CodeInvasion

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[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

You would think so, but there is one river that happens to flow and split over the continental divide called North Two Ocean Creek. It’s the tiniest technicality that makes this map technically true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Ocean_Pass

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes, but you fail to understand the difference between a peninsula and a psuedo-island (a piece of land entirely surrounded by any body of water, artificial or manmade).

The Colorado River starts in Colorado is does not flow over the continental divide.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Not quite, this was made with a ControlNet. A hybrid image wouldn't work as well as this does. But the underlying visual phenomena is the same.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

This is done by combining a Diffusion model with ControlNet interface. As long as you have a decently modern Nvidia GPU and familiarity with Python and Pytorch it's relatively simple to create your own model.

The ControlNet paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05543.pdf

I implemented this paper back in March. It's as simple as it is brilliant. By using methods originally intended to adapt large pre-trained language models to a specific application, the author's created a new model architecture that can better control the output of a diffusion model.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

I am a satellite software engineer turned program manager. This is not unexpected in this current environment, however the conditions that created the environment are abnormal.

This solar cycle is much stronger than past cycles. I'm on mobile, so I can't get a good screenshot, but you can go here to see this cycle and the last cycle, as well as an overlay of a normal cycle https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression

As solar flux increases, the atmosphere expands considerably, causing more drag than predicted. During periods of solar minimum, satellites can remain in a very low orbit with minimal station keeping. However, at normal levels of solar maximum, 5 year orbits can easily degrade to 1 year orbits. Forecasters says we are still a year away from solar maximum, and flux is already higher than last cycle's all time high (which was also an anomalously strong cycle). So it will get worse before it gets better.

TLDR: Satellites are falling out of the sky because the sun is angy

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

"Beep... Beep... Beep..." -Sputnik

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

No, because they are clearly wrong.

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

Easier said than done, unless one doesn't have money to begin with

[–] CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The honeymoon phase for Lemmy is over. No one cares anymore about someone expressing themselves (I still do--this is based on my observations).

Culturally, 18% is the absolute minimum nowadays. An average tip is north of 20%.

I typically do 20% and round to the next dollar. So if the meal was $56.14, I would calculate $5.60 as approximately 10%, double it to $11.20 and then add 66 cents for a tip of $11.86 do the final total is $68.00.

The servers only enter the total line in the system, so this makes it easier for them.

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