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Comment · 2 days ago
Bro is using the Factorio model of resource reallocation.
Comment · 2 days ago
What do you mean?

Doesn't every Googler have weekly meetings with Tim Google?

Comment · 3 days ago
> Try to find insightful reflection of humanity and truth in a Marvel movie...

Why would you look for that in any standard action movie?

Not every movie needs to awaken your soul to some big revelation about the universe.

The industry is called "the entertainment industry" for a reason. People are able to be entertained without deep philosophical introspection.

Comment · 3 days ago
I watched it on mute, and even so I figured it didn't sound great, given that the guy's fingers barely move at all.
Comment · 4 days ago
You can't even stick by the same opinion from one comment to the next.

It seems that you want to oppose something really badly today, but you're struggling to find something that makes sense for more than 5 minutes.

Comment · 4 days ago
"I know I'm not the target audience and I don't have any interest in how things work, but let me tell you how you're wrong by telling you who the actual target audience is"

What's next? Are you going to give us your opinion of music genres you don't ever listen to? And tell us who should listen to them too, I suppose.

Comment · 4 days ago
"apart from learning how to make cookies at home, I really don't see the point of this cookie recipe"
Comment · 5 days ago
I was gonna say "too pedantic even for an LLM" but then I got worried that it might be read as a compliment.
Comment · 12 days ago
That is literally what this does
Comment · 21 days ago
I'm glad you posted this, because I only knew the last two sentences, and I had completely misunderstood the meaning.

I thought it was more of a warning, like an omen. It turns out it's closer to the Tao.

Comment · 21 days ago
I didn't buy into the "copying unauthorized zeros and ones is theft" narrative (because it's not even an argument) when old music industry executives were screaming about Napster, and I'm certainly not gonna start now.

There's absolutely a moral debate to be had in this topic, but if your starting position is redefining common language and twist the meaning of words beyond reason, then you've already shut it down before it's even started.

Comment · 23 days ago
Well, it's technically PETSCII art, but the model can be trained on any bitmap charset. So you can make ATARIART or SPECCYART or whatever.

It's not correct to say that most of the information is in the color, though.

I can't remember if it's explained in the readme or not, but what makes this different from other converters is that it matches 1bit 8x8 blocks from the source image to the best matching character, increasing the perceived resolution of the output image.

It's a dumb idea I wanted to implement to amuse myself, and it's not better or worse than any similar tools, but AFAIK it uses a novel approach: fast by using a custom trained NN and uniquely looking output, similar to what a human artist might create by hand.

Comment · 23 days ago
Comment · 23 days ago
So your point is that it's cool to misrepresent what things actually are in order to promote them, because if you were honest about what it actually is, nobody would be interested?
Comment · 23 days ago
> affectation of technical austerity,

How does one learn to write like this? Damn.

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