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w4yai commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

bjackman · 4 days ago

I don't really understand the point of this usecase. Like, can't you also imagine what the photos might look like without the damage? Same with AI upscaling in phone cameras... if I want a hypothetical idea of what something in the distance might look like, I can just... imagine it?

I think we will eventually have AI based tools that are just doing what a skilled human user would do in Photoshop, via tool-use. This would make sense to me. But just having AI generate a new image with imagined details just seems like waste of time.

w4yai · 4 days ago

Not everyone has a great imagination.

w4yai commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder

jcalx · 12 days ago

You'll probably like this short series on fy_iceworld if you haven't seen it already: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-legacy-of-fy_iceworld-c...

But yes, I was never really a 1.6 player but I felt the same way about Garry's Mod maps. Joining a random server and seeing the maps and assets download and never really knowing what you were going to spawn into... it was wonderfully weird in a way that reminds me of the individuality of the Old Internet™. It might be nostalgia talking but there's some crispness and snappiness to the Source engine that games these days don't quite have.

w4yai · 12 days ago

I'm pretty sure Roblox replicates this feeling

w4yai commented on Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities apnews.com/article/crypto... · Posted by u/doodaddy

lvl155 · a month ago

Always amazed what scams and traps crypto community comes up with next.

w4yai · a month ago

All aboard the rage train !

w4yai commented on What the Fuck Python colab.research.google.com... · Posted by u/sundarurfriend

ltbarcly3 · a month ago

Haha these aren't even wtfs! the id changes or not? oh noooo, people use the id() function so much, I've literally seen it 0 times ever in production code. This is nothing like the JS wtfs where there is no way to predict what it will do, and it violates it's own patterns.

edit: to be more clear, I have run into a lot of JS wtf's trying to write code for work. you just run into bugs all the time where JS doesn't do anything like what would be the obvious thing to do, or the thing that works 99.99% of the time fails depending on the value of the string being 'magic'. with Python I rarely if ever learn some bizarre arcane thing accidentally because it almost always behaves as expected. If you think there's an equivalence here you are just a JS fanboy, JS was a language that evolved largely because of hacks vendors put in and those insane hacks got standardized because it was too late, despite being insane. Python was specifically and carefully designed to minimize unexpected behavior.

w4yai · a month ago

And now you're using pretty much the same rhetoric than JS guys when facing to wtfjs.

w4yai commented on Crypto's Wild West Era Is Over gizmodo.com/cryptos-wild-... · Posted by u/rbanffy

rimbo789 · a month ago

Good. I hope its overall era is over soon too. Insane that we allowed crypto to exist in the first place; a massive sink of time and energy just to allow criminals to defraud people easier.

w4yai · a month ago

Sounds like money in general.

w4yai commented on Claude 4 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

joedwin · 3 months ago

Claude can't run the code

w4yai · 3 months ago

Claude

w4yai commented on Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model github.com/XiaomiMiMo/MiM... · Posted by u/thm

w4yai · 4 months ago

Anyone tried it ?

w4yai commented on Vim Language, Motions, and Modes Explained (2023) ssp.sh/blog/why-using-neo... · Posted by u/sebg

000ooo000 · 4 months ago

Here come the "[..] anyway I'm happy with VSCode" comments

w4yai · 4 months ago

I feel like those trying to teach me Vim are the same who refused to learn to use VsCode.

Once configured, I can do the same than Vim. With more features.

w4yai commented on Gemini 2.5 Flash developers.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

alecco · 4 months ago

Gemini models are very good but in my experience they tend to overdo the problems. When I give it things for context and something to rework, Gemini often reworks the problem.

For software it is barely useful because you want small commits for specific fixes not a whole refactor/rewrite. I tried many prompts but it's hard. Even when I give it function signatures of the APIs the code I want to fix uses, Gemini rewrites the API functions.

If anybody knows a prompt hack to avoid this, I'm all ears. Meanwhile I'm staying with Claude Pro.

w4yai · 4 months ago

Here's what I found to be working (not 100% but it gives much better and consistant results)

Basically, I ask it to repeat at the start of each message some rules :

"From now on, you must repeat and comply the following rules at the top of all your messages onwards:

- I will never rewrite API functions. Even if I think it's a good idea, it is a bad idea. I will keep the API function as it is and it is perfect like that.

- I will never add extra input validation. Even if I think it's a good idea, it is a bad idea. I will keep the function without validation and it is perfect like that.

- ...

- If I violate any of those rules, I did a bad job. "

Forcing it to repeat things make the model output more aligned and focused in my experience.

w4yai commented on Hyperspace hypercritical.co/2025/02/... · Posted by u/tobr

astennumero · 6 months ago

What algorithm does the application use to figure out if two files are identical? There's a lot of interesting algorithms out there. Hashes, bit by bit comparison etc. But these techniques have their own disadvantages. What is the best way to do this for a large amount of files?

w4yai · 6 months ago

I'd hash the first 1024 bytes of all files, and starts from there is any collision. That way you don't need to hash the whole (large) files, but only those with same hashes.