raylad

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by raylad 4y ago
I think a lot of people don't get past the "learn all the characters first" barrier. What would really be useful to them (and me) is an app focused on how people really talk, that teaches actually commonly used phrases as wel
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Sure, it was an interesting series but it had almost nothing to do with Asimov's Foundation. The same thing is likely to happen to Neuromancer.
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by raylad 4y ago
As you point out, it says on the website that the photos are composites and are edited. She is not claiming otherwise. So this controversy is silly. There is no lie to expose.
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by raylad 4y ago
I'm not, after what they did to Foundation.
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by raylad 4y ago
Have you done user testing on these? It seems fairly likely that many people won't know to click on the balloon text to advance the demo.
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by raylad 4y ago
It keeps asking me to do arithmetic problems to prove I'm not an AI (several in a row) and then loses its place and starts over with #2 (not necessarily the same image).
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by raylad 4y ago
Possible correlation to long COVID neurological damage. Similar to what happened with lead tetraethyl in the 50s-70s.
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by raylad 4y ago
Odd, it gives me usage info: Usage: rembg [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]... Options: --version Show the version and exit. --help Show this message and exit. Commands: i for a file as input p for a folder as input
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by raylad 4y ago
I tried it on some images that seemed difficult to process, for example where the same color is on the edge of the bottle and the background, and it seems to do a great job!
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by raylad 4y ago
Around 1998 I broke my collarbone and had to use Dragon Dictate. I found that for general subjects it was quite difficult to use because of the fairly poor recognition rate. But when I talked about computers, it got almost everything right.
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by raylad 4y ago
Since people are mentioning the apps they like, for USA users, I can heartily recommend Topo Maps US ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/topo-maps-us/id1033846196 ) which is completely free and the work of a single
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by raylad 4y ago
Interesting that their prototype looks a lot like my browser: which is Firefox using: - Tabcenter Redux (last update 2018) https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux-- creates a (searchable) left tab column including pin
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by raylad 4y ago
Not sure how you got that from stable diffusion. This is the kind of thing I get - just a bison. https://i.postimg.cc/bw1R10gB/A-bison-as-an-astronaut-tone-m...
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by raylad 4y ago
It doesn't seem to understand things that DALL-E seems to (usually) understand. For example, it doesn't know that there are 5 fingers on most hands. It cuts objects in half randomly, etc. I haven't found many of the images it
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by raylad 4y ago
What was missing from that article was how the strong force actually is responsible for mass. This blog post explains it fairly well: https://axelmaas.blogspot.com/2011/10/mass-from-strong-force...
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by raylad 4y ago
I'm not sure how this design, which produces plutonium, can be claimed to "support nonproliferation". Plutonium is not only highly toxic (which means it could be used in a dirty bomb), but also highly fissionable and able to
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by raylad 4y ago
I was interested in signing up, but then saw that you get raw data for metabolites only with the $160/month plan. This seems as if it costs you actually $0 to provide since you have that data as a prerequisite for doing anything. Why w
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by raylad 4y ago
Weary = tired Wary = cautious about This long lecture is making me weary. He was wary of drunk people with an attitude.
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by raylad 4y ago
They were convicted of antitrust violations in destroying the streetcars to monopolize transportation, but it was overturned basically on technicalities: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/334/573.html
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by raylad 4y ago
One major reason I've hesitated to buy a Comma is because it seems that it won't apply enough steering force in (most? any?) cars to reliably be able to navigate any turn, and it also won't let you know in advance if it can&#
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by raylad 4y ago
This is the way. You should be able to immediately tell from looking at any log entry: * When it happened * How serious it is (Informational, Warning, Error, Fatal - at a minimum) * Type of issue (ideally a unique issue type from a list of
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by raylad 4y ago
And I had all this in place by 1999. Including the multiple databases, the caches, the load balancing, edge processing nodes all over the world, etc. Sure we built a bunch of it ourselves, and we had 4 sysadmins, but please don't tell
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by raylad 4y ago
That actually doesn't apply to Bored Apes. With those NFTs you get copyright ownership of the image.
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by raylad 4y ago
I think you are probably right, but some references would really be helpful. Could you share any that you have handy?
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by raylad 4y ago
Only very vaguely related pet peeve: the term "Digital Twin" implies that a simulation perfectly matches what is being simulated. This is really almost never the case. Let's just call them what they are: simulations.
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Ask HN: Apple Mn processors – How is the open source tools/projects support now?
12 points by raylad 4y ago|9 comments
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by raylad 4y ago
These kind of companies don't do IPOs, so is your only exit strategy that they get acquired by a larger company?
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by raylad 4y ago
All Teslas are "vision-based" now. They no longer use the RADAR even in cars that have it. This is probably so they can have only one software build rather than supporting one with and one without RADAR. And also so that they can
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by raylad 4y ago
Here's rent data for SF: https://www.rent.com/california/san-francisco-apartments/ren... Avg. Rent Annual Change Studio $2,911 +17% 1 Bed $3,520 +12% 2 Beds $4,593 +6% 3 Beds $5,701
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by raylad 4y ago
So much better! Can we replace the current link with the Atlas Obscura one? That's what this Southern Living article is referencing anyway.

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