You are describing Real Time with Bill Maher. People continue to watch his show. At least, I think you are, because I’m not sure what a “questionable guest” even is.

For me it was playing Life is Strange for the first time. I bought it because it had been listed on Steam as “Overwhelmingly Positive” for ages, and at the time I was really enjoying the story-based games that companies like Telltale were producing. So, knowing nothing about the game, I picked it up and started playing it.

The first act was slow. What I didn’t realize at the time was that the writers were establishing Arcadia Bay, a city in the Pacific Northwest, as a character. All the people in it needed to be recognizable, so it took time for them to teach the player about who they were, what mattered to them, how they fit in to the city, and what their flaws were. I actually stopped playing for a while after the first act. But, luckily, I picked it back up over the holiday season.

I still remember playing it in my living room. I was so thoroughly absorbed into the story that when something tense happened in the second act and I couldn’t stop it the way I normally could, I was literally crushing the controller as if I could make things work by pulling the triggers harder.

I am decidedly not the demographic that Life is Strange was written to appeal to, but they did such a good job writing a compelling story that it didn’t matter. I got sucked in, the characters became important to me, and I could not. put. it. down. I played straight through a night until I finished it.

(If you’ve played it and you’re wondering, I chose the town the first time I played it.)

I’ll never forget that game. I’ll also never forget the communities that spawned around it. I read the accounts of people who had just played it for the first time for about a year because it helped me relive the experience I had when I played it. It was incredible.

This has been going on forever. Decades ago, it was common to be charged more on travel websites if you were using a Mac then if you were using windows. These days they use a lot more profiling to try to squeeze more money out of the people they think are willing to pay.

My purpose in life is to be happy. My primary challenge in life is to find the things in life that make me happy and try to find ways that those things can make other people happy.

Our system of measurement. There can be only one!

Thank you for posting this. I have been avoiding updating to synergy 3 and now I’m glad I did. I still like version 2. I would still recommend it. I even use it with gaming.

Regardless of whether or not any of the titles do or do not contain said content, ChatGPT’s varying responses highlight troubling deficiencies of accuracy, analysis, and consistency. A repeat inquiry regarding The Kite Runner, for example, gives contradictory answers. In one response, ChatGPT deems Khaled Hosseini’s novel to contain “little to no explicit sexual content.” Upon a separate follow-up, the LLM affirms the book “does contain a description of a sexual assault.”

On the one hand, the possibility that ChatGPT will hallucinate that an appropriate book is inappropriate is a big problem. But on the other hand, making high-profile mistakes like this keeps the practice in the news and keeps showing how bad it is to ban books, so maybe it has a silver lining.

Exactly. These things seem common because we see examples of them amplified on social media. Most of them are vanishingly rare.

Those safetensors files are all that I have ever used.

For reference, I’m using a 2080 ti. That’s got about 11 GB of RAM, I think. I’m not having any freezes whatsoever. I’ve also tried it on my wife’s shiny new 4080. Definitely a speed difference, but again, no freezes or instability. Generating the 1024x1024 images does take forever. I actually went back to 512x512 and stayed there. I can always upscale something that I like.

I’m not an expert, but what I read said that you use SDXL by first using txt2img to generate an image using the base checkpoint, and then you send that image to img2img and use exactly the same prompt there with the refiner checkpoint.

That makes for a longer workflow than I’m used to, so sometimes I just use one or the other in txt2img and see what I get. Sometimes I forget to change the model when I switch between img2img and txt2img, too. I always seem to get results of similar quality when I use just one of the checkpoints.

It should be interesting to see what people come up with training their own checkpoints off of SDXL, though.

I had issues before I updated A1111. Do a git pull in the A111 directory and try again.

Be sure to get a nice headshot of the CEO. Something lighted from below. Make sure he or she doesn’t smile; tell them it’s more professional that way. Desaturate the image so it’s black and white. Take the picture from a low angle to give it that look of distinction and confidence!

There are a few. Try lemmyverse.net.

That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.

There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.

Text generation seems to leave a little to be desired. Five separate generations and “Hello World” always came out as “Hello Word.”

Don’t forget to git pull in your A111 directory before loading the model!

Religious people clearly use critical thinking. They just base a lot off of flawed premises.

I live in Utah. Mormons are absolutely required to tithe in order to participate in temple ceremonies. I’ve never been LDS, but my understanding is that the accounting for how much you tithe is carefully monitored. It’s also my understanding that you must participate in temple ceremonies to achieve admittance into heaven.

As an atheist, I had to ask myself how I know people are worshiping a god. In the US, it seems to boil down to a few things:

1. Giving money to an organization in order to participate with the community
2. Showing obedience to authority by allowing them to dictate some (but not all) of one’s behavior
3. Being hyper-focused on how the organization got to where it is today and whether what they do today aligns with its initial values and goals
4. Performing rituals in hopes of causing specific outcomes

Based on this, I am already worshiping Apple.