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But wait, isn’t it all Ohio?

It’s already a bit of a fairy tale to assume that one other NATO member is going to join the United States in this train wreck of a war. Most I would expect is some defensive help for Turkey if it gets caught in the splash zone.

Of course they could do it voluntarily. Anyone can decide to declare war on whomever. What would that have to do with being in NATO though?

This is not a NATO mission. This is not defense. The commitments of membership do not in any way require that NATO members have to lift a finger to help other NATO members prosecute unprovoked wars of aggression.

Apparently there is a mechanism in the basic QR-code-generating algorithm that does something like this.

There are eight different patterns that can be used to display any given QR code’s data. All eight versions get generated internally by the generation software and then they’re assigned scores that penalize them based on various patterns:

• Large monochromatic blocks, anything more than 2x2 pixels of the same colour (white or black)
• Long lines of either colour
• Anything matching the “finder patterns” (the squares at the corners)
• Imbalance between 50% black and white pixels

The best one of the eight is the one that’s actually printed.

So a swastika isn’t explicitly searched for, but given that a swastika is composed of a bunch of long lines a QR code pattern like that would get penalized pretty harshly. The seven other QR codes would have to be even worse for it to slip through, and I bet the odds are pretty low for that.

So, wait, is this a stupid question, then? Should we not be upvoting it? Recursion is tricky.

Not applicable here. NATO is a defensive pact, but America is the aggressor in this case. They can’t invoke Article 5 for this.

Strange times.

It’s serving the will of prudes, religious fruitcakes, inattentive parents, the technologically illiterate, and anyone dumb enough to be taken in by the “think of the children!” Rhetoric of the control-freaks.

Unfortunately this is a rather large constituency.

A British aircraft carrier won’t be enough to do that.

One can be certain that Trump will demand control over Iran’s oil trade, for starters.

Actually for finishers, too. That’s probably all he cares about.

Ah. After poking around in the Gradio UI a bit, I found an “Enable ADG” but the tooltip says it’s “Angle Domain Guidance”, same thing?

I’m a programmer, but sometimes with AI I feel like a primitive tribesperson blindly attempting various rituals in an effort to appease the machine spirits. Eventually something works, and then I just keep on doing that.

Edit: I have angered the gods! My ritual failed! When I enabled ADG the spirits smote me with the following:

RuntimeError: The size of tensor a (11400) must match the size of tensor b (5700) at non-singleton dimension 1

Guess I won’t be trying that for now. :)

ADG == Audio-Driven Guidance? I haven’t played around with that part much. I tried it out and couldn’t get it to work, but it turned out that the reason ACE Step wasn’t working was unrelated to that and I only figured out what was wrong after I stopped experimenting with ADG. So I haven’t gone back to try it again.

I’m not really much of a music connoisseur, I just know what I like when I hear it. So mostly I just put together lyrics and then throw them at the wall to see what sounds good. :)

Yeah, they’re just about finished with the original Gaza. They need new ones to replace it.

It’s the one I use, so don’t expect miraculous improvement. :)

Yeah, but the fact that they were able to take out a big chunk of second-in-commands and potential successors at the same time doesn’t help the stability much.

That meeting they were having should really have been a Zoom call.

I’d love to hear what local model you settle on for lyrics, I’ve been having a lot of fun with ACE-Step 1.5 but the lyric generator it’s bundled with produces semi-nonsense lyrics that have nothing to do with what I prompt it with. Which is actually kind of fun in its own way, I literally never know what the song’s going to be about, but I’d like a little control sometimes too. :)

Surely the scorpion has learned its lesson and won’t sting this time.

You are trying really really really hard to find every possible little way to interpret this situation as “Fuck Carney” fodder. Accusing me of “deliberately trying to misinterpret the situation” is rich.

I didn’t pull that quote because it’s unclear how it makes any difference. As long as the troops aren’t deployed in the Middle East how are they going to help the war against Iran?