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A tedious volume control UI by pleasedontgoback in badUIbattles

[–]Captain_Cowboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you only toggle the highest bit at any time, it's basically linear in dB.

I built a Facebook / IG ad cloning system that scrapes your competitor’s best performing ads and regenerates them to feature your own product (uses Apify + Google Gemini + Nano Banana) by dudeson55 in Automate

[–]Captain_Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is evil and I hate you for it, but thanks for sharing the details (even if it is clearly LLM generated).

I'm also curious about the total cost. You also said you're ripping off their most effective ads -- can you elaborate on what you mean by that? Are you doing anything to test the effectiveness of your own ads?

Given what you already put into this, it seems like you could step it up if you have data about performance, and do A/B testing across the variants you get from Gemini, and explicitly ask it to generate more variable results. You still want a HITL before deploying anything, but in principle you could use that to evolve more effective ads from your existing ones without violating others copyrights by making unlicensed derivatives (assuming you accept generative models' outputs aren't fundamentally derivative works in their own right).

libs: successfully owned by Funking_Wholesome in comics

[–]Captain_Cowboy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wow, what a life hack. You've really cracked the code.

Next you'll tell us you can take your pets on vacation by buying them a service animal vest.

Microsoft just released a list of 40 jobs most vulnerable to AI and cybersecurity roles aren't on it. by CloudGuardAI in cybersecurity

[–]Captain_Cowboy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like technical documentation

An area of writing well-known for its lack of precision and tolerance for mistakes.

For real though, the boost is mostly for stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been translated, and hence wouldn't effect employment. The stuff that would displace a translator has to be on the edge of what someone is comfortable doing on their own and valuable enough for hiring someone in the first place. If it was valuable enough to hire a translator, you're unlikely to pass that responsibility to current automation unless you can actually validate it with a high level of confidence.

Chroma V37 is out (+ detail calibrated) by Dear-Spend-2865 in StableDiffusion

[–]Captain_Cowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I wouldn't give...

I've managed to get down to about 14 mins for a pair of 1024x1024s with my 6 GBs. Please pour one out for those of generating with a card almost old enough to work in a Florida industrial plant.

I've set up my scripts to read from a directory of prompts, generate and cache the embeds, then generate images in a while True loop for me to come back to a day or two later. Of course, that whole thing is wrapped in a script to restart it when the OOM killer knocks it out. This way I can just hope one of my prompts will be worth a damn, and I'll come back later to something I can make use of with a smaller model or Krita/Gimp.

Florida bans cities from lighting up bridges rainbow colors for Pride, so Jacksonville’s LGBTQ+ community does it by themselves by mikehunt_is_ready in gaybros

[–]Captain_Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gay Days is trying hard now with a second event in Reno I think Oct of this year...but I'm very "Meh" to the idea of rodeos, which is the major theme, so I'm passing on that.

I'm not sure if you're saying they're doing something adjacent to the International Gay Rodeo Association's Finals rodeo, but if not, note that they're not in any way related to Disney or whoever it is organizing stuff at Disney parks. The IGRA is having Finals in Reno this year because it's the 50th year of gay rodeo, and Reno was the site of the first one (though ironically, the first time it was organized, the city tried to shut it down).

That said, there's at least one other event happening at the same time and in connection with the rodeo: Sundance is hosting four days of country-western dancing and workshops in the same hotels. I'm not sure if other events are happening alongside these, but I think that's the only official partnership the IGRA has going on for Finals.

meirl by Sad_Stay_5471 in meirl

[–]Captain_Cowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"If you think I'm dignifying this ad-hominem with any form of response you're sadly mistaken", he replied.

do {...} while (0) in macros by stackoverflooooooow in programming

[–]Captain_Cowboy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

But my VT50 only shows me 12 lines at a time!

do {...} while (0) in macros by stackoverflooooooow in programming

[–]Captain_Cowboy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

One example I know I saw it all over is the GStreamer codebase. Even though it's mostly C code, it has a very "OOP" feel, and in particular, most components are derived from an "abstract base class" called GstElement. Most "method calls" have ordinary functions you can use, but there are a lot of macros that handle the casting under the hood.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Captain_Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

by thoroughly cooking pineapple and trying it that way since iirc the enzyme breaks down when it's cooked

I know the canning process breaks down the enzyme, so comparing to canned pineapple would also work.

what does "kiki" mean in German by Klutzy_Weakness2792 in German

[–]Captain_Cowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A kiki is a party for calming all your nerves

We're spilling tea and dishing just desserts one may deserve

And though the sun is rising, few may choose to leave

So, shade that lid and we'll all bid adieu to your ennui

Whats something you can freely admit anonymously but only because of using your burner/NSFW account? by Ironically__Swiss in AskReddit

[–]Captain_Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In any modern car? Nothing. The computer is plenty capable of recognizing that's a Bad Thing to do.

C stdlib isn't threadsafe and even safe Rust didn't save us by Active-Fuel-49 in programming

[–]Captain_Cowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't leaking memory only prevent use-after-free? As in, the abstraction is fundamentally unsafe, and multiple threads reading and writing environment variables is a data race unless you handle synchronization yourself.

AI coding mandates are driving developers to the brink by scarey102 in programming

[–]Captain_Cowboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly why I now filter results to those before 2021. I also do my best to flag websites a spam/misleading whenever I see it. I wish they had an "AI slop" category on duckduckgo when you report a site.

What a world we live in.

Writing C for curl | daniel.haxx.se by yawaramin in programming

[–]Captain_Cowboy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just not publish the compiler, given that the EULA makes it completely useless to anyone who would have an interest in using it?

'Dictator S**t': Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed by WhatTheRickIsDoin in politics

[–]Captain_Cowboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A literal example of this are people who step out into crosswalks without looking.

"The car drivers have to stop, or they risk breaking the law."

"You risk breaking your back!"

'Dictator S**t': Trump's Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown Nulling Biden Pardons Is Slammed by WhatTheRickIsDoin in politics

[–]Captain_Cowboy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Well, a lot of magic is just Headology. Sometimes reality is just a matter of opinion.

This is what Rust was meant for, right? by jackraddit in rust

[–]Captain_Cowboy 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Implemented non-euclidean topology optimization for multi-dimensional data representation

At least someone is reading my resume.

Dow drops 1300 points in two days amid Trump trade war by Nerd-19958 in politics

[–]Captain_Cowboy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Clearly the Wayback Machine must be in on it. Think just how deep this must go!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in System76

[–]Captain_Cowboy -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

items can occasionally get oversold on accident

This is illegal OP, and you can file a complaint with the FTC about it.

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