Team Qwen: Please stop ripping off Studio Ghibli to demo your product.
That entire banner is pure copyright infringement.
Readit Newsgilgoomesh commented on Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwe... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
gilgoomesh commented on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++ docs.carbon-lang.dev/... · Posted by u/samuell
...and Swift w/ Obj-C
Swift can also 2-way operate with C++. Its coverage of the C++ language is incomplete but I suspect it might outpace Carbon.
gilgoomesh commented on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras candid9.com/phone-camera/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia
At least the "real" camera won't be hallucinating detail that isn't there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29739235
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365510
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38482085
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39926633 (sanity prevails)
If you read through the thread on that top story, it wasn't a hallucination. There was really a leaf in the shot.
gilgoomesh commented on OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract cnbc.com/2025/06/16/opena... · Posted by u/erikrit
Does anyone have any idea what the DoD could possibly want from OpenAI? Less accurate/more sycophantic missiles?
ChatGPT, do you know where the General left his keys?
postmortem is looking back after an event. That can be a security event/outage, it can also be the completion of a project (see: game studios often do postmortems once their game is out to look back on what went wrong and right between preproduction, production, and post launch).
It's weird that we use "postmortem" in those cases since the word literally means "after death"; kind of implying something bad happened. I get that most of these postmortems are done after major development ceases, so it kind of is "dead" but still.
Surely a "retrospective" would be a better word for a look back. It even means "look back.
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gilgoomesh commented on LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego avalovelace1.github.io/Le... · Posted by u/nkko
It's hilarious watching $50,000 worth of robots take so long to assemble a couple dollars worth of Lego. It's like peering into the old folks home for robots.
Wait, I have the impression that water torturing is either US or Soviet invention?
From Wikipedia on Chinese Water Torture:
> Despite the name, it is not a Chinese invention and it is not traditional anywhere in Asia. Its earliest known version was first documented by Hippolytus de Marsiliis in Bologna (now in Italy) in the late 15th or early 16th century, and it was widely used in Western countries before being popularized by Harry Houdini in the early 20th century.
gilgoomesh commented on Pixel is a unit of length and area nayuki.io/page/pixel-is-a... · Posted by u/anitil
A pixel is two dimensional, by definition. It is a unit of area. Even in the signal processing "sampling" definition of a pixel, it still has an areal density an is therefore still two-dimensional.
The problem in this article is it incorrectly assumes a pixel to be a length and then makes nonsensical statements. The correct way to interpret "1920 pixels wide" is "the same width as 1920 pixels arranged in a 1920 by 1 row".
In the same way that "square feet" means "feet^2" as "square" acts as a square operator on "feet", in "pixels wide" the word "wide" acts as a square root operator on the area and means "pixels^(-2)" (which doesn't otherwise have a name).
gilgoomesh commented on New ChatGPT Models Seem to Leave Watermarks on Text rumidocs.com/newsroom/new... · Posted by u/croes
These don't appear to be intended as watermarks. They're merely a valid use of non-breaking space for tightly coupled elements like "2.5 billion" and "Title I".
Sure, a human author would almost never do that, but they could. I could imagine a Markdown syntax that did that – it could be done similar to how `code` is marked up in most blogs.