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by trop 5mo ago
Darktable has a "neural restore" algorithm [0] in the development version (intended for midsummer release). Note: - It appears to be an out-of-band pre-processing stage (run the image through denoise to produce an intermediary TIF
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by trop 8mo ago
> but Darktable doesn't support Fuji raws darktable has supported Fuji raws since 2014! It currently supports the classic "uncompressed" RAFs, as well as the newfangled "lossless" (compressed) RAFs. I do not beli
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by trop 8mo ago
Robert Byron, in The Road to Oxiana, describes a 1930s trip to present-day Afghanistan. But I believe he started the automobile portion in Tehran.
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Fourier Caterpillar(reubenmargolin.com)
5 points by trop 1y ago|0 comments
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Trefoil(reubenmargolin.com)
2 points by trop 1y ago|0 comments
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by trop 1y ago
From 3/17/25: > Together with all of American higher education, Cornell is entering a time of significant financial uncertainty. The potential for deep cuts in federal research funding, as well as tax legislation affecting our
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by trop 3y ago
FWIW, here is the recent merged pull requests from darktable: https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pulls?q=is%3Apr+i... At the moment, this is about a week's work by eight authors. Others cycle/in
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by trop 3y ago
What we're seeing here is one embittered ex-developer spending time/effort saying toxic things about their former collaborators in a public forum. At the same time the former developer is making a claim to such radical competence
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by trop 3y ago
> So which is more useful, one that doesn't even know there is a new album coming out, or one that knows what was its release date as of just a couple of months ago? To semi-misquote Lewis Carroll: Which is better, a stopped clock o
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by trop 3y ago
Of course one could argue that the hardcore Linux (er, GNU/Linux) document creator will use Emacs with AUCTeX (or canny uses of org-mode), with rendering via XeTeX/LaTeX/LuaTeX... Or markdown piped through pandoc, for those w
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by trop 3y ago
The OP is burying the lede! The exciting news [0] is > We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work,
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by trop 3y ago
Steve Roberts had a gig (maybe during the Winnebiko period) writing a column about his travels for CompuServe Magazine. In case you don't remember it, CompuServe was a walled-garden pre-AOL dialup internet site which included forums, g
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by trop 4y ago
> I think the general trend is that actual useful applications are emerging from enormous models trained and owned by billion dollar companies only. One way to think about it: Today's LLMs require incredible outlays of capital and p
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by trop 4y ago
Also worth checking out Alvy Ray Smith's 2021 book, "A Biography of the Pixel". It is (from what I've read so far), much more in the history/theory of technology field, examining the math/technology behind reso
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by trop 4y ago
An anecdote from someone in IT at a major university: The registrar has two employees whose sole job is to write SQL queries. These are to answer basic questions such as, "How many undergraduates are currently enrolled." And it tu
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by trop 4y ago
I'm curious about this as well, but wouldn't be pointing fingers at the Wayland developers. See, for example, one of the most recent comments in the discussion linked to in the parent post, by Nilvus, one of the (wise and knowledg
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by trop 4y ago
Note to mention "In the Land of Oz: The Search for the Wizard": https://thismoviedoesnotexist.org/movie/in-the-land-of-oz-th... Which reads like a bad translation of a bad translation. Like the the old joke a
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by trop 4y ago
Quite true. Best case, we're seeing DJ Spooky style culture jamming/remixing. But more likely it is as you write. On the other hand, the market for stock photography was already decimated by the internet. Where previously skilled
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by trop 4y ago
Indeed. And the artist/creative who can guide DALL-E or GPT-3 will be as exciting as the composer who can make a room dance with music from a synthesizer...or the artist who can make compelling images with a camera.
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by trop 4y ago
Indeed, there's an argument that the culture around anything (including software) is the main thing. And if the culture thrives, then that becomes the stable backup (or rather stable living vessel). Isn't there a Linus Torvalds qu
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by trop 4y ago
My high school had a computer lab with a networked LaserWriter (this might have been 1987). It outclassed any screen in the room, so far as display resolution. And with its 68000 processor and PostScript interpreter, it was the fastest and
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by trop 4y ago
Exciting! One typo, I think: > Org Mode can be used for anything from managing apartments, writing manuals, literate programs or executing code like a programming notebook. Is that "apartments" or "appointments"? I su
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by trop 4y ago
> you'll still be in an uncanny valley of recycled information and in the worst case be in some bizarre feedback loop of old content that is permanently recycled and reconfigured Does DALL-E 2 create, or does it simply making a past
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by trop 5y ago
There is no innate reason why a Google search on a subject should return high quality results. This is predicated on there being someone willing to write thoughtful, informative, well-researched content and post it on the open internet such
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by trop 5y ago
peterburkmisher: I wish I knew! I've been wondering about all this myself, and where even this knowledge lies these days. Materials scientists? Chemists? It sees a question too specialized for the former, and not specialized enough for
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by trop 5y ago
There's some history of "organic" or at least "natural" ingredients in photography. See, for example, the early "autochrome" color process. It uses dyed potato starch as color filters. Lampblack (granted a
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A Bitcoin Boom Fueled by Cheap Power, Empty Plants and Few Rules(nytimes.com)
8 points by trop 5y ago|1 comments
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by trop 5y ago
So strange that the vision of an astronaut (or astronauts) high in orbit, operating cameras at the behest of NRO, seems so lonely and futile. Yet to be an astronaut on ISS and its predecessors seems more like worthy communal work. Why the s
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by trop 5y ago
Another way to think about it: The night scenes in old movies could embrace the stylization and limitations that the combination of relatively insensitive film and studio lighting afforded. See for example, the night scenes in The Night of
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by trop 5y ago
> 13.6% of Faceberg's $94.4b is almost $13b. A good start, but we'll need more. Presumably a slip on the part of the author, rather than facetious. Regardless extremely unfortunate.

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