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Comment oh absolutely (Score 3, Interesting) 61

i work in art department in film and for the most part, gen AI has made life a lot easier for art directors, set dressers and so on... where the old brief was maybe a sketch or storyboard, it's now something the director liked while he was mucking about and wants something 'just like that'. in a way it has created more work.

Comment i work in sets, previz, vfx (Score 0) 24

... and we sure looked into AI helping but it simply can not. With every job, the pipeline requires a heap of specialists, all with enough practical experience to know how to make what possible on the budget and in the timeframe. There is no possible way AI could encapsulate the entire process and even if it did, it would require the dexterity and expertise of the same people it was to replace, only prone to vastly more errors with time-critical, expertise-dependent tasks.

Comment no-one expected this (Score 0) 69

which is a surprise, as it makes sense our local group all rotate in a similar direction. We can only see a portion of the Universe, our field of view is bounded by the speed of light, meaning over time we see less owing to expansion. A black body is a black body, the fact that it's black seems to confuse scientists into imagining many plausible scenarios, none of which consider that our observations, and theories, are localized.

Comment evolution (Score 0) 141

i'm exactly this, a graphic designer not finding work. Most of my work is now 3D modeling and animation, working in film; i also became a youtuber, which taught me sound design, editing, vfx and all the things which are so overspecified, there is no requirement for generative input. Graphics, publishing, physical media, satellite TV... are history. So the author is correct, we wind up doing something else but that's owing entirely to the rapid evolution of media distribution... it's a recent invention that the existence of the internet doomed to extinction.

Comment good opportunity (Score 0) 692

to get to meet like-minded women who are totally into conferences too. This is a bonus for the women, who have no need to compete once the men voluntarily become their slaves. This seems more like slavery fail. I wonder why gender was brought into it at all. The trick is to shift the drawcard and model the interested parties to reflect your chosen demographic, avoiding conflict but losing the mileage that discrimination is likely to command.

Comment Re:sounds like an job for nuclear power! (Score 0) 75

well, part of that aging infrastructure is a little reactor - i live 15 miles from it - but that was long ago, when the utility generated so much power that it became extremely inexpensive. since then, the utility racked up a debt so large, it has bankrupted the country. nonetheless, everything is going private and now is a good time to get some pop-up reactors and stem the tide of coal and the endless corruption.

Comment Natural population adjustment (Score 0) 59

Here in Cape Town a sea mount is home to 5,000 Cape Fur Seals. Young seals are washing up at a rate 10 times greater than normal. Would be a bonanza for the sharks, if they hadn't all left in 2017. We have been told under no circumstances may we feed the seals, and it breaks the heart but it makes sense; you can only temporarily affect a long-term natural cycle and feeding the wildlife is a consequence, not a solution.

Comment facts are facts (Score 0) 86

Investors were defrauded owing to misrepresentation. The court is charged with ascertaining culpability as there is no evidence she acted alone, so they must discard all the inevitable mud-slinging and drill down to the legal liabilities. The courts have seen it all before, every trick imaginable, but by far and away publicity is the most powerful. Did she misrepresent the company with intent to defraud? Did she act alone? And similarly, to investors in ventures and startups, an examination of the risks the investors were aware of, since the nature of their work is speculation and unverified claims or promises are just that. The investor's due diligence influences culpability, as there must exist a filter which separates the crackpot scammers from legitimate breakthroughs, and in this case, a non-existent medical device was being pedalled by a college dropout.

Comment misdirection (Score 0) 163

an investigation may not and shall not have any influence on evidence. Stands to reason. If it does, those aspects will be ruled inadmissable and the merits of the case lie elsewhere. He plea bargained, so his counsel decided a greater than 50% chance of conviction Let's be honest, the role the FBI took would ordinarily be populated with their real target. There are crackpots galore, but not too many explosives suppliers willing to duck the radar for a clandestine purpose.

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