If this were used in the wild, do you need a copy of the model locally to decompress the images?
And how much compute time/power does “decompressing” take compared to a jpg?
Readit Newscoffee_beqn commented on Stable Diffusion based image compression matthias-buehlmann.medium... · Posted by u/AmblingAvocado
coffee_beqn commented on Subprime loans for college hiding in plain sight nytimes.com/2022/09/17/yo... · Posted by u/lxm
This is the point where people run in to say, "College is MORE than just career prep! It's about producing well-rounded citizens!"
Which is a fine sentiment; the problem is that it makes no sense for people to be going deeply into debt to become well-rounded citizens. If you're gonna end up with tens of thousands of dollars in the hole at the end of an education, at the start of your adult life, then yes, it's reasonable to need that education to reliably produce economic dividends.
Like, just think of all the other things that can help people become more well-rounded or better citizens, like community service, or international travel. Once you have the list in your head, think to yourself: how many of these would you recommend that young adults spend years of full-time labor in, and go into major debt to pursue?
Besides I think they’d be more well rounded working a well paying trade for example than going tens to hundreds of thousands in debt hanging out in echo chambers and coming out with no marketable skills.
coffee_beqn commented on Gen Z never learned to read cursive theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/fortran77
Okay but you don’t have to handwrite it in cursive.
Cursive is optimized for fountain pens I believe. As long as we have pencils and ballpoint pens, using cursive is just a holdover from olden times with no actual pros compared to simpler writing methods
coffee_beqn commented on Gen Z never learned to read cursive theatlantic.com/magazine/... · Posted by u/fortran77
My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that’s the way I likes it.
Here is a counterpoint. The US foundational documents (Declaration, Constitution) are written in cursive/script. Public education certainly has something to do with creating citizens capable of participating in US democracy and reading these docs is one significant part of that. Obviously they can be transcribed so I don’t think this is super compelling but perhaps it is not anachronistic as it seems.
I do wonder is cursive really that hard to read without any lessons? It’s still English just with a awkward font. Writing cursive has a lot of rules but I would think most GenZers could read the constitution albeit slowly
coffee_beqn commented on Wegmans ends self-checkout app after too much shoplifting cnn.com/2022/09/16/busine... · Posted by u/mikequinlan
I confess that the moment I saw self check out being installed at a grocery store in 2000, I felt the future was at hand. 22 years later, I go out of my way to avoid them. I hate self check out. Have I become a Luddite? Lazy?
I think I just really like the convenience of someone else ringing all of that up and putting it into the bags, etc.
Edit: perhaps the future is to charge customers more who want full service. You can either check out and bag your own, or for some price more you get full service where someone else does it.
I mean the store is making you do their very low paid tedious job for free on an inferior machine. It’s not exactly a barrel of laughs.
I usually self checkout but I have an issue at least 70% of the time
coffee_beqn commented on Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have ever seen. How to fix it? · Posted by u/whattodochange
It works, it generates a large amount of revenue
leave it the fuck alone
Also go work somewhere close to your standards. From experience I can tell you that this is a battle you can’t win in a reasonable time table. There’s a reason it is the way it is and you can’t change those people.
> Airbnb ratcheted up its cleaning protocols during Covid-19, with a 36-page handbook requiring that hosts wash all hard surfaces with soap and water, vacuum the floors and disinfect switches and electronics, among other things.
How often is Covid spreading through touching a random door handle or light switch?
Very clean areas are always appreciated, but this seems to be mandated cosmetic theater and wasteful from the perspective of cutting costs for everybody.
I thought we were over this in like June 2020. Do they still have that policy? Trust the science!
coffee_beqn commented on GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge tomshardware.com/news/gpu... · Posted by u/geekinchief
Ethereum was a majority of GPU mining. Bitcoin miners use ASICs. And mining was profitable right until it wasn't, so why not wait until then?
I mined for a few weeks out of curiosity and I figured it would work as a heater downstairs since it was winter. I would think that the best move was to sell your GPU about a month before it all ends since the actual mining doesn’t make enough money to offset the resale value plummet.
coffee_beqn commented on GPU mining no longer profitable after Ethereum merge tomshardware.com/news/gpu... · Posted by u/geekinchief
GPU prices are tanking. They seem to be falling by the hour.
Finally we beat inflation
coffee_beqn commented on Ask HN: Why do I have to call for cancellation? rogers.com/support/billin... · Posted by u/prakashn27
Count yourself lucky. I once had a phone company that needed a FAX to cancel. And even then they didn't.
I had that a few years ago on those scummy up sell warranty plans they trick you into buying at car dealerships. I had to fax a signed cancellation form. Thankfully there are Web services that allow you to send pdfs but it was obnoxious.