elishah

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by elishah 3y ago
Even if you don't care at all about file sizes (which is definitely A Take), there is the whole other side of improving image quality. Everything about computer imagery is pretty sadly limited when compared to the capabilities of human
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by elishah 3y ago
Yes, the unfortunate thing is that Google is not interested in a higher quality Web so much as they are in a Web that is cheaper to index and serve. So it's unsurprising that they have pushed the format optimized for "as few bits
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by elishah 3y ago
I think an important driver in this is a persistent desire for (and faith in) novelty. Every engineer has had unpleasant experiences with some giant convoluted messes. And there's a strong tendency to blame for that at the feet of the
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by elishah 3y ago
> Trust us. While you should never trust any corporation in the sense that you might trust a person, you can trust that they will do the things that they believe will make them the most money. What financial incentive do you believe that
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by elishah 3y ago
I think apple noticed a long time ago that the world is not exactly lacking in quantity of phone apps. If anything, the sheer number of them has become a hindrance to anyone wading through thousands of nearly identical apps to try to find
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by elishah 3y ago
> HN is basically anti ads. Tracking / Targeted or not. As has been the case since somewhere around 2016. That's hardly unique to this site, and hardly as recent as 2016. I would say that we can trace people with an understandi
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by elishah 3y ago
I was quite disappointed that the Photoshop generative fill stuff insists on running on Adobe's servers rather than locally. So however good it is, there are many of us who will never use it.
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by elishah 3y ago
With SD you have a lot of control over not just basics like image size and prompt complexity, but also things like how many iterations of which different sampler(s) get used. So speed can vary wildly depending on how you're choosing
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by elishah 3y ago
> If Google forced it through but Apple refused, it would never be practical to enforce it. The numbers may not be as high, but they're plenty high enough that you couldn't cut all iDevices out. Yes. Up until now, the amount of
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by elishah 3y ago
Whereas I feel that Desmond Tutu covered this pretty well already: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
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by elishah 3y ago
> And do you think an 80 IQ founder == 120 IQ founder all else being equal? Musk and Bezos seem to have come to roughly similar outcomes, so evidence suggests yes.
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by elishah 3y ago
> The two scenarios are precisely symmetrical. The only difference is that the cause on one side is one that you agree with, and on the other side is one that you disagree with. Yep! That's pretty much what agreeing or disagreeing w
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by elishah 3y ago
Nope! But that's because extending civil rights more uniformly to more people is a good thing, and selectively denying civil rights is a bad thing. Any reductive moral framework that abstracts every possible political position into int
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by elishah 3y ago
That CSAM detection method was something that apple published a whitepaper about to get feedback. The feedback was strongly negative, so they never implemented it. I would hope that the grandparent was not referring to this thing that never
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by elishah 3y ago
I disagree. Vehemently. It seems disingenuous to sweep "actively working to deny people civil rights" under the rug of "having an unpopular political opinion." Partially because this wasn't just a matter of having a
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by elishah 3y ago
> Ignoring the client side scanning ability that is built into the OS Which client side scanning would that be?
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by elishah 3y ago
True, but security and privacy are different things. At most, one could say that security is necessary-but-not-sufficient for privacy. Google is generally excellent at security, but that doesn't change the fact that they're a nigh
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by elishah 3y ago
> "time nslookup" Or as a slightly more thorough approach, you can use something like namebench or dnsbench: https://code.google.com/archive/p/namebench https://github.com/askmediagrou
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by elishah 3y ago
> More precisely, why 100 tabs in 1 window instead of 10 tabs times 10 windows? I still don't understand why some people believe that the correct answer is anything other than 100 windows. My platform has 40 years of well refined to
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by elishah 3y ago
https://www.tumblr.com/foone/721395638537961472/i-see-people... remains the best take on Brave that I've seen. "I see people talking about the Brave browser in the whole Firefox vs chrome debate, and whi
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by elishah 3y ago
That's a bit of a tenuous connection. That decline is an anomaly. The majority of it is attributable to covid, and a significant minority attributable to fentanyl: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_pres
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by elishah 3y ago
Yes, that famous marshmallow test has now been debunked several times from several angles. Many of them come down to the issue that the test was not measuring the participants' willpower so much as it was measuring their confidence tha
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by elishah 3y ago
> If a civilian is allowed to do it, so is a police officer. That is often not the way it works, most especially when it comes to obtaining evidence. If some random person breaks into your house, goes through your files until they find d
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by elishah 3y ago
The problem with LCD windows like that is that they default to opaque, and require power to align the crystals to become clear. Fine for your fancy boardroom, not so good for a vehicle when a minor hardware fault can instantly render the dr
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by elishah 3y ago
I assume that the previous commenter was referring to Google's monopolies in search, email, and video. All of which they will use to yell at you to switch to Chrome, and will sometimes cause to actually be faster or more featureful whe
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by elishah 3y ago
Sure, but even that cherry looks a whole lot more like the rest of the numbers I've found than the one grandparent comment offered. The study you cite only examines the costs for cardiometabolic disease, not all healthcare costs. And t
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by elishah 3y ago
> Metabolic health is responsible for at least 3/5 of healthcare costs. I would love to see a source for that, as it is strongly at odds with all data that I've ever seen. For example: "Medical cost of overweight and obesi
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by elishah 3y ago
Somewhat, yes. And not by accident. For the last couple of decades, Google has been in an odd situation: - They make a ridiculous amount of money. - They already have a ridiculous amount of money, and also engineering talent and compute cap
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by elishah 3y ago
Flying a plane, driving a car, and probably riding a bike seem like a poor match when any system malfunction can render you instantly blind. There might be some point in the future at which the risk/benefit tradeoff lands in favorable
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by elishah 3y ago
Their call on the first bit, but I can assure that that your last statement is at least off by one. My budget for this year was eight figures, and extends to things like what this product appears to be. And while I'll admit that I woul

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