Upholstery fabric is thicker than most fabric you would use for garments. It is used for furniture, like couches, so it needs to be pretty durable. It is a bit more expensive though, so YMMV depending on how expensive your local fabric store is.

As for doing flay lay, that is just what works best for the types of products I am shooting these days. It is kind of nice in that backgrounds are super easy. I usually shoot against a vinyl, patterned backdrop on the table (I got mine from Ink and Elm). One thing it does limit though is the types of props I can use. Lots of stuff looks great in a picture…but not necessarily from the top down.

I don’t do portraiture, but product photography. These days everything I do is top down flat lay, however, when I was using a backdrop, I got a set of cheap light stands with a cross bar off Amazon and then clamped upholstery fabric to act as the backdrop. The upholstery fabric is much thicker, which means its wrinkles less and is more opaque.

I loved this show. It was so needlessly well produced. Probably one of the darkest comedies I have seen in some time.

The manga is great as well.

Excellent use of post flair!

I kind of feel like this was a missed opportunity to have Ponko replace Yachiyo in the OP.

I am traveling right now, so I am going to keep it short. I wasn’t really feeling this episode for a while. Yachiyo going through a rebellious phase (no matter how hilarious or well animated it was) felt a bit out of character to me. However, they brought me back around with the emotional exchange between the two. I am going to miss this show when it is over.

This show is taking its time with the later parts of this story despite going a bit faster early on and I think it is paying off. Honestly, despite the obvious lack of budget/production available for this show, they have done a fantastic job with the adaptation. They have changed up the order and pacing to better suit the medium, leading to some great moments.

I’m traveling, so I am going to keep this short. This episode was probably the best produced episode all season. I have absolutely loved this show. Even having read the manga, this show has elevated the source to such a high level it has been a joy. I will miss this when it ends.

This episode was certifiably nuts. The production on this show has been phenomenal when it has no need to be. It’s been something special all season.

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I just looked at the first PR out of curiosity, and wow…

this isn’t integrated with tests

That’s the part that surprised me the most. It failed the existing automation. Even after prompted to fix the failing tests, it proudly added a commit “fixing” it (it still didn’t pass…something that copilot should really be able to check). Then the dev had to step in and say why the test was failing and how to fix the code to make it pass. With this much handholding all of this could have been done much faster and cleaner without any AI involvement at all.

I have a PhD in physics, primarily working on fluids and now I work in industry on fluid dynamics. Having just read the abstract, I can already tell that this paper is one of those that borders philosophical about the author’s view of their field. Nothing wrong with that though as we physicists tend to wax poetic from time to time.

The question about when we can consider turbulence solved is an interesting one. I still work in the field and for most useful applications of fluid dynamics, I would consider it a solved problem. Not to say that the NS equation is solved analytically, but rather that the field has built up a toolbox of phenomenological models and CFD systems that are more than good enough for the range of scales that we typically work with. The bigger problem for CFD in this space is optimization, an issue where GPUs have proven to be invaluable. Only in the past couple years have the major CFD software packages started supporting GPU computation, speeding things up 2-10x depending on the specifics.

I think that turbulence is an issue really at the extremes of scales at this point (very tiny, very large, small dt, hypersonic, etc.). Also, I think that it would be difficult in a system with complex forces acting on your fluid, like in a plasma where E&M forces are so significant. So, good luck all you folks working on fusion reactors!

Karma on piefed isn’t visible to the users, only to the instance admin. So, I don’t really see the incentive to farm it the same way as on reddit. What I can see on my (and others) account is my “Attitude” or the ratio of upvotes to downvotes:

I’m not a biologist, but if I understand your question correctly, you are basically looking for land-based invertebrates that also lack a hardened exoskeleton (like insects). This would basically consist of small, soft animals like snails, slugs, leeches, tardigrades, and tons of different types of worms.

The reason that you don’t see large examples of this in land-dwelling creatures is that skeletons or exoskeletons become way more necessary without a medium like the water in the ocean to help support a body. The rigid structure provides an attachment point for musculature to create the mechanical levers we use to manipulate our limbs.

Not sure where this falls on lemmy’s roadmap or if there is a github issue for it, but you can turn off notifications in piefed per post or comment. You can also enable notifications for posts/comments that aren’t your own if there is a thread you want to keep tabs on.

The theory that the lead maintainer had (he is an actual software developer, I just dabble), is that it might be a type of reinforcement learning:

• Get your LLM to create what it thinks are valid bug reports/issues
• Monitor the outcome of those issues (closed immediately, discussion, eventual pull request)
• Use those outcomes to assign how “good” or “bad” that generated issue was
• Use that scoring as a way to feed back into the model to influence it to create more “good” issues

If this is what’s happening, then it’s essentially offloading your LLM’s reinforcement learning scoring to open source maintainers.

Really great piece. We have recently seen many popular lemmy instances struggle under recent scraping waves, and that is hardly the first time its happened. I have some firsthand experience with the second part of this article that talks about AI-generated bug reports/vulnerabilities for open source projects.

I help maintain a python library and got a bug report a couple weeks back of a user getting a type-checking issue and a bit of additional information. It didn’t strictly follow the bug report template we use, but it was well organized enough, so I spent some time digging into it and came up with no way to reproduce this at all. Thankfully, the lead maintainer was able to spot the report for what it was and just closed it and saved me from further efforts to diagnose the issue (after an hour or two were burned already).

Wow, I hadn’t realized until you pointed it out that you can’t delete pm’s (I guess without getting admins to fiddle with the db). I still use my lemmy account to moderate some lemmy communities, but I am appreciating using piefed as my threadiverse consumption platform more and more.

You have clearly never driven on 93 through Boston where the person you replied to said they are from (aka the Big Dig). It is basically an entire highway that is underneath the city. There are many on and off ramps, lanes suddenly become exit only, complex multi-lane exits that branch…it’s intimidating. As somebody that has lived in the Boston area for 15 years now, I still mess things up.

Official response from Greg Bernhardt

It’s years since I last used PhysicsForums, but found it immensely useful in the old days while going through my undergrad physics degree (it was less useful for PhD courses). I am not morally opposed to providing AI attempts at an answer in threads where nobody else chimes in. However, using real accounts that belong to other users is wildly over the line. I was surprised to see this wasn’t really called out in the official response thread by the existing users as that is the part of all this that is the most egregious to me.

IIRC, piefed’s private votes are disabled for “trusted” instances. You can see which instances are trusted here.