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by fleddr 4y ago
That does sound peculiar as a heavy blur on a distant subject that does have some part in focus is unusual. May very well a post processing effect.
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by fleddr 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99WBrs1D3g
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm from the Netherlands, so very much proud of our bicycle culture which only works because it's a fundamental part of our road design and related facilities, like bicycle parking. It's questionable whether you can retrofit
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by fleddr 4y ago
In an increasing amount of shows, I won't mention the specific ones as to not stir the pot, I dislike the main character so much that I hope something bad happens to them (in the show, to be clear). Preachy, melodramatic, immature, one
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep. I have the large iPad, albeit a somewhat older one. Weather permitting, I enjoy using it in the garden. I can watch almost anything just fine: regular TV, sports, the like. Netflix? Nope, not even on max brightness. And this in the sha
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by fleddr 4y ago
Lol, "cheap way". Blur is simply the out of focus plane. Typically, the larger the area out of focus and the more smooth this "blur" is, the more expensive the lens being used. Meaning, it has a very large aperture. Does
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by fleddr 4y ago
You seem upset. Try to be more happy.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Could be worse is not that much of a comeback. But I'm happy that you're happy. I'm not unhappy, and I was exaggerating, but I do believe there's quite a gap between how amazing our existence is and how unamazing we tend
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm in my 40s, thank you very much. So that would be the 80s. My dad got paid in cash. You spent in cash. You give cash to friends, family. None of it was tracked. The government had no idea how much cash you had. Nobody had any idea w
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by fleddr 4y ago
A great way to spontaneously trigger a midlife crisis, no matter your age, is to watch Youtube videos about the universe, the origin of life, etc. You'll get this inspirational rush of how amazing everything is, how vast the universe,
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's even worse when you take into consideration quality of life. For many people their last decade may come with severe medical issues. That's why you need to let go of this idea of some awesome 2 decades of retirement where you
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by fleddr 4y ago
He's not. Assuming he's male, physical peak is near 26, intellectual peak early to mid 20s. This doesn't mean you can't learn new things nor does it mean your body isn't fit anymore, it just means you're alread
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by fleddr 4y ago
My feelings are far less complicated: TDD is a high-discipline approach to software development, and that's why it doesn't work or doesn't get done. High-discipline meaning, it entirely depends on highly competent developers
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by fleddr 4y ago
Disagree. I'm old enough to have experienced a largely cash-based society that was also virtually without any tracking. The government would know you exist, your school/work, and pretty much nothing else. The default was freedom,
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by fleddr 4y ago
Good point. Here in the Netherlands, an ordinary home, which is not an apartment and not even necessarily a fully stand-alone home cost 400K EUR minimum. That's land, material, labor combined. And you'd have a hard time actually b
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by fleddr 4y ago
You're missing a very important aspect: demographics. In several nations, we're in a unique moment in time as the majority of the population is old-ish. Old people are conservative in that they're looking for the exit, they&#
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by fleddr 4y ago
Lol, 2-3 years of salary: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco... That would be half of the 70-year average. 5 is the norm, and it never got below 4. And you opt for half of the lowest point ever?
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by fleddr 4y ago
This positive effect goes far beyond just maintaining the house and land. Governments love home owners. They are typically stable citizens in the work-force, law-abiding, reliable, etc. They have a high time preference and have every intere
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by fleddr 4y ago
A long time ago, I presented to my manager a carefully crafted application, a stereotypical multi-layered architecture and then some more. His response: wow, that's a lot of crap just to run a sql query. He was fully right.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I believe already some 2 decades ago Bill Gates said that the biggest failure in software is the lack of productivity gains in software development. Just to cherry pick a dramatized example. In the late 90s, one of my first programming expe
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by fleddr 4y ago
There is one way to make a touch screen suck even more, which is found in my car. As your finger is under way in mid air to press it, it detects this motion, and then changes the UI. Some pulldown hover menu pops up, displacing the thing yo
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by fleddr 4y ago
I would be interested in that analysis, as I've read the exact opposite. China will be the sole supplier of many goods for Russians as they have nowhere else to go, but simultaneously China is careful not to overstep bounds as it does
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by fleddr 4y ago
Nope, it was a different one. You'd draw a shape (rectangle, circle) and the attach a prompt to it, after which AI generates it. Next, you can do advanced compositing.
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by fleddr 4y ago
So you're just going to skip over the fact that you don't even need to know how to draw/paint and what large manual effort that used to be?
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Art being Art, it does not communicate these issues in immature direct language, Art communicates through richly layered metaphor." True, as is seen in the "banana with duct tape".
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by fleddr 4y ago
You really need to have a closer look at this thing, because it can definitely do all of that, and much more. Earlier today I saw a video (sorry, lost the link) of an AI editing program (still a prototype). It generates layers of a scene in
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by fleddr 4y ago
Let's not stop here. AI is coming for our creative part, which we imagined would be last in line. It already is doing a reasonable job at it. If it can do that, and will next exponentially increase in capability, what really remains of
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your concerns regarding averaging and the lack of specifics are both addressed in the article. In short, it's a mistake to judge AI art by its current capability. It's about to go on an exponential tour.
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by fleddr 4y ago
The article is spot on. To a degree, the world has decided that it's actually not interested in high quality / long form content at all. I want to unpack that brutal statement a little. Distribution: Completely broken. Wherever yo
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by fleddr 4y ago
There's so much wrong with this trend. First, from a purely operational and pragmatic point of view, I'm stunned how paranoid well established networks are about the Tiktok competition, willing to make existential changes to mimic

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