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by pavlov 11mo ago
The same applies to color space. You can’t interpret the pixel data without knowing the color space. If it’s not in the metadata, you just have to assume sRGB and hope for the best. It’s the same with rotation. Both are essential informatio
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Why not use AI to make ReactOS better? Is there something in original Windows XP that ReactOS doesn’t want to implement?
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by pavlov 11mo ago
> "what LLMs say about us when they talk to each other" That's like asking what does a kaleidoscope paint on its day off.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Yes…? Egress bandwidth costs money. Consumer cloud services bake it into a monthly price, and if you’re downloading too much, they throttle you. You can’t download unlimited terabytes from Google Drive. You’ll get a message that reads somet
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by pavlov 11mo ago
It sounds rather wonderful, all the very intelligent crypto people voluntarily deporting themselves to El Salvador. Everybody who ever created a meme coin should also be put on the same plane, voluntary or not.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
The M-series chips are a continuation of the in-house chip design strategy that Steve Jobs initiated in 2008 when Apple acquired P.A.Semi. So while Cook deserves credit for execution, the roadmap was laid in place by his predecessor.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
I’m not conflating the two. I’m describing my experience encountering a culture that uses “worth” to mean the sum of a person’s material possessions. My own cultural background had primed me to think of these as entirely unrelated concepts.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
> “It is not a metric that is attempting to define their worth as a person.” Yet that’s literally the word being used. Imagine if a language called men “the better sex.” One could argue that it’s just a word and people don’t take it fo
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by pavlov 11mo ago
> ‘“Net worth” is an unfortunate term, because a human’s “worth” is obviously more than just their wealth.’ I grew up in a fairly egalitarian 1980s Nordic society and English is my third language. I remember the first time I heard “wor
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by pavlov 11mo ago
I’ve seen those A/B choices on Google AI Studio recently, and there wasn’t a substantial difference between the outputs. It felt more like a different random seed for the same model. Of course it’s very possible my use case wasn’t terr
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by pavlov 11mo ago
I think it’s meant to be engineering in the same sense as “social engineering”.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
The right-hand side menu gives strong early-2000s flashbacks — or should I say, Flash-backs... Everything comes back in fashion again.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
The point is that some other vendor will do the work to implement the filtering required by Germany even if OpenAI doesn't.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
> "May a person read lyrics and tell it to someone when asked" If you sell tickets to an event where you read the lyrics aloud, it's commercial performance and you need to pay the author. (Usually a cover artist would be
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by pavlov 11mo ago
There are many competing providers of commercial LLMs with equal capabilities, so another vendor would probably be happy to serve a leading Western market of 83 million people.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Film weave could also be worth mentioning. Movies projected on film look different not only because of the color and texture, but also a constant spatial jitter over time. When the film moves through the projector, each frame locks into a s
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by pavlov 11mo ago
I’m not quite sure what’s the takeaway here: ‘One conversation that stuck with me: I was telling Kevin how my two lead investors had both interviewed a key product hire for the company. One was positive and one was in the middle. Kevin sai
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by pavlov 11mo ago
This woman. Her name is Jean Yang.
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by pavlov 11mo ago
Yeah. In my experience investors in the early rounds are eager to do introductions because they’re still seeking to validate the investment internally. If they led a pre-seed, they’d be happy to see someone else lead the seed round because
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by pavlov 1y ago
WebObjects was originally written in Objective-C. Now that's a fine language for a server. It combines the type safety of Ruby, the memory safety of C, and the terseness of Java. (I'm joking, mostly... Actually I was a big fan of
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by pavlov 1y ago
Honestly it doesn’t sound too bad to me. Just blinking out of existence. No pain, no regret. So what’s there to be scared of?
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by pavlov 1y ago
John Walker passed away last year. His “Autodesk File” is an interesting read because it’s not the usual “just so” kind of startup memoir that tries to explain how success was preordained by the founder’s genius, but instead a collection of
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by pavlov 1y ago
It’s short for “visual operating system” but there are no screenshots anywhere. That would have felt off even in 1997. Maybe they mean something else by visual.
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by pavlov 1y ago
The president wants to let people gamble on election results on a platform he owns. Which is a fun novel conflict of interest because he’s also ultimately the executive in charge of making sure national elections are properly conducted. Sin
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by pavlov 1y ago
> “Maybe it's time to get off the web a little and do something else.” One wishes Musk would take this advice: leave the web alone, forget for a few months about the social media popularity contest that seems to occupy his mind 24
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by pavlov 1y ago
Adobe Illustator had a Hand tool already in 1987 that let you pan the canvas by dragging the mouse. Probably it’s older than that. But adding the physical feel of momentum and inertia was Apple’s invention, AFAIK.
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by pavlov 1y ago
It used to be that if someone released a tool that's 700 lines of C, they probably had an actual need and a problem they solved by writing that code because debugging even that amount of C tends to be non-trivial. Today all bets are of
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by pavlov 1y ago
It is a replacement, the old Affinity apps are discontinued: "Your Affinity V2 license (via Serif) remains valid and Serif will continue to keep activation servers online. But please note that these apps won’t receive future updates.
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by pavlov 1y ago
That's not my recollection of OS/2 3.0... It was snappy on contemporary hardware and 16MB memory. But OS/2 was always sensitive to available RAM, and IBM liked to understate its memory requirements. (They pretended that OS&#x
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by pavlov 1y ago
The Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard approach. It was good.

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