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I just finished reading this. I agree it would translate well.

Other work from the same friend.

Friend of mine just finished a project. Not my style, but... damn.

Or even what was going on in their own marketing department.

I've been there. Great fucking tour. Those engine bells are so internally complex that they can't be traditionally cast or machined and instead are formed explosively.

"Deepfakes" headline is clickbait. Actual tool does super-nifty stylistic transformation on source image/video based on secondary input. At the exponential rate these things are rolling out I have NO idea what the future of media is going to look like in 10-15 years.

At the VERY minimum this tech is going to put a lot of paralegals out of work, if not the majority of associate lawyers. You'd need to pay them $1M, because if the robot you're parroting makes a mistake the lawyer is ethically on the hook for poor practice.

There haven't been any truly new themes in the last two thousand years of human expression. I'm sure AI will be able to produce the same variety on which it is trained. The reason current mass market entertainment is bland is because they're trying to appeal to everyone and offend no one. AI can...

That's very impressive in the way that the cadence and tone blend between words ("not you" crossing into "naw-chew", etc.). A few subtle unhuman inflections around big pauses, but a big step forward. Between this, text generation, image/video synthesis, and 3d models, I bet we're less than 20...

Context matters a lot. In grappling there have been notable multiple-ruleset matches where the grappler "out-wrestles" the wrestler in a submission match and the gets immediately tech falled in the wrestling portion. There's a 0% chance of Jones beating DC in a wrestling match.

I love the combination of old and new machinery that these guys use:

If we're doing skater asses... I give you Jutta Leerdam:

tldr; In response to the anti-trust accusations the UFC has revised contracts in recent years and there is a 5-year sunset clause that applies even to champion extensions. In Francis' case, it appears he's free basically at the end of this month...

Lies. It moves. (Although only by a couple of pixels. The illusion is cool.)

I am apparently an idiot. Mea culpa.

No, it doesn't. "Second, the derivative work itself has copyright protection. The creator of the derivative work owns the copyright to the derivative work." The derivative work is ALSO protected under the copyright of the original work, which the original creator owns. Someone who infringed on...

If it were a derivative work that would make it even less infringing. For a derivative work you even get your own copyright on the changes. (Of course the "work" in this case would be a sculpture or something, as they're clearly not claiming the text of the story itself as a new/separate...

A whole 30 copies!! How will we know who the author is of these beloved fringe works which have sold <checks notes> 500 million units?? Next up: Performance artist pisses into the wind!

I don't think I'm missing that. Companies kowtowing to mob nonsense are generally the same ones producing boring shit that I wasn't going to buy anyway. Bureaucratic risk aversion was going to fuck up the product even if this didn't. If the end result of this is that game development moves away...

Sure it does, though admittedly perhaps not for this one game. If we don't give oxygen to the arguments of lunatics then developers will learn that they can be safely ignored. It's about the long-term principle. Arguing with the mob is exactly what they want because at the core they're just...

I only hear about this shit from you guys here on these forums and I read plenty of game news and basically live on the internet. There's a simple solution to idiots online spouting bullshit (or "creators" farming views by complaining about other idiots): Don't read them, don't watch them, and...

Somehow, naginata training is now almost exclusively female-only.

Rocketry is really fucking hard and requires tons of institutional expertise, which Virgin does not yet possess. Over the holidays I listened to my cousin describe work on the control systems for Starship and how he has to juggle 30 engines simultaneously in real time to prevent harmonic...

I loved TA. Definitely checking this out.

That's the nature of mobile.

That's how it is in Atlanta, except instead of sewage overflowing into your storm drain the storm runoff backs the sewage up into your basements. We had four inches of sewage in the basement twice when I was a kid.

This kind of thing terrifies me as a parent. Apparently the whole family was together the day before on Xmas.

That's not how these things work at all. The "AI" is just a fancy statistical model that predicts pixels based on its training dataset, which likely did not include art tagged for the Malazan books. There's no ability to look anything up for context or add information without fully re-training...

Yeah, I'm not sure how I'd gamble on my life expectancy. All my grandparents lived into their 90's but my mom died at 53 from inoperable cancer. I'd probably take the early payouts. SS checks aren't a material part of my retirement plan anyway.

I grew up in a "bike anywhere, be back by 8PM" environment. I don't let my kids ride any farther than 3-4 blocks away from the house. As soon as you touch a road with a painted lane divider you're guaranteed to have some fuckwit driving 80 mph while on the phone and I regularly see grannies...

Played last night. Quite fun, though with the flat shading I sometimes have trouble judging distance in mid-range interiors.

Coming from "retards of titktok", I was waiting for her to fall through the ice. Am dissapoint.

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Java version is far better. There is more consistent implementation of core gameplay mechanics and a big community of modders around it that doesn't exist for Bedrock.

These guys have an amazing sci/tech/engineering edutainment channel. Scary injury with fireworks.

I've had this constantly for about the last 30 years, causing a baseline low-level cough and sinus infections about once a year. In my case, it's a low-level allergy to dust mites and human skin cells. There's a 0% of getting rid of that in my environment, so I'm basically just hosed unless I...

The Atlanta aquarium is a good visit if you're into that.

That mill is owned by one of my clients. They had a containment wall fail in digester, which is basically a 100 ton, 170 degree, 300-400 kPa pressure cooker for wood chips. Big fucking mess.