Track_Shovel submitted some neat Art Deco poster-style images of a WW2 aircraft carrier. I like Art Deco posters, so I thought I’d try looking into figuring out what sort of prompt could produce that sort of effect....
Initially after the attack, the Laax had listed its destination as Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates. On Thursday, however, its listed destination instead appeared to be Bandar Khomeini, Iran.
Hmm.
Is it possible that they just diverted as a result of the attack? I mean, they got attacked and the ship was damaged. That’s not business as usual. That might have affected the delivery schedule or other things that might affect the destination. It might mean that they wanted to head to a port that could do some kind of repair work.
While the gun crowd is better about formalizing this, l’d generalize it to any system that can kill or maim you, power tools or whatever.
If a device has multiple layers of safety features or procedure designed to keep it from killing or maiming you, don’t disable all but one with the expectation that the last layer will save you. If there are multiple layers there, it’s because they were deemed necessary.
…indicating Russia’s violation of the ongoing arms embargo.
I mean, I get that legitimacy matters and that Russia is on the UNSC and all, but every time I read about this, it feels kind of surreal. Like a lawyer triumphantly arguing that the person who is currently is burglarizing someone’s house is parked illegally outside of it.
The operations used OpenAI’s technology to generate social media posts, translate and edit articles, write headlines and debug computer programs, typically to win support for political campaigns or to swing public opinion in geopolitical conflicts.
Covert activity against other countries seems like an area where one might want to invest in one’s own automated translation tools, or at least hire a human translator.
I feel like I got my money from it, and they’ve fixed it a lot since launch. But it’s not Fallout 5. If you want to play it as a purely-single player game – obviously, if you want multiplayer, it’s the only option – I’d say that it’s the weakest of the mainline series. If someone just wanted to “try Fallout”, had never done the series before, I’d probably direct them to Fallout 4 or maybe New Vegas.
It’s the newest, but graphically, not that much has changed since Fallout 4. There’s the more-organic Mire, and there are panoramas of forest. Nothing like the jump from New Vegas to Fallout 4 or Fallout 4 to Starfield.
It’s not very moddable, which is a major element for many people with Fallout 4 (and a big part of why that game has had such longevity).
At least for me, there are some minor graphical artifacts that I didn’t see with Fallout 4.
It’s got other human NPCs that have been added in over time since the release, but there are fewer human NPCs than Fallout 4 (though to be fair, I guess West Virginia isn’t as populated as Boston, and some of that is stuff like forests). There isn’t that much by way of character development for most of them. I do think that the NPCs were more-believable then Fallout 4, where every other character seemed to be downright psychotic. But they also weren’t as memorable.
Its late game is fixed (has to be, since the intent is to let players keep doing the late game as long as they want). Fallout 4 without mods ultimately had enemies turn into bullet sponges in the very late game.
I think that New Vegas was the best of the series, if you compare them at launch, but it’s also pretty old.
I’d say the other way around. The store brand version has nearly always been fine, in my experience. I’d instead use the store brand and make a list of cases where the store brand isn’t okay. At least in my experience, it’s pretty limited. What I can recall having bad experiences with, off-the-cuff:
Soup. I have had some pretty disappointing store brand canned soups.
Things with motors, like small kitchen appliances, blenders and the like. I’ve had a bunch of generic ones of those fail before.
Sodas. These aren’t exactly the same. Some people particularly prefer the taste of one root beer or whatever, and it might be that they prefer a name brand. That being said, there are also people who prefer store brands, so…shrugs
There are also a few cases where I’ve run into a particular brand that doesn’t have a store clone, and where I really like the name-brand product.
Pretzels. I particularly like Dot’s. I haven’t seen a store brand clone of Dot’s.
Sardines. Bit of a niche, but I once went on some website with some guy that was absolutely rabid about sardines, reviewed them, wrote huge amounts about them. My dad always liked eating canned sardines on crackers. Tried a couple different brands, and yeah, there is a difference, but the big one is that stores in the US don’t normally have heavily-smoked sardines (well, okay, sprats) in oil. I started eating Latvian “Riga Gold” sprats in oil, and they’re just amazing. I don’t like a lot of foods I’ve tried from Eastern Europe, but man, they hit it out of the ballpark on that. I don’t think that we have a US-based comparable manufacturer.
Red Windsor cheese. It’s not all that fancy, just cheddar with some port wine marbled in, but I really like the taste. Same thing on this – I don’t think that there are any companies in the US that make the stuff, so it’s name brand or nothing.
If someone did clone any of the last three, though, I’d give 'em a try.
The report offers two main solutions to the retirement crisis: expanding and strengthening Social Security—“the most successful government program in our nation’s history”
Social Security has each generation depend on the next generation paying for its retirement. That’s kind of what happened historically, when kids took care of aging parents. Problem is that everyone else’s kids pay for your retirement, which means that your incentive to do the work of raising kids goes away; Social Security puts the load on people who have kids to turn them into the next generation of productive workers. It’s great if you never raise kids, but it’s a pretty raw deal if you do raise kids.
It also deals poorly with scenarios where the population pyramid inverts – like, birth rates fall off and such. Then suddenly instead of lots of kids supporting a few older people’s retirement, you have a lot of retirees expecting a few younger people to pay for their retirement.
I’d kinda favor 401(k)s or something more like that; that has each generation fund its own retirement, rather than relying on the next. That way, the payments in are proportional to the size of the population cohort, rather than proportional to the size of some other population cohort (like, the next generation).
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The ammunition was confiscated by U.S. forces during an interdiction of a stateless dhow in the Gulf of Oman last year.
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Manhattan Restaurant, Art Deco (lemmy.today)
Track_Shovel submitted some neat Art Deco poster-style images of a WW2 aircraft carrier. I like Art Deco posters, so I thought I’d try looking into figuring out what sort of prompt could produce that sort of effect....
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What common grocery item(s) is it absolutely fine to buy the cheap/unbranded version of?
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