As a teen in the mid-oughties. I played heavily with the OSx86 project/Hackintosh. I learnt about writing kexts and kernel patche and I fondly remember getting a Linksys USB-to-ethernet adapter working on an HP workstation, running Tiger.
My financial circumstances have improved somewhat in the intervening years. Today, I own quite a bit of Apple hardware, most recently Vision purchase overton-shifted my definition of “disposable” into very unfamiliar territory. Even still, about once a year I ensure I can still triple-boot” - just now I do it with ProxMox and Virtual Passthrough. The first iMessage sent from my virtualized “iMac pro” at 2AM and was almost as gratifying as the first Apple Bootscreen on a a Sony Vaio.
How does, “people who have no business SCUBA diving a protected reef due to lack of fitness” strike you?
As with eBikes, just about anyone could strap on a SCUBA and visit places they otherwise couldn’t (IMO shouldn’t).
The fact is, some people are unfit. Whether, physically, or simply lack the ability to be a good steward of public resources. This applies to SCUBA, eBikes, Driving and a bunch of other things. I don’t think that’s objectionable.
Same. I wrote an implementation around GPT-4 & sqlite to store and analyze my queries and was hoping to use that exclusively. I still find myself using ~~GPT-4~~ chapGPT, huge shoutout to autodev.py for making that experience worlds better.
edit: clarity
I top post because I hate the inconsistency of how message threads are handled. If someone can point me to a primer I’d greatly appreciate it. Outlook, Apple Mail, iOS all seem to handle it slightly differently.
I have to admit, begrudgingly, that the Tesla App experience “JustWorksTM.” This is the 3rd I’ve picked up (3, Y, Y) and this time, I didn’t even have to pair my phone. I was signed into my existing app and my new Y just changed from an order number to a VIN and started working. All my preferences synced to my driver profile immediately.
If every experience with Tesla was like the initial buying experience I’d recommend it to anyone, however, let me assure anyone interested the honeymoon phase definitely ends.
This is the way. Over the years I’ve built up a good intuition for which cables, power ends, brackets, and fasteners might come handy later and I keep them on hand, broadly sorted into those categories. For example, those plastic kits of VESA screws that come with a new TV are nice to have around because they usually have assortment of machine screws, stand-offs and nuts, and they’re usually blister-packed.
N = 1 but the cats I’ve seen around my neighborhood seem to be quite well cared for and simply killing for the sport of it, toying— ok, perhaps I’m anthropomorphizing— with their prey and often, IME not eating it at all
(in North America) and if we hadn't hunted and driven away the bobcats lynx and ocelots that would have killed those bird for food (along with the weasels stoats ferrets ermine mink foxes and other predators) how many birds would they have killed?
The image descriptions did appear generated toward the beginning, but towards the middle it seems they are the prompt that was used to generate them (a bit quine-esqe) and towards the end, clearly part of the article.
Author of the article and the images here. The actual prompts were stacking about 10 networks in ways that make things look "better", and are more of the form "ligne claire, flat colors, 1girl, green hair, green eyes, long hair, <setting>, <major parts of image>" and then using a photo I took either with my iPhone or my DSLR as a img2img/ControlNet reference for things like pose and composition. The descriptions were all written by me in a very descriptive voice like what you'd find from AI generated descriptions (and in most cases, it's actually from the stage directions in script in the first place). My writing style looks like ChatGPT because they scraped my website to make up the training set for the AI.
