Floor plans are one of the best ways of exposing the limitations of AI.

AI knows patterns, it knows X is found next to Y. It knows that the label X tends to go with furniture that looks like Z. But, it doesn’t know why for anything. It can’t even ask the question Y. It’s just a pattern matching and generating machine.

So, it doesn’t understand the purpose of a door, or a hallway, or a bathroom. It won’t tend to put the laundry machines in the living room because that’s not a pattern it has seen, but it’s not because it understands why that might not be ideal.

It’s actually the same with software, it has just been trained on a lot more software, so it is better able to make something that blends in and looks correct at first glance.

Perverts

ATI Technologies Inc. (ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of GPUs and chipsets.

BRING THEM BACK!

That’s what happens when companies illegally leverage their monopolies to extinguish any competition.

I think he’s trying to encourage the premiers to allow US brands back onto the store shelves.

If that were enough to make a deal, it wouldn’t be awful. I think a lot of Canadians wouldn’t buy the liquor if it was back on store shelves, so it might not change much.

It could be a good negotiating tactic, because the Americans might think that it meant that the revenue for US alcohol companies might start flowing again, when in reality it just puts it directly in the hands of Canadian buyers, rather than in the hands of the Premiers.

What’s more annoying to me is that Carney is going to go with counter-tariffs. That just means that if Canadians choose to buy American products they have to pay more. And, since the US is so monstrously huge, in many cases there aren’t alternatives to American products.

What I think they should be doing instead is investigating American companies for antitrust, allowing Canadians to circumvent DRM to do things like install alternative app stores to deprive Apple / Google of revenue, allow Canadians to work around printer ink restrictions to use any ink they want, allow Canadian farmers to repair their own tractors without John Deere’s approval, etc.

Instead of raising Canadians’ costs, deprive American companies of the unfair IP rules that they use to make massive profits. Those rules were forced on Canada in exchange for the US agreeing to barrier-free access to the American market for Canada. If the US is withdrawing from their own trade deals, then Canada shouldn’t feel obliged to uphold its obligations under those deals either.

This is you:

Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art.

Wedding photographer is an interesting job. With a lot of jobs, people buy the minimum viable equipment they need to get the job done.

But, people who get into wedding photography seem to generally be people who are really into photography. Rather than a $5000 camera being the requirement for the job. The $5000 camera is a present you can justify getting yourself if the wedding photography game is going well.

It’s not a tool that goes into the case and stays there until the next wedding. It’s something to be used for the kinds of pictures that don’t pay the bills but that you love taking: nature shots, architecture, abstract art, gritty realism, etc.

A lot of my replies have edits because I’ll notice I used the wrong word

Good, keep at it. I pointed out one you missed. You’re welcome.

Ooh, an attempt to turn around and pretend you’re not butthurt! Not only did you leave that long comment, I can even see you edited it. How long did you stew on that reply?!

You think most of the artists that made famous art got paid??

Yes, I do. Have you heard of Patreon? Do you know the word it’s based on, “patron”?

Plus you think people don’t care if artwork that is claimed to be authentic is actually fraudulent??

People care about all kinds of things. Maybe instead of worrying about whether or not something is authentic, they should just think about whether they like it.

Thank you for demonstrating that you don’t actually like art for art’s sake, you care more about knowing your art comes from a famous person.

I think the one who needs to grow up is the one who left this butthurt comment.

Hmm, ok. I thought there was some trick to learn. A brake almost feels like it’s cheating. You’re right though, it looks cool.

If a museum advertises a Picasso but it is fraudulent most people would consider that a bad thing.

Who cares?

I care about artists getting paid. Sure, hate collectors all you want, but getting rid of them reduces the purchases artists do get.

You don’t need NFTs to ensure artists get paid. You don’t need intellectual property laws to ensure that artists get paid. Most of the best art in history was made before intellectual property was a thing, and the artists who made that art generally were paid.

Of course provenance matters in appreciation of art.

Of course it doesn’t. Do you need to know who painted something, and who owned it, to know whether you like it or not?

People who buy art absolutely care if the artwork they paid for is genuine. Collectors absolutely care if they can prove they own something that others don’t.

Yes, and fuck those people.

Grow so big that a local town council has meetings where they argue about your size, and how much pollution you cause.

Or is that yo mamma?

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a datacenter. They’re just convenient for big companies spending huge amounts of money.

All a datacenter is is rows buildings filled with rows filled with racks filled with computers. Those computers could be distributed around the world in smaller buildings, or even sharing space with existing buildings that do other things. It’s not the fact that the data is stored in buildings filled with rows filled with racks that makes the data safely stored. In fact, that single location means that the data is more vulnerable than if it was stored in a more distributed way.

Having said that, keeping a lot of computers in a single building often does make it cheaper to run them because of easier maintenance and economies of scale. That means the data can be stored more cheaply, and it can be accessed more quickly.

But yeah, some datacenters is probably fine. I don’t think people were complaining much about Google’s various datacenters before they went wild on their AI push, and they had dozens of DCs spread around the world. What’s bad is that the current push is for many, many more DCs being built way too quickly in places that aren’t appropriate (because they can’t get enough power for example), for a purpose that people aren’t behind.

I saw someone yesterday with a big wheel who I was sure was about to bail. He was unicycling down a pretty steep street. He managed to make it down the street and turn the corner, but it looked like a real struggle.

I know from riding a fixie that for streets that aren’t too steep it’s not hard, you just have to effectively “pedal backwards”, allowing slowing the pedals down as they come up behind you. But, I don’t know what a unicyclist can do on a very steep street. What I would do on a fixie doesn’t work because it requires small skid-stops, which means you need a front wheel.

What would you do on a steep hill? I assume that by the time you realize it’s too steep you’re already going pretty fast, so just bailing would be difficult.

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NFTs are stupid. Provenance only matters when it comes to the ownership of art. For the real purpose of art, the viewing and appreciation of art, it doesn’t matter at all.

For digital art, provenance only matters if someone wants to create artificial scarcity by applying intellectual property laws to art. Trying to make digital things artificially scarce is stupid.

Getting out appropriately would have been reversing to the place where it entered the flex-posted area, not simply smashing through them.