“You kids clear out,” said Dad. “But Lillie, if the children can do it, you, a grown woman, should be able to. Come on now. You can’t help but float, became the human body, when inflated with air, is lighter than water.”
“You know I always sink.”
‘That was last year. Try it now. Be a sport. I won’t let anything happen to you.”
“I don’t want to.”
“You don’t want to show the white feather in front of all the kids.”
“I don’t care if I show the whole albatross,” Mother said. “But I don’t suppose I’ll have another minute’s peace until I try it. So here goes. And remember, I’m counting on you not to let anything happen to me.”
“You’ll float. Don’t worry.”
Mother took a deep breath, stretched herself out on the surface, and sank like a stone. Dad waited a while, still convinced that under the laws of physics she must ultimately rise. When she didn’t, he finally reached down in disgust and fished her up. Mother was gagging, choking up water, and furious.
“See what I mean?” she finally managed. Dad was furious, too. “Are you sure you didn’t do that on purpose?” he asked her.
“Mercy, Maud,” Mother sputtered. “Mercy, mercy Maud. Do you think I like it down there in Davey Jones’ locker?”
“Davey Jones’ locker,” scoffed Dad. “Why you weren’t even four feet under water. You weren’t even in his attic.”
“Well, it seemed like his locker to me. And I’m never going down them again. You ought to be convinced by now that Archimedes’ principle simply doesn’t apply, so far as I am concerned.”
Coughing and blowing her nose, Mother started for the beach.
“I still don’t understand it,” Dad muttered. “She’s right. It completely refutes Archimedes.”
The vihuela (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈwela]) is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of the lute in Italy and has a large resultant repertory.
There were many different plucked instruments[15] that were being invented and used in Europe, during the Middle Ages. By the 16th century, most of the forms of guitar had fallen off, to never be seen again. However, midway through the 16th century, the five-course guitar[16] was established. It was not a straightforward process.
Finally, c. 1850, the form and structure of the modern guitar were developed by different Spanish makers such as Manuel de Soto y Solares and, perhaps the most important of all guitar makers, Antonio Torres Jurado, who increased the size of the guitar body, altered its proportions, and invented the breakthrough fan-braced pattern. Bracing, the internal pattern of wood reinforcements used to secure the guitar’s top and back and prevent the instrument from collapsing under tension, is an important factor in how the guitar sounds. Torres’ design greatly improved the volume, tone, and projection of the instrument, and it has remained essentially unchanged since.
I mean, sure, but I don’t actually think that purely AI-generated content is copyrightable by the person who pushes the button, at least under most-recent US case law. There has to be some kind of human discretion in the input. Which I’m not doing on any of these – I’m just mechanically plonking in usernames. The most I’ve done is try adding spaces to the username or not where it’s multiple words.
I mean, yes, but I suspect that my environment is not the same as yours. I’m running on an RX 7900 RTX on Linux, and using the Automatic1111 frontend to Stable Diffusion. I’ll give reasonable odds that you’re running Windows. On Linux, there’s some card-specific setup, I didn’t use conda (rather, pip to set up a Python venv, which I hadn’t previously been familiar with and needed to learn a bit about), I needed driver software installed, and it took some banging around, because more people are using the software stack involved with Nvidia graphics hardware than AMD hardware. Some Radeons don’t work or require Automatic1111 to use slightly different configurations. Running on a Radeon on Windows didn’t even work until very recently (though there’s similar software that can apparently use one of the 3d graphics APIs to do something similar). I also spent some time banging around in Python testing things, switched hardware at one point, and had to spend some time tuning options to do larger images on a card that had less video memory; because this tends to push the limits of the video memory on various cards, and some cards have different hardware functionality and tricks to reduce video memory usage, there isn’t just a single set of optimizations that work on all cards. So if I tell you to do what I did, it’s probably not going to help that much. Also, I set this up some months back, which is pretty much an eternity with the rate at which the software is changing.
I don’t know if someone has put out a “one click and it’s set up” software package on Windows these days that works on various hardware or what. It may be simple, it may be a big headache, and it may depend a lot on precisely what hardware you are using.
So the answer is that if you have the right graphics hardware on the right OS, and that hardware is fairly new, then you can probably set it up. But…I can’t say “run this and it’ll definitely work”. It might be trivial! But it also might be not possible on your hardware, or might involve a lot of poking away at the guts of the thing.
Automatic1111 has setup instructions on its github repository:
I’ll switch over to the standard Stable Diffusion model; the one that I’ve been using rather determinedly generates NSFW content with “cyber” and “fae” together, and that’s not permitted for this community.
With Stable Diffusion, even switching to the standard model, I get NSFW content, which is restricted on this community. Someone could go make another AI Images community that permits NSFW material, but it can’t be here.
My guess is that most of the commercial generative AI things will simply disallow prompts with “horny”.
Well, let me try generating ten or so as a batch and see if anything comes up that isn’t NSFW. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it’ll be possible to manually pick one out of a batch.
Your username is the prompt, what did you get? This is mine: (lemmy.world)