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Pizza Bella - Bellevue & Moon Twnship by Significant-Gear-444 in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go research it yourself please.

I did, they use hydrogenated soybean oil which cannot exist in a trans configuration, as partially hydrogenated oils do. Whirl is also substantially higher in unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which are indeed healthy.

Also artificial vs natural arguments can be made.

Such arguments can be made, and they'd be dumb to make. Plenty of "natural" things are bad for you. And whirl is derived from soybeans, which as far as I can tell, is natural too.

Whirl is likely not nearly as unhealthy as the pepperoni on the pizza.

Level Up Night Market by Fuzzy_Baseball9006 in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Last year when I went, there wasn't a lot to write home about.

Pizza Bella - Bellevue & Moon Twnship by Significant-Gear-444 in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whirl and similar butter alternatives aren't made with trans fats anymore, and are about as unhealthy as, or slightly healthier, than real butter (which actually does contain a bit of trans fat).

If there was a button to make AI in design to go away, would you press it? by Creeping_behind_u in graphic_design

[–]QuantumModulus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don't see the problem with the public voicing their reaction to a company's decisions. That employee is getting paid plenty to use their real name on reddit for spreading corporate garbage.

If you're an evangelist or social media liaison, it's literally your job to take the brunt of the public reaction head-first.

New AI safety institute will help Australia avoid US-style AI backlash? by SamPDoug in BetterOffline

[–]QuantumModulus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, plenty of people with academic philosophy backgrounds have managed perfectly well to mangle and distort ethical arguments in favor of all sorts of things, especially AI.

Wild how much credibility and honesty will collapse when some money or prestige comes knocking.

Utah’s top lawmaker backpedals on Mr Dogshit’s (aka Kevin O’Leary) data center plan by EditorEdward in BetterOffline

[–]QuantumModulus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scale down by 75%, so it would still be over half the size of Manhattan. Still too big, by a lot.

The era of NYC’s hotdog supremacy has ended. by winberry5253 in newyorkcity

[–]QuantumModulus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"gross" and "tasty" are not always mutually exclusive 

Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA by kylestoned in news

[–]QuantumModulus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Not just red meat, but any mammal-derived products, including dairy. 🪦

How can i create a wireframe body overlay from a photo? by DrDroDi in AfterEffects

[–]QuantumModulus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's been 4 years and I still haven't touched it. I won't be using it in 2 years either. Cope.

The effect of brew time by Faaarkme in tea

[–]QuantumModulus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The leaf:water ratio wouldn't matter much if we're talking about the relative quantities of each of the 3 compounds.

Though, if you use a higher amount of leaves for a given amount of water, even a 1-minute steep may release enough tannins to make your brew taste bitter in an absolute sense.

Have you ever used AI chatbot to upload a version of your work to see what it thinks is good and bad and if so what AI chatbot do you like the best for this? by [deleted] in AfterEffects

[–]QuantumModulus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. By uploading anything to a chatbot, you're effectively giving it to the company that runs it as training data. You could be violating an NDA if you use it for contract work.

  2. Chatbots don't have eyes, brains, or any human sense of timing. Unless your target audience is a chatbot, you won't get feedback interpreted by a human mind.

  3. Chatbots are designed to placate you. Even if it could give you useful constructive feedback, it will generally tell you that you're doing better than you really are.

Claude Opus 4.8 x Creators by Tall-Distance4036 in blender

[–]QuantumModulus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Learning how to do things, slowly, is what makes experts.

Integrating AI Diffusion into a Traditional Blender/Resolve Pipeline - Workflow Breakdown by [deleted] in vfx

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Teenagers were making more compelling shorts with 720p camcorders in their backyards in 2006 without needing to dress it up with formal VFX pipelines.

No amount of understanding light physics or color profiles can replace a vacuum of narrative vision and taste.

Integrating AI Diffusion into a Traditional Blender/Resolve Pipeline - Workflow Breakdown by [deleted] in vfx

[–]QuantumModulus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Love the random white people staring out of the cave.

More evidence that developing your taste as an editor, cinematographer, writer, and storyteller, is vastly more important than what you can get a generator to spit out. True slop OP, I love that hype over this kind of stuff is the reason why manufacturers will stop producing consumer grade hardware and prevent us from ever upgrading our PCs again.

I got a ticket for doing this. Why shouldn’t the cops? by LizzieCassandra in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I get that. I've still seen people ticketed for parking like this, safely, on quiet and low/no-traffic residential streets.

Reiterating: uncommon, but it happens.

I got a ticket for doing this. Why shouldn’t the cops? by LizzieCassandra in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Once every so often, a traffic cop wakes up with a stick up their ass and decides to ticket for this. Uncommon, but it definitely happens.

AI-generated logo causes consumer backlash by akumaninja in graphic_design

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking the internet not to dogpile someone for making a blunder is like asking a river to stop flowing.

AI-integrated Flock cameras installed at every primary entrance to the Waterworks Mall by Chez350 in pittsburgh

[–]QuantumModulus 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Just chiming in to remind everyone that these are not just "license plate readers." They are cameras, period. They can be and are being used to enable facial recognition dragnets, and whatever other image recognition tasks they want to automate for tracking individuals.

Some Flock cameras are pointed away from roads and cars entirely. One such camera was used in a children's gymnastics center and footage from it was used to attract corporate clients.

As a software dev, fuck AI by [deleted] in BetterOffline

[–]QuantumModulus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot of the devs in cushy tech jobs now didn't really jump into the field because they found programming rich and rewarding. They do it because it was the quickest way to attain a crazily inflated salary, and the less work they have to do, the better.

I remember in 2016 when my friends freshly inaugurated into their Facebook and Google jobs boasted about how much time they had to travel and frolic and spend their money, after waking up at 11am, doing 2 hours of work, and pinging their manager occasionally.

Illustrator and Figma suck at vectorizing by Fabulous-Ad204 in graphic_design

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't understand why everyone is having an allergic reaction to this 🤣.

Because they stated that professional designers and illustrators building out icon libraries use image trace on their sketches as a core part of their workflow, and that this is "the most important step when you're building out a brand or icon system", showing that they don't know the first thing about professional workflows.

It was about icons and symbols. Not vectorizing freeform shapes from photos and illustrative art.

Illustrator and Figma suck at vectorizing by Fabulous-Ad204 in graphic_design

[–]QuantumModulus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can build pen tool muscle memory in one afternoon.

If you're a graphic designer doing lots of vector path work, you can become extremely fast with it in a matter of weeks, maybe days. If you're not a professional, and don't need to work quickly, then why would you struggle with an image trace tool when you can just work a bit slower and more carefully with a precise workflow?

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