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by gyomu 1y ago
I used VLC until I looked for a backward frame step functionality. I then found this thread on the VLC forums where the maintainers explain (with bad attitude) why this functionality is technically impossible. Everyone points out that mpv s
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by gyomu 1y ago
> This is caused by people active in English-speaking communities translating memes literally and spreading them in their native language communities as-is. You're right that memes are getting translated literally and spreading, but
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by gyomu 1y ago
"I'm sorry for how you feel" is widely accepted as a non-apology in English. Sincere apologies show awareness of how one's actions led to the situation that would require the apology.
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by gyomu 1y ago
The ones that are easiest to point to are turns of phrase like “living your best life”, “that feeling when you…”, etc.
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by gyomu 1y ago
As a multilingual/multicultural human it’s been pretty weird witnessing what AI translation has been doing to regional languages & cultures on the internet in the last few years. Sure we had machine translation before, but it was s
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by gyomu 1y ago
That’s going to be a tricky problem full of compromises, and entirely up to how you formalize your definition for “the best possible dithered image”. Do you care about preserving relative brightness, contrast, edges,… etc. Human color perce
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by gyomu 1y ago
Perhaps it’s not so much that they believe he’ll stay in California long term if he gets what he wants; more that they do believe he’ll leave in the short term if he doesn’t.
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by gyomu 1y ago
https://x.com/de5imulate/status/1949291379655373061
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by gyomu 1y ago
1) Younger people are cheaper to hire in the first place 2) They often have fewer commitments, so more time to dedicate to work 3) They have less experience in the workforce, so easier to bamboozle 4) A lot of them have that fresh excitemen
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That quote stood out to me as well, but mostly because the 3 images shown by the author have nothing to do with product/interface/communications design. I guess they’re vaguely cool looking images? If the author had used them to t
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by gyomu 1y ago
> I barely understand what I just said, and I’m sure it would have taken me a whole day to track this down myself. This is what the future of IT work looks like
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by gyomu 1y ago
> Trinary is philosophically appealing because its ground-floor vocabulary isn’t “yes” and “no”, but rather: “yes”, “no”, and “maybe”. It’s probably a bit much to imagine that this architectural difference could cascade up through the la
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by gyomu 1y ago
As always, Apple didn't wholesale invent a product category, but they made the first product that synthesized all the right tradeoffs in a sufficiently compelling package that enabled them to sell tens/hundreds of millions of unit
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by gyomu 1y ago
People on here love to dump on the iPad for being a “consumption device”, and to hate on the Apple Pencil by misquoting/misunderstanding Steve Jobs[0]… …but if you spend any time around artists it’s evident that the iPad/Pencil&#x
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by gyomu 1y ago
As a photographer, the OLED screen is truly gorgeous and it is kind of ironic that it is the best display available on any Apple device (the blooming on miniLED is pretty horrendous, and it’s beyond me how anyone deemed it a viable technolo
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by gyomu 1y ago
> the reality is quality of life at 90+ is a lot worse than in your 20s or 30s. All my grandparents lived well into their 90s (mediterranean lifestyle + modern medicine), and all of them would’ve chosen euthanasia had it been an option (
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by gyomu 1y ago
My guy, such a bad faith argument to say “books and toys wear out too” to justify an API locked toy that costs $100 for one hour. There are books, lego bricks, and other toys in my family that have now gone through three generations of kids
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by gyomu 1y ago
> How is roleplay with this object different than other toys? Traditional role play is driven by the child and their imagination, and is essentially free of constraints. This is driven by the technology, follows a narrow script, and only
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by gyomu 1y ago
This is why everyone not in technology hates us. I'm a technologist. I get it, on some level it's kinda cool that we have the technology to bring this thing into the world, and so of course one wants to build it and make it real.
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by gyomu 1y ago
> the repo is too far off the data distribution ah, this explains why these models have been useless to me this whole time. everything i do is just too far off the data distribution!
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by gyomu 1y ago
For anyone curious, the competition rules are here: https://www.birdpoty.com/rules "With the exception of HDR, stitched panoramas, focus stacking, and in-camera multiple exposures, composited images or AI-generated ima
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by gyomu 1y ago
There are two main threads I keep going back to when thinking about long term AI and why so many investors/statespeople are all in: 1) the labor angle: it’s been stated plainly by many execs that the goal is to replace double percent d
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by gyomu 1y ago
It is pretty simple to bootstrap an engine. What isn’t simple is supporting asset production pipelines on which dozen/hundreds of people can work on simultaneously, and on which new hires/contractors can start contributing right a
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Cartoony isn’t the uncanny valley. Uncanny valley is attempted photorealism that misses the mark.
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Rich foreigners will send their kids to big name schools, and WKU will adapt their pricing to get the kids of middle class foreigners.
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People love Sora in no small part because it lets them make videos with their favorite public figure/fictional character in them. OpenAI knew that, played fast and loose with IP laws because… they wanted that bit of popularity to impre
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by gyomu 1y ago
Didn't a lot of other great apes evolve intelligence similar to ours, but we more or less drove them all to extinction?
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by gyomu 1y ago
> That's a fairly new term that implies being engineers which we are not. We haven't studied to be engineers, nor have real engineering degrees. We've called ourselves that because we were doing much more than the original
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No X. No Y. No Z. Just W. While the world was doing Y, I was doing Z. Everyone’s doing X. I’m quietly [ChatGPT loves that word] doing Y. People don’t X. They Y. It’s not about Z. It’s about W, and it taught me everything/means everythi
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Cheers for answering, was genuinely curious whether it was AI-written, you were doing it tongue in cheek, or that’s just how writing the post came naturally to you.

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