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working on https://photofig.com

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Comment · 23 days ago

calculator shows $35,712 instead? https://imgur.com/a/CNurw0v

Comment · 1 month ago

based on documentary style interviews I've seen of drug addicts in Lithuania, there's supposedly no more old school heroin left on the streets, it's been pushed out by fent.

Comment · 1 month ago

Already using this for foreground estimation of cutouts in my project, around 30% speedup over non-SIMD, but the algorithm is probably not very optimised yet.

Comment · 1 month ago

I'm pretty happy with Seaweed, running that on prem, rock solid so far. Moved off MinIO when the licensing shenanigans started

Comment · 1 month ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the quote was taken out of context when they were speaking about vertical integration. "We own the glass" was meant to say that they manufacture the panels themselves and not source them from a 3rd party.

Comment · 1 month ago

Underappreciated Dropbox memory lane

Comment · 2 months ago

The FAQ technique is LLM/SEO crumbs because people usually search for questions, if you have the exact likely question text that maps to user's search you're more likely to rank. It's unfortunate but it works, like open mouth YouTube thumbnails.

Comment · 2 months ago

I have a Zalman ZM-1000 from 2007 that's still working, my coworker at my first job lost interest in desktop PCs and gave it away to me. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/zalman-zm1000-hp/2.html

Comment · 2 months ago

> there seems to be a violent agreement of how stuff actually happens and that it's almost never fully made possible in either industry or academia.

what does this mean?

Comment · 2 months ago

paid 2.7k € for this same build new in Dec 2023, that was also sweet (still is)

Comment · 2 months ago

Parent used "pulled the plug", are you saying it's applicable here and not "pulled the trigger" like suggested?

Comment · 2 months ago

I’m working on PhotoFig: https://photofig.com, a recently launched product-photo editor for online sellers who need to clean up hundreds of images.

It was inspired by my wife having to carefully mask product photos for her online shop. Existing tools could remove backgrounds automatically, but didn’t give her enough control when the result needed correcting. So masking is a first-class feature, with SAM-assisted selection and a precise manual brush.

The backend and storage are self-hosted on hardware I own. Along the way I’ve had to solve some interesting infrastructure problems, including writing a Kubernetes operator that bin-packs GPU workloads across workers. I’m planning a technical write-up on the architecture.

Comment · 3 months ago

-4: initiate a Big Bang to generate the spacetime substrate

Comment · 3 months ago

Exactly. I think this may be a trap of solo development without external feedback. You can easily logic your way down a rabbit hole, and without a second set of eyes to call you out, you end up building something that makes perfect sense to you but is completely alien to an uninvested person.

Comment · 3 months ago

sadly it's not multimodal