Gigachad

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by Gigachad 5d ago
I don’t think it’s useful to categorise these things as “solved” or “not solved”. They always exist on a scale. I can tell you I am infinitely more happy living with the Australian medical system than what the US has even if it isn’t flawle
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by Gigachad 5d ago
We have a genuinely society ending problem on our hands. Virtually everything on the internet is fake. At this point I think governments need to straight up ban social media and somehow force people to go outside and see each other face to
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by Gigachad 5d ago
Some of my coworkers have straight up ceased being human and have just become proxies to chatbots. I don’t even bother talking to them or reading their messages anymore because it’s all entirely AI.
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by Gigachad 5d ago
I still think there is a line in the sand between post processing which is mostly about fixing the exposure/noise, and straight up AI up scaling which hallucinates details. And I fear the more tech reviewers do these pixel peeping side
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by Gigachad 5d ago
Specular light sources always like ornamental balls in out of focus areas. What's wrong with it here is they are much brighter along the outside than the middle, and they have a funny shield like shape. That said, I can't see this
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by Gigachad 5d ago
These days you can buy 4 bay USB-C hard drive enclosures which let you make a nas out of any mini pc. I 3D printed a 10 inch rack to put the mini pc, hard drive enclosure and switch in which keeps it all neat and looks kinda cool.
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by Gigachad 5d ago
Elon should go to prison for his crimes. DHH probably has enough money to keep vibe coding his Arch fork for a while.
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by Gigachad 5d ago
I saw some tests on it and it’s kind of a whatever feature. The iPhone depth of field is still far too deep even wide open. So the difference stopped down is kind of meaningless.
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by Gigachad 5d ago
The iPhone certainly doesn’t.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
It is disturbing how all of these people in tech like DHH and Elon have been so vile and all dropped the facade at the same time.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
Because they don’t have internet access to download the gps almanac or ping the apple/google servers to ask where the wifi ap they saw is located. And they aren’t always on so they have to get the gps fix from scratch rather than maint
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by Gigachad 6d ago
I had to make a poster for a music event recently. Downloaded the free version of Affinity, scrolled instagram for event poster inspiration, learned how to use the program and made my poster in 2 hours. I could do it much faster now but I h
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by Gigachad 6d ago
Making a poster is free and easy. Literal children do it in school. I’ve made posters for events. Affinity is free now, it takes you like an hour to learn it from scratch and make your poster. If you couldn’t be bothered doing that, then th
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by Gigachad 6d ago
An everyday scenario is Real estate photography and Facebook marketplace where people are having a field day AI faking photos. Having a tick showing the photo is verified real would add a lot of trust to online platforms.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
That's pretty much how the Apple one works. The raw sensor data is signed. But you have to process it because raw sensor data is unviewable. Provide the raw original, and the exact processing steps used to get the presentable one.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
We have seen this before in physical design. Complexity used to be expensive, it would take someone hours hand carving or embroidering designs to produce. Then we industrialized production and a machine could stamp a design in to metal, sta
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by Gigachad 6d ago
Deception is certainly part of the problem. Imagine if your friend sent you a paragraph personal text message on your birthday. Then imagine you find out they didn't write it at all, their AI agent just went through the contact list, s
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by Gigachad 6d ago
No one is compiling sales charts on second hand cameras at thrift stores. But I can tell you from personal experience going to parties that more people are taking photos with old digi cams or modern old style digi cams like the kodak charme
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by Gigachad 6d ago
The people making AI posters are the same ones selling Ali express bulk buys as "hand made jewelry" or selling 3D printed dragons.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
AI poster signals that this is a cash grab temu dropshipping operation. A human made even if shitty poster signals care and effort.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
It's the same thing with EM dash, load bearing root causes, and emoji bullet point lists. It doesn't matter what the style AI uses, it ends up showing up so often it becomes actively repulsive.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
There was some upgrade in tech where the posters had legible text and all used that paint brush text highlight thing. The first time I saw it on Bambulab makerworld I though, "huh thats a neat image". Then I saw it on every low vi
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by Gigachad 6d ago
Yes, running an event has work and expenses involved in it. An AI slop poster is a sign the event is not serious and has other more major issues under the surface.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
Those examples are filled with real info. The AI posters are filled with meaningless three word slogans, lists of meaningless copy and art where everything is labeled.
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by Gigachad 6d ago
People act like making a poster is this absurd Sisyphean task that takes a degree in art to produce. You don’t need to hire an artist, you don’t need AI. Just download Affinity for free, find a nice font and color palate, and put text on th
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by Gigachad 7d ago
At work the jira tickets have become massive walls of AI slop. What’s worse is they contain huge amounts if useless “thinking” where the LLM explains what it did and checked rather than just giving the final result. As a result, when I see
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by Gigachad 7d ago
The marketing from Cloudflare around this being for agents feels like the intended use case is for agents to exfiltrate data off your laptop without pesky hurdles like asking the user to set up an account first.
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by Gigachad 7d ago
I'm viewing the site on lightmode, clicked one of the #links which scrolled down the page, when I scrolled back up all the sections lost their content and were unusable. I've never seen someone fail a static page like this. And fr
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by Gigachad 7d ago
It's broken on desktop too...
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by Gigachad 8d ago
At this point writing a media file parser in C/C++ is absurdly stupid. The same thing happened with libjxl.

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