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Nowadays, we have access to more manufacturing capability than ever before. Weirdos working in their basements can quickly order professional-looking products. A single drunken whim can activate a factory half a world away, to pump out something that would have been impossible for even the hardest-working hobbyist even twenty years ago. Sometimes you can do it at home.
Obviously, this is great. All your strange little joke projects can be near-instantly materialized into reality. You can add to the world's surplus of shit that nobody needs for mere pennies. Total nirvana, right? Wrong: the next thing you want is more capability. It's incredible what you can already do, sure, sure, but now I want to be able to laser cut aerospace-grade titanium in my living room.
This sort of tension between can-do spirit and can't-do reality is what has gotten us this far, however. Even now, there are sleep-deprived hobbyists working hard on making sure that I can fill my entire house with noxious gases and fine mineral particulate. They want to help me construct a toaster entirely out of an alloy that we once had to trick the Soviet Union into letting us buy to turn into stealth bombers.
This is what real progress is, not that false thing that happens outside my house, at the place called "work." Here, no manager is going to stand over me and tell me that an inert nitrogen-purged atmosphere is probably not the same thing as a shag carpet for the purposes of welding. Thank you, hard-working weirdos.
the laundry will be completed today yeah sure but if you expect me to fold it all that’s sick and twisted
my favourite button ever is "open link in new tab"..
The main focus for ai should be how it can optimize and compress files
Just imagine everything being 99% smaller, 2gb video file being 120mb or even 57mb with nearly no quality loss at all.
Even av1 and other codecs can compress media to extremes, we could take that so much further by using ai to recreate frames for compression and correcting errors in compression to match visual quality.
Just have the ai process a frame x number of times comparing to the original shrinking and correcting errors to match quality.
Based on the time you wanted to put into the end result you could achieve better and better outcomes with every pass
Some new startups are already doing this for websites. We need encoding tools that can be used offline for this purpose.
i know i've said this before but i'm going to say it again because the more i work with geriatric women the stronger i feel about the fact that the only anti-aging that women in their 20s/30s should be obsessed with is building strong bones and muscle mass. that's like the most important thing you can you can do right now to lay a good foundation for healthy aging. you can botox the shit out of your face but that's not going to do anything to save you from dying prematurely from a fatal hip fracture that you can't bounce back from because you didn't do anything to prevent yourself from becoming frail and breakable. like i know that sounds harsh but that is reality for a lot of older women and i don't want that to be you.
The astroturfed demand for USAmericans instead of Americans is another basis for the balkanization of the US