MagicShel @ MagicShel @programming.dev

25+ yr Java/JS dev

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Caveat: I haven't really been generating pictures in months. Maybe close to a year. It's a fast-moving space so my information could be out of date.

It's really hard to give two characters in a picture different attributes—they tend to bleed over. Whatever you put in that text box describes the picture and not elements within it.

One technique is to group the attributes, such as two people, first person tall giant towering, second person small short diminutive. This might work but you might have to regenerate several times and get lucky. The more attributes you try to specify, the more likely they'll bleed over.

You're probably better off generating the first character by itself and then selecting an area to fill with a second character. I've not done much of this, and it's tool dependent. If all you have is a prompt box, you'll probably have to go with the first method.

But there's one last thing you can try. Describe what you want and get a result that's kinda close to what you want. Then lock the seed and vary the prompt slightly to see if you can dial it in better from there. Replace tall with towering, or big, or massive. Sometimes it totally breaks the composition, but other times it lets you tweak something to get closer to your vision.

Anyway specifying two subjects in a single text prompt can be very difficult, and it depends on how much you want to specify and how much you're willing to be surprised.

He seems like such a fine, upstanding fellow online.

It's so weird that a former "celebrity" would be such a ratings loser. How humiliating that must be, when he has every advantage. Looks. Experience. Bottle of sperm freshly harvested from a couch glove...

Didn't she just join the ticket like two minutes ago? If the Republicans are merely weird, Kennedy seems like he's been in the throes of a severe manic episode this whole time, becoming more and more unhinged.

Yeah. I'm not giving Musk a single click. But I'll check back in later to see if someone posts a real link to it.

I found it. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/conscion

I personally wouldn't put him above Snyder in the visuals category, but I respect your opinion and I don't think you're way off or anything. I can see having that preference.

It must take great effort to write all that so well and link sources and provide recommendations for greater understanding. Please know it is deeply appreciated. My grandpa was in the Pacific theater and I find it fascinating.

Thankfully there are other options because you just nailed the two places I refuse to ever get gas from when there is any other option. If there was a good third option I'd take it here, but while Google commands so much market share and a new competitor would probably siphon users from Bing (and it's not enough users) I don't think a real alternative will come. I'm intrigued by kagi, though.

Snyder has an amazing eye for action. Sucker Punch, 300, and Watchmen were all amazing visual/auditory feasts. Everything else about his movies is just average to below average, though.

Giving him a Star Wars makes perfect sense when you consider what Disney thinks of the Star Wars audience. "Just give them laser sword and space ships and explosions and they'll be happy."

I really don't think it's generally accepted at all. It may work for some people, but is the rate higher than placebo? Are there studies? It's nothing I've kept up to date on, but last I knew it was largely considered to be on the level of psychic readings as far as accepted science goes.

rural people would dislike all politicians and industry shills, and vote against them

That's exactly how Trump came to be President. It's also why they like the message of small government. They are all a bunch of lying assholes, so better to have the smallest government possible. It's a message that meshes with god being more important than country, and with 2A. You've 100% nailed it.

Failed coup: I sleep

Democratic process: real coup shit

It's on the falling edge of the hype curve. It's quite expected, and you're right about where it's headed. It can't do everything people want/expect but it can do some things really well. It'll find its niche and people will continue to refine it and find new uses, but it'll never be the threat/boon folks have been expecting.

People are using it for things it's not good at thinking it'll get better. And it has to an extent. It is technically very capable of writing prose or drawing pictures, but it lacks any semblance of artistry and it always will. I've seen trained elephants paint pictures, but they are interesting for the novelty, not for their expression. AI could be the impetus for more people to notice art and what makes good art special.

AFAIK, it's there because they've made the rest of the phone so thin, but they can't make the camera components any thinner.

Incidentally I think the cameras are definitely better and I have plenty of old pictures and videos taken on Samsung flagship phones that agree. Maybe not better in every way, but low light pictures and videos have way less noise these days, and the resolution is higher (whether that actually results in a clearer picture depends).

A theater here was selling their popped popcorn to take home. I still couldn't conscion paying movie theater prices for popcorn at home, but it does agree with the idea that they were oversupplied and trying to get rid of it.

Is anyone else familiar with the word conscion? I looked it up to get the spelling right and apparently it's not a real word but I've been using it my whole life. Not sure where I picked it up. Anyway I think the meaning is clear from the context.

If that was what you took from my post, give it another read. I'm not pro MS. I'm pro not feeding Google. And Bing is fine.

"Any man who must say, 'I am normal,' is not a normal man."

Tywin Lannister

That is an epic answer. And you've convinced me I need to watch Tora Tora Tora! again because the last time I watched it I was probably under 10 and had no appreciation for it, particularly on network television cut with commercials.

Supposedly there's a paid one that is good. I haven't tried. The thing is Google is completely enshittified. They don't have to care about you or the sites you search. So my theory is Bing is better because they are hungrier and anything that takes away market share from Google is good—but I'm fully aware that Microsoft was just as shitty as Google and will be again if they get back on top.

Everything else I know of is either just an alternate front end for one of them or an aggregator of both. So you're right, there's precious little alternative to Google. But it's almost bad enough I'm ready for the return of web rings of good sites vouching for each other.