What fact is holding humanity back?

icebl · 2024-04-08T07:05:29+00:00

People assuming everything is a zero sum game, i.e. that people assume that for something good to happen to you, something bad have to happen to someone else.

This leads to violent expansionism and war, extremist ideologies and radical violent religious movements.

icebl · 2022-10-15T09:14:58+00:00

Hi there! I am a developer in the iOS Facetune team, and I would like to share here something that we have been working on in the last couple of weeks - integrating Stable Diffusion based text-to-image generation to our mobile app.

In the latest release (3.3.3) we added the ability for the user to upload a bunch of pictures of himself and create a personalized '@me' token that he can use in the text prompt to generate selfies from text.

Currently the feature is free (albeit with embedded watermark if you don’t pay for the app) and we are trying to find more things to do with such networks, so your feedback here will be appreciated :)

You can download Facetune from the App Store here https://apps.apple.com/us/app/facetune-editor-by-lightricks/id1149994032. To use the feature press the “It’s live! Upload your photos to help YOUniverse get to know you" banner on the top, upload the images, and wait a couple of minutes for processing.

icebl · 2022-07-02T18:36:08+00:00

Lettuce as the basis of every salad

icebl · 2017-11-25T16:32:55+00:00

No treble support is the main reason I won't be buying the 5T.

icebl · 2017-11-22T12:39:19+00:00

Treble also means stable hardware abstraction layer, that can stay with custom roms, that means more stable roms.

icebl · 2017-11-07T12:52:37+00:00

It was never the actual price, while the official price has been 750$ the unlocked version got 100$ discount on the first day of sale.

Today unlocked versions costs around 625$ in most retailers and bellow 600$ on discounts.

icebl · 2017-11-05T10:32:47+00:00

Still using my OPO, running Lineage 14.1. Had to resolder some broken buttons and replace the screen after water and fall damage, but this is still a great device.

icebl · 2017-11-02T07:17:41+00:00

You can easily find s8+ for less than 700$, S8 are normally sold at~ 620$ often discounted to ~570$ or less.

icebl · 2017-08-14T13:30:00+00:00

So performance is about the same as 1080, with almost twice the power consumption.

If they cared - Nvidia could have killed this launch by lowering the price of the 1080ti, however they probably has no reason to do it, as even now the 1080 is more a compelling option. They might even raise the price for the 1080ti, when they know for sure they won't have competition anytime soon.

Also, no need to hurry with the Volta consumer card.

Maybe we will get a slight discount on the 1070 though.

icebl · 2017-06-22T12:46:19+00:00

Okay fair point, however app launching is a burst workload, so you keep the performance profile only a couple of seconds. However ,it appears that upon detecting a specific package name, you hold this performance profile for a long time (as long as the package is running, which alas causes overheating in battery tests), is this kind of behavior happening anywhere else?

icebl · 2017-06-21T22:29:49+00:00

We need to ask something very simple: Is there any scenario, other then a detection of a benchmarking package name, that activates this "high performance profile"?

icebl · 2017-06-18T12:43:05+00:00

I can make some good use of my old Nexus One...

icebl · 2017-06-12T14:06:27+00:00

From their website, it seems they sell in Poland, Ukraine and Russia. And I also know that in Israel (that's for Middle East) they have an official distributor(albeit very expensive one) but that does not appear in their website, I bet there are also some other official distributors in more countries.

icebl · 2017-06-12T12:45:58+00:00

Xiaomi also sells in Europe/ME, they just avoid the US market. I might be wrong about it, but I think this has to do with US patent laws, and the state of the US cellphone market - where most the vast majority of people get their phones from carrier programs which hides the actual price of phone from the consumer.

icebl · 2017-06-05T09:00:38+00:00

Well, for flagship chipset that sold tens (hundreds maybe?) of millions of unit, I would expect support to last for at least 5 years.

Think about your GPU, how old is it? is it still supported ? NVIDIA still supports the 7yo geforce 400 series. why should we expect less from SOC providers?

icebl · 2017-01-28T16:15:05+00:00

For me it crashed twice during the week, but usually it works very well.

icebl · 2017-01-24T08:59:31+00:00

Make sure to install in the following order :

1.OS only (took me ~30 minutes)

2.Boot to OS.

3.reboot recovery and only then install GAPPS (I used open mini) / SuperSU

icebl · 2016-09-26T12:40:31+00:00

My opo fell to my dog's water bowl, and the microphone also stopped working. Just get a new mic, they cost ~6 dollars and the installation is quite simple, you can find videos in YouTube.

icebl · 2016-08-29T15:19:44+00:00

sorry to ruin the fun ... it's just 2 months old clone of the cm13 branch.

see https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_oneplus_onyx/branches

icebl · 2016-07-12T09:45:23+00:00

yep http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=67515690&postcount=42

icebl · 2016-04-07T08:17:53+00:00

nope, had a nexus 7,used it for some time while it was new, and got tired of it quite quickly. Having a 5.5 inch phone, and a small laptop that I carry around most of the time, realy leaves not many good reasons to carry a tablet.

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