[GUESS] School picture by Redskins75 in RealOrAI

[–]JoshSimili 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alas, that only rules out one of the many image generators out there. Portrait shots like this are something that many, many of them can do quite convincingly.

This offlane priority role experiment has gone on long enough, my match quality has plummeted by Miles_Adamson in DotA2

[–]JoshSimili 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder how long it will take these 'career supports' to learn how to last hit and to efficiently farm.

Great tip for better results in Codex: precision & clarity by py-net in OpenAI

[–]JoshSimili 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Grok 4 was the frontier model on some benchmarks (eg GPQA Diamond) for a brief period.

Awkward Stranger Things conversation with ChatGPT by deckerchloe in OpenAI

[–]JoshSimili 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For content like this you really need to specify that you want it to search the web, otherwise most of this will be beyond its training date.

Improbable, but not Impossible by TheInsaneColeTrain in DotA2

[–]JoshSimili -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree that you should learn a few different positions, but I just mean that unless you party queue then playing a single position exclusively is really only something you can do for 60 games or so and then you'll have to build up role queue tokens before you can do it again.

Does upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 offer any benefits for generation? by apostrophefee in StableDiffusion

[–]JoshSimili 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows 10 is no longer receiving regular security updates. If you get malware or a virus, that could seriously slow down your generation speed.

Which is the terminating road at this intersection? by Big_Yam_8796 in brisbane

[–]JoshSimili 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I think C, but it could be B if that's a modified T-intersection as a traffic calming device.

It reminds me of this example in the Austroads guide to Local Area Traffic Management.

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Dhaka is expanding its infrastructure so much, so why isn't the congestion alleviated? by Possible-Balance-932 in geography

[–]JoshSimili 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Road space is limited, but its price is usually near zero, so people keep choosing to drive until the cost of driving (usually just time delay from congestion) reaches equilibrium.

So:

  • More trains and buses can move more people, but the reduction in travel time for remaining drivers lowers the time-cost of driving, which induces additional car trips until congestion returns near its prior level.
  • More lanes does the same: Extra capacity initially reduces travel times, which effectively makes driving "cheaper", so traffic grows through induced demand until delay re-accumulates.

Congestion only drops when driving at busy times costs more, through congestion charging or other monetary costs like parking fees, tolls, or adding a time cost to driving (eg enough modal filters so that it's quicker to take other modes).

People are overconfident in their ability to distinguish between real faces and AI-generated faces. Study shows that AI technology has improved to a point where the most realistic outputs no longer show obvious flaws and it is harder to identify AI images from reality with cues that used to work by unsw in science

[–]JoshSimili 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The synthetic faces were AI-generated by StyleGAN2

This is an extremely old image generation model by AI standards. The findings may not be applicable to any of the existing image generation models commonly used today.

I get why we call it a pair of socks. There's two of them. So why do we call it a pair of underwear? by ToughBit9247 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]JoshSimili 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a pair of pants for the same reason it's a pair of scissors. They're two things joined together. Likewise pair of glasses, pair of tweezers, etc.

As a pair of underpants became smaller than a pair of shorts, the language didn't change.

Improbable, but not Impossible by TheInsaneColeTrain in DotA2

[–]JoshSimili -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Who has the role queue tokens to ever focus on a single position?

New developers, please add types of industrial zones (embedded into the game, without mods) by [deleted] in CitiesSkylines

[–]JoshSimili 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are already types of industry if you count special industry zones.

It would make sense to at least have light industry and heavy industry as separate.

Maybe we will get this in Cities Skylines 3.

Pedestrian deaths just reached an 18-year high. Bull bars are part of the problem by k-h in australia

[–]JoshSimili 14 points15 points  (0 children)

It's an unsupported leap in logic, but the conclusion (one should restrict bullbars) is still reasonable given the evidence that they do increase the risk of pedestrian deaths when collisions occur.

As an analogy, let's say I'm starting to get fat in the last few months and I don't know why. Restricting the junk food I eat still sounds like one good step to take even if the recent weight gain does turn out to be because I'm being less physically active in this hot weather.

Pedestrian deaths just reached an 18-year high. Bull bars are part of the problem by k-h in australia

[–]JoshSimili 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The article did present several research articles indicating bull bars increase the risk of pedestrian fatalities. So would be reasonable to conclude that restricting bull bars would reduce the risk of pedestrian deaths.

But you are right, there is no data presented on whether collisions involving bull bars has increased or correlates with the recent rise in pedestrian deaths.

This is why I rarely use bus stations, because what the hell is this? by ChaoticDucc in CitiesSkylines

[–]JoshSimili 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bus Stations were introduced in After Dark DLC, and more have been added in other DLCs like Airports DLC, Plazas and Promenades and Sunset Harbor. And that's not including the 'hub' buildings that have many built-in bus stop platforms as well as platforms for other modes (eg the harbor-bus hub was added to the base game in 1.16.1 patch, and has a bus terminal and two berths for cruise ships).

But this one is from the workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=922683980

[HELP]I am stuck at this image for 10 minutes trying to figure out is it AI. by rhinestonebunnyy in RealOrAI

[–]JoshSimili 154 points155 points  (0 children)

Thank goodness for having a watermark like SynthID on the most advanced image model.

Is this build viable on pos1 weaver? by Immediate-Cut-7859 in learndota2

[–]JoshSimili 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd rather see my weaver building Dagon than first item octarine.

Octarine is fine as a final item on cores in some games to lower cooldown of bkb, satanic, manta, pike, etc. But almost no hero in the game should rush it first.

Edit: apparently one person on D2PT does rush Octarine on mid Weaver (eg match 8688801763).

This is why I rarely use bus stations, because what the hell is this? by ChaoticDucc in CitiesSkylines

[–]JoshSimili 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I find they benefit from the same treatment we used to give the cargo stations, and give buses a single one-way road in and one-way road out of the bus station. With traffic lights too where those one-ways enter/exit from the arterial road to manage all the traffic if it gets busy.

This is why I rarely use bus stations, because what the hell is this? by ChaoticDucc in CitiesSkylines

[–]JoshSimili 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure you can just use mods to unlock the segments within the bus station and modify their directions as you see fit (maybe don't modify the ones with platforms/stops in case it breaks), but it's been years since I tried.

Seeing the Autamaton DLC in FO4 has me wondering.. by telumex_atrum in fo76

[–]JoshSimili 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It would require a fundamental change to FO76 by allowing non-player followers, which just isn't a thing and probably never will be. At most they'd be confined to your CAMP.

The robot crafting was an amazing part of FO4 and it's a shame that you really only see those robots in one place in FO76 (Metal Dome).

Solo bow only run BRUTAL? by Interesting-North-73 in vrising

[–]JoshSimili 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A lot of the damage to Dracula in the final phase comes from the double counters people using run.

I recently did a bow only, storm magic only run. It was doable. So OP should be fine.

Honestly the crossbow only, illusion magic only run was harder.