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My feeling has always been that if I cant sell it, it's junk not worth keeping, and if I can sell it, why keep it?
And that's how I got trapped in a capitalist cycle of doing labor for money and buying goods
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My cousin ran a pool business out of a storage unit. Essentially for a setup job he would go to the storage unit, get the required items for the job, lock the unit and drive to the job. Then when they were done he’d pick up the stuff and put it back. It’s a good use case for long term storage.
The other things are more short term, like doing a renovation and having your living room and dining room somewhere else.
The extent to which buying storage makes sense is like... when you're temporarily trying to do some sort of furniture swap where you get new furniture before you remove the old furniture, or if you got screwed on a garage less apartment deal and then realized you inherited 3 ATVs you really like.
Buying it just for more stuff you can already fit and transport around your current living space is cray cray
I've debated getting a storage space to help with de-cluttering. Just to get things out of the apartment. I used to have a nice climate controlled one back before I got an apartment big enough to hold my things. Nowadays, it's like.. do I want to spend the extra money when I don't actually need it? And yet as I get more and more storage containers, which are notably the gasket style so that they can withstand being placed in less than ideal locations... well, the thought is definitely growing on me.
Oh oh do not buy storage space!!!
In my case "storage" is the one room in my apartment building's basement where I can put stuff, and 2 closets in my apartment where there are high shelves out of sight and impractical to get to. "Storage" is the space where you live, that isn't out in the open, where you can put items.
People who pay for storage at a separate location on a permanent basis almost always regret it because they never ever go there. Good use cases for longterm storage unit rental are slim.
I've seen a lot of TV shows where murderers use it as their trophy room, and it seems to work out well for that.
If I had a lot of specialized, high tech weapons as a holdover from my previous life as a contract killer, yeah I would probably keep them in a storage unit
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I would absolutely keep them in one of those fancy boards with the cut outs for each gun
Like, duh
Camera people could probably tell you the real quick and easy way to make those
I don't want to know, because I know for a fact that I'd be spending a month putting the most inane items in storage cases with cut out foam
And be left with like a thousand dollars in hardcases containing like single teaspoons when the joke wears off
The only use cases that really make sense paying for a storage unit would be like you're moving and need somewhere to store your furniture and stuff in the interim, or like working somewhere distant for a determinant amount of time then moving back. Maybe if a relative is going into a nursing home or died and you aren't ready to go through or get rid of their stuff.
I dunno what else. Maybe if you have a business and need storage for inventory or tools or something, and of course the aforementioned serial killer trophy room / hitman weapons locker.
If you have too much stuff cluttering your house, you probably should sell or donate some of it but at the same time I know that is hard for some people and even thinking of it can cause crippling anxiety.
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For people in apartments with minimal closets and no basement space, I think there really ought to be a large, modular shelving unit for dense storage where you can carve out like, 1/4 of one of your rooms for it, assemble it there, and put all your misc items in a high density location.
It needs to be covered somehow too, so these items can be visually out of the way. Something attractive enough that you're not like, living with a tarp over a trash heap in your living room.
It's a lot of space to earmark for storage but I think the net result would be more living space, and more usable living space for the majority of people. It would be good.
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I think I need to swap my table out for one with actual drawers instead of shelves, its just a pointless bullshit storage space since it's inconvenient, and I have more stuff than I can put away
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I am a hair's breadth from cancelling Youtube Music (I was fully satisfied with the Play Music app and being forced to an app that is massively inferior is slowly making me more and more frustrated).
But I don't know if it's practical, or if I should switch to a different streaming service.
But my problems with Youtube Music are:
It doesn't autoplay when connecting to my car consistently. Maybe about 33% of the time, so the rest of the time, once I realize it's not autoplaying, I have to take my phone out of my pocket, unlock it, open the app, click my playlist (When this happens, just clicking play on the paused song does not work), click shuffle to restart the playlist and THEN it'll work.
About half the time it doesn't feed track information to my car, so the display is just blank. Not even a tracktime.
Shuffle is consistently picking the same songs. I have about 400 or 500 songs in my driving playlist and I'm basically listening to 40 or 50 Susperia and Testament songs CONSTANTLY. It chooses the same songs over and over (This is because I have to restart the shuffle constantly, so it's basically putting the same songs at the beginning. This would be solved if I didn't have to constantly restart the shuffle to get it to play in my car)
So the question is, if I go with a music player app and just go back to ripping mp3s from cds (I still have all my mp3s from back before I streamed music, so it's not like I have to start over, just get it up to date), is there a music app that will solve those problems?
Is there another streaming service that works better than youtube music?
Or am I just fucked over because Google axed a working app and replaced it with a broken app that is still not fixed years later?
I am probably biased but Spotify is a much better music streaming service than Amazon, YouTube and iTunes in almost every respect
I can’t promise it has better integration with your car AV panel though
I'll give Spotify a try. Thanks, Will.
I'm holding you personally responsible for my experience with Spotify.
For people in apartments with minimal closets and no basement space, I think there really ought to be a large, modular shelving unit for dense storage where you can carve out like, 1/4 of one of your rooms for it, assemble it there, and put all your misc items in a high density location.
It needs to be covered somehow too, so these items can be visually out of the way. Something attractive enough that you're not like, living with a tarp over a trash heap in your living room.
It's a lot of space to earmark for storage but I think the net result would be more living space, and more usable living space for the majority of people. It would be good.
outfits like california closets or home depot or ikea seem have the market cornered in that sort of storage shelves/ built-ins in the US. they're probably more common in countries in which people live in smaller spaces.
the american ethos seems to be that we all aspire to bigger houses and it's hard to fight that gravity. We did it for 15 years or so but covid made us succumb
For people in apartments with minimal closets and no basement space, I think there really ought to be a large, modular shelving unit for dense storage where you can carve out like, 1/4 of one of your rooms for it, assemble it there, and put all your misc items in a high density location.
It needs to be covered somehow too, so these items can be visually out of the way. Something attractive enough that you're not like, living with a tarp over a trash heap in your living room.
It's a lot of space to earmark for storage but I think the net result would be more living space, and more usable living space for the majority of people. It would be good.
I'm quite pleased with these ClosetMaid blocks. You can leave out a divider here and there to double up the size of a compartment, and you can get these v cute fabric basket drawers for them too.
They're also sturdy enough for our TV to sit on, which was surprising.
Why do neural nets always produce nightmare images
I know this is just an idle thought but there is a real answer and I think it's interesting. It's because most image generation networks are not structured to have a good top-down understanding of what they're supposed to be making.
If a network is trained to make faces, any parts of a face that are self-similar will have a tendency to chain and create weird, uncanny repeating blobs of features. Like, an upper lip looks like a lower lip, so the network might "sketch in" a pair of lips and then when it goes to do another pass, it doesn't recognize its own sketch properly, mistakes the upper lip for a lower lip and "sketches" another set of lips superimposed above. Then it might decide differently next time and you get this weird 3 lipped or 4 lipped mouth.
It's not working from a solid idea of what a face is, just how features look and how to position them relative to one another.
But what makes it especially unsettling is that the network DOES understand pretty well how skin is continuous and how it stretches and creases between features, since this is more easily learned and largely just a local phenomenon. So said 4-lipped mouth is going to be lovingly, semi-realistically rendered in this nightmare-like painterly way where any small area looks right but the whole looks very wrong.
GANs get around this somewhat by having an entire separate network dedicated to deciding if the output looks weird, but this isn't even perfect because that network doesn't have a super great idea of what it's looking for either. The absolute best networks eventually learn, with enough data, that e.g.: a face ought to have ONLY 2 eyes and no other face embedded within it, but I think we're still missing a key piece of the puzzle in their design that would make these lessons easier to teach, or would make the network learn them more readily from less data.
Anyway, that's roughly why the current generation of neural networks tend to create nightmare fuel.
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And that's how I got trapped in a capitalist cycle of doing labor for money and buying goods
The other things are more short term, like doing a renovation and having your living room and dining room somewhere else.
Buying it just for more stuff you can already fit and transport around your current living space is cray cray
Camera people could probably tell you the real quick and easy way to make those
I don't want to know, because I know for a fact that I'd be spending a month putting the most inane items in storage cases with cut out foam
And be left with like a thousand dollars in hardcases containing like single teaspoons when the joke wears off
I will post the most unsexy pictures ever put on these forums. Of some shelves.
I dunno what else. Maybe if you have a business and need storage for inventory or tools or something, and of course the aforementioned serial killer trophy room / hitman weapons locker.
If you have too much stuff cluttering your house, you probably should sell or donate some of it but at the same time I know that is hard for some people and even thinking of it can cause crippling anxiety.
It needs to be covered somehow too, so these items can be visually out of the way. Something attractive enough that you're not like, living with a tarp over a trash heap in your living room.
It's a lot of space to earmark for storage but I think the net result would be more living space, and more usable living space for the majority of people. It would be good.
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I'll give Spotify a try. Thanks, Will.
This is my nerd shelf, except for the dvds, those are my husband’s
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What kind of monster fails to sort their meeples?
outfits like california closets or home depot or ikea seem have the market cornered in that sort of storage shelves/ built-ins in the US. they're probably more common in countries in which people live in smaller spaces.
the american ethos seems to be that we all aspire to bigger houses and it's hard to fight that gravity. We did it for 15 years or so but covid made us succumb
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Now I have two, the other one is now glassware, alcohol, and loose shelving at the bottom until I figure out how high I need them to be
They're also sturdy enough for our TV to sit on, which was surprising.
Or maybe when they mess up with the hydraulic lift opening the Gloomhaven 17 box.
Most of our crap that's stored is in the basement and we've cleaned out quite a bit. This is my 'nerd shelf' though under my desk.
Departures: empty
Arrivals: empty
Would kind of like there to be at least a hint that i'll get to leave though since I thought I was going to do that in twenty minutes
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and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
I know this is just an idle thought but there is a real answer and I think it's interesting. It's because most image generation networks are not structured to have a good top-down understanding of what they're supposed to be making.
If a network is trained to make faces, any parts of a face that are self-similar will have a tendency to chain and create weird, uncanny repeating blobs of features. Like, an upper lip looks like a lower lip, so the network might "sketch in" a pair of lips and then when it goes to do another pass, it doesn't recognize its own sketch properly, mistakes the upper lip for a lower lip and "sketches" another set of lips superimposed above. Then it might decide differently next time and you get this weird 3 lipped or 4 lipped mouth.
It's not working from a solid idea of what a face is, just how features look and how to position them relative to one another.
But what makes it especially unsettling is that the network DOES understand pretty well how skin is continuous and how it stretches and creases between features, since this is more easily learned and largely just a local phenomenon. So said 4-lipped mouth is going to be lovingly, semi-realistically rendered in this nightmare-like painterly way where any small area looks right but the whole looks very wrong.
GANs get around this somewhat by having an entire separate network dedicated to deciding if the output looks weird, but this isn't even perfect because that network doesn't have a super great idea of what it's looking for either. The absolute best networks eventually learn, with enough data, that e.g.: a face ought to have ONLY 2 eyes and no other face embedded within it, but I think we're still missing a key piece of the puzzle in their design that would make these lessons easier to teach, or would make the network learn them more readily from less data.
Anyway, that's roughly why the current generation of neural networks tend to create nightmare fuel.
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