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Somehow they've learned nothing and will likely be forced to go back to in house staff after some massive outage or security breach.
Top comment in the reddit thread is p good
Everyone at Canada Life in 3 months: What the heck does “do the needful” mean?
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fry"
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https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1b2w8u1/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_apple_car/
https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1b38gm1/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_its_failed/
https://old.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/1b393n6/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_apple_car/
Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project
Apple spent more than $10 billion working on the Apple Car over the last decade, according to a report from The New York Times that details the issues the project faced during development. Apple first launched the project in 2014 and let it flounder for more than a decade before calling it off earlier this week.
Money was spent on research and development, along with the thousands of Apple engineers and car experts that worked on the project. Some employees within Apple are said to have suspected that the endeavor was likely to fail from the beginning, and they referred to the car as "the Titanic disaster" instead of its "Project Titan" codename.
Apple CEO Tim Cook signed off on the project, but members of the car team knew that it was going to be close to impossible. An electric vehicle with self-driving capabilities would need to cost at least $100,000, and it would have razor thin margins and stiff competition.
While Apple reportedly held discussions with Elon Musk about a possible purchase of Tesla, the company decided that building its own car made more sense than attempting to integrate Tesla into Apple. Way back in 2014, Musk said that he had "conversations" with Apple, but he said at the time that an acquisition seemed "very unlikely."
Apple was never able to find the right leader for the Apple Car project. As we detailed in a look back at the Apple Car's history earlier today, the project had four different leads and was scaled up and scaled back several times over the course of the last 10 years. According to The New York Times, the ultimate reason that it failed was because Apple was simply unable to develop the software and algorithms for a car with autonomous driving.
The more than 2,000 employees that worked on the car project are being redistributed, some will join other teams at Apple to work on AI and other technologies, and some will be laid off. Apple will take what it learned from the car project and apply it to other devices like AI-powered AirPods with cameras, robot assistants, and augmented reality.
More on the downfall of the Apple Car and some of the technologies that Apple came up with can be found in the full The New York Times report.
Original NYT article archive https://archive.is/9hYOJ.
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https://github.com/Gourieff/sd-webui-reactor You'll need version 0.7.0 (which is still in alpha) to made face models
I will prompt for the kind of face I'm looking for (race, features, general shape) pick the best 5 and blend them into a face model, if the results aren't good enough I'll use that model to generate more faces and then re-blend them into a new model
Images generate without using a face model
With a face model
I use this lora to massively reduce the number of steps it take to generate an image, makes it must faster to shotgun a few dozens faces to pick from.
Limitations:
Doesn't carry over expressions, tattoos, scars, skin tone or make up and the face doesn't match as well if you change race (a face blend of asian women won't look the same if use to generate a white woman)
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What's the current group policy method to prevent this on w11? Is there one? Did it change with 23h2? I think I applied one on this pc at some point but it's been such a long time that I don't remember what I did and clearly it stopped working.
Preferably from a source that isn't sucking microsoft's peepee and telling me I'm using my computer wrong by failing to save unsaveable browser session data.
.webp?x=8 "Aura (blue) - Such power!")
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my friend wrote a web app for her masters thesis in R. it’s literally one file with BOTH ui AND server components.
— albina (@enjojoyy) February 27, 2024
i’m (react dev) in shambles
p.s. she allowed me to post it pic.twitter.com/O7UgK0AgX2
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We are committed to Open Models @StabilityAI
— Emad (@EMostaque) February 27, 2024
We have given over 20 million A100 hours in grants to open AI research & projects across communities.
Stable Diffusion 3 will have an open release.
Same with video, language, code, 3D, audio etc.
Open collaboration is the way 🚀
MOAR FREE CODESHIT FRICK YEA
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Elon Musk's ambition to build a city on Mars pushes the boundaries of human imagination.
— megan barqueros (@megan_barqueros) February 26, 2024
Remember when 
said there were too many bots under the old leadership and he was going to solve the problem?
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I've been trying to get /h/lit to read SICP for their book club, but they've rigged the vote by removing it from the ballot, even though it was the most popular submission.
I figure we could have something like the book club thread, but for programming. That said, nobody here will actually read books, so I figure it'd be more exiting as a challenge.
Here's the idea: I'll pick ~5 exercises from successive chapters of SICP, then post them here. SICP is written using scheme, but you can solve them in whatever language you'd like. That said, languages with inexpressive static types or without garbage collectors will make this pretty difficult. Sussman describes sceme as a "libertarian" 
language, meaning you can do things many languages wouldn't let you get away with. I'm very familiar with scheme and can help people if need be. You can ask questions, post solutions, and bully others for asking stupid questions and posting stupid solutions.
Would you be interested in something like this?
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is worried the 
will catch him for all 'is 'oremongering.
I have been considering applying but I am worried about the background checks. In the past I have visited quite a few prostitutes maybe about 300 and am concerned this will come up on background check (do they check with MI5?). Would find it very embarassing to get reject.
If it helps I haven't seen a prostitute in 3 weeks and I am a developer
I've read your comments on other threads. You're a developer, in your 20s, on a six figure salary hiring a different escort every week. But you're thinking of giving that up to join the civil service.
What were you thinking of doing? DWP work coach? Border Force guard? Evidence Specialist for DEFRA.
I think your fantasy football league has more truth in it than the rest of your posts.
Most recent comment a month ago states they were fired 😂. Bet there's been no prostitute's recently then! 🤣
Even if they do check with MI5, why would MI5 have any knowledge of your prostitute habit? Who are you? Why have MI5 been tracking you? What are you not telling us?
Maybe James Bond sees the same hookers??? 
hears landmark cases that could upend 
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This will always make me laugh. pic.twitter.com/o9ykU3dhAa
— Sarah 👩🏼🍳👩🏼💻 (@chfsrh) February 20, 2024
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