Going to take a good old break from this place - it has become a bubble of hate, outrage and misinformation for the sake of creating drama about people and current events. It cannot be healthy to surround yourself with that all the time.
Going to take a good old break from this place - it has become a bubble of hate, outrage and misinformation for the sake of creating drama about people and current events. It cannot be healthy to surround yourself with that all the time.
It's not just Europe. They're not doing too hot in the US either, some don't like tesla for the association with Musk and a lot of the ones who don't, hate teslas for being EVs instead of huge oil guzzling trucks or live in more rural areas where EVs are a lot less practical, finally the people who still really really want an EV can find something better quality for cheaper nowadays, it's such a perfect dumpster fire and I love it
One day you walk in and the banana room is empty. Welcome to writing prompts
I suppose you're very right there. I'm a bit late, but would still like to thank you as well: it's kinda rare to be able to have calm discussions about opinions/experiences on these topics these days. Kudos to you :)
I definitely understand where you're coming from, and have experienced that exact mindset (even heard it spoken out loud), yes. Thankfully for my personal experiences there was mutual consent each and every time - I would want to try things too, and after trying I concluded they weren't for me. Relationships didn't work out because of it, but aside from that, all good. :)
I forgot a word there: relationships where it turned out they *thought* they could fix it. lol
being called names, being beat up in the streets, getting looks of disgust just for being yourself. That's the part I hear my LGBT friends talk about, and I just felt being viewed as a loner is... quite tame in comparison. :P
Denial of sexuality is a fun one, I've definitely had (short) relationships where people were okay with the ace thing at first, but where it turned out they could 'fix it' by being good enough in the bedroom. which isn't how that works at all...
The systemic disadvantage is real, I've talked with two asexual friends about living together just for the benefits... just haven't followed through.
All in all, yeah you have a point, I'll give you that! I was thinking more along the lines of,
The pressure for a relationship/(grand)kids is something I for sure recognise, although I haven't told my family anything about being ace. I suppose they think I'm just a loner, lol. Which is actually false, I have a heckton of friends (including quite a few asexuals, because I guess we do flock together?) and am not worried at all about dying alone.
As an asexual, wasn't I included in the + already? The A always feels a bit unnecessary _to me_ anyway, asexuality doesn't have anything close to the societal bias, discrimination, and hate that those other letters have to deal with...
Not sure if they kept any visible damage, I do know that they have a new rooster on the spire with wings that look like flames, kinda phoenix-like to symbolise the endurance/resurrection of the building and memorialise what happened
"hard work to get there" hehehe
My watch registers "other workout" when I play the drums at a decent tempo for a while. Which seems accurate enough, actually.
Yeah but that's actually good for you, unlike a spider in your brain. Instantly boost your immune system just by inhaling a few extra anty bodies
To hide cute stickers all over your house, duh. You'll be finding them for months (:
Well they failed, then, because of course it's there
Tried to simplify: Log4j lets you log things when running java code, it was practically standard to use it so impact was huge. Log4j could also reach out to request/look up data from other servers to log that. The problem started when a user could input text that was logged: they could tell log4j to connect to a server under their control, and either A. have log4j send critical secret information from its own system to that server or B. let their server give log4j malicious code to execute.
Must have been a Fine Swell Day
Put a heckton of tiny lights on it and swap them out around christmas
Very reasonable steps. Regarding auto leveling, there's something there that has messed me up before, there - does your start gcode include the instruction "M420 S1"? Because that one is supposed to load the virtual leveling for use, and without that it just won't do anything with the level mesh when it starts printing.
It might also be the filament, but to be honest it's never been the filament in my experience
Strange. I read it has a heated bed, so it shouldn't be too impossible. Aside from checking your bed level, temperature and print head z-offset, I would recommend cleaning the bed with alcohol (that usually fixes it for me, especially after the printer has sat idle for a while).
This is the way! Seeing people endlessly discuss the best type of supports without considering they can just create better parts is such a pet peeve of mine
Apparently Turkey, so yeah, not surprised
txt2img and img2img are definitely not enough, no :P I have played a little with inpainting but it still didn't seem to be enough (it quickly lost coherence with the rest of the artwork, and going through 50 iterations is not usually quicker than just drawing a thing). It looks like it has somewhat improved, I am definitely interested in trying again some time
Yep, it's currently mostly concept-art illustration work ish, although I don't see that changing much by training your own bots. It's a very interesting concept though, because then the artists would still have 'something only they have' to improve and sell...
Wrong, I am a mainly digital artist with a software development job - I absolutely understand computers and learning new things is what I do. I managed to get some almost passable results with a lot of effort, but we're still a very long way off imo.
As someone who draws, I've *tried* to use AI to cooperate as an art tool. It doesn't do what you want if you have any specific vision (combinations of interactions, poses, expressions, specific objects, locations). You could try to touch up what it spits out, but it's like playing whack a mole, the moment you fix one error, you spot another, and you can't ask the AI to fix it either because it's inconsistent between runs. It was easier and faster to just draw from scratch..
It's something you just have to experiment with and learn, nobody is born with this kind of intuition! How fast you pick up that skill is the part we call 'talent' I suppose, but that's not a requirement at all to start understanding how the colours work together.
That step is called 'underpainting' and it is not so much about the colour as it is about the value (the darkness) of the paint. You'll notice it's used where the shadows are cast, the purple is a nice dark starting point that is richer in colour than black would be. It creates more contrast when the skin tones are added later. :)