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people forget that what makes art impressive is also the skill of the artist in the respective medium

if someone creates a perfect color gradient fill in Photoshop nobody is going to be impressed but make it with colored pencils and people may regard it as stunning

the beauty is also in the effort it took to create, not only in what the result looks like - i don't need to take time to look at stuff people didn't take time to make

it's like AAA games are only early access these days

Wikipedia is not the Achilles heel of free access to information. The Achilles heel are the sources: libraries, websites.

Consider donating to the internet archive instead or as well. If the sources are poisoned, Wikipedia just repeats bullshit. It's secondary literature.

Getting ready for GTA 6 I see

You back 16 alphas and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Starfield won't call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

they get all content for free though, unlike netflix etc.

i have a business case to become the major player in the chip industry: buy the planet's economy

be sure to add -no-preserve-root to make sure ultra french is gone too

That photo looks like the swastika on the Reichstag before the Soviets blew it up.

they got billions to invest into new drive technologies and didn't

they have really tight contracts with all of their suppliers but didn't act in time to get the electric vehicle suppliers into similar contracts

yes they do (am German) but politicians are dancing on eggshells with Israeli behavior and the antisemitism-accusations

imo, uncritically supporting what the Israeli government is doing hurts the rememberance of the Holocaust - how can you sell 'never again' when civilians have to suffer like this?

yeah and productivity increase has decoupled from wage in 1980, while productivity rises wages stay the same - why should anyone who's not a multimillionaire find that acceptable?

"Johnny 5 chan" and i set the voice to Japanese. I have no idea what it's saying exactly but it sounds very polite when it's stuck.

computers were a mistake (I'm a software engineer)

as soon as possible the ad free version becomes ad light

exactly, the web was created on open protocol specifications, not T-Systems or AT or whatever getting money and renting it to everyone

yeah same with YouTube plus: if you pay, they can sell your data at a premium, because you're in the group that can be made to pay

Star Trek TNG had it pretty right in terms of what's moral or what is desirable

I've read a probable scenario about accidents with small DSVs in the book Below(Edit) the Edge of Darkness (about marine biology of bioluminescence and the tech developed by the author to film/record it):

There was a small leak in a valve, used for emergency operation IIRC and the author noticed that going down - she was still light enough to ascend but she said had she been a few hundred meters deeper, she never would have made it back up due to the extra weight.

That's up to history, sadly, whether it's genocide or not. Genocide has many characteristics, it's not only killing a population by guns or other means.

The definition of genocide does not care about the means, only about the goal or result.

what about sublime? it has projects, folder file trees...

Back when business was done entirely by paper, you'd have catalogues, books full of tables of things you could order with their prices. You have limited space for printing item names and those abbreviations were used there (e.g. in the 1920s).

i use sublime instead

Before this happened, violenc between settlers in the Westbank and native Palestinians had tripled compared to 2022, to 3 per day, while the world news cycles were preoccupied with Ukraine.

I think there already is AI art but it's not the art that everyone is talking about, it's not your run-of-the-mill fantasy illustration prompt but people exploring what can be made with tools like that.

Rather than focusing on emulating traditional illustration, they invent their own processes and that is the work.

there was an 'also' in that sentence - and he put it there himself without leveraging other bathroom-installations-on-pedestal works

I don't think it's necessary for them to be trolls, I think some people want to believe that there is no alternative, since that means they don't have to change anything. The guilty conscience for supporting something they know is bad can be rationalized away by external factors.

I suspect people are that aggressive because they have to explain themselves, towards each other and towards themselves why they're staying.

They can keep their overpriced surveillance ware and sell it to some police departments.

gundam intensifies

Wow, I finished it with my SO last year - but in the last temple, we needed a guide (the map is wtf levels of traps and dead ends) and save states to retry the boss combo. We wouldn't have been able to finish it

it's ironic, since AI generated always looks polished - but the identification is mostly context-based i.e. we know nobody would pay anyone for making that illustration from scratch: because it's a throw-away

illustrations will be ubiquitous but mostly shit, only the shit will be more polished

so if an illustration is highly polished but otherwise garbage, it's AI with high probability - because the craftsmanship of the generator exceeds the artistic taste and development of the user

Until one can produce work that makes an impression with some precision one has to have experience in the medium though - and different media are different regarding to what that means.

With illustration and representative art it starts with something 'reading' correctly, i.e. whether the intended representation even gets to the recipient. And then there are more layers on top of that getting ever more meta.

Someone who can put a urinal on a pedestal and cause an uproar in whichever direction has a lot of experience - but if a picture is just a picture or a urinal is just a urinal, it's not worth looking at much, except for its engineering. Good art doesn't have to be on that level though, entertainment can also be good art (but a lot of it isn't) - there, it's about resonance.

You're right that craftsmanship alone cannot produce good art, there is something else driving the desire to hone craftsmanship, which is maybe to better be able to express what was impressed on the artist through life. Something that resonates with the artist is made with the hope it also resonates with other people, art is a social endeavour.

But I also feel that to a large extent, honing the craft also hones the intuition (and some knowledge as far as it can be distilled) for what makes things resonant with others. I make myself into the diffusion model to resonate with what I'm making while making it, you feel each curve you put to paper or canvas, you feel the tension in a pose, the impact of a composition - the resulting art is what's there when that process is abandoned.

I feel like a vegan about the currently available models - once there is something made from public domain art only I'll experiment. But right now I'm sitting in front of them like a vegan in front of sausage: For others the result is food but for them, they just see the process turning individuals into sausage.

Yeah that was the last info I had on developments like these: FBS: Fetal Bovine Serum. Blood from a foetus of a slaughtered pregnant cow, commonly used in growing cell cultures due to all the growth factors that go into growing a baby cow.

Edit: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/upside-foods-acf-cell-media/
this here says their cells are cultivated without animal products

Final Fantasy IX always intrigued me, I love the look of the game to bits but idk whether I could get through it

Israel has German submarines (the German version, not the worse export version) that were gifted to them, especially suited to be used in the Persian Gulf, on the coast of Iran, where Hamas' money and equipment come from.

the uranium even if you can't make a reactor

you can use it in sieges, in assassinations, you can have it sterilize your lord's rivals so they can't have kids without anyone knowing

you can make safeish samples using shielding, lead is readily available

you can expose fruit/vegetables so they keep better over the winter, killing bacteria

you can sterilize food and water, make it safer for consumption

"You will own nothing and you will love it" jesus. All in on OpenAI and automation.

The hard scifi nerd in me appreciated that metaphor.

I don't think that's the case - if it was the plan, why would the British have tried to block immigrants from reaching Palestine?

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/exodus-1947

Utilitarianism would lead you to that decision, you can justify any atrocity with it.