Overall disappointing, no Hall of Fame entries in 2023, but there were a few good ones. — The Super Bowl is a yearly mini film festival for advertising. With 30 seconds costing 7 million dollars this year, brands try to bring their best. For the third year in a row, I spent longer watching Super Bowl commercials than I did the actual Super Bowl, just so I…

The consumer version of a false invoice scam — Got a funny email today. Looked like a scam or phishing email. I checked and it is actually from PayPal (which is easy to spoof so still didn’t trust it). I opened a new window and logged into PayPal (NEVER click a link in a suspicious email. Always directly go…

Here are all the main ways, from easiest to hardest, to run Stable Diffusion on a Mac. Download DiffusionBee (easy) Use a web UI (medium) Run directly from the Terminal (hard) Run online (not local, can cost money) I write a free weekly newsletter about AI and how to use…

These are the best portfolio and personal websites I’ve seen, + 1 reason why. — Bruno Simon - Creative developer Creative developer living in Paris, freelancer, former lead developer at Immersive Garden, former developer at Uzik and…bruno-simon.com Why: Incredibly creative. You drive a little truck around. His website is basically a game. Josh W Comeau As developers, it can be tempting to grab a pre-styled UI framework like Material UI or Bootstrap. Seems like a great…www.joshwcomeau.com

Criticism #1 Renewables are cheaper, as measured by LCOE, therefore LCOE is flawed. Renewable energy generation is cheaper in many cases than fossil fuel energy generation. However, it is hard to directly compare the cost of a solar panel, to the cost of a coal power plant to the cost of a nuclear plant. To help with this, a metric know as Levelized…

I predict that nearly all cars sold in 50 years are going to be electric. Just like some people still drive a horse and buggy, there will be people who still drive gas cars. But electric cars are the future. However, many people don’t like electric cars currently. …

“Those who can’t do, teach…?” — Coaches are slightly confusing. Oftentimes they cannot do what their charges do, but they help the people they coach to be much more effective. So why is coaching so effective? There are 3 parts to coaching: Clarify what you want. Map out an action plan to get what you want. …

Google is shutting down it’s streaming game platform, Stadia. They are refunding all purchases of both hardware and software. Google kills products so often it is a meme and a site https://killedbygoogle.com/

Here is my setup and process — I want to learn digital painting. This may seem weird when Dalle2 is making awesome images just from text, but I want to extend and enhance images. I want to be able to create exactly what I have in mind, not play telephone with an AI trying to get close. …