1rre

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[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Art isn't about making something pretty, nor is it really about design, it's about wanting to do or make something with no ulterior motive, or going beyond what you have to go make something inspiring (these are the same thing when you think about it).

Clip art, a lot of corporate design, a lot of architecture and more isn't meant to be art, it's meant to fulfill a purpose and maybe look pretty doing it. That's not what art is.

Cameras largely killed off commissioned portrait because people don't care about the process, they just want a picture of themselves, therefore the portrait wasn't art, it was utility.

That doesn't mean that it's impossible for a portrait to be art, nor that photography isn't art, just that unskilled people were suddenly able to make what they were looking for to a "good enough" standard much more conveniently.

The same can be seen for so many things, including AI being used for clip art or supplementary images in articles. In the case of AI, if all you want is any picture that help support part of an article you're writing, you didn't want art in the first place. If you use AI to help you make a statement, or to match a vision you have in your head, or even do things like poke around at the internals to distort the output, then that is art.

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

If I'm driving, almost always, the exception being if it's a highway off ramp I'll indicate to go into the off ramp lane, then stop indicating as it should be clear.

If I'm cycling then very rarely, as the position in the lane or lane you're in is far more noticeable than if you're driving, so I'll only stick my hand out to indicate if I have to merge into traffic to turn (eg a right turn from a single lane road, or to get into the turn lane to begin with)

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

That study is for notetaking though, as you copy verbatim when typing but more concisely when writing, making you process the information and not just the words.

When you're doing something that requires thought anyway, you're already processing the information so they're equally good?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

The UK manufacturing sector for raw materials and basic products was on the way out anyway due to costs being so low in Asia, so it was more to be able to shut it down and save the government from needing to bail it out while also destroying labour unions while they were at it, hence why the advanced manufacturers (JCB, Rolls Royce, etc.) were largely unaffected

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

I've even seen van gogh paintings get wrongly labeled

That's way less surprising than an indie artist's art being wrongly labelled. It's nothing about the quality, just that van gogh paintings are likely to be very overrepresented in the training dataset

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Obviously UK consumer protection is different so they may not have the "feature" here, but cars get their milage recorded yearly (after the first 3 years) as part of roadworthiness testing, available online given the licence plate, so I can see I did 7041 miles in the last year.

Does the DMV not have something similar?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

I can understand that if you're from a seal-on-bedsheet state, but I'd figure especially at the moment democrats in Maryland, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado (I definitely saw a lot of state flags alone in Denver), California, Hawaii etc. have a lot of reasons to prefer their actually nice flags

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

In England there's two flags, a flag for if you're racist (English flag, except if there's a major sporting event), and the British flag for if you're proud of your country in a non racist way

Does it work the same way in the more reasonable US states with the state vs national flag?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago

I think there's something to be said for removing the power of their symbols by using them for other things, but of course some things are too far yes

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's a few like this, when's the last time you met a nigel?

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What if it's a convolution though 🤔

[–] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The thumb muscle being the intersection bayern the thumb and palm right?

For me it's my middle finger but same effect I guess

Although listening it sounds more like the sound is coming as it moves past the knuckle

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