ClassyJacket (u/ClassyJacket)

ClassyJacket commented on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/ShaneCurran

gulikoza · 7 months ago

Windows before some version (maybe before XP?) only supported BMP wallpapers. BMP is uncompressed, a 1024x768 24-bit BMP is 2.25MB. That could be 7% of the 32MB system RAM and if the image got paged out - you were looking at it being redrawn line by line...yeah, I'm not doing that :)

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

I mean, you have to uncompress an image to display it anyway, so it would've made no difference.

ClassyJacket commented on We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

rzazueta · 7 months ago

I LOVE My Pebble and even got Rebble working on it not long ago to revive it.

However...

If you want to make it TRULY HACKABLE as you claim, you will not encumber it with cloud dependencies like you did last time. Let ME self host my own Pebble server if I choose. Go ahead and default to your servers and sell services and whatever, but let me host my own and switch the base URL to my own domain, preferably with open source software and simple APIs, without requiring me to go through your servers.

That way, even if this attempt also doesn't pan out, those of us willing to do the work will at least still have the functionality we want. I get the whole VC "lock them into required cloud services for life so we can make endless subscription revenue" model, but it's absolutely corrupt.

And, Eric, I know you know that - you have a hacker's heart. Please listen to it.

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

I second this. I'll be very hesitant to buy in if it's locked to a cloud service. And people are waking up to this, with the Bambu controversy and all. Please don't make this mistake.

ClassyJacket commented on Image replacement in Canva designs using reverse image search canva.dev/blog/engineerin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

Fascinating. I love seeing practical applications of computer vision. I want to understand how image embeddings work.

I wonder how practical it would be to add specific multidimensional similarity metrics the user could adjust. For example, if they didn't care whether it was a photo or drawing, but still had to be the same type of object. Or if they didn't care about the art style. Or if it had to be an SUV driving thru a river, but they don't care what colour SUV.

ClassyJacket commented on Ask HN: Anyone want models snail-mailed to them? · Posted by u/ravenhappy

FloatArtifact · 7 months ago

That's a really generous offer. However, I feel most people are compute before bandwidth-constrained. I hope over the next years we'll have significantly advanced models 70b without paying $3,000 for something like Nvidia's digit.

Perhaps some may be region locked out of downloading such resources which may be able to take you up on your offer though!

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

In Australia the government legally mandated that I (and most of the country) am not permitted to have a wired internet connection above 25mbit/s. I am very bandwidth constrained.

ClassyJacket commented on Google open-sources the Pebble OS opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/hexxeh

zitterbewegung · 7 months ago

This is pretty awesome. I had a Pebble but the battery went out and was sad to see that you had to buy used / refurbished. Being epaper and lasting for so long the best part of it was that it just managed notifications with my phone. I moved on to the Apple Watch from my brother (series 0) and it took awhile for the Apple Watch to have its killer application which was a fitness tracker.

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

Every Pebble model used an LCD display. It being epaper has to be one of the most pervasive myths in tech history. It was a low powered, reflective LCD, so it did improve on other LCDs in those areas somewhat, but it wasn't eink technology.

ClassyJacket commented on Google open-sources the Pebble OS opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/hexxeh

girvo · 7 months ago

That’s basically what the Pebble Time Round was, and it was phenomenal!

ClassyJacket · 7 months ago

Pebble Time used an LCD display just like every other Pebble