America's doing such a good job at being the little bitch boy to Iran... "ooooh we had productive talks". Oh wait, that's right, he ended the prohibition on Iran's oil, so America is actively funding Iran's war against itself. Definitely a position of power he's negotiating from. LMFAOOOOO

Is the company paying Texas a billion dollars for land leases? Or did our government give away a billion dollars in fees?

Lmfao, even ignoring all the environmental impacts... you really want to be held hostage by these crazy gas prices? You know all the wealthy elites are getting backdoor information from these moves, so they know where to call / put stocks and such, so they don't care.

They're not getting subsidies to build wind farms. They're getting a cool billion to not build wind farms.

Okay, move directly next to one. It's cheap land since no sane person wants to suck in a shit ton of pollution, but you seem fine with it.

Not that I like the decision, but it's cleverly done. The headline is misleading. the company will get reimbursed for their purchased licences for the offshore development, and build some natgas facility instead with the same money. It's money-neutral for everyone involved, and it develops some sort of energy infrastructure.

Of course it is only a dilatory move that has no perspective of enduring a change of political leadership, but that's not the issue today.

To stop offshore wind farms. It's right in the title of the post for crying out loud.

My electric util pays me. Why? I have solar and push back to the grid. My neighbor was bitching about their $600 electric bill, I told him last month I got a credit. He was angry AF. So, your comment is bullshit and you know it. MAGA moron, you can't even log in so you're just a troll.

The headline is retarded.

He isn't "paying" them. The Department of Interior is refunding fees. Refunds are normal practice and not something that Congress needs to approve on an individual basis.

If you want to know the trigger-words, just watch fox news.

Alternate Energy is right up there with trans and woke on the "stop thinking rationally and follow the leader!" triggers

We will continue to have a large segment of our population behaving like triggered nut-cases as long as we tolerate these modern peddlers of yellow journalism

Frankly fox news has become successful to the point of soiling the world, and trump is the worst case manifestation of their tactics

I think this should be ruled unconstitutional. It is congress that has the power of the purse, Trump shouldn't be able to pay anything for something like this without their approval.
If he does cause it to be paid, it should come out of his own personal finances.

Paying more taxes and creating more debt to have less infrastructure and less proof against global petroleum market instability. From the brilliant mind of a Wharton School economics graduate.

Only 1/200th the cost of starting a war in the middle east! https://apnews.com/article/ira...

You're such a pussy. I've been thrown against a car, roughly frisked and told in "clear terms" at the top of his voice if I moved he'd beat my ass. Why? Because I matched the general description of someone who had broken into a nearby home, roughed up the residents and stole their shit and he was calling me in.

It was night time on my regular walk through a nice residential neighborhood. When he confirmed I wasn't the guy and some other cops had the right guy 2 blocks away, he only said, "you're not who I'm looking for, you can go" and he left. End of story.

I finished my walk and went home. Just another night.

Only pussies like you cry like a bitch about a cop telling them to move their illegally parked car. That's all that would have happened if the cop showed at the museum for the bitchy rent a cop. I told you, pussy, I lived in some really rough places. Getting shoved around by a cop was the least of my fears. It was just another Tuesday.

You silly little silver spooned white guys. Such a pussy you post your dumb shit AC.

300k+ killed in Iran. What if they had guns too?

He's the VP. Why can't he simply say "We're no longer going to do that." Why was it done in the first place if he didn't think it would be good? If he can't do things like that, there's something seriously wrong with how Microsoft is organized.

How, precisely, do you imagine a bunch of vectors are applied to a series of text to create an image? Do you imagine that a little hermunculous within the machine rubs the vectors all over the text until an image grows forth from them like fungus?

Diffusion generated art is a process. The model is merely the weights used for that process.
It takes software to feed the noise and embeddings to the model in order to produce the image.

I swear to fuck you get dumber every time you try.

Bullshit. You're trying the mental gymnastics. I tried to gently tell you it was just going to make you look stupid.
You said:

Which of course, no one ever denied. This is called a straw man.

And this is you beating that straw man to a pulp.

All I need to do is point to one artist who judged his work by what the output of the model was, no differently than a complex filter in photoshop, which they also have no fucking clue what its technical details are, but a pretty fine grasp of what its non-technical details are- almost precisely analogous to how they'll use model-generated/augmented art.

You see, you aren't really trying to argue for their control. Because they have that. What you're trying to do is wrap up an anti-AI argument in a veneer of apologetics. It's transparent, and it smells of horse shit. Give it a rest.

Shit- you're right! Games haven't been made in 3.5 years! It's like Children of Men up in this bitch.
Diffusion-generated art is all over gaming.

Or perhaps you were arguing that, "since games were made before its advent, they can be made without it!" To which... well, no shit. What is your point?

Uber/Lyft controls your actions and forces you to pick among the customers it sends you. You are paid at the rate they tell you. They engage in a bunch of illegal activities to harm their rivals, evade regulators, and steal income from workers. You have to actively work for every cent.

With OnlyFans, you bring the customers. You set your entire schedule and prices. Creators on their platform are the ones engaged in the illegal activity. Once you've created content, you can leave it online and earn funds from subscriptions.

The way they run their companies is completely different despite both being gig-style jobs. For ride sharing companies, you're part of their brand. For OF, you create your own brand. So yes, it's an issue for ride sharing companies to not provide minimum benefits since they're the ones setting your prices. For online porn sites, you're the one setting your prices so if you can't earn a living wage then that's only on you. Why should they provide benefits if you have a passive site gaining income from subscriptions?

It's the dumb people who don't know that are pushing for "Cheap" EV's, From China. Probably The Chinese are the ones pushing it too. Look at the Myriad of videos that PROVE that Chinese EV's Are Trash. So many of their companies are going under, the quality sucks, They rip the customers off, The Tech is sub par. and many many more problems. EVEN EUROPE Don't want them. Oh and RUSSIA TOO! Why don't Russia want them!!!?? SAME PROBLEMS, They can't work right in the extreme temperatures, the service sucks. It's Standards which China doesn't have! The Chinese want to force their way into markets and those markets discover the Chinese products are Trash. Even Mexico is discovering that now. It's not Worth it! Just look at the videos the Chinese are posting on their own cars for proof, they are disappointed in it.

It's really nice to have what is basically the world's most awesome anti-aliasing / magical magnification application there is.

The problem is that you cannot extract more information than there was in the source data, so when you add detail you are literally adding it (not recovering it). When AI adds detail, it can do some amazing things... but it can also hallucinate or average things towards a blend of its relevant training data.

It's a cheap shortcut that is unnecessary for most people and for the people who really care... it's offensively inferior.

I don't know what world you live in but I went from a AMD card to an Nvidia card and the image was basically identical. I'm sure you could pick apart little bits of pixels here and there but you would have to really really be looking.

Mind you I have a pretty old card so maybe if you turn on Ray tracing that's not true. But I've seen comparisons from Ray traced games on the 9000 series now that AMD is caught up to where Nvidia is and they look identical to me.

Back in the day even with my shitty color vision I could see the color quality difference between the better ATI cards and Nvidia. But that was because Nvidia was doing tricks in the driver to turn off various features in order to get higher frame rates while pretending those features were enabled. They got caught when somebody renamed and executable.

Studios will use it as a shortcut so they don't need to spend as much time doing development work and don't need to pay those filthy filthy employees. So it'll be turned on by default whether you like it or not.

That's why you're starting to see Ray traced lighting everywhere. It requires fewer man hours to program because you can let the GPU do a bunch of the work as long as you're willing to let it tank frame rates.

Which would be fine if games were designed for 30fps gaming like they were on the Xbox 360 but they're not. You have games designed for 60 FPS gaming that run at 30 or even 25 FPS and they play like crap.

North Korea had some kind of Red Star Linux, from what I remember. But what interests me now is the digital sovereignty movement in Europe. Hopefully the regime in the US can push them to abandon Microsoft, where the technical problems apparently couldn't.

It could spur development and marketshare for Linux, but it could also spur a terrorism designation from the US government.

Someone who knows what "empathetic" means.

Their claim is that they are a commodities futures company. If it's found to be really gambling, maybe it will show that futures trading is *also* gambling, as is most stock trading. Investing in a stock that pays dividends is owning a piece of the company and sharing in its profits. Most trading these days gains or loses based on the volatility of the share price. The share price can go up or down based on a wide range of factors that have little to do with the core business. It is gambling just as much as betting on a sport based on who is home or away, or whether you think it will rain at a horse track.

Stable Diffusion is only 3.5 years old. Maybe you are an LLM?