Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
Have a look if you don't have an accidental subscription to kbin.social.
I had a similar problem. That seems to be a connection point for federated posts and makes all of them appear in your subscribed feed. It does not appear on your magazine list.
It is a tricky one to answer, regardless of the equipment. So many variables involved. For speakers, placement is often the most important part. Cheaper speakers properly placed can sound better than very expensive speakers poorly placed. It is an entire science on its own.
Enjoy the equipment you have. Listen to records, both new and second hand and then decide where to upgrade most. A mid range cartridge can help an entry level deck. Your system should sound good on any source.
Vinyl can also be hit and miss. I have some really terrible pressings in my collection that will never sound good and some that simply blows me away.
That is a beast of an amp for a medium room. 90W rms is a lot. I have not heard the amp in question, but be aware that sony can be a little clinical in sound. I would pare with a set of warm bookshelves. And add a small active sub later. Bose 301 comes to mind. You should be able to find them at a reasonable price second hand. Just make sure the units are undamaged. Cosmetics can be fixed with patience.
It is harder to find good second hand components now that what it was when I started. People were just buying AV receivers and selling lovely equipment from the 70 and 80s for next to nothing.
My favourite mid budget range speakers.have been Missions for years. Boston acoustics and Bowers and Wilkins also makes excellent bookshelves.
The Bose 301 speakers have a special place though. They can be wall mounted or placed on stands and can deliver a warm sound on just about anything.My father's pair has been in daily use since 1983. The suspension was replaced once in 40 years.
I have a MacBook Air from 2017 and its original battery has started draining very fast. The Apple original battery will cost me around 17,000 INR so I am thinking of going for a third-party battery. Is that a wise decision?
There is always an element of risk to 3rd party batteries. That said, a reputable supplier that warranties the battery for a period should be fine. In my experience OEM batteries generally lasts longer and use better quality components.
So it is up to you to decide if the price premium is worth it in your use case.
Agreed, custom aggregators for kbin and the fedverse in general, will become a thing.
I can see a view that combines the hot posts from each of my subbed communities, with the top 1 or two posts from each featuring, filtering over a time constraint or some other ranking system.
A client side implementation would be possible, but expensive in api calls. Server side should be easier. Maybe even defining a query language of sorts that can be user customised, if we wanted to be really fancy.
Some form of weighted rank, combining activity and interaction. I am subbed to some slow communities that are just starting. Maybe having a post or two in 24 hours where I would want those posts to rank highest. Subbed fast paced communities would then rank lower if we factor frequency and interaction on a per community basis.
It is an interesting question. I am not sure. The style is from a YouTube channel I followed to learn about automatic1111.
I included the expanded version of the style for duplication purposes. I get better results with it on and the sfw style certainly keeps the model behaved.
I have also had very good results without it. It seems that just casting a wide with a few batches will yield at least one or two useful images, regardless of using the styles.
I have seen the same behaviour on my mobile browser. Desktop seems to not have rhe issue. Error when upvotiing, fixed by a page reload followed by an immediate upvote.
I’d like a place where warranties aren’t a factor when discussing BIFL items. I know that some feel otherwise but for me the appeal of BIFL is NOT frugality (though it often overlaps) but rather in owning high quality, long lasting, repairable items. It also has an aspect of sustainability as I hope to only buy one of...
Life time warranties do contribute significantly to a buy it for life decision. Lets take automotive tools. I use mainly Gedore tools to maintain my vehicles. A few years ago I found a clapped out, worn, ratchet in a second hand toolbox I bought. Took it to my local dealer to find out about replacing the mechanism and they outright replaced the ratchet with a brand new one. At no cost to me and I was not even the first owner.
My own set Gedore of sockets and spanners are still in perfect condition after 20+ years of use. Yes I paid double store brand prices back in the late 90s for them, but I am sure they will be heirloom tools one day.
It really depends on what you are buying, but lifetime warranties does contribute to the decision.
I would not have thought lifetime warranty even existed on clothing. First time I have heard about it. Agreed that it mayl be abused.
Tools are in a different position, where the company rep can usually spot signs of abuse easily and then rhey will probably refuse warranty. It also helps if you are a frequent customer and is known by the store staff.
And what does it do? My air compressor cannot get above 60 PSI, it should get to 120 psi. I noticed this piece is where I am losing pressure. Can I replace it?...
Agreed, It looks fairly easy to disassemble and clean. I would attempt that before replacing. You may find a YouTube vid or two showing how. Pvc thread tape is your friend. Dirt in the valve will stop it from closings properly as pressure builds.
In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources...
It is an area that will require us to think carefully of the ethics of the situation. Humans create works for humans. Has this really changed? Now consumption happens through a machine learning interface. I agree with your reasoning, but we have an elephant in the room that this line of reasoning does not address.
When we ask the AI system to generate content in someone else's style or when the AI distorts someone's view in its responses. It is in this area where things get very murky for me. Can I get an AI to eventually write another book in Terry Pratchett's style? Would his estate be entitled to some form of compensation? And that is an easier one compared to living authors or writers. We already see the way image generating AI programs copy artists. Now we are getting the same for language and more.
It will certainly be an interesting space to follow in the next few years as we develop new ethics around this.
That is the current stand of affairs yes. But it something that I think we will need to resolve as AI becomes better. When it becomes impossible to say which work was created by the human original and which by the AI.
I do think it would be ethically wrong for a company to profit by mimicking someone's style exactly. What incentive remains for the original style or work to exist if you cannot earn a living from it.
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
It was hugely profitable a short while ago, Update 12 or 13 possibly. 100 million credits per hour according to some. I don't grind for max earnings, but expect a reasonable return on the time spent.
My main source of income was from the Thargoid war, where those earning levels are common. Humanities defence has made that harder to do now.
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
Awesome, I am still finding my way and am happy if I simply don't crash. I don't have a frame of reference to compare to a Nvidia card for this, but it does seem like we have a little more work in getting things smooth with the AMD cards. I can't say that my speed is terrible. Most renders finish in reasonable time. I am simply amazed that we can do this on consumer grade hardware.
I run the tests out of interest. I am leaving some performance on the table due to my launch options, but I need those to avoid to many out of memory and other errors.
I managed to find an extra iteration or two without sacrificing to much stability.
6.06 / 7.59 / 9.11
Running with Doggettx selected as the optimiser in the optimiser config inside automatic1111.
I installed the google perftools as suggested in this thread
"sudo apt install libgoogle-perftools-dev"
And then added the following memory management options as suggested in this thread
by exporting: "export PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=garbage_collection_threshold:0.6,max_split_size_mb:128"
Made the following changes to my web-user.sh
Uncommented the command line options as follows: export COMMANDLINE_ARGS="--medvram --upcast-sampling"
And added the following lines to the end of the file
No problem, backup and be careful. I think AMD still has a lot that can be done in the rocm drivers themselves. There should be gains left to make. Nvidia is not helping with their pricing either. Which should see more users on AMD. Hopefully better support for us. I am pleasantly surprised by what the card can do. I got it for gaming at 1440p, where it was the best bang for buck. The AI stuff is a cool bonus.
Been trying to learn how to build skyscrapers with a friend in our multi year-old world, very happy with the result! Would appreciate any thoughts and advice!
New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)
Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
Brave appears to be selling copyrighted data for AI training and giving third parties the “rights” to that data, while not disclosing its own robot crawler (www.techmeme.com)
Why do I keep seeing magazines on /sub that I'm not subscribed to?
I usually browse under kbin.social/sub....
What is a good budget speaker for a first timers setup with rt82 turntable and pp444 preamp?
I got the rt82 for the option of upgrading along with great reviews....
Is it okay to use a third-party battery for MacBook Air?
I have a MacBook Air from 2017 and its original battery has started draining very fast. The Apple original battery will cost me around 17,000 INR so I am thinking of going for a third-party battery. Is that a wise decision?
Is there a way to derank certain magazines on user side? Something between full blocking and full allowing a magazine?
Some instances and groups are very chatty (*gestures to /lemmyshitposts), so much so that they dominate the All page....
OC I think she knows how to fly this thing - aZovyaPhotoreal_v2
I am really enjoying the model aZovyaPhotoreal_v2 for creating sci-fi space like images....
Kbin Error Message on Upvote
Kbin keeps throwing me errors when i upvote, click, or boost a Lemmy post. Ideas on how to fix?
Turning Any Stable Diffusion Model Into an Inpainting Model (jordanwages.com)
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Do lifetime warranties make something BIFL?
I’d like a place where warranties aren’t a factor when discussing BIFL items. I know that some feel otherwise but for me the appeal of BIFL is NOT frugality (though it often overlaps) but rather in owning high quality, long lasting, repairable items. It also has an aspect of sustainability as I hope to only buy one of...
Sometimes we want to travel in style
This is my old bmw K100RT. Out and about on the Franshoek pass in the Western Cape....
What is this air compressor part called? (i.postimg.cc)
And what does it do? My air compressor cannot get above 60 PSI, it should get to 120 psi. I noticed this piece is where I am losing pressure. Can I replace it?...
OpenAI says it could ‘cease operating’ in the EU if it can’t comply with future regulation (www.theverge.com)
In addition to the possible business threat, forcing OpenAI to identify its use of copyrighted data would expose the company to potential lawsuits. Generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are trained using large amounts of data scraped from the web, much of it copyright protected. When companies disclose these data sources...
Exo-biology to fill the old bank account. Lets see how many credits we can earn in a week.
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
Stable Diffusion on AMD 6800XT - Ubuntu 22.04 - Experience so far and just how much faster it is than machineML on Windows
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
You Meet the Nicest People on a Honda (1960s commercials) (www.youtube.com)
A collection of vintage Honda motorcycle commercials.