Notices by Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io), page 22

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We are less than 3km away from the landing pads. It will be *LOUD*!

This viewing spot is a historic lighthouse, but we're not allowed to climb on top during the launch.

Buildings are generally less safe than outdoor areas at close range, and this particular one was built in 1894.

This isn't the best spot for the launch, but it's as close as you can get to the twin pads where the side boosters are expected to land a few minutes after launch 🤩

Seeing rockets go up has become "normal" around here. Two of them landing at the same time is still a rare event.

#spacex #falconheavy #psyche

I'm here at Cape Canaveral for the Falcon Heavy launch that will carry NASA's Psyche probe in less than 1h.

You can watch the unofficial livestream here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr6XMnH_7RE
#spacex #falconheavy #psyche #space

"If I were to summarize what I learned in a single sentence, it would be this: we talk about programming like it is about writing code, but the code ends up being less important than the architecture, and the architecture ends up being less important than social issues."

-- Evan Martin, designer of the Ninja build system
https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2020/05/ninja.html

#programming #coding #meson #cmake #gnumake

Dr. Arroway got a service dog 🙄

I give up, for now. DALL-E 3 generates pretty images, but the natural language model needs some work.

#DALLE3 #OpenAI #ChatGPT

As soon as we add back Dr. Ellie Arroway, DALL-E starts messing up.

In all four prompts, #ChatGPT clearly positioned the dog _behind_ her, but DALL-E keeps putting it in the foreground.

The prompt in the image description refers to the top-left image (my favorite).

My prompt: Now let's make it draw the dog plus two humanoid robots. Make the dog stand (not sit) and the androids move forward, armed with non-lethal weapons.

Note how GPT4 correctly relayed my request, but DALLE gave us three androids for the price of two 🙂

Next, I asked #ChatGPT to add back the android, and the result is also excellent.

I suspect #DALLE couldn't make sense of "reminiscent of previous images".

I asked #ChatGPT to help me debug the missing dog, and it generated a shorter prompt containing only the dog.

This time, the output from #DALLE is excellent!

And these are the creations.

Not bad, except that none of them got the Big Dog style quadruped... and the earbuds are neither "avant-garde" nor "futuristic". They look like cheap Airpod imitations.

Testing GPT4 as a prompt generator for DALL-E 3. I asked to make four images at once, and it generated slight variations of the original prompt!

#OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT4 #dalle3 #AI

Nihondaira Ropeway.

I noticed that flight attendants on a JetBlue flight detach the aluminium rings of soda cans and collect them in a separate container.

Why would they do that? Does it save dolphins or something? 🤔

@tsumizo woah!

@yuki2501 I remember liking the first few episodes, but then it started slowing down a lot.

I feel that the best way to watch 100+ episode #anime series like Inuyasha, Dragon Ball and Hunter x Hunter is to skip all the fillers and watch the episodes where the main plot line moves forward or new characters are introduced.

Episodes with high community ratings are a good indicator of pivotal events or at least a good side story.

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@srevinsaju Isn't Flatseal a superset of this? @tchx84

@thomasconnor Took me a while to figure out the "correct" reading order 😂