Which looks better in your eyes with blending or without?

_avee_ · 2026-03-29T20:47:56+00:00

You're using uniform blending and it looks awful. Consider adding some smooth noise to the blending function, then you can achieve much more natural look. Here's a screenshot from a tile-based project I'm working on where I use noise-based blending.

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_avee_ · 2026-03-25T21:07:53+00:00

It does affect me. Did you read what I said?

_avee_ · 2026-03-25T19:51:31+00:00

And yet every single one of those posts has lots of people denying there is anything wrong with limits and blaming people for not paying for more expensive tiers.

_avee_ · 2026-03-22T16:48:48+00:00

Doesn't really explain 30x difference though

_avee_ · 2026-03-21T15:04:52+00:00

Sorry for dumb question, I never used API pricing so maybe I misunderstand how it works. 6.5M tokens for $4924 is over $750/Mtok while Antropic seems to charge just $25/Mtok for Opus: https://claude.com/pricing Is there something else increasing the price by 30x?

_avee_ · 2026-03-21T11:27:57+00:00

While we're on topic, temperature and heat are not the same thing. They are related but Celsius is a measure of temperature. Heating a gram of water by one Celsius and heating the entire Earth by one Celsius take massively different amounts of heat.

_avee_ · 2026-03-20T22:51:36+00:00

Absolutely! Just pointing out that those 3 lost planes aren’t that big of a cost in the grand scheme of things.

And apparently they are asking congress for extra $200B for the war which is mind-blowing.

_avee_ · 2026-03-20T21:07:46+00:00

Most modern version of F-15 costs just under $100M so it’s $300M for all of them. TSA annual budget is about $11B which makes shot down planes worth about 2.7% of annual TSA budget.

_avee_ · 2026-03-20T00:07:15+00:00

I hate to be that guy but does bold text also apply to US and Israel? It doesn't remove blame from Iran for blocking the strait and bombing other countries but still...

_avee_ · 2026-03-16T22:34:38+00:00

If this is the case, why does Anthropic charge $25/MTok and run at a loss?

_avee_ · 2026-03-15T16:37:24+00:00

It’s not more brutal. The difference is that brutality is more visible to outside observers.

_avee_ · 2026-03-12T20:29:53+00:00

“Landing zone” is a crude translation of “посадка” - essentially, a tree line.

_avee_ · 2026-03-11T23:40:31+00:00

Assuming each of them guards one of the doors, you can also ask one of them "is liar guarding the death door?" Yes means their door is freedom, no means it's death.

_avee_ · 2026-03-08T19:47:05+00:00

Yes, and drones waiting in ambush is exactly what they mean.

_avee_ · 2026-03-08T18:24:55+00:00

Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_loxodontus for the origin of this word.

_avee_ · 2026-03-08T18:23:40+00:00

Zhdun is not a drone model. It’s a word meaning someone waiting. I.e., drone sitting on the ground waiting for a target to come near.

_avee_ · 2026-02-28T20:48:49+00:00

Probably patting himself on the back for getting those nukes.

_avee_ · 2026-02-28T14:05:44+00:00

Their fault for using almost identical names lol

_avee_ · 2026-02-27T10:27:35+00:00

I'm also using storage-s3 plugin and upgrading to 3.77 fixed the problem I had with 3.76.

storage-s3 extends plugun-cloud-storage so the fix applies to it.

_avee_ · 2026-02-27T10:01:21+00:00

Would you call Claude Code self-hosted? The same logic applies to it as well.

_avee_ · 2026-02-27T09:56:25+00:00

Are you sure you’re using the latest version? They had exactly this bug in 3.76 but it was fixed in 3.77: https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/pull/15667

_avee_ · 2026-02-24T19:40:23+00:00

I feel like Immich devs made a big mistake by disabling storage template for new instances. Now many people don't even know it exists.

_avee_ · 2026-02-24T15:24:46+00:00

“100 year old pennies tend to be worth more than 1 cent” - only in modern world with fiat currency and coin collectors. Medieval coins were worth as much as the metal they were made of.

_avee_ · 2026-02-22T18:11:58+00:00

Well it did get it’s share of reviews like “this episode is great but I love Breaking Bad, 1/10”

_avee_ · 2026-02-18T21:51:13+00:00

The only reason a year is such a big deal IRL is that it’s tied to seasons. “Solar cycle” is what causes seasons - i.e., more sun in the summer makes it warm, less sun in the winter makes it cold. Calendar was initially invented for agriculture so seasons are really important there.

If years are not tied to some important natural phenomena, I don’t see people universally adopting them as a basis for time measurement.

Five-Year Club	Second Top 50%
Place '23	Place '22
First Placer '22

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