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Curiously it seemed to lock down even more after they "partnered" with Microsoft.

For videos in particular, if you don't mind shelling out cash, the current go-to (at least according to various AI discord servers I'm on) for AI animation nerds is currently Topaz upscaler. There are free alternatives but I've yet to see any of them work as well as Topaz, though I'm sure that will change soon. For interpolating frames Flowframes is "free" (new features if you join the Patreon) and is IMO very good.

I've seen a number of 80s/90s VHS recordings of concerts being uploaded to YouTube in 4K (using Topaz) and they look like they were recorded that way, truly amazing. I do hear it can be a bit of work though getting the settings right.

I've been running DD for a few months now... I tend to just edit the python script or use e.g. entmike's fork which can read config files to make changes to the 50+ parameters (basically everything is better than having to use Jupyter Notebooks IMO), granted if you don't have a GPU with 6+ GB of VRAM, you can often get a decent enough GPU for free from Google Colab. For running locally, I can also highly recommend Visions of Chaos, which includes multiple versions/forks of Disco Diffusion, as well as a ton of other latent diffusion scripts, not to mention many many many other generation features such as fractals and even music. They also recently added the ability to train your own diffusion models which I've been doing the last few days using thousands of my own photographs. It also has a pretty nice GUI and the dev is extremely responsive on Discord. Also after you do the setup for VoC it handles running all the python venv setup stuff otherwise necessary with local DD installs. In any case, check out DD Discord and/or VoC discord for lots of info, tips, help, examples, and support.

Craiyon is free, whereas Midjourney is not. If you want MJ level quality, check out Disco Diffusion or go straight to Visions of Chaos, which runs just about every AI diffusion script in existence. The dev is very active and adds new features every couple days, such as recently the ability to train your own diffusion models, which I've been doing the last 3 days nonstop on my little 3060 Ti (8GB VRAM, which is barely sufficient to run at mostly default settings).

Yeah that really hurts. A single Unity project can easily reach that in a short amount of time. When I get that warning email in a few weeks, I'll be shopping around.

Also scooters/bikes don't create any noise or soot pollution. I live on a very busy street on the 5th floor and I hate the noise when my windows are open (but I love having my windows open in general) - the noise is unbearable even after midnight, and after a couple days everything is covered in a fine layer of particles (dust, soot and whatever else is in the air). I didn't have any of these problems whenever I lived on a quiet street. Thankfully I'm moving soon to a quieter area again.

Shopping.com (or shopper.com?) used to be like this 15-20 years ago.. then some company bought it and turned it into utter crap. Although looking at it again after a couple years, it does seem to offer a very basic version of price comparison with some basic filters, though with a very limited selection of sellers. About Us takes me to eBay which may explain why it's showing mostly eBay results.

To play devil's advocate we should balance those out with the impatient gamers who acted out aggressively (e.g. the 100th time proceeded to kick a PC, smaller family member, throwing a mouse across the room, etc) or consumed more unhealthy snacks/drinks :(

I personally was often frustrated waiting several minutes, thankfully I don't have any violent tendencies, snacks on the other hand... :/

From reading a lot of comments on HN, I think you might be in a semi-privileged position if you have enough time left over (and/or are allowed by management) to find slow/broken code and then are allowed to even commit code with doesn't have a JIRA ticket (created by someone else) attached :)

Dysfunctional... possibly true but isn't that (unfortunately) more or less the norm in IT? Not to say it shouldn't be fixed but at the end of the day you have 'x' time to ship 'y' features in order get paid 'z' dollars so that the company can continue to survive... combined with "management" often under-estimating with respect to time, requirements and (un)foreseen hurdles.

Then why not show a system dialog similar to copy/move files dialog after e.g. 5 seconds of waiting for a copy-to-clipboard operation?

I maybe should have mentioned that we also have direct deposit here for pretty much everything i.e. the bank knows where you're employed and how much income you make per month. I've heard from e.g. students without permanent jobs that they don't usually get this perk (anymore). But yes, it's essentially a credit card with very low interest rates, although I have a credit card as well and the debt is automatically deducted from my bank account at the end of the (CC billing) month. There is also a section in the online banking to view CC transactions even though it's a separate entity from the bank, so any changes to e.g. region locking, limits, etc. must be done via the CC website.

I prefer the way banks do it here: you don't pay an overdraft fee, nor are you denied (unless you have a non-fixed income). Instead, it's treated like credit and you pay a low percentage at the end of the quarter/year depending on how long you stayed negative. I can't remember the numbers exactly but I've paid at most around 20 Euro after having gone -1000 for more than a month.

I guess you're referring to Mister Mosquito: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Mosquito

Never played it but heard it was frustrating. Even the trailer suggests it's not easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGz8_F03t8c

It's even more insane and hilarious with 4 people trying to coordinate things. I personally found the best way is to assign everyone a station based on their preference/skills e.g. one friend loves playing with shields, so they are always in charge. Then find out who can steer the best and give them that as permanent role... granted it can be slightly less fun than the chaos, but I find utter chaos eventually gets old after you've died 100 times on the same level because everyone's running around trying to control everything.

AFAIK that probably won't help you much as rain also contains plastic particles, which is also why all bodies of water tested (so far), even underground, contain plastic.

that's assuming the rat's nest of cables even permits access.

I use spreadsheets for lots of games for various reasons but generally because the UI of many games is "klunky" and often doesn't provide enough information without requiring tons of clicks, or even worse, only shows info once and you have to remember it for the next 100 hours of play-time. I generally don't play a game through to the end in one sitting, I'll put it down for months and revisit and have no idea where I left off. Here's a small list of recent spreadsheets...

- Divinity Original Sin to track skills i've assigned to which characters as well as discovered recipes.

- Dyson Sphere Program to keep track of which star systems and planets i've visited (there are tons) to show roughly how much of each resource is there, sun/wind energy stats, etc. and whether i've exploited the resources there or not.

- Game Dev Tycoon to keep track of what types of games i released and the resulting ratings (which determine payouts). It's a very arbitrary system and i feel only through trial-and-error can you discover what games will get good reviews. It's borderline cheating but i figured since i did it myself, it's only half-cheating ;)

- Mount and Blade to keep track of which kings, queens and princesses i have interacted with and their likes/dislikes for when i communicate with them. Necessary because once you start a dialog there's no way out until you finish the dialog. And there's absolutely no way i can remember 300+ names and their standing with me, plus i play very irregularly (still Early Access and things change constantly). Yes you can click on royalty names and it'll tell you the standing, but it's just so much easier to have a spreadsheet open on another monitor which you can glance at from time to time.

- Rogalia for recipes, rent, combat, conversion times, selling rates...

You can happily disable the GC for performance-sensitive situations with one line of code: GarbageCollector.GCMode = GarbageCollector.Mode.Disabled; https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Scripting.GarbageCo...

Then you can call GC.Collect() to garbage collect e.g. between levels.

LINQ is totally fine as long as you don't do it in e.g. Update() which is called every frame. There are lots of other things you start to learn over time such as .transform internally calls GetComponent<Transform>() which in itself isn't a problem but calling it in an Update() on e.g. VR where you have 72-144 frames per second might not be wise especially if you have 10x Update() methods doing this. That's why Unity has had the Profiler for many years - to pinpoint what is causing garbage to pile up and what methods are killing performance.

Added bonus: it will reopen tabs even if the file has changes and/or has never been saved. Very practical in some use cases.

Since 2019.3 (at least) under Edit > Preferences > UI Scaling exists to let you adjust icon/text scaling. It defaults to using your desktop scaling settings.

When they are proven to be considerably safer (a question of "when" and not "if" IMO), I highly doubt many politicians will want to stand in the way of allowing them on their streets... nevermind if Apple ever comes out with a car, it could quickly become a highly sought after experience.

When the least amount of users are online?

According to the linked Github project, "This page uses images from This Cat Does Not Exist, and random profiles from Twitter Bio Generator."

But I really wish I could submit my own.

I really wish they would give definitions (or at least link to a dictionary) for all guessed words after playing - especially for all the clones like quordle/octordle where they often use weird words. I would send feedback but there's no contact information on any of these games.

You can't drop a story like that on us and not tell us what "the item" was ;)

We've been using an old CORAID box running 24 drives with 50TB usable (100TB actual) on 16GB of RAM using FreeNAS 9.x for years without noticeable problems :) I've tried to upgrade to 32GB a couple times but for whatever reason the board won't allow more than 16GB even though according to Intel docs the RAM should be compatible. We have up to 12 PCs connected at gigabit and never any noticeable lag, even while resilvering, though I'm sure it would be faster if there was more RAM available.

The resolution of the video is horrible but if you look closely while they talk about storing "last 200 numbers", it shows names written before all the numbers.

Exactly... and even worse, the 404 "bot" laden with whatever garbage my teenage brain came up with at 3am back in the 90s: https://glenneroo.org/404.html

Don't worry, I didn't take you too seriously. But seeing as this is HackerNews, IMO half the fun is coming up with solutions to 1st world "problems" ;)

The run.py script indicates this is running on a Raspberry Pi to read GPIO pins i.e. you could literally just hook up a button to a GPIO pin and train your dog to stomp on the button.