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New comment by cliftonpowell in "Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M"

cliftonpowell — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:17:54 +0000

There's another project called ebook2audiobook that has produces some decent results.

New comment by cliftonpowell in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

cliftonpowell — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:03:30 +0000

Your question was does it make sense to judge their art in isolation from the artist. I'm saying you can in fact do that and as an exercise in proving this fact I front load the art and follow with the artist and the net effect is positivity rather than hostility. But even if you were to present a monster's art in tandem with the fact that the artist was a monster I would go even further to bet that most people would judge the art on its own merits and find its origin trivial, even ironically humorous. I've known very few people who pearl clutch in life the way they do on the internet.

New comment by cliftonpowell in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

cliftonpowell — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:39:59 +0000

As a joke I'll sometimes show images of Hitler's art to people. They're always received with high praise, and rarely is the praise retracted when they learn who the artist was. It's usually "oh that's funny, well he was pretty good. Wow. Didn't know that."

Yeah I think art and artist can be evaluated on separate criteria.

New comment by cliftonpowell in "Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI"

cliftonpowell — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:35:21 +0000

Totally agree. And you never even hear about the movie anymore. Total shame. I watch it every year with newfound awe.

New comment by cliftonpowell in "Dry Cask Storage"

cliftonpowell — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:11:25 +0000

Reprocessing is still an option in the future. But it generates a lot of waste streams and as you indicate is more expensive than just fabricating a new rod. Plus our nuclear fleet is in decline and we could see a wave of decommissioned plants in the next decade (if we don't pivot our national energy policy) so our usage of fuel will decline in turn.