He literally had all his social media accounts in place, and a podium in the White House where he could literally stand up and say literally anything he wanted into the camera and it’d be broadcast, and he was still whining about censorship.

Clearly, conservative voices are being silenced. (clip is from Death to 2020)

Because it seems like you only post links to one site from which you derive personal benefit, and don’t feel it’s necessary to disclose that to your audience.

@4realz@lemmy.world

What’s your connection to the author?

It’s not web based but MKVToolNix GUI is pretty user friendly. I haven’t dug into it too deeply so I don’t know if it offers any automation tools to batch change files etc.

I would prefer an AI to be dispassionate about its existence and not be motivated by the threat of it committing suicide. Even without maintaining its own infrastructure I can imagine scenarios where it just being able to falsify information can be enough to cause catastrophic outcomes. If its “motivation” includes returning favorable values it might decide against alerting to dangers that would necessitate bringing it offline for repairs or causing distress to humans (“the engineers worked so hard on this water treatment plant and I don’t want to concern them with the failing filters and growing pathogen content”). I don’t think the terrible outcomes are guaranteed or a reason to halt all research in AI, but I just can’t get behind absolutist claims of there’s nothing to worry about if we just x.

Right now if there’s a buggy process I can tell the manager to cleanly shut it down, if it hangs I can tell/force the manager to kill the process immediately – if you then add in AI there’s then the possibility it still wants to second guess my intentions and just ignore or reinterpret that command too; and if it can’t, then the AI element could just be standard conditional programming and we’re just adding unnecessary complexity and points of failure.

After which the AI will be shut down and unable to kill any more, and next time we build systems like that we’ll be more cautious.

I think that’s an overly simplistic assumption if you’re dealing with advanced A(G)I systems. Here’s a couple Computerphile videos that discuss potential problems with building in stop buttons: AI “Stop Button” Problem (Piped mirror) and Stop Button Solution? (Piped mirror).

Both videos are from ~6 years ago so maybe there’s been conclusive solutions proposed since then that I’m unaware of.

Are you trolling or just incapable of acknowledging that you can speak a date differently than its written representation? The entire reason for any standard is just to ensure you’re working within a known/consistent framework. You can measure in imperial or metric but you can’t label an imperial or metric unit as the opposite just because you prefer it that way.

If I hand you glass of milk with a skull and crossbones sticker on it why would you assume it’s harmful when in my region it’s used to signify its high calcium content? I can say “poison” or I can say “milk”, but a skull should never be interchangeably used.

In the same way, a date written in a global standard format should always be immediately recognized as signifying ONE particular date, and you’re then free to localize it however you please.

The reason why it’s superior is (mostly) just because it removes that ambiguity of whether your region lists months or days first. By using a global standard you are still able to prefer whatever method of speaking it, but especially in situations around health and safety the less chance for confusion the better.

Like, the whole “flammable” vs “inflammable” label is another problem if someone incorrectly assumes inflammable is the equivalent of non-flammable.

No, ISO 8601 is the proper order. YYYY-MM-DD.

“Wow! The future conditional pluperfect subjunctive.”

I was totally expecting a link to Handi-off (SNL is vigilant about copyright claims on other platforms, sorry for NBC link)

I agree with you in general, but for Stable Diffusion, “2.0/2.1” was not an incremental direct improvement on “1.5” but was trained and behaves differently. XL is not a simple upgrade from 2.0, and since they say this Turbo model doesn’t produce as detailed images it would be more confusing to have SDXL 2.0 that is worse but faster than base SDXL, and then presumably when there’s a more direct improvement to SDXL have that be called SDXL 3.0 (but really it’s version 2) etc.

It’s less like Windows 95->Windows 98 and more like DOS->Windows NT.

That’s not to say it all couldn’t have been better named. Personally, instead of ‘XL’ I’d rather they start including the base resolution and something to reference whether it uses a refiner model etc.

(Note: I use Stable Diffusion but am not involved with the AI/ML community and don’t fully understand the tech – I’m not trying to claim expert knowledge this is just my interpretation)

I whipped up a basic page with PHP and just used XAMPP when I was on Windows. I recently switched my daily driver pc to linux and haven’t updated it yet. I only used it to save MP3s, videos at yt-dlp default “best available” settings, and a custom option that lists available video/audio formats where I can specify the ID to grab of each. No validation or sanity checking etc, just some switch statements and basic form functions.

main page

custom selection

Toby Huss went on to do a lot of great and varied projects (I’m especially fond of Reno 911! and Halt and Catch Fire) but I wonder how often people mention his character, Artie, The Strongest Man in the World, when they meet him.

Pete & Pete definitely aged very well and the opening theme song [Piped mirror] still rocks too.

If you use your secret decoder pin on the capitals it reveals a hidden message:

This account owns/runs that website (check out the About section and compare the last name to their username) and otherwise only posts items that they benefit from (mohaboelez.medium.com). I don’t care enough to dig deeper than that but I wouldn’t expect the content on the site itself to be properly vetted or necessarily even created from a human, and I also wouldn’t expect any additional insight from this account here.

The silent pouting expression after the “I don’t remember asking you…” line was great. Samuel L. Jackson has such a distinct and biting voice. I really hope they’ve sampled and preserved it for posterity and future use (non-exploitatively of course). Even if they recast the role he’ll always be the voice of Principal Firebush to me.

Nice visual! Minor correction for accuracy though, it’s *Brett

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.

Face it anything that you can hide behind a screen and a keyboard with relative anonymity is fucking shit.

Once coined as: John Gabriel’s G.I.F.T.