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iamflimflam1 commented on Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith   twilio.com/en-us/blog/dev... · Posted by u/birdculture
panny · 9 hours ago
>the quality and organizational structure of their engineering department

You're not kidding. I had to work with twilio on a project and it was awful. Any time there was an issue with the API, they'd never delve into why that issue had happened. They'd simply fix the data in their database and close the ticket. We'd have the same issue over and over and over again and they'd never make any effort to fix the cause of the problems.

iamflimflam1 · an hour ago
This is probably the first time I’ve seen a human use the word “delve”.

It immediately triggered my - is this AI?

iamflimflam1 commented on South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity   worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
echelon_musk · 3 days ago
Men can't have children.
iamflimflam1 · 3 days ago
Men can care for and raise children.
iamflimflam1 commented on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters   github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-I... · Posted by u/doener
kouteiheika · 7 days ago
> It's incredibly clear who the devs assume the target market is.

Not "assume". That's what the target market is. Take a look at civitai and see what kind of images people generate and what LoRAs they train (just be sure to be logged in and disable all of the NSFW filters in the options).

iamflimflam1 · 7 days ago
Yeah - that was a bit of a shock! I'll just unblur these pictures - how hardcore could they be...
iamflimflam1 commented on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters   github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-I... · Posted by u/doener
idontwantthis · 8 days ago
Does it run on apple silicon?
iamflimflam1 · 8 days ago
It's working for me - it does max out my 64GB though.
iamflimflam1 commented on Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters   github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-I... · Posted by u/doener
muglug · 8 days ago
The [demo PDF](https://github.com/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image/blob/main/assets/Z-Ima...) has ~50 photos of attractive young women sitting/standing alone, and exactly two photos featuring young attractive men on their own.

It's incredibly clear who the devs assume the target market is.

iamflimflam1 · 8 days ago
The model is uncensored, so will probably suite that target market admirably.
iamflimflam1 commented on Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?   martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/davedx
iamflimflam1 · 10 days ago
For those who can’t/won’t read the article - the author argues that the answer is “no - it’s not a repeat”.
iamflimflam1 commented on The writing is on the wall for handwriting recognition   newsletter.dancohen.org/a... · Posted by u/speckx
iamflimflam1 · 11 days ago
If I went back in time to the 90s when I was doing my PhD I would absolutely blow my mind with how well handwriting OCR works now.
iamflimflam1 commented on Show HN: Boing   boing.greg.technology/... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
coffeecoders · 14 days ago
Funny thing: this feels "realistic" because it’s not perfect physics. A perfectly simulated Hooke's law spring actually looks fake and too stiff. But if you let the animation wobble a bit more and slow down the damping, our brain reads it as weight and squishiness.

It’s basically controlled sloppiness.

iamflimflam1 · 14 days ago
Same is true in a lot of old platformer games. Real physics feels horrible.
iamflimflam1 commented on Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana   github.com/gavrielc/Nano-... · Posted by u/GavCo
albert_e · 14 days ago
Do you mean example commands? we see those examples on the githib README, yes,

But people here are probably also looking for example input and output PDFs (or images/screenshots) showing the actual work done to get a sense of what to expect.

iamflimflam1 · 14 days ago
Exactly - if these examples work really well, then include some screenshots.
iamflimflam1 commented on Show HN: Nano PDF – A CLI Tool to Edit PDFs with Gemini's Nano Banana   github.com/gavrielc/Nano-... · Posted by u/GavCo
iamflimflam1 · 14 days ago
The lack of examples makes me very reluctant to commit any time to trying this out - despite it being something that I’m interested in.

Has anyone given any it a go? Does it work?

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