Gigachad

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811.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
I started taking an old digicam with me to events. I don’t ask people for a photo for them to pose, I just capture as it was before they notice. The old flash photography combined with candid authentic expressions is really refreshing to se
812.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Occasionally if it’s very relevant to the person. But so many just dump every single thing they saw on TikTok in your DMs.
813.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
At least in Australia pretty much all the chain places like McDonalds/subway etc suck so bad it’s incredible they are still in business. They aren’t even winning on price.
814.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
I don’t think it’s having a camera that killed it, it’s that most people stopped printing their photos. Most people have thousands of poorly sorted and duplicate photos on their phone which aren’t very enjoyable to scroll through. I went an
815.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Australia has been giving it to everyone for quite a while now. Last I saw, the virus is almost completely eradicated.
816.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
A lot of it feels very wasteful currently. The providers are giving out incredibly subsidised services so consumers are consuming incredible amounts. Once the prices go up to cover the costs people will re evaluate what’s actually generatin
817.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
It is, it’s designed to invoke rage over ChatGPT speak as an example of how awful it is to read.
818.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Encrypted by Cloudflare, so they just use the keys to decrypt it again.
819.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
The US car deaths stat is also completely insane and way higher than other countries. I can recognize that at scale, securing every account is a very difficult task, but with scale comes responsibility. Meta plays fast and loose rushing in
820.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Nothing isn't quite right but you wouldn't be using it like the hosted ones. 128gb is more than enough to run models to index my files and photos, denoise photos / AI photo masking, magic eraser type tasks for images, frame g
821.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
After the GDPR every website added an option to export your personal data and to delete your account. Something most were missing at the time. It was an immediate and massive win.
822.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Twenty _thousand_ people had their personal data stolen, many of them relied on these accounts to run their business, many put at risk of hackers impersonating them. Meta in a fair world should be forced to financially compensate these peop
823.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
How it currently works is if your stuff breaks, you don’t pay someone to fix it, you just sell it as is on Facebook marketplace and people who love fixing stuff as a side hustle buy it off you, fix, and then resell as a working item. That w
824.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
You don’t _have_ to update lenses. The updates pretty much just fix edge case autofocus issues usually with specific cameras and settings. Before update mechanisms you just had to deal with it or buy a new lens.
825.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
You can update sigma lenses through Sony camera bodies but it requires running a program on your desktop with the camera plugged in and it’s a bit of a pain. Especially on macOS where it requires enabling kernel extensions. Would have been
826.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
That's pretty much the present today. Tbh I'm fine with the public internet just dying off at this point and people going back to their local smaller scale groups.
827.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
AVIF and webp kind of only exist for the web, they get used when you want to really crunch down on data as much as possible. They aren’t really used for files you’d save on your computer or get out of a camera. JPEG XL is replacing regular
828.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Splitting hairs on terminology I guess. Very few people are interested in the PDF that specifies the format vs being able to include decoders in software and on devices without paying a royalty for every device. There are alternative docume
829.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's an open standard because the concepts and reference implementation are free and open source even if the PDF is paywalled. Realistically you could just pirate the PDF and write a jpeg xl encoder/decoder and your code wouldn&#x
830.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
They added it back as an experimental flag again. Likely the new rust based decoder and adoption in to other platforms and standards changed their decision.
831.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
jpeg xl is also now used for the latest version of the DNG raw image format, and the iphone now encodes raw images as jpeg xl in DNG. It's so clearly the future for photography that Google is holding back. Apple surprisingly has been t
832.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Maintain in a sense. Google introduced it in Chrome as an experimental flag, then removed it with no real explanation, and only just brought it back.
833.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Huge fan of JXL, but this article feels pretty AI sloppy. Not much said here, coming from the google blog I was hoping for some news about how they are pushing the format forward by introducing decoders in to Android and enabling on Chrome.
834.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
Probably got some time to go. The new rust decoder likely needs more time to be proven reliable and safe, and Firefox doesn't even get the flag to turn it on until the next release 152.
835.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
It’s still the same. If you steal something and have no money you lose the item and get some small penalty, perhaps a day in jail. If there is absolutely no chance you’d get away with it, everyone quickly realises there is no point.
836.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
The massive PRs is something that probably has to end. You can ai generate smaller changes in reviewable PR sizes. It probably even helps the AI code review tools to break the work in to smaller logical chunks too.
837.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
From memory, there are no bulk actions, so if you want to say select all emails and delete you have to send thousands of requests. If you want to rename a folder you have to send a request for every email in the folder. There is no way to s
838.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
It's also IMAP is an awful protocol with so many glaring issues its impossible for a modern client to paper over them. Fastmail invented JMAP but it doesn't seem to have taken off with any other providers.
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by Gigachad 5mo ago
An intuitive way to understand it is imagining that there was a system where if you stole something, you 100% of the time got hit with a charge to your account of the item value + $10. No one would steal again even if the penalty for gettin
840.
by Gigachad 5mo ago
It’s depressing how hard it is to find anything worth reading on HN lately. Everything is either an advert or slop essay. The article here is outstanding.

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