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5 minutes ago, Selective Genius said:
i accidentally freaked out my senior at work about AI. Showed him a demo of chatGPT and Midjourney and he freaked out!! Told him how our jobs as bankers would be taken over by AI, and that t even creative arts are not sacred, let alone the work that we do.
Me, a banking industry consultant:
(One of my junior coworkers is going through her ChatGPT Fascination stage)
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21 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:
on the other hand, the movies will get customizable, so everyone will have his own preferrable look of the same characters, generated on demand.
And given what modders do to games with model swaps...
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9 hours ago, TheSaint said:
All the CGI artists in Hollywood have got to be sweating bullets at this point.
It's the greenscreen owners thay would be most affected. CGIers would now have to un**** the output of the AI before putting it into final rendering.
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On 3/30/2023 at 11:32 PM, SunlitZelkova said:
Does Russia have some sort of cosmic relationship with cats? It seems like there are a lot of cat owners on the Discord, I see cats walking around in the background of people’s screens during class all the time, and Russia has the most cat owners in the world.
On one hand,
However, I imagine much of the Middle East would compete owing to its semi-stray population.
I, however, am ultimately biased.
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1 hour ago, Lisias said:
For people that likes their coffee really hot!
If the coffee doesn't keep you awake, the mental image will.
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Chinese knockoffs (not).
There were two primary routes for Chinese tea imports into Europe - oversea ("cantonese tea") and overland ("Kyakhty tea"). This even had a reflection in local etymology, with "chai" being the combination of a north-Chinese name for tea with a Persian suffix, whereas "tea" comes from Min Chinese or even the Malay.
Anyway, in the mid-XVIIIth century a house serf who'd spent some time in the Russian embassy to China had a brilliant if not particularly ethical idea of making fake tea from fermented willowherb/fireweed (Chamaenerion) mixed with hot dark soil to make it black enough. The herb harvesting business boomed, originally centered on the old fortress of Koporie, lending this type of tea its colloquial designation "koporka"; soon the industry was big enough that entire villages near Kalyazin were specializing in making faux-Chinese wooden boxes. The plant, hitherto basically known as cyprian (kiprei), is now known mainly as Ivan-chai.
Naturally, in the early XXIst century some clowns have been trying to promote it as "traditional" and "healthier" tea alternative.
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On 5/27/2022 at 2:02 PM, DDE said:
Looks like at least parts of the plane are being unceremoniously hauled off for scrap.
Well, yesterday, fresh wide-angle images crossed my feed. No further attempts have been made to haul the nose fragment, and the hangar itself has been meticulously stripped of all sheet metal.
I hate to say it, but, given later context
the above video showed a piece of the plane being dragged about to act as a better photoshoot stage.
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I think I've found the NTR application. Here, top-right.
Cislunar scout cruisers. And there's that word again, "maneuver".
On 11/1/2022 at 7:47 PM, DDE said:Given the last time I've heard of NTRs in the context of US national security, I'm disinclined to take the article above at face value. The article below proposes use of NTRs for (ostensibly purely defensive) Earth-orbit warfare.
My initial reading of this was that someone overdosed on the word "maneuver", read how spacecraft are sitting ducks due to lack of a middle-ground in thrust and ISP, found out that NTRs occupy said middile ground, and ignored their poor responsiveness that makes them unusable as an emergency dodge engine.
However, now that there's a funded program, this seems a lot less silly. The possibility of someone still chasing the word "maneuver" without an articulated end goal should not be discount, but to assume your en... adversaries are stoooooopid is a conclusion preferably avoided.
NTRs are the most readily available option for a military spacecraft designed for intense and frequent orbit changes and dodging. That's likely the totality of the motivation, and it's a somewhat alarming one. Much has been done to differentiate the development of weapons that only briefly enter space, including planet-based anti-space weapons, and the placement of attack capabilities in space proper. It's a major red line.
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Is this what Snacks are?
SpoilerSeems to be a mild Photoshop of this... beguiling product:
https://globalvoices.org/2015/02/12/hungry-for-a-meme-try-japans-english-french-toast/
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Oh, look, they're replacing the old ZiL recovery vehicles with Vityaz.
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8 hours ago, GuessingEveryDay said:
So it's SUSIE, but SSTO?
The post-1996 is more closely related to the DC-X, I think. And it started off as an Atlas with Energia engines before switching to a tubojet first stage.
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11 hours ago, magnemoe said:
I see an construction site, no doors, nut the upside down of \__/ makes sense of structural reasons as its kind of an arc but simpler to build in concrete than an true arc.
Guess the doors would be square however. And an door like that has no benefits I can think of and it has to be an sliding door.
Rounded doors makes sense if you has to handle pressure.
Subs might have doors with half circle top an bottom while ships tend to have rounded edges.Damn. All TG links get appended with a "single" tag that hides the rest of images in gallery. When you edit the pasted text, sometimes it deletes the tag, sometimes it doesn't.
https://t.me/v_bunkere_ne_strashno/1423
See image 3
Need to come up with a smarter way to handle TG posts on this forum...
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You remember Korona, the hydrolox rocketship SSTO from Makeyev?
It's still on the books, and only now are they going to start verifying the technological feasibility of this thing via models and mockups.
https://t.me/roscosmos_gk/8941
At that pace, they might launch something before the Sun becomes a red giant...
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Dashun of Tyumen, some random stray picked up at a garage, reportedly dies at 26.
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Why do the bulkhead doors on Battlestar Galactica are the same shape as the entrance opening on this WWII Norwegian bomb shelter? Not even joking here.
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Update: * 12:56, retroburn 13:51-13:55
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Undocking at 12:40 MSK
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3 hours ago, JoeSchmuckatelli said:
...smells like 'false flag'
Officially it was an air defense drill.
An extremely disruptive, unprecedented drill.
From all the options, a literal bogey seems like the most credible one. Or a balloon, I hear those are the latest fashion in 2023.
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2 hours ago, Codraroll said:
Kind of a weird design consideration for conventional warfare, however, where there are plenty of enemies there to shoot at you. Having all enemy resistance bombed out by nuclear bombs beforehand seems like an edge case as far as warfare goes. In lower-intensity conflicts, such an arrangement just appears to make the tank poorer - as demonstrated with gusto during recent events. It's not much of a good tank if the turret pops like a champagne bottle when being hit by enemy projectiles.
Conventional warfare was not on the list of likely considerations at the time.
Then Afghanistan happened. The Soviets sorta started moving towards a more versatile force, but they didn't have the time before the country imploded from under them. It took until the early 2010s for Russia to 'brigadize', privatize much of vehicle maintenance et cetera and start building a leaner force with an eye towards counterinsurgency and bush wars while relying on a nuclear deterrent to avoid any 'real' wars.
As has been recently seen, that assumption hasn't been accurate either.
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The fact that this thread is dead offends me greatly.
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6 minutes ago, monophonic said:
the extreme similarity of the crater
By 'similarity' do you mean 'a threefold difference'?
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Tu-141 crashes in Kireevsk, Tula obslat. Allegedly brought down by Pole-21 ECM. Three wounded, up to a dozen detached homes wrecked.
https://t.me/Ministerstvo_oborony/30084
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14 hours ago, Nuke said:
of course he had to pull into a drive through and order a burger on his way out
He had utterly dreadful munchies. But at least burgers should be quicker than pizza...
Fun Fact Thread! (previously fun fact for the day, not limited to 1 per day anymore.)
in Science & Spaceflight
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Igor Sikorsky built a rubber band-powered coaxial helicopter when he was twelve, and he kept at it until the Kiev aeronautical exhibition of 1909, where this thing literally failed to take off.