andybak

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by andybak 5mo ago
I agree that heavy users are probably not profitable but that's the way the economics of subscription services tends to work across the board. I'm arguing that even if inference isn't profitable right now it's not orders
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by andybak 5mo ago
Why would a non-tech person be on Hacker News? Isn't the clue in the name?
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by andybak 5mo ago
Dome looks wrong to me. Look at a few other photos - it's far from being a hemisphere
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by andybak 5mo ago
I'm yet to see any convincing argument that inference is subsidised in any substantial way. Training and speculative expansion are where the spend is from what I can see.
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by andybak 5mo ago
I mean streaming renders are a thing but they're very much the exception not the rule
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by andybak 5mo ago
Everything I've read and learned in my 50 or so years on this planet leads me to believe that the times injustice can be corrected purely by civil engagement and voting are massively outweighed by the times that they can't. So dep
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by andybak 5mo ago
Yes and no. Whilst I agree with your broad point, the point being made here is largely that the people dumping on the "AI" Monet are claiming objectivity about their opinions. And in many cases claiming that it's obvious to a
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by andybak 5mo ago
Is the content visible to search engines yet? That was the deal-breaker when I looked into it for handling an open source community. No discoverability
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by andybak 5mo ago
I very much like this metaphor.
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by andybak 5mo ago
Counterpoint. I use Windows and MacOS daily and they are both awful (and occasionally wonderful) for different reasons. Windows on a laptop sucks simply because I can't close the lid and put it in my bag without it catching fire, but a
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by andybak 5mo ago
This kind of complex leglislation already exists in many areas of the law: revenue collection being the most obvious one. We could choose to treat "societal harm" the way we treat "tax collection". I'm not saying th
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by andybak 5mo ago
> draw a pretty good pelican on a bike. You mean the famously hard task? The one picked because it stretches frontier models to their limits?
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by andybak 5mo ago
Well, it is one of the 2 hard problems...
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by andybak 5mo ago
That's different to my (recent) experience. I get fairly insightful "whys". At least on bugfix commits.
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by andybak 5mo ago
Despite you using "literally" purely for emphasis, I would dispute this based on both the literal and popular meaning of "literally".
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by andybak 5mo ago
Isn't one of the common criticisms of AI code that it's a bit too keen to write extensive comments - even when they probably aren't needed?
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by andybak 5mo ago
Personally I've found one of the biggest gains with coding agents is in helping me read code. Actually - that's a lie. I don't read the code. Mostly (unless my spidey-sense goes off) I ask the LLM to read the code and tell me
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by andybak 5mo ago
As someone interested in 3D and geometry but with no interest in radio - I find the naming clash most irritating!
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by andybak 5mo ago
See above for the link to the repo
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by andybak 5mo ago
It's a fork of someone else's viewer with gallery mode added: https://github.com/IxxyXR/sharp-web-splats/tree/main just edit app.py or set an env var for GALLERY_FOLDER, install the reqs, run app.py
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by andybak 5mo ago
> Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations? Erm. It would be me? The idea was that the app (not a web app btw) would send back data about which features were being used (to a server I contro
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by andybak 5mo ago
My email is in my profile - ping me and I'll be much more likely to remember to do it.
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by andybak 5mo ago
1. There's many use cases where only a single photo is available 2. There are many models similar to Sharp that do accept multiple photos - but Sharp is trying to solve a specific problem. If you have multiple photos - don't use S
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by andybak 5mo ago
I'm not saying it wouldn't be - because that's obvious.
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by andybak 5mo ago
My projects could genuinely benefit from telemetry as I have no idea about usage patterns and my community (mainly artists) is not famous for maintaining a close dialogue with software developers. I haven't bothered because a) opt-ou
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by andybak 5mo ago
I haven't tried that specific case but - are you sure? It does get a lot of stuff right from context. I think it would probably depend how much of the frame, the poster took up.
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by andybak 5mo ago
I vibecoded a simple web app using Sharp that allowed be to quickly browse any local image folder and view them as "almost" volumetric 3d scenes in a VR headset. I precomputed and cached each one so it was nearly instant. The effe
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by andybak 5mo ago
> was within a few months of an expiring warranty A few months inside or a few months outside? Because that seems to determine who's being unreasonable in this.
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by andybak 5mo ago
But you'd gain adoption. A fair trade.
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by andybak 5mo ago
My first thought is "support a tiny subset of svg that probably still covers 90% of real-world use cases". I do feel that's there's two distinct types of svg - "bunch of paths with fills" and "clever dange

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