slightknack
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Comment · 11 months ago
The minimaxir/gemimg repo is pretty cool, fwiw.
Going further, one thing you can do is give Gemini 2.5 a system prompt like the following:
https://goto.isaac.sh/image-prompt
And then pass Gemini 2.5's output directly to Nano-Banana. Doing this yields very high-quality images. This is also good for style transfer and image combination. For example, if you then give Gemini 2.5 a user prompt that looks something like this:
I would like to perform style transfer. I will provide the image generation model a photograph alongside your generated prompt. Please write a prompt to transfer the following style: {{ brief style description here }}.
Comment · 4 years ago
In my opinion, writing derivations in Guile Scheme, using Guix[0], is a breath of fresh air[1]. If only the ecosystem were as large as Nix's...
Comment · 4 years ago
> He identified the four forces which act on a heavier-than-air flying vehicle: weight, lift, drag and thrust. [...] He also designed the first glider reliably reported to carry a human aloft. He correctly predicted that sustained flight would not occur until a lightweight engine was developed to provide adequate thrust and lift. The Wright brothers acknowledged his importance to the development of aviation.
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cayley
I think by the time the Wright brothers came around, the general theory for powered flight was in place. The Wright Flyer was precision engineered, compared to most 'kites' that came before it. It's not every day you see an internal combustion engine on a kite.
Comment · 4 years ago
A language with a function-color-agnostic effect system, generic over asynchronicity?
Comment · 4 years ago
I mocked up a prototype for something similar to this using TreeSitter and its query language the other day for some heavy refactoring I had to do. This looks like a really cool project, will have to try it out!
Comment · 4 years ago
I had a little too much fun...
x>0.2-abs(sin(t*2))*0.05&&x<0.8+abs(sin(t*2))*0.05?(i%2?(min((x-sin(t%1.57)*0.3-0.5)*tan(-t%1.57)+cos(t%1.57)*0.3+0.5,(x-sin(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3-0.5)*tan(-t%1.57-1.57)+cos(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3+0.5)*0.4+0.5):(1-(min((-x-sin(t%1.57)*0.3+0.5)*tan(-t%1.57)+cos(t%1.57)*0.3+0.5,(-x-sin(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3+0.5)*tan(-t%1.57-1.57)+cos(t%1.57-1.57)*0.3+0.5)*0.4+0.5))):0.5
Comment · 4 years ago
I love Actual, one of the best local-first apps I've used. I'm excited that it's been open sourced, but I also understand that this release is a bit bittersweet. Awesome work James, best of luck in your future endeavors :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks for the link to the guidelines: I removed the 'Show HN' prefix as this project isn't anything quantifiable yet. I'll be sure to post a proper Show HN when I've got something to show.
Comment · 4 years ago
Don't forget the built-in chat in google docs that nobody uses! (Yes, the one other than the commenting system).
Comment · 4 years ago
We shouldn't have to live in a culture when being called out for making a 'choice with tenuous political relevancy' is socially expected, and something someone is 'guilty of'.
Comment · 4 years ago
Like you, I am not a huge fan of JS, but I'd like to say that the ideas behind TermKit — namely having a shell with richer graphical interaction (e.g. cat works for images too), semantic awareness and tokenization of commands, rich autocomplete, etc. — were ahead of their time.
Maybe it's expected that TermKit-the-project died, but I don't think that TermKit-the-idea should: whether it be bringing features from the project as extensions to existing terminals (cat for images would be nice), or building a new TermKit built on modern graphics libraries powered by WASM/Lua/bring-your-own scripting language.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just letting you know, it's also the name of a pretty well-known suit of cards present in decks of playing cards.
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