u/Ice2jc

Love Kingston getting run with the starters go hawks caw caw

I'm a photographer/videographer and I outsource my extremely tedious and time consuming photo editing.

For the past 24 hours (whenever my usage replenishes + $20 I impatiently spent on credits) I have been training the desktop app to edit a photo in photoshop and lightroom classic for me. I include a perfect reference photo that my editor edited as well as my original RAW files. I explained all of my relevant techniques that would be used for editing this photo and told the chatgpt web client to format the instructions the desktop app.

Holy crap. The first image it edited, before I gave it a reference image - was rough, not going to lie. In my own words I described what needed to be done to make it perfect and showed it the reference image. The second image was much improved, but still had some glaring issues. So next I screenshoted the desktop apps thought process, my explanation, and the final edited image and fed those back to the chatgpt web app. I asked it to please connect the dots in a way the desktop app would understand. It gave me like 15 pages of specific instruction to feed back to the desktop app.

The next image was almost perfect. One more round of feedback from the web client and the following image WAS perfect. Mind you - this is not an easy job. It would have taken me 15 minutes to edit myself and it would not have been this good. The desktop app literally spawned two subagents to handle some of the smaller tasks while it worked on the most tedious. Then it can upload the photos to drop box for my review.

Soooooo.....yeah. Now I'm in an interesting position. I don't want AI to take anybodies job. But if I keep training it like this I will not need my photo editor anymore (saving me like $800 per month minimum) and I do not need my assistant that puts the finishing touches on everything and delivers to my clients (saving $200-$400 per month).

Right now im running it on Sol Ultra and it's consuming a lot of usage. But once it has the techniques down I'm hoping it can run on Terra. Even then, I will likely need the $200 per month plan to have enough usage for these edits and my other tasks. But even then - my small business would be saving $1,000 per month in contracted labor expenses. And I'm not wealthy - that would actually be a huge help for me.

Feeling pretty amazed and conflicted over here, ngl.

Hawks expiring contracts:

Lu Dort - $17mil

CJ Mcollum - $21mil

Jock Landale - $14mil

Buddy Heild - $9.7mil

Sam also mentioned that we can kick the can down the road again and be $40ish million under the cap next summer - so it does seem like Onsi is positioning us to be able to absorb a massive contract at some point in the next 8-14 months.

Obviously nobody is going to shed tears for Tony Resslers wallet but the Hawks did flat out choose to earn less money in order to improve the fan experience next season. If you're like me and you had the Fanduel app all season long you're saving $140 from being able to watch the games on an antenna.

It benefits everybody if the Hawks can look at the numbers at the end of the season and see that giving us free games produced positive results for them.

First the Lakers traded into the 2nd round to get Veesaar and then we snuck in and got him - forcing the Lakers to trade back out of the 2nd. Oof.

Next it seems like Onsi was sure enough that he was about to make a big trade that he guaranteed Buddy’s money for salary filler. There was an unnamed 2nd team reportedly bidding for Kessler besides the Lakers. Suddenly crickets for two days before the Lakers overpaid for Kessler.

I’m pretty confident that we had an offer on the table that Utah was ready to accept and Pelinka had to do something so he didn’t completely strike out on Luka’s demands.

Now Onsi did certainly take an L on the Buddy guarantee but that could only be temporary. We are ready to go after the next big name center that becomes available. But you know what? Pelinka might have just made Luka the best player to never win a championship - because they do not have a championship core and don’t have the assets to build one.

Ps- To the swaths of big dummies that called me a casual and downvoted my Kessler trade proposal thread - Onsi’s offer was probably similar to what I proposed. Which is why Pelinka included picks and pick swaps. lrn2basketball. k bye.

I see on the website that outside beverages aren’t allowed. For those that have been, do they have free refill stations available? That’ll probably be the deciding factor on if we decide to brave the heat or not lol.

We are filled to the brim with expiring contracts. We guaranteed Buddy’s money so we could use it as trade filler. We were never going to try to be big players in free agency this off season anyways. Hell we even gave Jock a pretty sizable one year deal that would be very helpful in a trade. We have 6 tradable FRP’s at our disposal.

I’m convinced that Onsi has decided to address the center position by going big game hunting for a proven vet. He utilized our remaining cap space in a way to make us as desirable of a trade parter as possible for the next 8 months. I think by the trade deadline he’ll have made his move for a center and then after that we’ll be holding onto assets until it’s clear whether Ant wants to leave the Timberwolves or stay.