Notices by mmby (mmby@mastodon.social)

@lettosprey @soatok even with intact public health services in Europe, people don't get tested regularly because there is social stigma attached - I actually had my doc try to argue me out of it once, asking why I wanted to do that

if people are carried by momentum and the opportunity to be safer is *right there*, it's just great community service

@dalias @micahilbery or the multitudes of combat drones in development and in the field - opencv, pytorch for low rank adapting models, blender & cycles for generating synthetic images to train something like Yolo on for targets...

@jackemled @fiore open software without progressive politics is just free labor

@jonny the steady state will be gig work for everyone, won't it

@futurebird @adef187 @teslatakedown.co.uk if it means something, I have the same reaction - but it's also because of knowing what's behind the technology

it's like meat eater vs. vegan looking at a steak - even not having to eat it the reactions are different on a visceral level

@evan short war, decades of Canadian IRA

@bruces the 90s dystopia is the deep state conspiracy one + aliens

@dalias @futurebird @kechpaja @llewelly wouldn't we have to immobilize the animal though?

photogrammetry at a scale where you get source pictures comparable to microscopy needs focus stacking - meaning you have to mechanically move your optical setup or parts of it to get a single picture with everything in focus

@futurebird which is possible because the system converges to monopoly

personal loyalty of feudalism is replaced by brand loyalty

lands are the markets and fortresses the walled gardens. the subsidiaries trying to claim monopoly in their respective domains

are the accelerationists the clergy?

@sinbad is that the camera FOV or why does it look like it's the size of a whisky bottle

@inthehands oh wow, "normalization, what's that?"

@jzillw @losttourist @Lazarou I feel that Eastern Germany is more pro-Putin and pro-isolationism than Western Germany, which is supported by the far right election polls splitting East and West

@danjac @tante I fear it will be equally 'solutionized' with varying results

@jwisser the only scifi cover I remember with something Harlequin-ish is this Foundation cover from the 80s(?)

@ryanhoulihan WT actual F

@jerry @ksaj that is a fake picture, any real rainbow needs to be circular not elliptical

this is a real full rainbow
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221227.html

Edit: here is where other people did sleuthing on the image
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2023/03/fact-check-colorful-image-is-not-a-real-photo-of-a-complete-rainbow-captured-by-a-pilot-at-30000-feet.html

@Polychrome for PC there was VGACopy
https://archive.org/details/vgacp625

@simon Glad to see some compassion here, there are many who will push this fate aside as "made some bad life decisions" (which is only a reflexive defense to make oneself feel different enough to not associate with the possibility of it happening to oneself) and "the price of progress".

I don't think prompt engineering has much of a future either when you can just A/B test the prompts and mutate them automatically.

Human roles may be in testing infrastructure, the fun things will be automated