Same place as ever, impressions and click-through. The theoretical goal here would be to offload all the processing to the user’s PC, making delivery of this customized ad content close to free.

However the largest advertising targets are now mobile by far, and those platforms don’t have GPU to speak of, especially from an AI perspective. So so far not feasible.

Likewise Dunlop makes everything even slightly rubbery, from tires to tennis racquets, golf balls and hydraulic hose

If you live in the right area you may already have one!

I see someone else has been reading the sovereign citizen post on the front page.

I would double check your contract, though… There’s this guy who’s a competitor to Heaven Inc. and he’s famous for being a stickler when it comes to contracts. Notably, he’s not known to be their subsidiary or an affiliate, but he’d probably offer a sovereign soul a home.

Illustrator I can’t see going anywhere as AI still makes too many mistakes. At least technical illustrations, that is. For something like a paperback cover or low-end kids book AI already has that market covered.

Concept artist is probably toast for sure. Except in specific Industries like automotive where you need a real concept for development.

I finally played around with it with my young daughter a couple days ago for laughs. Now I actually see the point of it.

Yes it’s ugly as hell. But it’s the rapid prototyping process of art. You ask it to slap some shit together. Nope, that’s awful. That’s worse, that’s hilariously terrible! There is always something wrong.

It’s great for throwing ideas at the wall far faster than a real person could sketch them. Especially if that person can’t draw, like me. But the finished product is only ever worthy of a meme, not a gallery.

However an artist could easily use that process to brainstorm some ideas. It’s like psychedelics but the computer is taking them for you

I wouldn’t call this a “python thing”.

I grew up with C and C/++ is still my main language, checking for empty strings is instinctive to me. It’s cheap insurance and what does it cost, a couple cycles?

Though you won’t find me using bare cstrings these days unless there is a damn good reason for it. So much extra work to handle them. Even in embedded work, String classes have superceded them.

It’s been awhile since college, but usually it just meant you got to delay the headache until later in the day

Not here with hard well water unfortunately… Hardened scale is quite robust against vinegar unless soaked. But either muriatic or phosphoric acid will do it, or hot citric acid. In descending order of effectiveness, as well as risk of giving yourself severe acid burns.

Sinks almost always look like this here as a thin layer of iron scale forms very fast.

Manjaro has been my first entry into Arch and I’ve been nothing but happy with it a month or so of use later. 10 minute install, worked perfect out of the box and has done so ever since.

Almost 20 years of Linux on the desktop and I’d never thought to dare try an Arch based system until now.

I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn’t left home yet?

Today she would probably be a student, but she isn’t studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable “career path” in those days.