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[Frilock]

That kind of abuse is really giving AI a bad name. Do they really think an AI prompt has gigabytes of working memory just for them?

Of course it will fail.

(And the sharp dressed astronauts in the CM have no legs)

Woman go crazy for a sharp dressed chair

 

[jedidia]

@dennis.krenz
Can you still say "giving something a bad name" when it already has a bad name?

 

[dennis.krenz]

@dennis.krenz
Can you still say "giving something a bad name" when it already has a bad name?

You can always give things a worse name....

(Just came home from the Hannover industrial fair yesterday. While AI is also hyped everywhere there, there are actually some interesting applications of it in the fields of Physical AI or Agentic AI.)

 

[jedidia]

You can always give things a worse name....

(Just came home from the Hannover industrial fair yesterday. While AI is also hyped everywhere there, there are actually some interesting applications of it in the fields of Physical AI or Agentic AI.)

I agree there's plenty of useful applications. I've just not seen any in the realm of image generation yet, unless you consider an army of Waifus useful...

 

[dennis.krenz]

I agree there's plenty of useful applications. I've just not seen any in the realm of image generation yet, unless you consider an army of Waifus useful...

I think for some loose illustrations, its quite OK, but anything like a product illustration or technical drawings, it reaches its current limits. May change in the future with larger models. It also works fine for illustrating RPG source books, but its no replacement for commissioned work.

I wish we could have a model that can generate ugly Orbiter meshes. But I think that a procedural "kitbash" generator could do that with a better quality.

 

[Arvil]

Facebook “reels” is just chock full of stupid looking AI stuff which is a bit too obvious, just about like almost everything else Facebook.

 

[Frilock]

https://imgur.com/a/wrWPy13

 

[dennis.krenz]

Speaking about Dolmar in the shoutbox, one of their last products under their own brand was of course the famous Dolmette motorcycle, the successor of the Red Porsche Killer:

 

[Matias Saibene]

Speaking about Dolmar in the shoutbox, one of their last products under their own brand was of course the famous Dolmette motorcycle, the successor of the Red Porsche Killer:

German engineering at its best!

 

[N_Molson]

Hehe for this one you need earplugs AND a sound-suppression helmet

 

[jedidia]

It is weird when you find the arguments of your wife repeated almost verbatim by a youtuber in a completely different context...

 

[Fabri91]

After 10-ish years I decided to revive my saiplane pilot's license

The conditions weren't strong, but there was a window in which it was possible to climb a bit in thermals.

 

[steph]

After 10-ish years I decided to revive my saiplane pilot's license

It's an amazing sport. I know someone who did a similar thing. Started with sailplanes, went on to get a pilot's license and become a commercial pilot, then decided to go back to gliding in his spare time. I only flew a few times as a passenger, but I had the chance to take the controls a few times. I love the way you can sometimes feel the thermals push the glider around

 

[steph]

Had to rant....living in rural France has its "perks" sometimes. Every time there's an event on the coast (or during summer), it's full of tourists. Not too bad, but bandwidth takes a nosedive. They added fiber optic, 5G and all that, but the "nodes" remained old infrastructure and there are bottlenecks.
Well, last night one of the nodes crapped out completely. Northern half of the region was left without internet, both mobile and landline, and without phone services, not even sms. Not sure if the emergency services worked, but it showed no signal. It was nice doing a roadtrip of a few dozen of kilometers until the notifications on my phone started ringing like crazy as it regained signal.
Aaand, of course, since networks are sharing infrastructure, my backup phone didn't work either. Basically, most networks were down.
Not sure how, some of the piggybacking networks actually started working badly and intermitebtly, while the ISP who actually owns the infrastructure in this area was still down.
Landlines should be up and running this evening, but hasn't happened yet, with mobile having to wait until monday at the latest. Saturday is basically the worst time to have a structural breakdown around here.

One thing I'm sure glad I did was keep my old consoles and games. Turns out the Xbox Series S now requires an internet connection even to allow you to play single player games that you own and are installed on the console itself.

 

[N_Molson]

I'm very familiar with the area you live in. Yes, it is more than a 1 to 10 ratio between Winter and Summer populations, and the kind-of-rural infrastructure can't follow. The problem is that there is no motivation to invest into something that will be running at 10% or less most of the year, and public money is rather scarce nowadays...