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by ed 2y ago
This. I’ve been using elixir for ~6 months (guided by Claude) and probably couldn’t solve fizz buzz at a whiteboard without making a syntax error. Eek.
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by ed 2y ago
(Except for Postgres, since Fly's solution isn't managed) Heroku's price is a persistent annoyance for every startup that uses it. Rebuilding Heroku's stack is an attractive problem (evidenced by the graveyard of Heroku
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by ed 2y ago
Interesting link! But rebooting TOS seems even lazier than Star Trek: A New Ship. The universe is a big place; a decent writer can find a way to tell any story they want. (As demonstrated by the many IP-friendly reboots since 2004, when thi
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by ed 2y ago
Having followed this exact playbook to validate several products I can confidently say this will give you false positives and the only reliable way to determine when you have PMF is: accidentally get PMF on something so that you know what i
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by ed 2y ago
I fully agree with the sentiment! I support and do pay for sources I read frequently. Sadly payment models are incompatible with how most people consume content – which is to read a small number of articles from a large number of sources.
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by ed 2y ago
uBO's competitors do better App Store Optimization. I used AdBlock Plus for a while because it looked like the more popular ad-blocker. I only uninstalled AdBlock Plus because it keeps displaying a "upgrade to premium" popup.
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by ed 2y ago
> To prevent abuse we ask you to sign in before chatting with AI. I want to try this, but, likewise, "to prevent abuse of my Github I ask for some idea what the service does before signing in"
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by ed 2y ago
This is not a new face swapping technique, it’s a wrapper around inswapper (aka InstantID, an IP adapter): https://github.com/haofanwang/inswapper Relevant source https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-
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by ed 2y ago
You chose an insult over encouragement. Why do that? Be kinder
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by ed 2y ago
Ah yes, the easily memorable room-genius-xi.vercel.app ;) Any thoughts on how to get distribution? These products are kind of commodity services at this point (assuming you’re doing a straight line controlnet) so marketing is like 95% of th
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by ed 2y ago
Grounded SAM[1] is extremely useful for segmenting novel classes. The model is larger and not as accurate as specialized models (e.g. any YOLO segmenter), but it's extremely useful for prototyping ideas in ComfyUI. Very excited to try
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by ed 2y ago
Grounded SAM has become an essential tool in my toolbox (for others: it lets you mask any image using a text prompt, only). HUGE thank you to the team at Meta, I can't wait to try SAM2!
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by ed 2y ago
> dozens of wheelchair-bound passengers (who get up and run off the plane at the destination) That is definitely not a normal (or even believable) occurrence
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by ed 2y ago
That’s actually right (cost per FTE), according to the article: > The company now employs about 1,500 people, which could cost $1.5 billion as it continues to grow
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by ed 2y ago
Yes, in progress (in mice) https://www.levf.org/projects/robust-mouse-rejuvenation-stud...
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by ed 2y ago
They're in roughly the same class but totally different architectures Deepseek uses a 4k sliding window compared to Codestral Mamba's 256k+ tokens
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by ed 2y ago
iOS has a built-in app called “magnifier” which might be more handy than a lens!
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by ed 2y ago
First time seeing Cerambot - cool! I was taught that compression of clay is a big factor in ceramic strength. I’m curious, how fragile are the pieces? Will a cerambot mug survive a small (eg 4”) drop?
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Blockbuster obesity drugs create a full feeling – even before food(nature.com)
8 points by ed 2y ago|2 comments
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by ed 2y ago
Man, commenters here are... grumpy. Yes it’s true you can do diffusion on a pi, if you’re okay waiting 4 years for your 50 steps to complete lol. I want something like this to work, and am sure someone will eventually make the “photoshop of
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by ed 2y ago
> While Internet followers may have discovered the location of the old signal, the purpose of UVB-76 remains a mystery. Betteridge strikes agains. For an ad-free and concise explanation see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by ed 2y ago
If the service opportunity is to resell AI skill to the people who lack it, consider productizing and selling Education instead. Otherwise the clock is ticking for a new model to put you out of business. Most folks will need to learn “AI fo
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by ed 2y ago
This is specifically about web browsing agents, which is a pretty specialized subset of “AI agents.”
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by ed 2y ago
Congrats and I am sure a lot of work went into this. That said, here's some stranger-on-the-internet feedback: I don't know what your product does and the landing page lacks fit and finish. Is this a form builder that saves respon
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by ed 2y ago
This is done by your email client, not the sender. Here are Gmail's rules. Emails are grouped if each message meets the following: - The same recipients, senders, or subject as a previous message - A reference header with the same IDs
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by ed 2y ago
Personally I try to finish a feature, but leave QA for the morning. This way my first task is “copy and paste this command into terminal” or “use X feature in the app.” Because there’s always something that needs tweaking before it’s really
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by ed 2y ago
this feels apocryphal and appears to be one theory of many[1] (also - just take out an extra penny during the next transaction). to quote cecil adams "trying to find out who invented [psychological pricing] is like trying to find out w
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China Says It Will Start Buying Apartments as Housing Slump Worsens(nytimes.com)
5 points by ed 2y ago|0 comments
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by ed 2y ago
1% of 8 billion = 80 million developers 80 million developers * 100 websites * $20 per month * 12 months = $1.9 trillion revenue per year
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by ed 2y ago
Not a bad idea! Congrats on the launch. One of my first projects (about 20 years ago) was a free photo uploader like Imgur but before Imgur. I was so concerned with “profitability” that I watermarked every image people uploaded. People fuck

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