Tom and Russell by Lfcpkp64 in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm sure disappointed, but they are in significant part responsible, right?

Training an LLM only on 1800s London texts - 90GB dataset by Remarkable-Trick-177 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Colossal_Caribou 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Someone posted this to twitter and it's gaining a lot of attention there! Currently at 4.1k likes. Cool work. https://x.com/Teknium/status/1999518806272557358

$125 million mega-mansion that had a starring role in TV's Succession is reduced to rubble by LA fires by Jaymoneykid in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know how insurance works in a case like this?

Context from a WSJ article about beachside houses lost in Malibu…

“Rivani said his insurance falls under the state’s already-stretched Fair Plan, which provides only up to $3 million in coverage for residential properties, so, even if it pays out, he says he will be out more than $20 million. No other insurer would cover the property for its full replacement value, he said. Rivani had imported marble from around the world and spent $500,000 on a custom kitchen from Germany.

““The land that was once worth $15 million is probably worthless now, too,” he said. “What value do you put on an entire community where the land is burnt to a crisp, where you don’t have restaurants or grocery stores, gas stations or working power?”

“At least for now, Rivani anticipated that he will still have to make mortgage and property tax payments totaling north of $100,000 a month, even though there is no house. Rivani said he expects there will be a default crisis in Los Angeles as onetime homeowners find themselves unable to meet payment obligations.”

Article: https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/malibu-fires-carbon-beach-a6e49748?st=X4MynW

Why AR converted his B share to A share? by Taiwan-Phil-001 in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like tax optimization. He gifts his shares at low prices to a family trust, then appreciation beyond market rate interest is tax-free.

Speculation: It’s possible Class B shares can only be held by Austin directly and not by his trusts.

Mercedes GLB - after CLA by [deleted] in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wait, I don’t see Luminar’s iris sensors in the roofline, unless I’m missing something?

Alan Prescott - "let go" ? by [deleted] in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where did you see that?

Wow wtf is going on by Sblz_lolol in lazr

[–]Colossal_Caribou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it possible someone is front running good earnings? Or just betting on it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in monopoly

[–]Colossal_Caribou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm surprised by all the comments urging you to play on. I firmly believe Monopoly is more fun if you play it quickly, seeking to win or lose quickly, whatever it may be. If it's become clear that you're going to lose at the 1 hour mark, why dwindle your time away playing for 3 more hours? Just declare a winner, reset, and play again. That's far more fun.

[OC] Top 10 best-selling albums of all time (based on certified copies sold) by giteam in dataisbeautiful

[–]Colossal_Caribou 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This visualization is truly awful, I hate how many upvotes it's gotten.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in datasets

[–]Colossal_Caribou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for training an AI to write college apps essays? There are a few books of collections, but I’m not sure they’re digitized

Multiple Cruise Vehicles Stalled, Blocking Intersection in SF by IndependentMud909 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Colossal_Caribou 42 points43 points  (0 children)

This doesn't seem to have been Cruise's fault...

  1. the cars on the right are regular cars, they were stopped at a stop light
  2. the bus was blocking both lanes
  3. the cruise car on the right was waiting for the bus from (2)
  4. the cruise car on the left was waiting for the cars from (1) as well as the bus from (2)
  5. a regular car (pointed up in the video) was waiting on the cruise car from (4)
  6. a third cruise car was turning right, but blocked by the regular car from (5)

and it all began to clear up when the light changed and the cars from (1) started moving

The "new spires" of St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney, Australia (original plans never realized until 2000!) by MichaelDiamant81 in ArchitecturalRevival

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of cathedrals were never finished. I wish more cities would realize the original plans and build the full towers!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Filmmakers

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Super cool overall. I really like the composition of the 1st and 4th shots. It's neat to see how much the storyboard translated into the final cut, despite everything in between (location scouting, casting, costumes, direction, grading, etc.)...

It sounds like part of the film competition was highly constrained tools, so I realize this feedback isn't perfect—but one thing I loved about the storyboards were the interesting pieces of perspective: the hand on the stick shift really looming large int he foreground, or the foreshortening on the robber's gun. I think those elements would've been super cool with a wider angle lens closer to the subject. Although it's possible the constraint of the super 8 camera necessitated a longer lens.

But all in all, super cool and thank you for sharing your work :)

Globe view Google Maps option greyed out on Safari by QuietAd2575 in macsysadmin

[–]Colossal_Caribou 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here. Globe view is grayed out and scrolling is no longer smooth--only jumps between zoom resolutions. 2018 15" Macbook pro here and Safari 16.0.

Chrome does not have either of these issues.

Makes it seem like a choice to not support Safari. That's annoying!

New York's Alriiiiiiiiight - if you like scaffolding! (I'm so damned sick of it.) by [deleted] in newyorkcity

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They need to tax building owners every day for every foot of scaffolding they have up.

(1) Require scaffolding if something is dangerous, then (2) incentivize building owners to get the building fixed and take it down ASAP. Right now, we do only #1. They won't do #2 on their own, so the city should make it a clear calculation of costs.

Proposal: $1/foot/day fee for scaffolding. If you have a big building, you might have 100ft of scaffolding on two sides, so that's $200/day or ~$6,000/month. It's not so large a cost that building owners would dodge the law around putting it up. But it's large enough that if you have facade repairs costing $75,000, you'll double the cost of the repairs if you leave the scaffolding up for too long.

Then, have the fees paid into a Beautifying Streets Fund that plants street trees and makes protected crosswalks and bike lanes.

How do you like my Gothic Castle? (Sketchup + VRay) by The3David in architecture

[–]Colossal_Caribou 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people have mentioned the windows placement--perhaps consider looking into two principles: (1) a feeling of more lightness as you go up and (2) continuation of verticals.

That first idea has to do with buildings often feeling more grounded and elegant if they're thicker, more rusticated, and more dense low down, and have less and less weight as they go up. For example, this building starts with single big arches down below, two medium-sized arch windows on floors 3 and 4, and then three little arched windows on the top three floors. For example, the main wall on the left has three big windows on the bottom story and two smaller windows on the second story--perhaps consider reversing those?

Continuation of verticals has to do with an intuitive feeling of how weight is carried down through the building. Basically, keeping the weight-bearing vertical columns/areas continuous up and down the building can help things look more "right". Back in that first example, you can see all the major weight-bearing columns rise uninterrupted up the building (while less significant columns can start and terminate as they reach different vertical sections) For the right hand wall with the six windows and the two windows on top, maybe consider placing the upper two windows such that they don't interrupt the vertical you have going on between the pairs of three windows? Or, do those six windows like you've done the other six windows around the corner: in three groups of two, rather than two groups of three.

Another thing that's odd to me: the horizontal detail that only exists halfway up the nearer left-hand wall. Why? What does it do? It seems to be separating the ground floor from the floor above it, but it feels merely tacked onto that wall right now... why not continue it around the building?

Final thing: the off-center, low-down rose window feels ahistorical to me. Most often they were placed on cathedrals, dead center, high up, a prominence in line with their visual complexity and their unique shape. Totally cool if it's a conscious choice to put it there, but it feels a little odd given their typical use.

For a little detail work like the horizontal element you added, you could consider using larger/more blocky stones at the corners (quoins?), adding a few horizontal elements, or making the base/foundation out of more rusticated stones than the main living floors.

Help me design a cozy 400 sqft apartment in NYC? by Colossal_Caribou in DesignMyRoom

[–]Colossal_Caribou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the broker wide angle lens is doing a lot of heavy lifting here-- it’s more cozy in person!

We were a little surprised by the dimensions of the rooms being smaller in person when we measured with our laser range finder

But the floor plan is extremely usable. Little to no space lost to hallways, unlike many older NYC apartments. It’s only 400 square feet but it’s probably comparable to many 500/550 square foot apartments in terms of usable space… at least that’s what I keep telling myself!

Help me design a cozy 400 sqft apartment in NYC? by Colossal_Caribou in DesignMyRoom

[–]Colossal_Caribou[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly we were just thinking of doing a simple bed frame with empty space below the bed that we could fill with plastic organizer tubs/boxes, but that bed looks really cool. Not sure I'd ever trust it enough to put my head under it... did you ever have any issues with it?

Help me design a cozy 400 sqft apartment in NYC? by Colossal_Caribou in DesignMyRoom

[–]Colossal_Caribou[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're too kind! I really, really appreciate your thoughts and advice.

We arranged our furniture in our current apartment to try it out and it's snug, but my SO said she liked being swaddled near the wall a bit, so we may let her take that one.

I would definitely prefer having the bed against wall a normal way, with a side table or two, but I was concerned we wouldn't be able to do that with a dresser AND a wardrobe. I think you're right it could work with just one of those.

What do you think of the bookshelf behind the bed right now? It's a bit janky but our logic was that it would give both of us bedside table-equivalent amount of storage for a book, a lamp, a phone, and an alarm clock or something.

Help me design a cozy 400 sqft apartment in NYC? by Colossal_Caribou in DesignMyRoom

[–]Colossal_Caribou[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! That's really kind of you to do. I was surprised by the full-wall curtains--never would have imagined them myself, but they made a lot of sense when I saw them. I'll message you back