coldcode

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by coldcode 4y ago
Here in FL there is a Publix on every corner.
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by coldcode 4y ago
It only works if the background is continuous and fairly static - you can't easily synthesize a complex background if you have no reference material. You can of course extrapolate the visible background using other AI that has knowledg
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by coldcode 4y ago
I was in Silicon Valley just before the start of Dot-Com with nearly a decades experience running a couple of software startups (in Texas, not in a high tech city) working at Apple and left to go back home thus missing out on enormous oppor
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by coldcode 4y ago
I worked in a financial company in mid 2000s where the network head did not believe in internal firewalls so that all internal users were on the same network as all the web app servers and database servers. If someone was downloading a movi
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by coldcode 4y ago
I find SD to be amazing technology, but it still (mostly) sucks at producing "intelligent" images. It basically fancy math that turns noise into images (from the opposite it trained on) but still has no idea what it is producing.
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by coldcode 4y ago
The thing about having crazy monetary ideas—eventually money will go where it wants, and you are left looking like an idiot. You can make all the claims you want, but an economy is witnessed by everyone, and you can't fool them all.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Is it really all that hard to build a TV designed to be used only with a separate device (Apple TV, Roku, etc)? I wonder why no one has started a company to do this; perhaps VCs only want to fund people who make money with ads.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I think this is probably more common than we might think. Given remote work being preferred lately, this is probably doable, especially if companies are hiring large numbers of random contractors. I know my old team members (I retired recen
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by coldcode 4y ago
Welcome to the world of software development. Only at my last job (~ 6 years before retiring) were there huge projects that were inevitably late. These were projects for the company's business, not external. Typically we were handed so
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by coldcode 4y ago
I only look at art tweets and tweet my new work several times a week. Other than that I ignore all the crap.
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by coldcode 4y ago
When I was at Apple in the mid 90's (Before Steve) I remember the Mac OS source code had tons of special app checks, mostly for various Microsoft (also others) apps that did odd things, so that older versions would keep running. When t
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by coldcode 4y ago
I read a lot of these type of predictions, often you see some people say it's a great time to buy, and others it's a bad time to buy, and generally you will only remember the people who guessed correctly, so none of this helps you
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by coldcode 4y ago
I think it's unwinding the QE it did since 2008.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Enjoy it while you can, Moore v. Harper is up for debate in the Supreme Court this year, and it appears to be in favor of this (insane) idea that voting is no longer a right.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Me as well, I refuse to give Adobe any money if I can use Affinity's products.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Problem is the computing power necessary to implement those bigger models increases by some large value as well. An 81MP images is 81 times bigger than a 1MP image. Not sure exactly how the generation is implemented, but I am sure it probab
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by coldcode 4y ago
My normal artwork (digital) is 9000x9000 pixels up to about 14400x14400. Good luck getting any of them to make something bigger than 1024x1024. Sure, you can use Gigapixel to upres things, but in the end it's basically impossible to ma
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by coldcode 4y ago
The prompt example shows "photrorealistic" which is unlikely to work well.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I wanted to get a PhD in CS at 40 but was convinced by a local professor of CS that it was a waste of everyone's time and there were no jobs to be had in the academic world anyway. Shortly thereafter Google started hiring them by the t
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by coldcode 4y ago
I have been able to do some algorithmic work in my 4 decades (mostly lately for generative art) but most of my career was How So I Ship This Complicated App With Too Few People In So Little Time. This usually requires creative thinking and
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by coldcode 4y ago
I was just trying to figure exactly this, but gave up as I kept hitting a wall. Glad someone smarter than me worked this out.
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by coldcode 4y ago
That is the point of the comment. No matter how bad it gets, biological creatures will adapt as they always have while lots of existing species will become extinct; none of this is new. The question is can people adapt and remain what we th
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by coldcode 4y ago
In even the worst case the Earth will be fine. People, not so much.
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by coldcode 4y ago
In many of my employers over the years where security mattered, it was rarely important enough to spend much money on. One place (covered by HIPAA's rather toothless laws) I pointed out how insecure all of our servers & databases w
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by coldcode 4y ago
They should name one Linus.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I retired last year after 39.5 years as a working programmer. I started with Fortran, used C, C++, Java, Objective-C (both modern and NeXT variety), Javascript, lots of assembly languages and the last 6 years, Swift; also dabbled in other l
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by coldcode 4y ago
Sad someone out there will assume this is for real and plan to change their interviewing to this. I've been in interviews where you had to talk with every single person on the team (8, half of which didn't show); a gang interview
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by coldcode 4y ago
Is it really random or just a random set of prerecorded locations? After about 20 or so images I stopped seeing pictures so I refreshed the page - and got a location I had seen previously, which should be impossible.
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by coldcode 4y ago
A rather unique take on spreadsheets that would wind up influencing others to try experimentations on the spreadsheet idea, but all were ultimately killed by Excel, as what happened to us. Search "trapeze spreadsheet" on google if
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by coldcode 4y ago
They wanted to start a manufacturing equipment business like eBay, but for factories, which itself was rather silly given how difficult shipping machines would be. They wanted a preliminary design for a 3 month period, but took 3 months to

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