Nah the 500B$ is for building data centers. Well, it would be if that money existed but the truth is it was just an empty announcement.

The companies involved don't have that kind of money, even pooled together.

I don't know any AI artists (as in someone who prompts a model and then calls the result a work of art), although most traditional artists i know have come to incorporate AI one way or another in their process.

You don't really hear about it because it's all intermediate material used during the production phase. For example, as a hobbyist writer, one thing i struggle with is writing action scenes cause i don't have visual memory and i tend to forget a lot about continuity and "spatial realism" ("this guy starts in this corner of the room so there's no way he could grab that object at that point", shit like that). With AI I can generate some kind of "story board" of my scene, which helps me write it much better. It's just laid out visually in front of me and i catch a lot more details.

Sometimes when i'm toying with an idea i'll also have a model generate a few variations on it, with different points of view, writing style, focus etc... Even if the writing is mediocre, it gives me a really good idea of how each version could pan out, and whether an angle works or not. I'll then select the angle that works best and rewrite it entirely from scratch.

There's nothing innovative about it, people have been using assistants to avoid tedious work forever. It's just that before AI you had to, you know, be rich and able to actually pay for the labor.

I am looking for a solution for a ~1TB collection, and the Glacier Deep Archive storage tier is barely above 1$/m for the lot. You may want to look into it ! If I remember correctly, the retrieval (if you one day need to get your data back) was around 20$ to get the data in a few hours, or 2$ to get it in a couple days.

I suspect op hasn't set foot in France since the early 2000s, if ever. Smoking in public places has been banned since 2007

Turns out she does know how babby is formed

Black mirror is inspired by the great scifi anthologies such as the twilight zone, which themselves are an offshoot of scifi short story anthologies (as in books). The formula is pretty well established, you'll get a cold open, some rich world building based on technology, and, most of the times, a bleak and existential ending.

Sorry but that's kind of baked in the entire genre...

I would assume the reason is that young disenfranchised males are easy to radicalize into a personal army. Every war lord knows and uses this age old trick.

In french, the most common name is probably "beu" which is a contraction of "beuher" which is verlan (a type of slang where you reverse the word) for "herbe".

This was distorted in a movie to "beuze" , which was then given the verlan treatment again (this happens often) to "zeb", hence my personal favorite "zebuline". Mind you, that's not a common name that's a personal one I use often.

That's why i call it "a bitter adolescent thing". Building identities and communities about "bad behaviours other people supposedly have" is very common in children.

Nobody really cares about what you do with your life. What you identify as "wild personal attacks" is probably benign behaviour which you choose to interpret dramatically. If people actually attacked you for these topics you would remove yourself from them. The only people who cannot remove themselves from the toxic people in their lives are children.

Never seen a child free community that wasn't about hating on parents and children. Seems like a bitter adolescent thing tbh. What a strange way to live.

A common occurrence is that while a stock drops it hits the trigger price for shorts, which can make it bounce

Yeah he should be using real art like stock photos and shitty clip art

I am an aggressively mediocre singer but the 2 hour rehearsal on Monday is the highlight of my week. It's so fucking fun man!

Baby boomers would eat their own children at the first occasion

Would be epic and funny but the stock is still at a higher price than it was at the time of the Twitter purchase. It would need to dip much lower for this to happen.

I don't think we're the right demographic to judge that as our view is very distorted by our own experience. The reddit "exodus" is barely a blip in their daily user count - in fact DAU has gone up by 50% since the API changes which is huge especially for a mature platform. This makes it very desirable as it shows that the more aggressive monetization effort doesn't in fact drive users away.

"I'm asking a question on the internet but will flame you for giving an honest answer"

Then why are you here?

When you read that stuff on reddit there's a parameter you need to keep in mind : these people are not really discussing Lemmy. They're rationalizing and justifying why they are not on Lemmy. Totally different conversation.

Nobody wants to come out and say "I know mainstream platforms are shit and destroying the fabric of reality but I can't bring myself to be on a platform except it is the Hip Place to Be". So they'll invent stuff that paints them in a good light.

You'll still see people claiming that Mastodon is unusable because you have to select an instance - even though you don't have to, you can just type Mastodon on Google, click the first link, and create an account in 2 clicks. It's been ages. But the people still using Twitter need the excuse because otherwise what does it make them?

Yeah honestly i can't get anything done with a raspberry. Maybe i host too many services ?

jesus christ what a nice burn