skykooler

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Comment · 1 month ago
If a model is derived work of its training data, surely all the existing frontier models that have been training on copyrighted work have a big legal issue, and therefore so does anything produced with them?
Comment · 3 months ago
This just shows a black screen for me?
Comment · 5 months ago
Is there a reason a capability has to be covered by only a single permission? Why not have one accessibility permission that covers all that and then a bunch of individual permissions for non-accessibility apps?
Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
It depends on the process. Argon/CO2 is used for MIG welding, while TIG generally uses pure argon. In some situations that justify the expense, helium is used instead as it allows deeper weld penetration.
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm working on Lightningbeam (https://lightningbeam.org), an integrated multimedia editor. It's inspired mainly by Macromedia Flash, Apple GarageBand, and Kdenlive. It combines animation, audio and video editing into a single timeline. It's cross-platform, running natively on Linux, macOS and Windows.

I'm currently rewriting the UI in Rust - previously it had a Rust backend and a JS frontend using Tauri, but I ran into bandwidth limitations which prevented it from being really usable as a video editor. It's currently in early alpha.

Comment · 9 months ago
Doesn't seem to work for me - tried in both Firefox and Chromium and I can see the waveform when I talk but the transcription just shows "Awaiting audio input".
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
If so, then finding the redacted string would be similar to trying to brute-force a hash (though presumably slower, since text layout algorithms are probably more complex than a single hash invocation).
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
It would be nice if this told you upfront how many questions there were - after sixteen with nothing changing I figured it was probably endless but apparently there are twenty?
Comment · 1 year ago
The only reason I use Wayland is display scaling - with a high DPI screen, many apps are blurry or inconsistently scaled under X11. Given the parade of other issues Wayland brings, I wish the development effort were instead spent on improving highDPI support in X11.
Comment · 1 year ago
Starting at an initial density of air, suppose you descend a distance D such that the air density doubles. Now your air is twice as dense, which doubles the pressure underneath it, meaning if you descend a further D the density will double again. Continue ad infinitum (or at least until the ideal gas law stops being a good approximation).
Comment · 1 year ago
Gravity changes little over that distance - it's more because of the compounding effect of atmospheric pressure (the deeper you go, the more air you have above you which raises the pressure, raising the density and meaning that pressure increases exponentially faster).
Comment · 1 year ago
An interesting corollary of this is that if you only have a single sample, it reduces to indicating that your sample is the median value - i.e. if you see one item with serial number N, you can guess that there were roughly 2N produced.

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