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Man overtunes AI on texts from 1800–1875 London. Gets historical trivia from 1800-1875 London. Incredible result.

The one thing I like about the Apple charging bricks is how on certain models the prongs can be swapped out for a cable, which is very useful when the wall plug is cramped. However, this device doesn't seem to incorporate that so I'm not sure what benefit it has over an Anker.

> it's because we get downvoted/banned/doxxed (on most platforms) when we do say what we think.

And what opinions are these?

That's just par for the course with Apple. Late to the party, but they tend to nail it when they show up

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It's about enforcing a power dynamic. Groveling and empty praise is about showing loyalty and control. Trump thinks enforcing this level of control over others is what success looks like.

It's even weirder from Anthropic's standpoint. Your #1 customer is buying all your product to resell it at loss.

I agree it wasn't the best example for the point I was trying to make, but it was the best I could find in short notice. It just sounded to me like the "save 2D" people you described were more focused on preserving a very particular kind of 2D animation methodology, and saying because this methodology is dead the entire medium is dead. I was trying to propose that 2D animation that imitates the old style very well does exist in the modern era.

I'll admit, though, that while I know and have talked to some people in the animation industry it is not my area of expertise, so I could be completely off base with my observations.

Is that still true for film? The distribution channels for that industry are so tightly controlled that indie film producers don't see nearly the same levels of success as video games. There's a good handful of new indie game millionaires every year, and I don't think that the same can be said for TV or film.

How do you know if you enjoy playing the game without a guide if you don't do it? Looking something up to unstuck yourself is one thing, but following a guide from beginning to end is robbing yourself of the opportunity to enjoy the game as presented.

"beating the game as quickly as possible" is such an obviously flawed reason to use a guide that I won't even respond to it. If you don't have the time to play the game, don't.

They actually have implemented this in a very limited context. You can download games from other machines on your local network.

"actual 2D animation" being limited to pen/paper on animation cels is a narrow definition. Shows such as Primal are digitally animated using modern techniques, but it's still hand drawn rather than being fully puppeted like many other shows

https://youtu.be/2ZUWGoEbbSs?si=_RxP5RdoyHfXN4Dx

I've come to accept that a large amount of poorly made slop is simply a necessary part of the ecosystem. It means funding is aplenty and new hires have cheap projects to work on. The philosophy of only funding big budget winner projects means every new project is ride or die, and leads to less risk-taking. You need to give projects the opportunity to fail in order to get truly interesting media.

just look at Cartoon Network's programming block today

Not a single recent new show in sight.

https://www.tvinsider.com/network/cartoon-network/schedule/

By "knowing what you're doing" do you mean "have enough experience to it by hand", "have experience with a specific AI tool and its limitations" or a combination?

Insurance is just privatized taxation where the overhead goes to outlandishly rich middlemen

Are you sure he didn't just order a meal that came with a drink? If it's the same kind of point of sale system I used at my fast food job, a meal requires something to fill the "drink" slot (even if it's "exclude item")

They're just 1.75" snooker balls. It's very easy to get a big box of them. You'll also quickly notice why red never goes out of stock on Ploopy's website.

Using AI generated art in a blog post where one of the major points is big companies using AI art to replace artists is ironic.

Most AI applications are just enhanced google (to make up for how trashed google got by LLMs!)

Youtube needs a far greater amount of bureaucracy than it has, despite how scary that word is to tech people. Google's automated approach is clearly not capable of keeping up with the scale and nuance of the website.

It's worth stating, though, that the vast majority of youtube's problems are the fault of copyright law and massive media publishers. Google could care less if you wanted to upload full camrips of 2025's biggest blockbusters, but the powers-that-be demand Google is able to take it down immediately. This is why 15 seconds of a song playing in the background gets your video demonitized.

The open source / open hardware offerings from Ploopy are very attractive for people that don't want to take this route

https://ploopy.co

They've apparently suspended shipping to the US, though. Not sure who to blame for that one..

racism

That's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.

the emergent behavior from ephemeral posting has become a feature by this point. and while it does technically have accounts, they don't at all work like a normal social media account. they aren't published, and using the "this is for sure me" tripcode feature is socially frowned upon.

> In my view it's quite an inconvenience: who carries quarters around anymore? I rarely have any cash with me, let alone loose change.

That's what incentivizes you to take your quarter back. I keep a quarter in my car's center console for Aldi and getting a new one is a hassle.

so long as the protocol is simple enough to be recreated in nRF Connect, Bluetooth is fine. A proprietary bluetooth connection would be gross, though.

So what's the goal? Summon a god?

Do you think he is choosing to fart? It's not a voluntary action

The rust belt can't really fall back on tourism like California can. Worst case scenario all software jobs evaporate and it becomes Florida with better weather