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Comment · 16 days ago
One hack I used for generating sprite sheets for a 2d game I’m developing is.. I asked a video generator model to generate a video of required character doing some action and splitting the frames.

Generating grid is cheap but inconsistency creeps up very quickly.

Comment · 3 months ago
They should have started these as cargo planes. Less compliance issues and more flight times can make it more trustable.
Comment · 5 months ago
Sorting the gaussians is the compute heavy part in gaussian splatting. So, Im guessing this will give only marginal improvement in terms rendering speed.
Comment · 7 months ago
I wonder if we can build a series of probes sent one after the other, which can communicate with relay network. Im sure we can reduce the power requirements for radio for each probe.

I have a feeling this feat is all about the budget requirements rather than technical feasibility.

Comment · 9 months ago
Having something built IRL would at least inspire a few to actually be interested in astronomy or star gazing.
Comment · 10 months ago
This reminds me of the time we built a big angular3 codebase for a content platform. When we had to launch, the search engines were expecting content to be part of page html while we are calling APIs to fetch the content ( angular3 didn’t have server side rendering at that point)

So only plausible thing to do was pre-build html pages for content pages and let load angular’s JS take its time to load ( for ux functionality). It looked like page flickered when JS loads for the first time but we solved the search engine problem.

Comment · 10 months ago
There is a temple in India called “Konark Sun Temple”, meant to be worship place of sun god.

It is built east-west to signify sun’s journey. The temple has a wheel sort of structure which kinda acts as sundial with minute level accuracy.

In India, difference in day time between winter and summer solstices is minimal ( 3.5 hours ), I guess it doesn’t signify anything major close to equator.

Comment · 11 months ago
Nice project.!

Is there anything akin to file sockets api for wasm? I see a lot of potential in using them with go channels for ipc between multiple wasm modules.

Comment · 1 year ago
In my case, Learning new stuff is one place I see AI playing major role. Especially the academic research which is hard to start if you are newbie but with AI I can start my research, read more papers with better clarity.
Comment · 1 year ago
Major issue I faced in this method is the network egress costs the cloud providers charge. I had to remind myself not to accidentally land on YouTube or some other video streaming sites.

Are there any cloud providers who don’t charge for network egress?

Comment · 1 year ago
Bunch of network utilities like DNS checker, ping, port scan etc
Comment · 1 year ago
I just saw that some people on 4chan are organizing a mass booking of high-traffic route flights from India to stop some Indians from coming back. It feels like the visa process is politically weaponised for propagating racism.
Comment · 1 year ago
Interestingly, someone on Reddit recently mentioned that “Pay phones started disappearing almost immediately after The Matrix movie showed everyone how to escape matrix”.

Let’s see if they will sustain :)

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