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by threepio 3y ago
> You can take an image and use DDIM inversion to find the coordinates I'd like to try this. Any suggestions where I can learn how to implement this technique?
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by threepio 4y ago
The article that first described what came to be known as responsive design was published on ALA by Marc van den Dobbelsteen in 2006: https://alistapart.com/article/switchymclayout/
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by threepio 4y ago
"Start Paying for Internet Stuff" … says the man using a free Google Font on his website
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by threepio 4y ago
Nothing says "rebellious" like private equity — "Code and Theory is a proud member of The Stagwell Group, a private equity firm" https://www.codeandtheory.com/about-us
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by threepio 4y ago
As an individual developer with many open-source projects, I'm pretty sure that my docs would be better if I had $2+ billion in funding ;)
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by threepio 4y ago
> the journalists in question never followed up this incredible bombshell They did publish more stories on the topic, which are collected here: https://www.bloomberg.com/2018-the-big-hack > IIRC, didn't some of t
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by threepio 5y ago
Bitcoin: by limiting issuance to 21M we have made price manipulation of our currency impossible Tether: hold my beer
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by threepio 5y ago
> Jack Dorsey ... probably left Twitter to focus more on Block. I don't think he was fired by the Twitter board, exactly. But given the increasing conflict of interest between being CEO of Twitter and his use of Twitter as a place
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by threepio 5y ago
From the article: > The magic is that all Scheme code, by virtue of supporting the capture (and unwind) of delimited continuation Is that true? I thought Racket was the only Scheme (and maybe the only language in general) that supported
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by threepio 5y ago
Variable fonts aren't "Metafont-style procedural fonts"
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by threepio 5y ago
Would it be legal for the US govt to take over the renters' leases under the 5th amendment? That is, they would "take" the leases (just like they might take land) and pay "just compensation" (which I assume would me
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by threepio 5y ago
1) No, you don't need to speculate. He describes three years of events that all happened in private (with no resolution). Starting from the very first sentence of the piece ("In January 2020, I told two members of Racket’s core te
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by threepio 5y ago
Apple is creating a yawning double standard between its "privacy is a human right" [1] refrain and its own profit interests. If you're skeptical, the pricing says it all. Apple could've sold AirTags for $99 each with a $
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by threepio 5y ago
> Mine report as “With you” so perhaps they don’t advertise themselves in this state. So you know for certain that AirTags have multiple broadcast states (e.g., "with me" vs. not)? Apple's description makes it sound like t
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by threepio 5y ago
What are the practical ramifications of Apple harnessing every existing iPhone as an AirTag discovery device in the Find My network? (I think it's awful from a privacy and device-ownership standpoint, but let's leave that aside.)
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by threepio 5y ago
Once it reaches a certain size, many tech companies grow a department called "business development". This department always seems to contain highly paid people who take a lot of meetings and promote various big ideas, but who hold
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by threepio 5y ago
> I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke A slashed zero often looks too similar to the figure 8
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by threepio 6y ago
This is a sample Pollen project, annotated by the author using Racket's literate-programming dialect. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen-tfl/
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by threepio 6y ago
Pollen, written in Racket, is arguably a "dsl for specifying ssgs" https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
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by threepio 6y ago
> the false Supermicro hack story (never retracted BTW) So the idea is that Bloomberg, a company owned by a multibillionaire, published a story full of libel, and for some inexplicable reason none of the corporations damaged by that stor
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by threepio 6y ago
> Frankly I'm surprised the effect was so small Only because of the moratorium on evictions, which is deferring a lot of financial pain till later, and thereby making today's numbers look a lot better than they are. https:&#x2
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by threepio 6y ago
Yes! For instance, the Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions grocery chain recently fired all its in-house delivery drivers and contracted with Doordash instead, in order to take advantage of Doordash's access to (cheaper) Prop 22 driver
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by threepio 6y ago
I have bought Apple refurbished machines. I always understood them to be more-or-less unused returns. IIRC Apple cannot legally advertise returned machines as "new", hence the "refurbished" designation. Moreover Apple ha
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by threepio 6y ago
I'm referring to GUI apps like the kind currently sold in the app store. There has long been a path to sell these apps direct to customers. But with each OS release, it has become more onerous (codesigning and notarization and whatnot)
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by threepio 6y ago
I was a creative genius, and then I bought myself an iPhone That's worse
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by threepio 6y ago
Unfortunately — because I am a longtime Apple user & developer — I have to agree that this is a cynical gesture designed to deflect regulatory scrutiny. Moreover, I expect that this announcement is mostly paving the way for Apple to for
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by threepio 6y ago
I’m disappointed that Prop 22 passed. I also think it will not end up mattering much because the unit economics of the rideshare companies are so bad. If they had gone along with AB5, they would’ve had cover to say to their investors “we ne
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by threepio 6y ago
Is Robert Traister an actual human being? Or just a pen name that the publisher puts on quickie books? Or a name, like Alan Smithee, applied to books that have gone wrong?
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by threepio 6y ago
Why is there a need to "write legislation"? If Uber wants to treat drivers as contractors (or employees), California's lawmakers & courts have already set out a clear path toward legally doing either. Meanwhile, I'm
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by threepio 6y ago
I'm afraid you're repeating Uber's favorite talking point, which is that everyone should respect the worker's decision to be an employee or contractor. Nobody disputes that Uber can have employees or contractors (or both

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