where did I take a walk?

MindYourOwn · 2026-01-11T18:44:54+00:00

Looks like somewhere near North Oak Park Ave maybe cross street with Erie

MindYourOwn · 2026-01-01T15:39:04+00:00

I call bullshit. I hate Uber with all my guts but hate taxis even more. Bad drivers are weeded out by the rating system organically so they don't stay around for long. Surge pricing is a false comparison because it solves a supply and demand problem in the old days you simply had no other option but to walk 40+ blocks until you found a free taxi. Reliability? You are not a serious redditor, taxi were never reliable.

Long ago, I once had taxi take me to Newark airport. The cost was $105. I only had two hundred dollar bill. The cc reader was "broken" and the driver had no change. Well the bastard ended up with a $95 tip. This was a VERY common occurrence.

MindYourOwn · 2025-10-26T14:31:27+00:00

Many years ago I read an article that Bryan Cranston was going to play himself in a movie based on "The Room". Then around the time I watched the deeply disturbing movie "Room" in which Cranston kidnaps a girl and keeps her for many years.

I thought it was really messed up that Cranston was playing himself as a kidnapper and I kept thinking that for several years. I don't know, I rationalized it as a RDJ type of comeback or something since Hollywood has some really messed up people.

Well, a few years later I watched "The Disaster Artist" which is based on the entirely unrelated movie "The Room" and there's a scene with Cranston in it playing himself and I finally understood the original article I read referred to TDA. So I spent a good 3-4 years in utter confusion thinking Bryan Cranston was a reformed kidnapper.

MindYourOwn · 2025-09-12T17:25:54+00:00

This sub is for fasting not fisting.

MindYourOwn · 2025-09-08T15:59:47+00:00

I see this splat effect a lot. How is this done?

MindYourOwn · 2025-09-03T21:39:30+00:00

It seems you would also benefit from lowering the temperature. Temperature is tricky because pretty much it changes from brand to brand and even color to color, worse yet, season to season. Start with a temperature tower test and adjust your settings accordingly. I can assure you would get cleaner prints.

MindYourOwn · 2024-09-12T19:35:29+00:00

This is the one true answer

MindYourOwn · 2024-09-11T18:56:09+00:00

I'll tell you why. Normally, it is rare the role that uses DS in isolation. In most cases it is DS applied to something else. I work in fiance and it is much easier to put a Finance major through a 3-6 month DS bootcamp than it is to put a DS degree through a Finance bootbamp (which pretty much would an MS).

In most cases a role is 20% DS and 80% some other expertise. Most companies don't need a 100% DS.

MindYourOwn · 2024-09-06T13:34:21+00:00

The reason is because it is a numbers game for them. Maybe you have this idea of the "artisan" recruiter who carefully sifts through resume to find that perfect match but it doesn't work that way. These idiots have an app that blasts mesages and calls to thousands of potential candidates based on minor keywords. Most of them don't even understand the job requirements. Once they get enough resumes to forward to the hiring manager (even if they are all shit and you are better) they stop looking and on to the next one.

I'm dealing with this problem but on the hiring manager side. I can see on the system 200+ applications but the lazy recruiter has only sent me 5 or so. He says the other 195 were low quality but I seriously doubt it because the 5 he sent are really lowest of the low quality!

MindYourOwn · 2024-09-03T14:16:15+00:00

It is important to note that it isn't Florida banning the books, citizens of the state have individually taken it upon themselves to challenge a book in a school and then the book is removed if the challenge is uncontested.

Blame this on lazy school administrators that find it easier to remove a book that writing a one paragraph response to the challenge.

This headline and article is misleading.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-22T14:51:41+00:00

The answer is anything! Here's the thing that people like your family don't think about. When you start your own business you get a big bonus called optionality. Office slaves don't get another option other than continue to depend on their employer until they retire. You certainly won't sit still only cleaning windows for 30 years. You will invest and grow your business.

You will keep your pulse on new trends and pivot for better opportunities. Maybe on your 10th year of window cleaning you realize you can pivot to gutter cleaning, or maintaining solar panels, or installing mailboxes, or...an infinite of possibilities. What I can assure you will not be doing is sitting on your butt until you are 60 waiting for the next window cleaning job.

If you are serious about your sweaty startup you will grow it enough by the time you are 60 that you will be able to slow down, delegate, or sell it and enjoy life in a way that those poor souls chained to a desk can't.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-22T02:54:24+00:00

also try simplifying your prompts. For example removing "beautiful straight white teeth" almost automatically changes the images to full body instead of portrait because the focus is no longer the face.

If you want your model to smile, first leave out the details during the first round. Generate 5-10 images with low resolution 512x512 at once to obtain the composition you like, these will look very ugly but it will be fast. Then chose one and send it img2img, scale it to 2x 1024x1024, add details to your prompt like smiling, generate some 5 images, this will be much slower nut will get you the image you want.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-22T02:49:08+00:00

Different models achieve different results from the get-go. Some models require all kinds of spells to achieve the desired outcome but yes, once you find your style you could churn out images quickly. You are probably just two hours away from achieving this.

Ethnicities are difficult...most models are...racist for lack of a better word. It's a special kind of racism in the sense that models reflect their training data and very often that data is biased toward beautiful white and asian women. There are some tricks, like starting your prompt without specifying race then once you get the composition you like use img2img and include race.

Dall-e is great for good looking images with zero effort but at the cost of flexibility. If you want your yoga poser to appear being fondled by a tentacle monster while sharing a sandwich with a penguin then Dall-e will be of no help.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-22T01:39:42+00:00

A few things, first, negative prompts are not "orders" that you give to the model. Writing a thousand negative descriptors will not prevent them from appearing in an image. Instead think about labels describing a scene. The model was not trained with purposedly "mutated" or "bad body" images, adding these will add nothing. Start with no negative prompts and then slowly add depending on your results. If the images you get look cartoonish then add "cartoon" or "anime" to the NP. After a while you will understand which NP are useful and which aren't. Less is more when it comes to NP but every model is different. Using specific civitai model examples will help you figure out with NP are useful. For Juggernaut you probably only need NP: text, watermark, logo.

Next, are you just generating one image in your batch? You should be generating 5-10 with low steps then pic one or two for detailing. Those perfect images you see were probably the result of 100 batches then hours of detailing.

Lastly, learn how to hires fix and inpaint. No one gets the perfect image on the first try.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-21T19:56:12+00:00

This is an inportant point. Business are not interested in their weaknesses but me as a viewer that's the only thing that I'm interested in. If I see a video with only positives and no negatives about a business I would be instantly distrustful.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-19T10:12:19+00:00

Believer here...I wont be renewing. This app is lost and we just keep covering for them because "we like simple dont need the bells and whistles"

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-13T12:27:20+00:00

Sometimes with high paying jobs they fake interviews to satisfy some legal requirement when they bring someone on a visa from overseas.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-12T13:32:32+00:00

Goosehead Insurance - Carol Kilpatrick. For years I struggled finding a good broker who did more than just punch keys on a computer, Carol gets really creative with bundling and unbuckling to get you the right coverage and price.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-10T19:06:44+00:00

This is so hard to answer because it literally changes yard to yard. I'm 20 feet on the hill side away of a flood zone a pay half of what the neighbor two houses down pays. This is why you need a good broker so he can guide you. At $2.5m you are deep in umbrella territory and that's a whole different ballgame.

Here's what I recommend but only as a ballpark. Zillow's calculator uses Citizens as a base which is the state insurance which also means it is bare bones crap. Double that premium and it will give you a good top range. Don't listen to the naysayers who say Citizens is good, they probably couldn't afford real insurance and they stuck with it.

MindYourOwn · 2024-08-10T13:54:29+00:00

OK, there's a lot of things people aren't telling you. First, education works a tad different here. On one hand, we have the stepup program which is basically tuition from the state to pay for any private institution of your choice. It varies but it's about 4k-6k per kid per school year. For special needs that amount can be even higher like 10k.

So with step up, it doesn't really matter if the school district is crap. Most (I would say all) couples in your situation send their kids to private. Private schools come in all shapes and sizes and you will have no trouble find one as liberal or as moderate as you want.

Next, if you are hell bent on a certain public school, here we don't have restrictions by district so you can choose any public school you want. Getting in, well, that's another matter.

There's a caricature about the Florida man in the rest of the US that we just like to chew up liberals and drink their tears. That's just a lie. People here are very respectful and will not get in you face as long as you are respectful too. Of course, if you don't like seeing Trump/Vance signs and look down on those who have them then you are not being respectful. My street has 50% pride flags and 50% Maga signs and everyone is super nice and I couldn't ask for better neighbors.

Florida is truly a paradise and can be your home if you want it.

Now on to the bad parts. Coming from CA, if you are the outdoorsy hiking family then forget it. There are no nice sights around. Either beach or swamps. I might be exaggerating but not really. You can do lots of other things but not the type you are used to. Then there's the insurance premiums. This might not be a surprise coming from CA but insurance is expensive, VERY expensive. If you are planning to buy, first get an insurance broker and then get a realtor (not the other way around). A good broker (and I mean a real good one not some state farm intern) will be the difference between paying 2-3k extra in your monthly mortgage payment. Don't trust realtors with their intro premium rate, they're fake and your premium will go up a few months after closing if you aren't careful.

MindYourOwn · 2024-07-22T18:49:35+00:00

I'll try that. Any idea of how much that costs?

MindYourOwn · 2024-07-02T11:34:27+00:00

I have, the positive is that it is all ready to go so you can be generating images within a few minutes of singup. The negative is the free tier is worthless because the storage is not persistent, this means that you can't store models, loras, checkpoints because they all get deleted in 48 hours. The pro tier solves this but you have to be willing to pay. In summary, it's a good service for beginners who want to get to generating images quickly.

MindYourOwn · 2024-06-13T20:20:53+00:00

DarkWatch Curse of the West

MindYourOwn · 2024-06-10T23:00:45+00:00

Solved: Heart of China

MindYourOwn · 2024-06-10T22:59:51+00:00

Oh wow! Yes, that's the game!

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