School choice works within municipalities. A huge part of the point of modern inner-ring suburbs is to allow wealthier people to exempt themselves from that system.
There is an AI plugin for krita that lets you define regions, selection bounds, sub-prompts, control nodes, and lots more control over a given image generation model than standard Automattic or comfyUI workflows...down to 'put an arm wearing armor here' for example in my RPG NPC token writing.
It has full image generation mode, it has an animation mode, it has a live mode where you can draw a blob of images and it will refine it 2-50 steps only in that area.
So you are no longer doing per line stroke and saved brush settings, but you are still painting and composing an image yourself, down to a pixel by pixel rate. It's just that the tool it gives is WAY more compute intensive, the AI is sort of rendering a given part of a drawing as you specify as many times as you need.
How much of that workflow is just prompting a one-shot image, vs photoshopping +++ an image together until it meets your exact specifications?
No, the final image cannot be copyrighted under current US law in 2026, but for use in private settings like tabletop RPGs...my production values have gone way up and I didn't need to get a MFA degree in The old Masters drawing or open a drawing studio to get those images.
Tacking on, in evangelical circles Dave Ramsey's financial peace university talks about saving 15% of retirement when getting out of debt and generally working through that list, then once you have paid off the house, build more retirement wealth as you desire...most of us don't get to that point until later in life.
There is also the rent vs buy calculation to take into account, depend on where you live, it might make more sense to rent and invest the difference than buying.
For F# nerds, this stack takes the concepts of SAFE stack applications on server side or SPEC stack apps in cloudflare edge workers and moves them to the desktop. Electron but F# and using system webviews and LLVM-powered native code.
We've got a few sites that are intermittently giving 503 cloudflare errors (the site itself is not throwing them), found this. Combined with general squirreliness with YouTube this morning, figure better safe than sorry to psot here.
The twitter fail whale was a thing a decade ago now.
I don't think outages are more common as such, but we pay more attention to them since we live in mobile phones nowadays.
There has been a lot of contralization of web servers into 3rd party CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare, probably more than is truly needed by smaller actors who instead just need to fix their crappy DB access patterns and rid themselves of all the tracking js, but that in and of itself doesnt mean more outages...just a larger blast radius when an outage does happen.
> The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
> Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know.
Even YouTube goes down. Good reminder for us mere cyber mortals with our total customer base of 100ks and not millions. Nobodys perfect!
I was just about to research 1:60 scale mapmaking for my rpg campaign since I was going to adapt a modern day map hidden as a fantasy map, and boom, shes dead Jim.
Eternal September came up in conversation today about how users don't do effort posts any longer, they just want to leave funny comments below reaction videos and then swipe to the next one.
Anyone got any good effort post oases I can lurk and help out in?
Thank you for sharing your hard work with the world! I get to play with these AI technologies without having to train my own model or wire up an entire composition because of precompiled systems ither have made and shared, like yours.
I hope you find product market fit and are able to do what you desire with this product. In the meantime, I am grateful that you are helping us advance towards the Star Trek Voice Computer being defictionalized!
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