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Re:Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video] on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:45AM (#46656113)
Recently came across another video that demonstrates the effect

https://www.instagram.com/p/DP7CXKACDOY/

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:30AM (#46656055)
Why does Vercel provide Next.js? Aside from talent & tightly coupling Astro to their services, their North Star might be similar to Weekly Number of New Domains Hosted On Cloudflare. Sponsoring a framework that helps ship performant websites feeds into that metric.

I have no inside knowledge, though.

Re:ASCII Clouds on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @02:30AM (#46613340)
Similar Perlin-based effect with mouse reactivity & audio:

https://srdjan.pro

Re:ASCII-Driven Development on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:55AM (#46574117)
How come pen & paper are omitted from both article and discussion?
Re:Friendly Attributes Pattern in Ruby on Saturday November 08, 2025 @08:24AM (#45856507)
Feels odd that two feature-equivalent plans are segregated with neighboring duplicates into monthly and yearly branches. I would consider monthly Enterprise & yearly Enterprise the same plan, with modified cost & billing frequency.
Probably a bad idea to turn to ChatGPT for psychotherapy
There's very little in the article about "how" sound reshapes "networks" in the brain. It's pretty reasonable to expect that hearing different sounds can cause different neurons to fire, though (considering you can upload information into somebody's brain by talking to them).
Re:The Grugbrained CEO on Sunday May 25, 2025 @07:36PM (#44092343)
Hard to read. The writing style detracts from the message. I guess the takeaway of the article is that "Lean Startup" is the way to run a company?
Re:Robotics Meets the Culinary Arts on Friday May 09, 2025 @04:01AM (#43934714)
I remember some "How it's made" videos where conveyor belts and automation were put to very good use in baking cookies, and such. I take it that this implementation is more artisanal?

edit: The gummies are special because they can potentially glow and deform in a unique way. Interactivity is possibly overstated in this case.

Re:I Just Want to Code on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:36AM (#43822656)
I just want to kick back and code like it's 199NaN
Re:Basic Income Pilot Project: Study results on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @06:08PM (#43638567)
My questions are more along the lines of:

  - Does it liberate people from meaningless employment?
  - Does it give a sufficient platform to people to bootstrap their own trade?
  - Does it give people the runway for meaningful creation / artistic self-actualization?
> There was a point in my road trip when I was on top of a mountain, and it said I would reach the next charger 100km away with 20km of range remaining, but I was only at 90km at the time. I made it with 17km of range remaining.

This is how regenerative braking works

Re:EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @08:09AM (#43025033)
Wonder what the returns would look like if they set aside 5% of that sum to fund things like Euro competitors to Shopify & Stripe.
Here's one I use for cryptographic purposes:

  let invocations = 0;

  export function rand3000() {
    invocations += 1;

    const timestamp = new Date().getTime() + invocations * 1000;
    const masked = (timestamp ^ (timestamp >> 8)) & 0xFF;
    const result = masked / 255;

    return result;
  }
Talk to people who want to hear what you have to say.
Re:From where I left on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:53PM (#42380053)
Cool. Redis in front of Postgres always brought peace-of-mind that will likely be welcome for the vector data use-case.

P.s.: Appreciate the llm command line tool.

Re:From where I left on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:30PM (#42379710)
Where would a Redis vector store play a part though? Maybe you'd load up relevant embeddings for a particular user while they're interacting with their dataset, to make their responses quicker? You've already spent the effort on hydrating their data out of persistence though. I guess step one is likely being a more trusted alternative to the in-memory vector solutions like HNSW, Faiss, and a potentially faster engine than pg_vector. I've always seen Redis as an augmentation, but maybe in this role it can take the helm?
Re:Interview Gone Wrong on Monday November 04, 2024 @06:49AM (#42040676)
Regardless of the naive algorithm, wouldn't this also match empty cells?
https://weirdnet.xyz - hexagonal lattice mesh

https://undesign.systems - shadow study

https://spamoji.com/ - emoji collaging

https://srdjan.pro - ascii perlin noise

https://qwerkey.xyz - keyboard tonnetz

https://ljubljana-shelters.netlify.app/ - shelter map

https://floating-weights.netlify.app/ - generative vector piece

https://randomle.netlify.app/ - random fake wordle result

https://ancient-scroll.netlify.app/ - it is what it is

https://sandstorm.netlify.app/ - app that always shazams to darude - sandstorm

https://uploadimg.netlify.app/ - fake image upload app

https://pietgrid.netlify.app/ - interactive mondrian

https://pixelbuddy.netlify.app/ - click to spawn randomly walking dead pixel

Supply chain attack
Re:Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP on Friday October 11, 2024 @08:26AM (#41808882)
You might have a problem using CUDA as part of the name, since Nvidia has it trademarked. Maybe you can switch to Scuba if they give you trouble, sounds like a good name for the tool.
Re:Mira Exits OpenAI on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @08:45PM (#41653370)
"Allegory of the cave" comes to mind, when trying to describe the understanding that's missing from diffusion models. I think a super-model with such qualifications would require a number of ControlNets in a non-visual domains to be able to encode understanding of the underlying physics. Diffusion models can render permutations of whatever they've seen fairly well without that, though.
Re:My fake job in Y2K preparedness on Saturday August 31, 2024 @04:09PM (#41411580)
It appears that the author was indeed not too closely familiar with the premise of the Y2K bug, as they mention the change "from 19 to 20"

... the Y2K Bug, and it prophesied that on January 1, 2000, computers the world over would be unable to process the thousandth-digit change from 19 to 20 as 1999 rolled into 2000 and would crash ...

That wouldn't be problematic, since the numbers don't loop around (like when going from 99 to 00).

For those that are looking, I have one of these to sell.

Drop me a line or schedule a meet: https://srdjan.pro

This is seemingly the only other piece of info I could find:

Spaceflight community mourns loss of ULA Chief Scientist Bernard Kutte

https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2020/08/14/spaceflig...

Re:iTerm2 and AI Hype Overload on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @05:45PM (#40434433)
Access LLMs from the command line: https://github.com/simonw/llm
It should be possible to find a voice artist for hire that sounds like Scarlett Johansson in "Her" when you can fingerprint voices, model them, and quantify the differences.
Any chance you already have the voice assistant enabled?

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