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New comment by baltimore in "AI World Clocks"

baltimore — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:08:01 +0000

Since the first (good) image generation models became available, I've been trying to get them to generate an image of a clock with 13 instead of the usual 12 hour divisions. I have not been successful. Usually they will just replace the "12" with a "13" and/or mess up the clock face in some other way.

I'd be interested if anyone else is successful. Share how you did it!

New comment by baltimore in "Problems with the heap"

baltimore — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 21:17:57 +0000

Same author in March 2014 was having segfault issues with atop apparently: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2014/03/02/sync/

New comment by baltimore in "4o Image Generation"

baltimore — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:11:42 +0000

My version of the full glass of wine challenge is "clock face with 13 hour divisions". Nothing I've tried has been able to do it yet.

New comment by baltimore in "Pi-hole v6"

baltimore — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:53:36 +0000

> Really weird

No, not weird. The extra stuff is there to show you ads and/or track your behavior, which generates a stream of revenue for the TV maker. W/o the extra stuff, the only revenue comes from the one-time purchase.

New comment by baltimore in "Watermark Anything"

baltimore — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:04:19 +0000

There is always a need for _some_ secrets to be kept. At the very least from external adversaries.

New comment by baltimore in "Watermark Anything"

baltimore — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:38:40 +0000

> ... for a repressive government ...

Why shouldn't a virtuous and transparent government (should one materialize somehow, somewhere) be interested in identifying leakers?

New comment by baltimore in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

baltimore — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:27:16 +0000

No, a mass terror attack would indiscriminately target victims. This is almost entirely opposite -- an organization widely recognized as a terrorist group (1) is narrowly targeted.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_g...

New comment by baltimore in "PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement"

baltimore — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 06:08:29 +0000

This is getting transpiled to SQL, right? So I still have to understand how the (now generated) SQL will perform on my data and DBMS, plus I got to learn this new syntax. This will be a hard sell.

New comment by baltimore in "I drink before I interview"

baltimore — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:51:24 +0000

No, in small doses it enhances performance by lowering heart rate, reducing anxiety, slowing breathing, etc. All are important in sports like rifle shooting.

New comment by baltimore in "I drink before I interview"

baltimore — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:25:52 +0000

Related: alcohol is prohibited as a performance-enhancing substance in most archery and shooting competitions.

New comment by baltimore in "Ask HN: Should I Leave Twitter (as a user) ?"

baltimore — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:03:45 +0000

Yes. But not because of Elon Musk.

New comment by baltimore in "Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated"

baltimore — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:34:09 +0000

Is there any end to this? E.g., why not include Galileo's pictograms of Saturn as seen here: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

New comment by baltimore in "Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York"

baltimore — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:44:57 +0000

We're not (trending to etc.). These things are - thankfully - very rare. That is why when they do occur, they make it to the front page.

New comment by baltimore in "Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews"

baltimore — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:46:04 +0000

These are more "patterns" than "algorithms"...

New comment by baltimore in "Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1"

baltimore — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 22:58:23 +0000

Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.

Source: "Knuth versus Email" https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

New comment by baltimore in "ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology"

baltimore — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 02:04:52 +0000

Think about how echoes from buildings and cars mess up this simple model.

New comment by baltimore in "ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology"

baltimore — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 01:55:14 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

New comment by baltimore in "Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment"

baltimore — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:21:32 +0000

Hot take / prove me wrong: Space telescopes, astrophysics, and other "big" science have not yielded and are not likely to yield NEARLY as much practical benefit for mankind as biology, medicine, nuclear physics, and other "small" science.

New comment by baltimore in "Compare Webb's Images to Hubble"

baltimore — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:55:55 +0000

Now build a zoomable full-res version. Because I am spoiled and want the internet to do things for me.

New comment by baltimore in "MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)"

baltimore — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:16:27 +0000

Can this tech be used to make a (quieter) room fan?