specific workflows or techniques.

Best just to dive in if you're interested IMO. Otherwise you'll get lost in all the new jargon and ideas. Great place to start is the A1111 repo, lot of community resources available and batteries included.

ComfyUI is a nice complement to A1111, the node-based editor is great for prototyping and saving workflows.

> If an MJ level model had the tooling SD does it would produce far better results

And vice versa, which is the exciting part to me - only a matter of time!

Any tips or guides you followed on training your custom model? I've done a few LoRAs and TI but haven't gotten to my own models yet. Your results look great and I'd love a little insight into how you arrived there and what methods/tools you used.

Pretty good reddit community, lots of (N/SFW) models and content on CivitAI. Took me a weekend to get setup and generating images. I've been getting good results on my AMD 6750XT with A1111 (vladmandic's fork).

Yeah, it's declarative but fuzzy and non-deterministic as well.

> So if I can get a locally running voicebox model and just leave it running on my laptop over night transcribing an audiobook, that's even better.

This is basically my dream for local AI... locals models trained on my own data/code/styles. Even if they're slow, as long as they work (V/RAM) and are of high enough quality then I'm happy to wait!

GCP customer here as well and while this does make me a bit wary, I'm not too ruffled yet. I really love their cloud console UI and how they organize things and have been nothing but happy with their cloud services. Hoping it stays that way!

Ugh, I'll be having to do this same migration soon for one of my clients. Not looking forward to it. Good to know!

I'd love to see some good links/resources to read up on this area more. What are all the feedback mechanisms the CA ecosystem uses to resist subversion and bad actors?

Bitcoin has way more baggage than FTX. I didn't even know they existed till they collapsed and I've been following BTC since 2014 haha.

We've been hearing these same arguments since the beginning... If nothing else Bitcoin has shown impressive sticking power, given all of its stumbles and uphill battles.

I'll never forget how inhumanely some people were treated and how little some truly care for bodily autonomy. The coercion and gaslighting from all directions has been nauseating. The trust I lost in so many institutions wont be replaced anytime soon, perhaps ever.

What would a modern day Nuremberg trial look like?

What is your definition of fascism?