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good2go 04-03-2024 12:23 AM

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triple88a 04-03-2024 11:00 AM

Terminator goes to 1984 BC by mistake

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Joe Perez 04-03-2024 07:31 PM

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triple88a 04-03-2024 07:55 PM

I need your sunscreen your sunglasses and your beachtowel

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Joe Perez 04-03-2024 08:12 PM

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sixshooter 04-03-2024 10:23 PM

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What site are you guys using for picture generation?

Erat 04-04-2024 09:26 AM

This is the Bing create AI.
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Joe Perez 04-04-2024 11:37 AM


Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 1648458)
What site are you guys using for picture generation?

Sometimes CrAIyon, more recently a lot of Microsoft CoPilot.


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triple88a 04-04-2024 12:26 PM

Runaway saw blade goes into a wall.

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Joe Perez 04-04-2024 03:12 PM


Originally Posted by triple88a (Post 1648484)

Yowsa.


One interesting coincidence:

One thing which present-day AI image generators have a lot of trouble with is human hands. They're great at faces and bodies, and know how to pose a body so that it's sitting on a chair or riding a horse in a realistic way, but they suck at hands and fingers. It's a reasonably good tell.

In the 1973 film Westworld, the hands were the one reliable way to tell the robots from humans. "They haven't figured out the hands yet," said John to Peter. And we see a closeup of one of the gunslingers' hands, showing that the skin is all wrong, rubbery at the knuckles, etc.

In the current Westworld TV series, Anthony Hopkins' fictional character, Dr. Robert Ford made a nod to this when speaking to a colleague about the parks' first generation robotic hosts. "They repeated themselves, broke down constantly. A simple handshake would give them away."


I find that interesting. Here are some of the ways in which CrAIyon interprets "A human hand, holding a pencil."


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Erat 04-04-2024 04:42 PM

Maybe the AI you're using is just bad...

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7/8 that are "normal" aint bad

Joe Perez 04-04-2024 08:20 PM


Originally Posted by Erat (Post 1648513)
Maybe the AI you're using is just bad...


Just noting that it's been one of the hardest things for AI image generators to get right. And yes, I deliberately chose CrAIyon over CoPilot to generate those, as CraAIyon is worse at it.



Aaaaaanyway.... You may have seen a photo of this room before, but you've probably never seen the full-color documentary about it.

If you watch only one YouTube video today, watch something with cats in it. But if you watch TWO YouTube videos, watch this one:




Joe Perez 04-05-2024 10:21 AM

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chiefmg 04-06-2024 09:44 PM

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chiefmg 04-06-2024 09:47 PM

Roll your own.


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Joe Perez 04-07-2024 12:42 PM

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chiefmg 04-07-2024 07:02 PM

It appears someone doesn't find humor in slagging off AOC.


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Erat 04-07-2024 08:44 PM

This text identifies as a .jpg

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Joe Perez 04-08-2024 02:24 PM

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rleete 04-08-2024 04:01 PM

I like how they made it #02, instead of the original #01

This was my view of the start of the eclipse. Thanks, NY.

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chiefmg 04-08-2024 06:12 PM

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triple88a 04-09-2024 11:24 AM

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TurboTim 04-09-2024 12:02 PM

That's one really bad day for a gas planet.

Joe Perez 04-09-2024 12:06 PM

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Ted75zcar 04-09-2024 09:52 PM

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Joe Perez 04-10-2024 06:27 PM

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sixshooter 04-10-2024 06:59 PM

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Faulty chip may be clue to Voyager 1 computer fix

NASA engineers have narrowed down the problem with the Voyager 1 deep space probe to a single faulty chip. It may now be possible to work around the corrupted memory and return the 47-year old interstellar spacecraft to an operational condition.

Since November, NASA has been trying to repair the Voyager 1 probe, which has been sending back gibberish instead of science and engineering data. It's hard enough trying to fix a piece of technology that dates back to the time of paper tape memories. It's downright frustrating when it's over 15 billion miles (24 billion km) from Earth and it takes two days to get a reply to any signals sent to it.

Then came the breakthrough on March 1, when one of a long string of commands was sent trying to get a response from Voyager 1. Two days later, a string of gibberish came back to Mission Control, only it was different gibberish that one engineer at NASA's Deep Space Network recognized and was able to decode.

This turned out to be a dump of the onboard computer's complete memory that gave NASA engineers vital clues to the problem and the hope of solving it. It was already known that the trouble was in the Flight Data Subsystem (FDS), which controls packaging data for transmission to Earth. Now, the fault has been narrowed down to a particular chip that may have failed due to old age or being struck by a cosmic ray particle.

It's now hoped that sometime in the coming weeks or months a way might be found to bypass the chip. If so, then Voyager 1 can return to work until its nuclear power source fails completely sometime in the next few years

Rrrracer 04-10-2024 11:48 PM

Thanks for the Voyager 1 posts. Apparently the spacecraft is not the only one getting old :fawk: Think i was around eight years of age when they launched. I have a scrapbook stashed in a box somewhere with B&W newspaper clippings of the launches, mission details, etc. along with everything else I could find space-wise at the time. The Jupiter fly-by was huge, the discovery of the rings and additional moons was astounding. An amazingly adventurous time for noob-deep space-mankind, and now a great time to wax nostalgic looking back on all of it, even though all things must come to an end.

Joe Perez 04-11-2024 10:20 AM

What really happened:


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Erat 04-12-2024 05:47 PM

I did a thing. Took me almost a full year to get this done.
But someone told me, they quit making this stuff a LONG time ago. I figure i'm not getting any younger.
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To be honest, it's not easy to find good "virgin" land 30 minutes from downtown of a major city like Detroit for a good price. I think the only compromise is that this land is kind of soft / wet... But it's SE Michigan, this entire area is a swamp. The property to the north(with all the junk) has a moat around it, and the property all to the south and west that seems fine. So i think i'll be okay. 8 acres in total. Not sure how i'm going to move forward with it. Short term, get an approach to the road and maybe a small parking pad. Then clear the brush and build an "on ground" cabin. Long term, i'd like to build a home.

rleete 04-12-2024 07:07 PM

You can build a house, but it takes love to make a home.


Congrats on the purchase.

Gee Emm 04-12-2024 08:18 PM

Congratulations, that looks like a great property!

Building in that sort of ground will be doable I'm sure, but unless you have a basically unlimited budget, there may be practical restrictions - you may be limited to some form of lightweight construction (eg pole frame, sheet roofing and wall cladding), rather than say stone/full brick and tile roof which could be more weight than the soil conditions can support. Every site has its own set of opportunities/limitations, I am sure you will be able to build something that, as rleete says, will become a home.

sixshooter 04-13-2024 08:44 AM

There's reason most cabins and buildings built in lower ground areas or areas with high water tables have an air gap beneath them. You don't want that moisture trapped within the structure. I'm facing a similar situation if I ever build something on the family property up in south Georgia. Most cabins were and are built on piers to keep them off the ground. It will also definitely help you if it ever floods to have an extra foot or two of elevation.

It also lets you have a covered front porch up off the ground. That way you can have a bunch of hound dogs lying under it when you are sitting in your rocking chair with your big beard and your overalls smoking your corn cob pipe. :giggle:

Since this is a picture thread:

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Erat 04-13-2024 03:56 PM

Yeah its going to take a ton of fill.

I have an unlimited supply of it, the trick is getting it from one spot to the other.

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Also, flew out to Cali a few weeks ago to pick up and drive this back for a friend. Very modified. Easily a 200+mph car. It's such a monster.
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Ted75zcar 04-14-2024 08:30 PM

Love my girls, but baching every once and a while is not without some advantages. Arugula and asparagus picked from the garden today.

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DeerHunter 04-19-2024 04:10 PM

Keep looking, you'll see it.

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good2go 04-20-2024 06:44 PM

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triple88a 04-21-2024 01:50 PM

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Ted75zcar 04-22-2024 08:28 PM

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DeerHunter 04-23-2024 10:31 PM

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Joe Perez 04-23-2024 11:05 PM


oilstain 04-23-2024 11:58 PM

I would like to know who performed the music, it's not the movie's orchestra, and there were some weird changes in parts, maybe to try to stay away from a
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DeerHunter 04-25-2024 07:54 PM

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Joe Perez 04-25-2024 11:04 PM

An oldie, but 'twas new to me:


chiefmg 04-26-2024 06:17 AM

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good2go 04-27-2024 10:22 PM

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Joe Perez 04-28-2024 12:04 AM

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DeerHunter 04-28-2024 12:48 AM

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Joe Perez 04-28-2024 08:31 PM

Sub-optimal taxidermy:


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oilstain 04-29-2024 11:47 PM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1649718)
Cat In A Box

1 Cut a hole in a box
2 Put, oh nope, the cat's already in the box...
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oilstain 04-29-2024 11:48 PM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1649735)

The only good one of those is a dead one of those, I guess.

Joe Perez 04-30-2024 11:13 AM


Originally Posted by oilstain (Post 1649774)
1 Cut a hole in a box
2 Put, oh nope, the cat's already in the box...

Hah.



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DeerHunter 04-30-2024 11:27 AM

Reminds me of those classic Kliban cat posters.

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Joe Perez 04-30-2024 12:05 PM


Originally Posted by DeerHunter (Post 1649797)
Reminds me of those classic Kliban cat posters.


I was recently reminded of the work of Micheal Bedard, while researching a snarky reply in a thread elsewhere involving the classic Edward Hopper painting Night Hawks.


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At one point, it seemed as though Bedard's work was completely inescapable. Everywhere you looked, there was a lithograph featuring his classic water-fowl in that indescribably unique visual style. And then, just as suddenly as a shift in the tides of fashion, they were gone.


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rleete 04-30-2024 12:05 PM

This is how you store spare cats:
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sixshooter 04-30-2024 07:27 PM

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What is the best option for replacing the NA8 main relay (marked FUEL INJ) these days? My used OEM replacement just burned up. Pic attached of deceased relay.

Joe Perez 04-30-2024 08:06 PM


Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 1649827)
What is the best option for replacing the NA8 main relay (marked FUEL INJ) these days? My used OEM replacement just burned up. Pic attached of deceased relay.

The new p/n is JE16-18-811, if that's any help. Still $80 on eBay and $110 from "reputable" vendors.

There's nothing special about that relay that makes it cost $110, apart from scarcity. If I were stranded near an Autozone in Prescott, AZ late at night and needed to get home, I'd break it open and splice a generic, off-the-shelf SPST automotive relay into its base.


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sixshooter 04-30-2024 09:42 PM

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Thanks Joe. I ordered two from Atkins Rotary. I knew there was an updated PN but couldn't remember it.

Joe Perez 04-30-2024 10:33 PM


Originally Posted by sixshooter (Post 1649835)
Thanks Joe. I ordered two from Atkins Rotary. I knew there was an updated PN but couldn't remember it.

Bitte.


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sixshooter 05-01-2024 07:56 AM

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