Pennomi

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• WHAT THE FUCK
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I saw a really cool youtube channel about a guy who makes his own tools out of 3D printed parts and concrete. He built both a drill press and a lathe.

Dunno how much cheaper that is than buying the tools outright, but it’s pretty impressive how people can find a way.

You can’t, I cross reference it with Copernicus satellite data to get elevation.

For buildings, there is building footprint data, which I extrude and create a variety of procedurally generated roof styles.

God I’ve been coding up an OpenStreetMap to 3D world generator for my casual side project: a delivery driver simulation game.

It would be trivial to make this level but it makes my skin crawl even thinking about it.

Agreed, rope is more “extreme sport” than kink for a lot of people. Beginner events are generally low-pressure. It’s not nearly as scary as people generally have in mind, and I’m saying that as someone who finds it hard to go out and meet people.

The price of rope can get quite expensive depending on the quality and where you buy it from.

But yeah, finding people to tie with can be a challenge. I know in my area there are multiple groups that do it, and while it was really scary to reach out the first time, it turns out they are charming, friendly people. Definitely worth a shot.

(I mean, I’m in a city, might be harder in less-populated areas.)

Don’t let your dreams stay dreams! It’s pretty cheap to pick up some coreless nylon rope at your local hardware store. There are great free tutorials here, even for self-tie.

It’s a little surprising but rope is a great way to meet new people and make friends.

ALL advertising is a targeted psyop. It’s literally trying to get you to do something you wouldn’t otherwise do.

Still better than being spied on. Irrelevant ads are an improvement.

I was already planning on doing this for my kids (but mostly myself). No Etsy store sadly.

I like how fragile the Christian god seems to be, if transgender people have the ability to override God’s power.

Are we suggesting China is a younger country? I don’t deny they’ve caught up insanely fast though.

Nah, 5s get 100% too.

Well that doesn’t produce a similar output so it’s hard to compare fairly, but yeah. If you don’t need a hard copy of something it’s much better to just imagine it!

But let’s run numbers, an RTX 3090 pulls around 450 Watts (reference spec, it’s probably actually lower). It reportedly takes around 40 seconds to generate an image using Flux on that card. Modern optimizations have cut that back a lot but let’s just use these numbers. We’re looking at around 5 Watt-hours of energy.

So an artist’s brain is more efficient if they take less than ~25 minutes to create a picture (at 12 watts).

I mean, that’s assuming the output of the AI is actually worth anything, of course.

Good guy bartender looking out for the viewer

The darker color indicates that it’s behind her instead of in front of her, attempting visual depth in a limited color palette is difficult.

Memes like this make me realize why AI girlfriends are getting popular.

The polar opposite of the legendary “Pervy Greatwurm”

I suspect it’s more like “use the tool correctly or it will give bad results”.

Like, LLMs are a marvel of engineering! But they’re also completely unreliable for use cases where you need consistent, logical results. So maybe we shouldn’t use them in places where we need consistent, logical results. That makes them unsafe for use in most business.