count_dongulus

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[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

At the end of the day, it's still CGI. How much fine grained creative control really needs to go into a building collapse?

Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it's driven by real creative intent and doesn't result in something that looks low quality. But it's not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. "A picture is worth a thousand words" is accurate. You're also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don't have fine control over because you can't do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My partner and I quit watching these after I pointed out that they usually cover small town murders, and almost every time the crime is eventually solved, it's because the local police suck it up and finally ask for help from the state or FBI who actually know what they're doing. Similarly, the videos of cold cases that aren't yet solved rarely mention any involvement of more competent higher levels of police in the investigation.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

If you're not planning to volunteer to drive political change, and you're not going to seriously plan to expatriate, then I suggest blocking the news and the other anxiety-inducing content. I have keyword filters in Boost to exclude lots of political stuff. I also pick the "do not recommend this" for google news posts that are political. Has done wonders for me. All my digital content is fun, hobby related, or general interest news from my area.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Unless you're a sociopath, like many CEOs.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yep I walked out of the theater about halfway in

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

You're magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Not disagreeing, but fascists cannot be judged by their word. Their word is worthless. Language is just a game for them, a means to an end.

 

I had a thought the other day in relation to how impossible it is for a large country to make everyone happy with broad policies. There are big differences in opinions, values, economics, and cultures across a population. What one city, county, province, etc prefers for policy seems to be universally be overridden by "higher level" governance levels going to the top if they so choose. Are there any countries where lower level, more specific jurisdictions get to set policy overrides instead of vice versa? Like, a place where nationwide laws are defaults, but smaller hierarchies can pass laws to supercede the higher defaults?

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