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nakedgremlin commented on Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art kapwing.com/blog/learning... · Posted by u/jenthoven

nakedgremlin · 2 days ago

I thought this was a great write up on the current state for artists and AI engines. I'm honestly surprised by this nugget:

> A free Tess subscription to use their own model for brainstorming and scaling repetitive work (roughly 1 in 4 artists took advantage of this)

So based on the math I'm seeing... the 21 artists in the system, only 5 ("1 in 4") optioned to use the tool for their own productivity? That seems really low and makes me wonder what the user experience for creation feels like. I would assume if you decided to commit to this endeavor, you would want to see what derivative results will look like.

nakedgremlin commented on I Like GitLab whileforloop.com/en/blog/... · Posted by u/lukas346

paskejl · 2 months ago

I'll add one more annoying part: testing the CI/CD script on gitlab. It doesn't exist, and it's hell.

Edit: perhaps it's skill issue too, but I'm annoyed they don't have a similar feature to jump to definitions as github does.

nakedgremlin · 2 months ago

Yeah, my experience on testing GitLab CI/CD script logic is to use a sacrificial branch and grind through test commits until it works, then Squash commits when merging back into main branch.

It's so sad that we can't just run local validations on the CI/CD script through a local emulator. If they had a local emulator approach similar to what is provided by Firebase for their cloud products, that would be amazing.

nakedgremlin commented on M4 MacBook Pro apple.com/newsroom/2024/1... · Posted by u/tosh

opjjf · a year ago

It seems they also update the base memory on MacBook Air:

> MacBook Air: The World’s Most Popular Laptop Now Starts at 16GB

> MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.

nakedgremlin · a year ago

Yeah, this one caught me off guard. We just purchased a MacBook Air in the last month and if we bought the same one now, we would save $200. Apple support would not price match/correct that, so we will be returning it and purchasing anew.

nakedgremlin commented on Verisign Loses Prestige .Gov Contract to Cloudflare domainincite.com/28517-ve... · Posted by u/zacwest

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

"The deal is worth $7.2 million..."

I'd love to know more on the business-front for deals like this. Is that a yearly cost? What's the typical expectation for support for something like this?

This definitely isn't my realm of experience at all, so I don't even know if this is a big deal or not. The fact they noted the "bragging rights" makes this feel like a low cost.

nakedgremlin commented on Amazon Becomes World’s First Public Company to Lose $1T in Market Value bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

https://archive.ph/fEH7I

nakedgremlin commented on Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer palette.fm/... · Posted by u/emilwallner

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

Thank you for providing pre-set examples on your site. That's one of the major barriers on these types of tools to "test" especially when you're not sure where/how/if the images are public.

nakedgremlin commented on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/caoxuwen

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

Not sure how I feel about this. Figma is great and all their feature releases have been impressive, but I feel it was due to competition and worry about similar products coming in from big corporations (like Adobe XD). I feel this competition really push Figma hard.

Now being part of the same owner, just makes it feel like any aggressive progress will just stall out.

nakedgremlin commented on GitLab SaaS Free Tier FAQ about.gitlab.com/pricing/... · Posted by u/stefanoco

martypitt · 3 years ago

I might be alone, but I'm really struggling with this line of fixes from Gitlab.

To be clear - I'm all for Gitlab charging, I think that's fair and reasonable.

However, if they're gonna charge for artifact storage, they need to provide first-class tooling to manage the storage.

My experience is almost exactly the same as the OP's. Huge artefact storage from builds, the scripts to clean up don't work.

> The async operation to delete artifacts can take a while. How do I tell if something has succeeded or failed then? Last time I ran the scripts, no errors were mentioned, but nothing was tidied up.

Cleaning this stuff up shouldn't be via hacky scripts or community projects. It should be a mandatory requirement for managing an aspect of my account that's about to become very very expensive.

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

Oh it feels great to learn I'm not alone in this problem. I completely agree with everything noted here.

The current interface provided for removing the artifacts on GitLab just does not work. There is no feedback; no confirmation. We just uncheck a box and just cross our fingers since there is no other step noted.

Even with the new guidance provided, it's still additional jumps through other codebases just to see if it works. I'm now worried that if I go through this new process, I'll end up right back at the same issue.

nakedgremlin commented on GitLab SaaS Free Tier FAQ about.gitlab.com/pricing/... · Posted by u/stefanoco

nakedgremlin · 3 years ago

We've been struggling with this GitLab storage change, even consulting with GitLab reps on strategy logic between namespace versus repositories. It's still very confusing, especially if you were using their other offerings like CI/CD build systems and associated build artifacts storage.

The artifacts storage is that one that's just tough to figure out when dealing with large builds. We have already offloaded all our CI/CD to our own hosted GitLab runners, but apparently storing the artifacts afterwards (which by default GitLab always stores the most recent builds) MUST use their storage, we can't offload it to our own servers.

The instructions for removing the most recent artifacts also just never works (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.html#k...)

So in our monorepo with multiple Windows and Mac applications, we are now stuck with lots of GB that are just there, currently unable to delete.

This is causing us to dramatically revisit our strategy of using GitLab and might force us to other tools.

nakedgremlin commented on How to Pronounce JSON by Douglas Crockford youtube.com/watch?v=uR-f4... · Posted by u/nabi_nafio

nakedgremlin · 4 years ago

Gah. The "JSML" name out-loud just sounds so wrong.

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