I don't hate on Google, but the user highlighted some feature on Google Maps that are not desirable, and clearly knows more about map apps than me, so why not ask him what he uses? Google provides great value, I agree, but sometimes there's better stuff out there.
Brazilian here. I'm 100% for combating and arresting illegal miners, loggers and farmers, but I also know how big the rainforest is, how long the borders are, and how little personnel there is to do the work. Most people don't have a sense of how vast that region is: the brazilian part of the Amazon rainforest is about half the area of the U.S. Now look up how many soldiers and federal police officers are working there. It's daunting, feels like the drug war, only fifty times worse, because there's no solution anywhere close to something like legalization.
At least with mining and logging it leaves evidence in aerial imagery, unlike a clandestine lab. Maybe one day the amazon can be automatically patrolled by drones that mark targets for these smaller squads.
> patrolled by drones that mark targets for these smaller squads.
Surely it could be scaled better with satellite imagery? Assuming it can be updated "reasonably frequently". I imagine drones would run into maintenance problems, especially in such "remote" regions.
Also a brazilian. I don't really care about it. I'd rather they used that vast amount of land for something that's more economically relevant. If you told me I could push a button to get state of the art semiconductor factories but the side effect was the destruction of the amazon... I wouldn't even think twice.
From a pretty good essay written by someone who lived through the original "psychedelics will expand your mind" era of the 60s and 70s:
"“Enlightenment in a pill,” many have pointed out, is a quintessentially American concept. Who’s got time for all that prayer and study and meditation and practice when there’s an easier, faster way?
But there isn’t. Therein lies the great danger of LSD and its dopey cousin, marijuana. By offering a simulacrum of spiritual and intellectual growth – a very convincing simulacrum at times – it takes you everywhere except where you need to be, which is doing the long, hard work of learning to live."
I resonate with what he says because, like the author mentions later on, I also have many friends who went deep into the psychedelics journey while claiming it was 'freeing their minds', 'enlightening' them, or whatever other concept they liked to use, only to end up, a decade or two later, in either a regular struggling life like so many others, or a downright bad place. I'm probably wrong to generalize, as I'm sure it can help many, but the drugs still can't substitute the individual's effort and struggle to grow, and overcome, and the learning of how to live a meaningful life.
> only to end up, a decade or two later, in either a regular struggling life like so many others, or a downright bad place
It isn’t like they transform into the ubermensch and transcend the bodily functions of eating and shitting. At the end of the day we all have insecurities
You can be struggling, you can be in a bad place, but that’s orthogonal to feeling connected and spiritually awake
And I’m not saying drugs are how you can (or should) get there, just that the material conditions that someone is living in have nothing to do with being “there”
And by “there”, I mean a sense of abandonment of self to the fabric that you arose out of. Which is not the same thing as conformity, more like a sense of understanding and acceptance of where you belong in the grand scheme of things
I'm really trying to read that comment as you have interpreted it but all I'm seeing is a mutual exclusion being drawn between "entitled bitch" and "hacker" and all I'm saying is they're not mutually exclusive.
I know what you mean. A lot of people in my country just say 'fuck it' to property rights and steal shit by threat of violence. A lot of people here also say 'fuck it' to human rights and it's even wilder the crazy stuff they do. And then those 'asshole' hackers come here and defend these rights. Oh, the audacity.
I had the same thought. The gothic church one, for example. Why wouldn't I just write "A pink gothic church in the sunset" instead of writing "A gothic church" and then having to do the extra steps to turn the word "church" into pink?
Of course, I'm very ignorant of the uses of such tech, so there's probably some usefulness in this.
Because at least with current models, the pink-ness would spread to the rest of the image. You'd end up with not only a pink church but a pink sunset.
It's even worse with styles; midjourney can't do a guitar in one style and the rest of the image in another style. You really only get one style per image.
The value I see is in constructing more complex prompts. Agree with your example but could see myself using this feature for prompts with multiple objects/aspects that require specific details. Probably not much different from inlining all details, just a nice separation of concerns: you can describe the high level requirement first, and then add and tweak individual details.
Exactly, that's the feature that interested me the most. Ideally, the UI for footnotes would be even more rich: e.g. selecting a word would open a small popup to provide more context.
First thing I thought when I looked at the pictures: "Looks like the first iBook"
The "clamshell" iBook was launched in 1999, and the orange one looks like if this car was a laptop.
I have to agree here. I'm all for different architectural styles, so they can embody the local environment, culture, history. Yet that style is the embodiment of an idea more than anything. I know it is linked to a zeitgeist of somewhere in the not distant past, and to ideas of funcionalism, maybe minimalism etc but I fail to see local/regional culture there. I fail to see any interaction with nature there. Looking at it... oh man, does it look hideous to me. Maybe it's because I lived for many years in Brasília, the most car centric city I've ever been to, the butt of many jokes to people who went to live there. "The city with no street corners." Also no sidewalks, a city where blocks have names such as "Entertainment Sector South", "Hotel Sector North", etc. Ugh...
But... hey, I have some friends who still live there and enjoy it. I know people who really enjoy life there, so that's why I'm all for different architectural/urbanism styles. Too bad I also know some people who would love to move from there but can't. Life is complicated.
I would love to visit Brasilia. I understand that the planning stage was a little too utopian. I think that they have been working to mold it into a functional city. What is interesting is the thought of a city needing to be worn in like blue jeans.
That is certainly a post industrialization idea. Life is complicated I only know what works for me.
Taut Line Hitch is a little different from Midshipman's Hitch. Midshipman's grips a little better and is recommended. However, Like the other reply to your answer, for me the best of them is the Adjustable Grip Hitch. I teach knots to boy scouts, and know lots of them. After using the Adjustable, I don't use the Taut Line or Midshipman's anymore.
