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Considering how similar the output of a model is, artists are going to still have to do most of the work, if they want a style over the template the model is trained on.
Artists also enjoy creating and the process of creation.
This does not look good. The animation is weird. Why does it look like they do a few small frames of motion, then a hard stop to create the low FPS feel of anime. It feels really off. Anime already has an issue of low effort production, I'd argue there is an over saturation at the moment. AI isn't going to help tell a new or better story, but it will help churn out mediocre content faster.
Increasing the cooling setpoint of the system isn't exactly a new concept, nor is data centre scale water cooling. Computers can run hot and not throttle. Water is better at moving heat than air. Temperature delta above ambient increase the amount of heat that can be removed, with less mechanical assistance. How exactly is any of this news.
Michael MJD plays with some cursed setups. I enjoy how he presents the struggle.
VW needs to go back to building simple, reasonably priced cars that are easy to service. Chasing the premium/luxury car brands, while they own both premium and luxury brands, is doing them in.
Consider Asahi Linux limited feature support for the M1, after all these years, this is not going to ever happen. Its not like Apple has every shown any interest in opening their hardware up to 3rd party OS support and nor will they.
Some games anti-cheat will detect you running in a virtual machine and kick you. I particularly ran into the with Rust's anti cheat, after a friend convinced me to join them.
Funerals are a big thing in South Africa. It can be often to the same level as a wedding, where families will take out loans to host the event. Hence the funeral insurance being common. You go to an ATM and get advertised Funeral Cover, offered by your bank.
Self-repair is an average day on a farm. A farmer that does not research equipment they about to purchase, especially before spending a small fortune, is a fool.
That's like saying you don't bother learning what illnesses your animals or crops may contract, and how to prevent/cure them, because you're not wealthy. Buying a book and reading it, to the improve your abilities, is time well spent.
Most maintenance on a tractor is not major, and require basic skill and parts. It's the companies that don't want this, they want specialized technicians to come out to replace an oil filter.
I have a 30 year old vacuum cleaner, which I continue to maintain, which mostly amounts to stripping it once every 10 years and cleaning out all the filters that caked up with fine dust. Definitely cheaper to strip it myself one evening, than to pay someone to do it, or purchase a new one. It is like an hour of work for years of service.
It surprised me that farmers aren't just ditching John Deere for alternatives that respect them. Visiting family on their farm in the early 2000's, they had been selling off their John Deere tractors and replacing them with Massey Ferguson, because they were annoyed with the poor servicing and parts delivery they had with their local shop/dealership. Way before this right to repair stuff happened.
Considering they list multiple version of the same generation of card, like the GTX 1080 and GTX 1080TI. This list is just a list of popular cards over the last 30 years
What is the actual objective of this, is it solving an issue or creating a solution to a problem, that is still to be determined? It seems like a lot of energy to replicate a lidar mapping system. It's not like you can expect accurate dimensions from this approximate guess work, excluding the expected hallucinations adding to inaccuracy.
I'm not sure about the NewPipe angle, as Grey Jay exists (Backed by FUTO/Louis Rossman) on the Play store, which has ad-block and sponsor block incorporated into it. Google is just being malicious towards opensource and privacy, under the guise of security
The game does have a mature rating, so parents should be vetting their activity.
I would still contend and say the gambling aspect, with real money, is a net negative to the community.
This is the exact channel that came to mind when I saw the headline, his work is fantastic.
It makes the argument of the open internet being unable to function without advertising, quite hard to prop up. Especially when over 70% of traffic if just people gaming the system, to real users detriment.
Replicating something like a form factor of a Gameboy cart is a cool idea, you could probably get away with a I2C EEEPROM of a size large enough for a single rom.
The amount of people that design and repair electronics is significantly smaller than the people that use electronics, that doesn't mean RasPi should ignore them. They boast opensource development, but seem to be working counter to that.
It makes is substantially easier to work with known design docs, and RasPi want people to use their hardware in embedded applications.
It's not like you can replicate their hardware with just the schematic. Its awesome to see other filling the gap, but its a gap that has no need to exist.
It is most definitely about the products sales team sizing up the potential client and how much they can get the client to pay, based on the company size and turn over. It's possible for the client to negotiate, but the product sales team have jack up the price way over their internal list price, so any client savings is only a fallacy
Maybe its just me, but this P&E arch is underwhelming and screams similar issues AMD bulldozer again. Claims of massive core counts with mediocre performance, and little control over how things are assigned to the cores. Maybe that will improve over time with improved schedulers, but I doubt it. Its looks like an architectural issue. The experience feels so inconstant, even ending up worse than the prior generations with all normal P cores with lower core counts. I'm avoiding Intel P&E CPUs with anything that needs consistent performance, as my limited experience with the new Intel chips leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, and a frustrating computing experience.
Secure boot doesn't stop user-space malicious activity.
I'd argue that it only helps check a tick box on corporate security manifest, as it indicates the kernel being booted, is not tampered with.
I would recommend checking out the openRA fork for Red Alart 2, Romanovs-Vengeance, https://github.com/MustaphaTR/Romanovs-Vengeance
I wont be shocked it if turns out Meta has been using users Meta apps on their phones to pull this off. Like a giant bot net, just pull small amount of data, send home. Not enough for anyone to notice, but large enough user base to sum all the small segments together and download without Meta directly seeding anything back.
Or just rented for a bunch of seedboxes anonymously
This doesn't account for the server they are hosted in, their CPU loads, losses in the PSU, which will inflate those numbers higher. Then there is the cooling, which needs to remove every watt consumed by the GPU/servers, as its all outputs as heat (multiplied by the PSU losses). Things are amplified further by the inefficiencies of the cooling process, including cooling the HVAC hot side (and the water consumption of the cooling towers), and building insulation.
Then the article only accounts for Midjourney, which is only one of the operators in this space. All the major tech companies have huge fleets of server working on this.
I've found the openRA fork/mod, Romanovs-Vengeance, to be a decent RA2 implementation. There seems to be active development on the project.
I'm not sure how a knife and a cutting board take up a load of space in a home kitchen
I'd argue that the quality of a fry/chip does depend on the type of potatoes used. My experience is frozen fries are mediocre at best.
Even on a commercial scale, its a peeling machine and a cutting/chipping machine, no worse than a mixing machine for making dough or similar industrial kitchen machines.
I see its doing the same for me now too. I didn't know they expired. Here is the channel, https://www.youtube.com/@THISMUSEUMISNOTOBSOLETE
I've been enjoying the videos of 'Look Mum No Computer', building his own 60's based, electromechanical telephone exchange, is his Museum of everything else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK1lH8pjXTo
His second channel has some more dedicated content on telephone systems, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKnS0AB2CTN_eu8k8rgaO... He has spent a fair amount of time building it out, from initially receiving his first exchanging and getting it to work, and adding more to it
It fun just to watch how the system selects lines and routes around the exchange. Other interesting things, like how the dial and engaged tones are generated, and how prerecorded messages are played back to a number that is no longer in service, something like, 'This number no longer exists, please try again'
Isn't this how most IPO ends up going. Make self look good to shareholders by using the community to uplift the product. Then, set up walled gardens to begin extrapolating funds from the community, as shareholders want more cash flow, damaging the contribution rate/trust of the community. Finally, all out enshittification, its profits above all else, as the remaining contributing community have now bailed to a new, less draconian, platform. Now the Pi foundation needs to turn the screws on anyone that relies on the product in productive environments, to maintain the year on year financial growth.
This is a very cynical take on future events, but I wont be surprised if it goes this way, as was there actually a need to IPO? We already had a massive shift away from hobbyists to industrial/commercial clients, before the IPO, so I don't see it getting better for hobbyist/enthusiasts. Costs will increase more, as they will see how their industrial clients make money from using a Pi in manufacturing process, and so the shareholders will want more of that slice from their clients.
Ingula Pumped Storage, KZN, 1,332MW
Drakensberg Pumped Storage, FS, 1,000MW
Palmiet Pumped Storage, WC, 400MW
Steenbras Pumped Storage, WC, 180MW
Steenbras is the only plant installed and maintained by City of Capetown, the rest are Eskom facilities (Its mentioned occasionally, by eskom, that load shedding continues over a weekend, or late evenings, to restore pumped storage for the week/productive hours)
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