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It's also New Wave science fiction, and once you get past the conlang and the genre conventions, it's still incredibly violent! Kubrick iirc even once said in an interview that he …

In my experience, yes to hardware-accelerated video from CLI--running in EGL mode, with no window manager, that RPi model works very well. (A C++ app that uses video as a texture c…

An imo fascinating wrinkle that the article doesn't get into, Black Forest's main use case for their Flux models is "analytical" (modifying the user's pre-existing material, storyb…

imo it's not setting up the site once that's the problem, it's keeping it maintained indefinitely without making mistakes, because hostile automated systems will keep on rattling t…

Afaik the basis of the Bluetooth thing is that out of all the different kinds of spread-spectrum radio we use now, Bluetooth happens to be the closest to her original design. So it…

Informative-Drawings already has monocular depth estimation built in--that's why its line results are so beautifully consistent. But without this extra step combining results from …

Afaik it's a misconception that MRT necessarily involves the destruction of an embryo. The spindle transfer method transplants the mother's egg's DNA into the donor's egg before fe…

Afaik they do respond to DMCA requests for the individual uploads, and they do more active curation for the collections where only specific user accounts have upload access.

Yeah it's a common misconception; I think it's it's because After Effects has far outlived the source of its original UI metaphor, the Oxberry (rostrum) animation camera, which at …

And imo up till now the original Java flavor of Processing has been maintained very well! They've kept up with Java versions, done an Apple ARM port, added modern conveniences like…

Based on price/performance alone an 8GB RPi 4 doesn't make sense even in its own category--it can't compete with an Nvidia Jetson. But if you're doing a lot of Pi work then the mor…

It's a matter of resources and time imo. Blender is currently about thirty people and started in 1994; Krita and Gimp are each currently four people and both started in 1998. (Also…

I bet most of the community here defaults to Following (non-curated timeline). Mine's gotten a lot quieter, without as many interesting threads cutting across fields, but talking t…

imo the "echo chamber" scenario would be if you only followed people from your local server, and also set your posts to only show there. If you set your posts to public and gather …

Experimental animation: https://youtube.com/n1ckfg

Yeah y'all are right, I can't find anything to support the notion the HoloLens 2 uses an Android fork for its OS. (Possibly the person who told me this had it confused with Magic L…

Afaik theoretically you could reproduce any image in the training set using the full weights (not a fraction of them) and the correct prompt. In practice since this is an extremely…

HoloLens 2 switched to Android ARM and UWP apps running on heavily modified Android, but imo the insistence on hand tracking as the primary interface still walled it off from the o…

There's an Eevee update in the works that includes some Lumen ideas, real emissive materials for instance (iirc). Even for now, you can dive into the options and enable some stuff …

Mastodon's at the "email in 1994" stage--the general public is starting to become aware that it exists, and folks who were running small servers for their own purposes suddenly fin…