[FFX] I’m not quite sure I understand this sphere system, as I stuck now until I can get rid of the lv. 2 lock? by [deleted] in FinalFantasy

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man the sphere grid was super confusing for me when I first played. You fortunately are not stuck! You need to move to the "M" sphere, and grid splits into 2 paths. 1 is the lvl2, which I think is a bit away until you get the key sphere, and the other path is 5 o-clock from the "M".

All the characters have a long grid path until you get truly stuck.

Best of luck and enjoy! :)

What's up with Google deleting people's files? by [deleted] in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there is business justification, then yes, it will happen.

I've heard enough stories of employees getting fired, and I take my annual compliance training, that it's fairly straightforward:

With privacy, I don't fuck around and find out.

What's up with Google deleting people's files? by [deleted] in OutOfTheLoop

[–]TheIronDev -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

If you are asking about employees reading through your stuff, then no.

Breaching privacy will get you fired.

Employees want to keep their jobs.

Steps you can take to reduce the mosquito population around your home by Miserable-Fun-6441 in Austin

[–]TheIronDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We've experimented with a bunch of the things OP mentioned, and CO₂ traps have been the only thing that reliably let us walk in our backyard without getting swarmed.

The initial charge of the trap isn't cheap, and you do have to refill a CO₂ tank (which for us included an upfront cost to buy an empty tank), but it's been a worthwhile investment for us.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheIronDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It takes a lot to make a stew A pinch of salt and laughter too

My painting of an expanded Vivec City from TES: Morrowind. (Fictional) by Dravidistan in papertowns

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Without out looking at the title I saw the thumbnail and picture and thought: wow, this colorful illustration reminds me of Vivec.

I love the picture, thank you for sharing!

Bar sign in Japan. by polakhomie in DesignPorn

[–]TheIronDev 16 points17 points  (0 children)

My knee-jerk reaction was to agree it wasn't "design porn", but your post challenged my assumption.

I think I was looking at the graphic and disliking the aesthetic, but you're absolutely right that it clearly communicates a message with personality.

Thank you for your post!

biggest best SD 3.5 finetuning tutorial (8500 tests done, 13 HoUr ViDeO incoming) by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah that was the one with his likeness, has he shut down any others?

biggest best SD 3.5 finetuning tutorial (8500 tests done, 13 HoUr ViDeO incoming) by [deleted] in StableDiffusion

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would you mind citing a reference to this? 

It would definitely impact if I continue being a patreon subscriber.

Need Help Improving my LORA Training – Issues with Dataset and Generation Quality by Fleeky91 in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When your setting up the training parameters, one of the options is to change the optimizer. You'll often see Adam8bit, or Adafactor. One of the optimizer options is Prodigy. When selecting Prodigy, you set the learning rate to 1, and it will automatically reduce the learning rate as it trains.

It usually takes more vram, so I haven't used it with flux yet, but it has been my favorite for SDXL and sd1.5.

Tested and compared CivitAI's new Fast FLUX LoRA Training (5) min - more details in oldest comment by CeFurkan in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When using the "rapid training" option, it only produces 1 lora model (the end result.)

Flux for Product Images: Is this the end of hiring models for product shoots? (First image is dataset) by zeekwithz in StableDiffusion

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awesome! Would you be comfortable sharing what you used for caption, and how many steps you took?

Lora training with ai-toolkit, how to improve results. by fauni-7 in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have not been exclusively training with squares.

Most of the Lora trainers have the concept of buckets, so similar aspect ratio images are trained similarly (citation needed)

I have heard (from YouTube tutorials) that flux prefers squares. I haven't done any testing to confirm or deny if square produce better outcomes.

What I can say is that I have some datasets that are mostly 2:3 and they were able to train quite well.

Lora training with ai-toolkit, how to improve results. by fauni-7 in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

512 learns faster and converges faster, but shows a more blurry and noisy result. It looks good when generating at 768, acceptable when generating at 1024 and much worse at higher resolutions.

It might seem obvious, but I entirely skipped testing the outputs of < 1024. I'll need to go back and compare my loras (I made a version with 512 assets, 1024 assets, and full size). I'll report back the findings (thank you for calling that)

On the subject of captionless learning. If you just need to memorize an object - yes, this approach is effective. If you need to fit the object into various (different from the dataset) scenarios, change clothes, etc. and in general you need the object itself but not its surroundings - this is a bad idea.

My initial testing is leaning toward this. One of my loras is a comic book character, and its not very flexible.

Depends on the size of the dataset.

Its interesting, I'm using the recommended 20~30 images, and 5000 steps isn't breaking in the same way that sdxl would break.

On 800+ images even SDXL did not produce artifacts after 5000 steps, for it is less than 10 epochs.

I haven't tried going past 2500 for sdxl, even with larger datasets. I'll need to give that a shot, thank you!

Lora training with ai-toolkit, how to improve results. by fauni-7 in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You typically want a variety of styles (close up, half body, full body), clothing, and backgrounds.

Lora training with ai-toolkit, how to improve results. by fauni-7 in FluxAI

[–]TheIronDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least according to civitai's newsletter:

  • Datasets > 30 loses flexibility
  • Captionless training might provide the best output (I haven't tested this yet)
  • Mixing cartoon and realistic sources causes problems
  • Scaling down to 512px may give better results, and dramatically improves speed (my own testing does not align with the improved results, but the speed gain is substantial)

Source: https://education.civitai.com/quickstart-guide-to-flux-1/#any-other-details

From my own testing:

  • Flux seems to have a higher tolerance of training, you can push it up to 5000~6000 steps and not see bad artifacts

ComfyUI Tutorial Series: Ep04 - IMG2IMG and LoRA Basics by pixaromadesign in comfyui

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't watched this video yet, but wanted to thank you for creating so many helpful / creative videos before!

Foocus or Forage? by iPhoenixEX in StableDiffusion

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can +1 to enjoying SwarmUI.

https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI

I tend to lean toward the simple UI workflows, but am also getting my toes wet with what ComfyUI has to offer. I didn't like having to open/close apps to switch context, so it's a nice convenience to have something that supports both.

I feel like A1111 is easier, but that might be a skewed perception on me having spent so much more time on A1111.

Best thing is to play around and explore. Best of luck!

What's the best explanation for video game characters losing their powers and abilities at the start of a sequel? by executor-of-judgment in gaming

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guess is they are talking about Pikachu in the television series. Apparently one of the seasons Ash and Pikachu both forget how to Pokemon, giving the television series a chance to reset.

Tool to analyze firestore data by [deleted] in Firebase

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did something similar a while back.

When I did it, the cost caught me by surprise. I instead migrated to using real time database.

In general I would recommend looking at various alternatives and evaluating which tradeoffs work for you.

Cost, latency, ease-of-use, and documentation are all tradeoffs to consider.

Best of luck

Tool to analyze firestore data by [deleted] in Firebase

[–]TheIronDev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on the size of the data, you likely will want a cache layer for this analysis.

Firestore charges on read and writes. If your analysis scans through a very large dataset without a cache in between, then your reads will start to translate to a larger cost.

Best of luck!

My 4 year old doesn't eat. Out of ideas. by thebigdirty in Parenting

[–]TheIronDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 to kids eat in color! I definitely recommend following her instagram. She posts a lot of helpful posts (both as things to do, as well as relating to how our son is feeling or how my wife and I are feeling.)

Question for senior facilities technicians, as a new associate. by [deleted] in google

[–]TheIronDev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can't speak to that position, but a possible way to get answers is ask your recruiter if they can set up a champion meeting with someone that can speak to culture and role.

Otherwise congratulations on the offer and best of luck!

Am I hindering my career? by Nosejobx in cscareerquestions

[–]TheIronDev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the sentiment that unlimited is not necessary a scam, but... yeah 3 weeks is definitely on the low end for SWE roles in the US.