michaelchisari

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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I can't seem to find it, do you have a link?
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I'm on a iMac M1 16gb and I can handle up to 768x768 but since it's shared memory I close out every other application and run things overnight. The biggest issue with apple chips is that the --seed setting doesn't work. I sh
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Simplicity is almost always best, but the hardest part is pushing back on management and product that often only care whether feature requests are possible and aren't as concerned with what goes on under the hood.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
That’s where it’ll be truly disruptive. SD for ideation, humanity for the final product.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, I'm optimistic but skeptical that it can have true persistence like I'm referring to. Especially since it requires training your own model which requires multiple images of the same asset
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
After using SD heavily for a week, I half agree with this. It is incredibly disruptive, and it's wild how much it accelerates the creative process. I'll give you that. But two things I've noticed: First, artists will still ha
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Screenwriters encourage a "vomit draft" -- A draft that is not supposed to be good but just needs to exist to get all the necessary parts on the page. Then a writer can choose to either fix or rewrite, but having a complete pres
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Chronological feeds is how they lure us in to the circus. Engagement algorithms is how they turn is into donkeys.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Are you saying this as an argument against unions? Or as an argument for better, more democratic unions?
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
The documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor" was even better than the movie, highly recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhwktRDG_aQ
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Those little stove-top espresso makers that Italians use make the best espresso. Apparently they're called Moka Pots, never knew that.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I'm not arguing any societies were completely void of violence, obviously. There is a significant difference between a society where violence occurs and one in which violence is the defining principle and method of organization. Yet ev
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| It's an aberration. It's common enough to disprove the statement "Human nature is inherently violent". It shows that understanding humanity is simply too complex to boil down to pat remarks like that. | I'm not
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
It's not semantics at all. "Human nature" implies a universal, inherent state. If we have peaceful, pacifist civilizations regularly cropping up throughout history, then saying that human nature is violence just simply isn&#x
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| Humans are not peaceful by nature You can't make a broad sweeping generalization like this. There have been so many peaceful, even pacifist civilizations throughout history. That they have been wiped out or dominated by the violent
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| We need no algorithmic timelines, no manipulation That would require a totally different business model. For years, I've been convinced that a social network that figured out how to painlessly charged people $0.50 a month for an ad
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| They just need a lot better enforcement If only there was a website where you could search a geographic area and get the address of every airbnb there...
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
On a long enough timeline, maybe. But societies can't wait the 5-10-20-30 years it might take the market to correct itself. That's one dimensional thinking. Political and social destabilization brought on by market inefficiencies
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Of course, I had to test it with this photo: https://imgur.com/a/ypyIhB3 Not too bad! Can definitely tell it's been edited, but for a quick removal it was painless.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
There's a lesson in here about how A/B testing around KPIs that don't account for user experience will eventually drift your app into an unusable mess. You'll hit your metrics every month but every month the site will ge
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I got the M1 iMac with only 16gb RAM when it came out and it's incredible how fast it is. My previous machines were top-of-the-line intel Macs and the M1 blows them out of the water, performance-wise. I can buy the lowest-end M-series
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Once again, not relevant. Reposting: First off, not Chicago. Highland Park is almost 20 miles outside of the city. With a median household income of $100k and a violent crime rate 4x lower than the rest of Illinois and nationwide. Your com
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Because the US murder rate is so much higher than most countries. Chicago isn't in the top 10 for murders per capita in the US. It's not even top 20. Chicago is #28. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I sincerely hope you're not referring to the Highland Park active shooter. First off, not Chicago. Highland Park is almost 20 miles outside of the city. With a median household income of $100k and a violent crime rate 4x lower than the
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I'm tired of people saying Chicago is like John Wick and Mad Max had a violence baby. Can't count how many times the people saying this live in rural areas that have, per capita, higher violent crime rates than Chicago. The city h
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| Must be NIH syndrome. I strongly disagree that not wanting to add yet another abstraction layer onto a proven technology would be NIH.
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
SQL is an incredible language with decades of theory and implementation behind it. I have never found an ORM to be better or faster or more useful than hand-written SQL for anything but the simplest of queries, and even then the benefit is
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
I wish product designers took performance into consideration when they designed applications. Engineers can optimize until their fingers fall off, but if the application isn't designed with efficiency in mind ( and willing to make trad
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
Wouldn't it make sense that peers set the short-term expectations but parents set the long-term expectations? My values at 15 were almost entirely dependent on my peers, true. But decades later, those have fallen aside and the values o
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by michaelchisari 4y ago
| Thinking of a recruiter as a teacher doesn't seem accurate to me That's a comedic throwaway line you shouldn't take too seriously. The joke is about me being the kind of dork who asks for more homework. | They should not

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