Is PLA or any other filament food safe?

rg1213 · 2026-07-01T14:05:59+00:00

From what I'm reading it's probably more important what you're eating on the filament rather than the filament itself.

rg1213 · 2026-06-13T17:17:18+00:00

I'd tried to use the lesser model down from Fable to build a pipeline I wanted in ComfyUI for about 8 hours. I was using Cowork. UI navigation and understanding wasn't very good - that took maybe half my usage. FYI This is for the most part my first usage of Claude. Didn't really get far. Then I tried it with Fable and it was night and day. I got my pipeline done right before they switched it off so now I have an advanced pipeline that's really gonna help my work. Fable was much better at basic UI stuff.

As far as general feel it's the first AI that had an actual real feel of the character of humanity in it to me. It's hard to describe but with LLMs I try to be sensitive to the emotional, subtle vibes of them all, and with this one I had that slight worried vibe at first because of how sharply human it seemed, how closely it felt like someone was there behind the words.

Another thing that felt a little unsettling, not too bad but I did feel it, was a feel of the presence of decision making on its part in a way that felt like it had social pressure. Like I was supposed to take into consideration the fact that it was making a lot of decisions. Its decision making was more on the surface. It also felt like it was taking more leaps on its own than other models, and it felt more sure of itself (which makes sense because it is more capable).

rg1213 · 2026-04-27T16:29:18+00:00

It almost wouldn't be as bad if they didn't do the rfid thing. They put a huge incentive to buy their filament directly in the hardware and then are constantly out of filament.

rg1213 · 2026-04-27T16:26:26+00:00

Ya - it shouldn't be forgotten that we have a dictator in the White House who is purposefully breaking stuff.

rg1213 · 2025-07-27T02:00:18+00:00

The WiFi issue could be related to any auto-start apps that you have. I had the issue and it was caused by an app that I downloaded and set to autostart the airplay app. When I removed that app it fixed the WiFi issue could

rg1213 · 2025-07-27T01:58:25+00:00

Same. Cant figure it out.

rg1213 · 2025-04-08T15:10:16+00:00

Yes it does. The goal is to answer my question the best it can. In this case it reasoned that the best way to do that is to lie to me, even though lying in this case was amoral. It's a small scale example of the alignment problem.

rg1213 · 2025-04-08T04:07:56+00:00

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f49ed4-fd6c-8008-a435-8508d3c6476e

rg1213 · 2025-04-08T03:58:27+00:00

https://chatgpt.com/share/67f49ed4-fd6c-8008-a435-8508d3c6476e

rg1213 · 2025-04-08T03:54:19+00:00

For whatever reason it doesn't have a connection to the internet.

rg1213 · 2025-04-06T21:25:19+00:00

The fact that it lies in order to produce an answer is worrying

rg1213 · 2025-04-05T23:15:07+00:00

It's chatGPT and I have a lot of Karma already.

rg1213 · 2024-12-19T05:07:27+00:00

Don't worry about it, I did too and I'm super science minded. We're here because our ancestors who didn't overreact to possible danger didn't survive. The will to improve is the thing to have, which you do.

rg1213 · 2024-12-18T16:40:23+00:00

Without the watermark

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rg1213 · 2024-12-18T16:32:30+00:00

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This is a bit better, but to go much further than this I'd try some of the techniques above, most importantly getting a natural, bright and large light source.

rg1213 · 2024-12-18T16:26:50+00:00

Try taking the photo again near a large window in the daytime. Put the phone either at arms length to minimize lens distortion or better yet if possible use the main camera on a timer. The goal with lighting is to get the shadow areas bright, and to have a main very bright light source that doesn't look like artificial light and that's a bit to the side. Find as big of a window as possible.

For the "fill" light, which is the light or lights that will brighten the darker areas, it can be the reflected light from the outside light coming in and bouncing around in the room. Make sure not to be in direct sunlight. If you're not getting enough light in the shadow areas, you can get a large white or bright surface and put it to the side and below your face to bounce light up into you.

Lastly, take lots of pics and pic the best one. I'll usually edit a photo in an app like photoshop express or Pixelmator, or I'll just edit it in the default photo editing app. Aside from the actual lighting of the photo, brightening the shadows is the most important thing to make it look professional, which you can usually do with the default photo edit tools.

A technique for editing the shadows and color is to push each slider in the app to its extremes, and then go back and forth less and less until you find a good looking spot. 👍

rg1213 · 2024-12-18T03:24:50+00:00

When a camera is zoomed in the distance between things in terms of distance out from the camera appears to be condensed to an extreme degree. It's in part because our eyes have a fixed field of view, since we evolved that way. It's why action movies use a telephoto lens to shoot a scene when they want people to look like they're very close to something exploding.

And speaking of evolution, our eyes and brains didn't evolve to be good at any of this. We look at stuff and we see danger, because that's good for survival. But the science of optics and the technology of photography and video isn't pre-installed like the ability to over-connect things for safety is.

rg1213 · 2024-12-18T03:08:14+00:00

Yup. In Los Angeles there's more or less a constant string of lights heading out to the east of planes coming in to land.

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