When I was getting married to my wife, I reasoned that if she wanted a stone on her ring, that she should decide the colour and cut first. In the end, she chose an emerald cut pink sapphire, which as it turns out is way less common than a diamond.

At one point in time during the discussion, she brought up the word 'rare', and I suggested tanzanite (only found in one mine in the world, many orders of magnitude more rare than diamond), but she didn't like the colour.

Obligatory XKCD chart:
https://xkcd.com/1732/

The major difference is that Biden self reported the callsified documents and willingly gave them up. Trump denied having them, then sand bagged the Feds every step of the way crying blue murder and obstructing the proper procedures. Trump was given multiple chances to hand them over, but ignored them all.
Also, Biden's documents were at his private home, Trump's documents were in Mar-a-Lago, a private club that can be accessed by other individuals.
Many people like to equate those two situations because they both use the words 'president' and 'classified documents', but in reality, they were handled vastly differently.

Fooocus for 100% local image ML generation, and Oobabooga and Silly Tavern for 100% local ML chat. They can all run on an RTX 3070, a card that is 4 years old.

Hey internet armchair "expert", it's summer in the southern hemisphere you lugnut.

Also, I can't believe we have to keep repeating this statement to all the neckbeards: weather != climate.

Also, one more time for the cheap seats in the back, yes the earth's temperature has gotten warmer and cooler in the long distant past, but over a tremendously longer timeline:
https://m.xkcd.com/1732/

I do something similar. I have my LG TV connected to my LAN, but I use Pi-hole as my DHCP server, then block all traffic to and from my TV. I am amazed by how much data it wants to send.

Like another commentor, I can't tell if you are trolling or not. In case you are not, pictures are very good at illustrating what is currently happening. Yes global temperatures have swung back and forth before, but not over such a tiny time-scale as now with the vast quantities of CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere at such a fast speed:
https://xkcd.com/1732/

So basically you are saying "if I have to suffer, so does everyone else." I hope that we can all strive to improve work conditions for ourselves and others, not drag everyone down to the person experiencing the most suffering.

Many 3D artists practice their skills by creating digital replicas of well known people including actors, then post the results on websites like Artstation. For example, here is one posted just 13 hours ago: https://www.artstation.com/art...

Would these artists be liable and/or prosecuted under this new bill? That would seem excessive...

Or quite simply, open a blank new file of the same resolution, flatten the image of the existing file, marque select all of the pixels, copy the selection, then paste into the new file. Metadata is not is not held in the copy buffer when coping the rgb value of each pixel in a selection.

The workers specifically cited in TFA are the on-set VFX team, they can not be outsourced.

I work in VFX, and will say the biggest waste of money on big budget films is the middle management and executives changing their minds too often and giving notes on shots when they are almost finaled, or even omitting entire sequences that have been worked on for a long time. Let's use AI to remove them and speed up their jobs.

"What's Kronos?" says most of the VFX industry. Most high level VFX companies have been implementing USD in their pipelines for a couple of years now.

Pixar created it and are the main gate keepers. The other players are there to join in on the standard, and it is a good one. Most high level VFX studios are implementing USD in their pipelines now and have been for a while.

You are over estimating Apple's presence in this group. The VFX and feature animation industry is pretty much dominated by Autodesk right now, though there is a slow transition away to SideFX that has been grinding away for a while. To most of us in the VFX industry, seeing Apple in there is a non-event.