jonathanvmv8f

I haven't used Photoshop in my Windows machine for a while. I only used it to do occasional stuff to my photos that simple photo editors cannot do.

When I opened the app, I was greeted with a banner and a dialogue box stating "this Adobe app is non-genuine and will be disabled soon". (Both were written in Japanese though the original app's language is set to English. I think it has something to do with my VPN.) I couldn't figure what the buttons said but one seems to redirect me to an Adobe subscription page and the other simply closes the app.

I don't have experience pirating stuff like this. I got help from another friend long ago in downloading the whole suite of Adobe products from what I think is a Russian source. I am pretty sure they told me to set up firewall restrictions for the app as well, and I haven't touched the installer or anything similar since then. I don't know if there is something I can do about this or if I should download an 'updated version' of the app from some other source.

My latest personal project would look like this:

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Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements.

Imagine the world has dedicated its focus and the entirety of its resources on building just one Pyramid as quickly as possible out of the same materials and in the same location as the original ones. The medium of construction has no constraints but the end result must be indistinguishable, structure and composition wise.

I would love to hear how the process would take place in addition.

I believe lighting plays a very important part in making a scene realistic when it comes to creating one artificially, like in 3D modelling. That is why I also think the lighting of these AI generated images is the prime source of what impresses people about these images since no matter how unrealistic or distorted the subject is, the lighting makes it look like a natural part of the background. This is clearly different from photos like from poorly Photoshopped ones where the subject feels deliberately inserted into the scene from a cutout.

I am interested to understand how LLMs understand the context of the lighting when creating images. Do they make use of samples which happen to have the exact same lighting positions or do they add the lighting as an overlay instead? Also, why is it that lighting doesn't look convincing in some cases like having multiple subjects together etc.?

Context: Newton personally believed in the concept of absolute space since it reinforced the idea of an absolute God, but the entire premise was proven false by what we know as 'relativity of motion' which makes use of Newton's laws of motion.

Excerpts from 'A Brief History of Time' by Stephen Hawking:

"... Aristotle believed in a preferred state of rest, which any body would take up if it were not driven by some force or impulse. In particular, he thought that the earth was at rest. But it follows from Newton's laws that there is no unique standard of rest."

"Newton was very worried by this lack of absolute position, or absolute space, as it was called, because it did not accord with his idea of an absolute God. In fact, he refused to accept lack of absolute space, even though it was implied by his laws."

I have a JSON object with a huge array of nested objects. Let us assume it consists of records of license plates for vehicles. It would contain necessary fields like licenseID, issuingState, dateOfIssue, driverID etc.

What I am having problem with is how I should store data that is only used for exceptional cases, like a field for representing if the license plate is for foreign embassies (isEmbassyOwned) or if it is owned by a government entity (isGovernmentOwned) or if it is a learner license (isLearner) etc alongside fields with data types other than Boolean which would be empty or 0 and likewise when there is no information on that field. Let it be known that these exceptional scenarios would occur in less than 10% of total object instances.

I am facing confusion as to what format would be best for storing such type of data keeping balance between minimizing storage consumption and being human readable. Should I declare the fields for all objects regardless or only include them when they are not empty? Should I store them in a dedicated array instead, or maybe just introduce some code value to be used by a switch case operator in the interpreter? Or is there some other implementation I am not aware of?