vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't see how dealing with that is any worse than dealing with time zones.

Downside of UTC everywhere: you might have to set your alarm for a different time when you travel.

Upsides: Never need to account for timezones in communication. Never need to change a clock, ever.

They make sense because the numbers won't be arbitrary.

But they are. There's no changing that. They're arbitrary now. They'd be arbitrary if we had UTC everywhere. We're not out here using sundials to set our clocks, 12:00 is not solar noon more often than it is.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Or we'll realize that the specific numbers are arbitrary and use UTC everywhere.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is so bad about virtual environments?

They're a solution to a self-inflicted problem. They're only "really nice and useful" if you accept that having your projects stomp all over each others' libraries and environments is normal.

If projects were self-contained from the outset then you wouldn't need an additional tool to make them so.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

3.5mm audio jack for the crappy built-in speakers.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Guillermo and Mads: My Two Weird Dads

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know someone who has a company with the word "technology" in the name, like "Smith Technology". They use .technology because it's literally the name of the company, which I think is good for the brand identity, but have run into issues where people just don't think it's a correct url because "smith.technology" looks like it's missing its TLD.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Fridges actually do rest. They cycle on and off as needed to maintain their desired temperature and on average only spend about 30% to 40% of their time "on".

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Also, this is tangential to the rest of our conversation, but I appreciate the dedication to the comment chain required to actually set up something with similar composition to the red man image and take a picture of it. Even has some black in the image in roughly the same size and area as his sweater. :D

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

For what it's worth I agree that AI images will generally have "tells" that give away their nature. It's just they aren't quite so straightforward as being able to check that average values are within a range. It would be nice if it were that easy though.

While I do dabble with AI image generation I'm not a lunatic who calls themself an "artist" for doing so, nor do I think being a "prompt engineer" is any kind of expression of creativity or skill. I think the people who do are completely self-deluded.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Odd. I tag your red at 78%. And for what it's worth this RGB to HSV converter agrees with that number taking your colour hex as C92D20. I certainly don't know enough about it to offer an explanation as to why it might be different.

edit: Ah, I think it's HSV vs HSL, which I'm just now learning are different things. :D

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm not sure what you mean by the saturation being around 50% across the board. If I peek the HSB of all of the averages only that first teal-ish one appears to be around the mid point for saturation.

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