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Comment · 6 months ago
I have a similar issue where it ignores step by step instructions. I have a detailed step by step playbook and QA checklist to follow, but it will make up its own checklist with fewer items on it and say it's finished the job! I think about half my time is spent getting the very clever code it has written out of large singular files and into an organised structure which was specced from the beginning.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks! Is it possible to include the metadata in the images? So we can know the artist's name, the title of the piece and the subject, e.g. strawberries? It seems to be available on the site when you click one on the images.
Comment · 3 years ago
Does anyone else have issues with the cells overlapping or shrinking in vscode? I've had this issue for months. Created an issue on GitHub, but there's been no improvements. It can be very frustrating, sometimes I have to completely close vscode and reopen to get it to stop glitching constantly. I tried switching the GPU to the nvidia card, but it somehow uses 30% of the GPU when a cell is running.
Comment · 3 years ago
These large cost increases have been great for businesses. If your company buys a widget for $10 and sells it for $50 and the cost goes up 20%, you can tell your customers our costs have gone up 20% and we can't afford not to pass on the increases, etc. The thing is the business is only paying $2 more, but the customer is paying $10 more. Plus we also have businesses like supermarkets that saw a huge increase in demand during the COVID restrictions, where people couldn't travel, eat out, go to concerts. But even after the record breaking year due to a non repeatable event, they still expect to grow on top of that. When demand falls, the only way to keep or grow your revenue is to increase prices.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am finding that I use YouTube a lot less these days. Back in the late 2000s I remember when I watched a music video, the recommended videos would be other videos by the same artist. Now it's just videos I've watched before and unrelated videos. The front page is mostly videos I've watched before and ones that it has shown before that I didn't click on. So there is not much difference between the front page and the recommended videos section. It doesn't even really show new videos from channels I've subscribed to, I have to go to the subscriptions page and look for them there. So I just get bored easily and do something else. I tried the shorts page, but I have no interest in the toxic political and far right garbage from the US, since I'm from Australia, so that was useless. I even tried looking for a page that showed what live videos are currently playing, like a twitch page, but the only live page only had a few videos listed.
Comment · 3 years ago
The tags could be added by a model rather than the user submitting the image. Maybe do both and verify the tags with a model? Users could get a rating based on how reliably they tag their pictures and are trusted to add more niche tags at higher ratings. You could even help tag other pictures to improve your rating.
Comment · 3 years ago
Could you not use tags used to label the image? If your image contains more niche tags that match the user input, your revenue share will be higher. Depending how much extra people earn for certain tags, it might incentivise people to upload more images of what is missing from the training data.
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder how they simulate the displacement of water since it's not from how tsunamis usually occur. A lot of water you think would be vaporised into the air and moved with the shockwaves. Plus there is only so much water at the impact site, not an unlimited amount. Given the speed of the impact, would it move as much water? They say when you jump off a bridge, the impact is like hitting cement.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maybe it's a voltage thing (120V vs 240V)? In Australia you can pick up a Bosch induction cooktop starting from $899 ~$620USD including tax.
Comment · 4 years ago
I also subscribe to choice. They do lots more than product reviews. They have general guides on how to get the best use out of products, mystery shoppers reviewing customer service, tools to compare health insurance, etc. The reason I stay subscribed is they campaign about consumer rights issues which actually cause industries as a whole to change, e.g. bank fees. They also have the shonky awards which usually gets a bit of media attention each year, where they shame companies for poor behaviour, quality, outright scams, etc. I think of it like a lobby to help us consumers out, which we need more of. Too often we are listening to the advice of the industry bodies that represent the companies rather than the consumers.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
I just did a search for a python problem and got a stackoverflow clone on the front page. From a few different searches I found a clone with most of them. They weren't at the top, usually after 5th place. I've also seen sites that have just copied github issue posts.
Comment · 5 years ago
In SA the codes are fairly small and scan very fast from a distance. Even if they are laminated and placed behind a window they scan easily. Meanwhile the gigantic QR code printed on a 7 foot poster which was used for express check-in at the Wayville showgrounds vaccination hub just did not work on my phone.
Comment · 5 years ago
The last time I accidentally installed malware on my computer was when the top Google result pointed me to a site masquerading as the official site for the software. That thought me a lesson to pay attention to the domain name.
Comment · 5 years ago
And most physical items in a store can easily be replaced. If a criminal is holding your shop ransom, it's not for intellectual property.

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