the best way to do that is either create it yourself or buy it from place like cg trader that gives you a license.

does everyone do that? no im sure not. but for any reasonably sized company the risk vs cost is just not worth it.

no comment on the results or the premise of are people good at mowing or just good at playing "snake"

i would be very curious to see if this same result held up when you also factor things like turn effort or "prioritize the longest straight lines bc they look cool"

on device llm gives apple the new "better camera" "better screen" race they need to keep people coming back for the latest.

for average users everything else is tapped out... screens, cameras wifi... all the core stuff is good enough now its hard to feel/see the difference model year to model year. embedded llm would let them ship something new and the on device ecosystem advantage is huge. especially as the gpt and claudes get ads and enshittified... the apple on device even if its less "capable" would be so compelling.

no comment on the actual content or context just a nit on everyone saying this was netflix did a thing... this seems like netflix owned company eyeline did a thing based on the actual article and a couple of the eyeline press releases from when they got bought and recently rebranded.

yeah, a good stainless is more than non stick enough for anything. But something that doesn't get enough attention with these kinds of statements is the role of the cooktop.

stainless is easy when you have a cooktop that can maintain the proper temp. that just a hair over "medium" (i havent temped it but i suspect its about 350-375, right around the smoke point of peanut oil)

if your pan is too hot/too cold stuff will stick waaay more (or burn before it would release naturally)

id never been able to get stainless to perform properly on cheap gas burners. heat was too uneven and the hotspots on edges or center would make it not work. no way to get it dialed just right. switching to induction made all the difference. now i can do anything with no fear of sticking.

pan to burner size ratio matters a lot also.

Not the most technically impressive feat but i was able to do this with some remote controls for some ceiling fans. figured out the protocol, wired up an esp32 with a radio chip, and had the whole thing integrated into HA in about 1 day. with maybe 3 hrs max of active effort, much of it from my phone with claude remote control while i did other things.

idea to done realtime was thursday to saturday. and that was mostly waiting on the same day shipping for the 6$ radio chip i needed. no way i would have ever even attempted that project perviously, but now i have ceiling fans that are massively more capable, and i can throw away the cheap terrible remote and replace it with a dedicated in wall switch controller.

previously devices with those terrible cheap remotes were a downside, now its almost a selling point.

And honestly you probably dont want to tempt non-scalpers into being one time scalpers either.

at least for the first round till people figure it out it would totally solve it. people who actually want one get one at msrp.

the downside is you maybe dont get as many early or up front reservations from people who arent sure. but like your whole problem is more demand than supply so thats not actually an issue. and the people who can buy them for msrp will be really glad you did the thing. so you probably end out ahead on consumer side.

no idea on the accuracy or veracity of the history of the name (as is pretty common for cocktails) but i always loved the explanation that the drink is called the french 75 because it "kicks like a french 75" meaning the 75mm artillery gun used in ww1.

I do know that gun exists and you can see it on display at the ww1 museum in kansas city. Having never seen one fired i can only assume how much it kicks but it is pretty large, and working backwards from the efficacy of the drink i suspect it packs a whallop. still a great name, great drink.

and also at least in lobbies with noob in the name its pretty rare for people to be actively hostile to the low os ppl who at least know the basics. but you do have to remember that in the middle of a match nobody has time to type and tell you what to do politely.(its an apm heavy game). try to assume good intent, its not ppl being rude usually.

1. have at least played some pve, the "scenerios" are good for forcing you to learn a lot of the basics. if you literally dont know how to do basic interacting with the game there is nothing that the other players in the "noob" lobby can help you with. you will struggle they will struggle no one will have fun. pvp is just an objectively bad way to learn the game. don't even try to play pvp until you are at 2 or even 3 "chev". its a complex game with lots of mechanics, its going to take time to get the basics down. 2. watching replays/specing is helpful. so are some of the yt basics guides. find someone elses build and strategy and try to copy it. you can get to a pretty high os just by doing that. if you get beat bad in a round go watch your own replay. see what the other guy did. copy it next time. 3. remember that its an apm taxed kinda game, players will spend their apm trying to help you, but they wont have time to say things nicely. its not them trying to be mad or rude usually, they just dont have time to write you a novel. use the inbetween matches chat to ask for details. assume good intent on in game chat most of the time. 4. remember that os is literally just a number, it really doesn't mean anything. but finding lobbies with similar os to you helps. like even though there are lots of lobbies with like 30+os who will allow your 10-15 os noob self in its not the right match for you. find lobbies with like 25ish os cap. or no more than 10-15 os higher than your current rank. even better ones that are "unranked" but they seem more rare. 5. the rotato suggestion i saw on another thread is good but also the glitters/supreme with the consistent roles is also kinda nice. its much easier to find lobbies and follow replays and stuff, pick the same lane and watch how a few different people play it and copy what looks like it works as best you can.

while i have you... what does the bounty hunters thing do? i see it pop up but then nothing really happens. i keep expecting like 5 ships to try and hunt me down but nada.

ive just seen a lot of "ai researchers" who are getting into professional image processing and are both beginners and want things quickly and so could do much worse than just starting from what they get out of oiio. especially for a lot of the non-obvious stuff (more of that in color handling than just the io stuff though)

excuse to argue about the best way aside, if this is the goal you should not be rolling your own image file reading. you should use openimageio. idk what approach it takes in its internal conversion to float, but that library is more likely to have the right answer than you trying to roll it yourself given its the library used internally by tons of professional image manipulation software...