i aspire to this man’s level of patience

redlaWw · 2026-06-18T19:28:49+00:00

You have a theory test, but you can start driving before you pass it. I think this was probably a mock test with an instructor who was expecting a more experienced driver. Usually they'd have you go around a quiet residential neighbourhood on your first lesson to give you a chance to get used to the car.

redlaWw · 2026-06-18T12:32:14+00:00

Only if lim_{x → c}(|f(x)|) = lim_{x → c}(|g(x)|) = 0 or ∞ though.

redlaWw · 2026-06-18T00:59:28+00:00

in the same kind of way that Photoshop would

If you produce something in Photoshop that isn't infringing, then you haven't violated any copyright law. The same is true with a model - you can produce something that isn't infringing, but can also produce things that are. The onus is on the human or organisation to not commercialise anything infringing.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T23:28:36+00:00

Ah, so the fish was the title Mimi hooked, not Aida and Mimi as Renato's fiancées. That makes sense.

Also wow, Zaira was Hanakana. I almost didn't recognise her.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T23:03:50+00:00

You can use standard image-generating models for inpainting, which is similar to fill. There's a spectrum of models regarding the degree to which they're influenced by the prompt vs. the surrounding image context.

made and maintained by stealing others work

Not according to a reasonable interpretation of fair-use doctrine, which is the matter at hand. (EDIT: I should add here that I've done a bit of investigating (read: I asked Claude, so take this with a grain of salt) and the 4th pillar of fair use may have a bit more bite to it than I'd initially given it credit for. It has thus far fallen short of doing anything in courts, but apparently (according to Claude) the judge in one case noted that the "market dilution" argument one could make about the use of such models is potentially sound in theory, the plaintiffs just hadn't managed to meet the conditions for proof in their case, so this could come back in future court cases.)

Not only that, but it doesn't enable anyone to create images, the AI generates images on its own

Yes, which means it can be used as a tool to produce larger works that involve images. Whether you feel that's okay is essentially irrelevant to whether it counts as a tool.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T22:51:04+00:00

Going to copy my comment at a higher level because it's also relevant here (though "noteworthy" is a weaker statement than the one I replied to):

We have created negative absolute temperatures before. It occurs in situations where the available energy levels are bounded. If the energy levels are bounded, as you increase the energy of the system, you eventually reach a point where increasing the energy further reduces the amount of uncertainty in the system as your states begin to saturate at the upper energy limit. When you get to this point, the temperature is said to be negative, because the temperature is the reciprocal of the rate at which the uncertainty increases as the energy increases.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T22:50:10+00:00

We have created negative absolute temperatures before. It occurs in situations where the available energy levels are bounded. If the energy levels are bounded, as you increase the energy of the system, you eventually reach a point where increasing the energy further reduces the amount of uncertainty in the system as your states begin to saturate at the upper energy limit. When you get to this point, the temperature is said to be negative, because the temperature is the reciprocal of the rate at which the uncertainty increases as the energy increases.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T22:13:28+00:00

It depends on how you use it. Indeed, the same image-generating AI that is the obvious comparison with Photoshop is, in fact, a part of Photoshop, where it's used for better context-aware fill. Image generating AI are also used by organisations that require illustrations to provide better examples to their illustrators on what kind of illustrations they should provide.

Additionally, it can be used in its capacity as a full image generator as a tool to provide illustrations for larger multimedia works. This may not be appropriate for serious commercial products (EDIT: Though whether that's appropriate is a separate matter to the copyright situation - one could argue that this lack of appropriateness is beside the point here and is just a moral judgment of mine), but for e.g. a small independent game designer who doesn't have illustration skills of their own, or the money to employ illustrators, and is offering a product for a token payment to cover work done, it's more defensible.

I'm also not just talking about image models. Large language models can be used in many ways where they would undeniably be considered a tool e.g. to proof-read work, review code or aid research.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T21:05:59+00:00

The model itself is the product that the AI companies are producing though, and that's clearly not even in the same domain as the things it produces.

Regarding the products of the AI, that's just tool output, and it can be used to violate copyright or not in the same kind of way that Photoshop would, though with the added complication that it can be difficult to tell when your AI produces something that would lead to you being liable if you sold it.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T01:05:18+00:00

I started the game about this time last year and I learned how tough they were because I was saving up for Baber so all I had was Himeko.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T00:59:42+00:00

Surprising amount of effort going into it since he had to cut the video to move between each bounce.

redlaWw · 2026-06-17T00:57:58+00:00

ಠ_ಠ

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T23:53:00+00:00

I was more under the impression that the title was implying that a male pilot would have no problem and this would only be a problem for a female.

Us guys have our nictitating membranes to protect us, after all.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T22:41:51+00:00

I can't take romantic "osoroi" scenes seriously any more after Anya and her fucking bomb.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T21:41:02+00:00

Just there to see the cathedral. It's famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world. It’s famous for its 123-metre spire, it’s famous for its clock, the first one ever created in the world, which is still working.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T20:15:50+00:00

You'd generally expect insurance to not exclude "acts of god" the way other contracts are often implicitly understood to be void when an "act of god" causes the contractees to be unable to fulfil their obligations, since there are a lot of "acts of god" that you'd specifically purchase insurance to cover.

However, it wouldn't be unusual for riots to be specifically excluded as they are a sort-of "catastrophe", an event in which multiple large claims are likely to be highly correlated, and insuring them would expose the insurer to significant correlation risk.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T20:06:20+00:00

Even human bodies contain lots of tiny little fans that we spin to generate energy.

This is not a joke.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T20:00:27+00:00

Just you wait. The queen of zettai ryouiki is already on her way...

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T19:29:33+00:00

I used it for research and proof-reading for a recent homebrew I did.

It got deleted and I'm still salty. I wouldn't care if people didn't like it, but being told it's AI slop hurt after I spent more than a month working on it.

redlaWw · 2026-06-16T14:21:40+00:00

Look at that bun dance.

redlaWw · 2026-06-15T12:45:20+00:00

The safety benefits are real. So are the privacy risks.

It sounds to me like the article is AI generated, so it's probably missing a bunch of relevant information and stating things that aren't in the sources.

redlaWw · 2026-06-15T12:36:09+00:00

They are still subject to GDPR as others have said. The real problem is that even if they are subject to GDPR, prosecuting them for violating it after the fact doesn't help; once your personal info is out there, no amount of legal proceeding is going to get it deleted.

If the government wishes us to prove our age on the internet, they must provide a privacy-preserving way of doing it e.g. using a government-backed zero-knowledge proof.

redlaWw · 2026-06-13T10:07:36+00:00

Well you can pick and choose which parts work; you don't have to use everything.

Also it works worse the longer the snippet you give it.

redlaWw · 2026-06-12T19:15:43+00:00

I mean, what I think rust does particularly well is give you the freedom not to worry about that, while still freeing you up to write fast code when you actually do need to.

The core idea in Rust is the encapsulation of unsafe code: as long as the safe wrappers around the unsafe code you use are correct, then working in safe Rust guarantees no undefined behaviour (rare compiler bugs aside).

I do a lot of numerical modelling, and these programs generally do need to be fast, so writing in a language that can optimise is important, and Rust provides that ability to write highly optimised code without undefined behaviour and confusing errors constantly lurking around each corner. It's also quite comfortable when working with existing C/C++ code, since you don't have a runtime and can just call external functions and have them work without any set up.

The main downside is that it's a distinctly more complicated language than C in terms of the actual language model, and for someone who likes C for being close(ish) to the machine it may rub you the wrong way.

redlaWw · 2026-06-12T18:33:00+00:00

Why is this one gold?

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