davidgro
@davidgro@lemmy.world
- Comment on How does generative AI create convincing lighting in images? 1 week ago:
It certainly doesn’t always get it right - I’ve seen subjects lit by bright sunlight in a nighttime background, or just from a wildly different direction, but within a subject the lighting usually seems consistent.
I’ve wondered the same thing myself, my assumption is that it just correlates how lighting works across millions of training images, much like how it manages to get gravity right most of the time.
- Comment on This is fine. 1 week ago:
Whatever that was is gone.
- Comment on Which side are you on? 1 week ago:
I suppose kids aren’t great at centering a dot. But they could draw a six pointed * as easily as an x, it’s one more line.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 1 month ago:
Ah, was guessing that just meant the employee entrance or walkway or something.
- Comment on Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora 1 month ago:
Astroturfers
- Comment on xkcd #2928: Software Testing Day 1 month ago:
I wonder what historical events happened on the 2024th of March, year 00.
- Comment on stegosaurus 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The deal itself is still valid (for two more days it seems), and I’m not mad that it was posted, just frustrated that I can’t claim it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Will NOT activate in United States”
Boooo! - Comment on mmm space chocolate 2 months ago:
Now that would be a Real Genius launch.
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
In most media time machines are also teleporters - many are explicitly so, with the destination space needing to be chosen at the same time as the destination time, but even when that’s not shown they still make the time traveller suddenly vanish and then just suddenly reappear elsewhen.
One movie I’ve seen with a more “realistic” time machine is Primer. It’s not at all a teleporter or portal. Very slight spoiler:
It sidesteps the whole issue that OP presents because the place where you exit the machine after traveling is just where the machine is when it’s turned on to begin with. You can’t time travel outside the machine, including to before it exists, and your path (in all four dimensions) is contiguous.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Exclusive to iPhone. Not even a Web sign up.
- Comment on barn owls 2 months ago:
I’ve often wondered that about house flies.
- Comment on duck duck 2 months ago:
I’m going to assume that there is no context here that I’m missing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
- Comment on get infamous, yeah! 2 months ago:
Sturbly
- Comment on My moon is in Silty Loam but my Sun sign is Clay. 2 months ago:
The lines to follow are the ones at the angle that the little arrow points. Which is ‘down and to the right’ from each side if you put that side on top
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
Since I don’t see it yet…
Super Hexagon
It’s one of the simplest games possible, the controls are “clockwise” and “counterclockwise”, and there are no distracting characters, setting, or story.
And yet the easiest level is – quite accurately – labeled as difficulty “Hard”. The next 5 levels (6 total) go way up in difficulty (and labelling) from there.
Each level lasts 60 seconds. If you can survive that long. I’ve never unlocked the final level myself, so I don’t even know what it is like, but I can guess.
- Comment on 36 flavors 3 months ago:
I’ll never understand how anyone likes the taste of the black ones.
- Comment on xkcd #2905: Supergroup 3 months ago:
It’ll be stuck 500 more.
- Comment on I've noticed that people make the 'surface of the sun' temperature comparison a lot 4 months ago:
Lightning gets there.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 4 months ago:
Back to ChatGPT for that.
- Comment on How do you tell the difference between dream and reality? 4 months ago:
Do many people have trouble with that?
My dreams are all repetitive nonsense that doesn’t even have the quality of feeling like reality. During them I almost never think to wonder if it’s a dream, but if I do then either I wouldn’t be able to hold onto that as a coherent thought, or the dream would just end.
- Comment on A New Chapter For Mozilla 4 months ago:
Hadn’t yet really started on the users, so we’ll be getting it first
- Comment on ifn't 5 months ago:
Ding ding ding ding ding ding…
- Comment on Riot Requires Kernel Level Anti-Cheat Software 5 months ago:
Installing almost anything* on Windows requires the equivalent of sudo, same as Linux.
Determining if it’s a normal install or adding a kernel driver wouldn’t be feasible just by watching the installation. (On either OS if they are not showing terminal output)
*Microsoft store apps are probably an exception, but that’s off topic.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 5 months ago:
Yes that is true… if you end at a “random” point (running out of money for example). But if you can always end at a win (particularly a large one after a string of many losses) then that changes things, the odds become much less relevant because you are manipulating them.*
The problem is that consistently doing so would require genuinely unlimited money and no betting limits, since the number of losses-that-can-happen-in-a-row is itself unlimited. With that little detail the Martingale system would actually work.
Then again if you have unlimited money then why bother to gamble?*(Actually I sorta take back my first comment in this thread, the odds aren’t why to triple, just growing the pot faster each win is)
- Comment on In case you missed it: Fossify (A fork of Simple Mobile Tools) 5 months ago:
They (like myself) mostly downloaded SMT apps from the Play Store, and of course just update them without looking at it since then.
The store page doesn’t have anything suspicious looking about it even now (who’s going to notice the missing ‘s’ at the end of “Offered by Simple Mobile Tool”) and it still says it’s open source.
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 5 months ago:
This is good.
For example, with a million dollar pot and tripling the bet, usually less than 1000 games is safe, you’ll win a small percentage over the initial amount.But sometimes…
- Comment on I'm at a roulette table. I only bet on red. When I lose I triple my bet, when I win I restart. Is this a roulette strategy? 5 months ago:
That’s a reason OP went with tripling the bet instead of the more common doubling when people independently discover this system.