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New comment by joomla199 in "Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not"

joomla199 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:19:08 +0000

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New comment by joomla199 in "Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not"

joomla199 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:58:12 +0000

Given that we don’t know why electromagnetism exists, this is basically true for many technologies.

New comment by joomla199 in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

joomla199 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:02:49 +0000

They're both awful companies at heart. Birds of a feather flock together and all that.

New comment by joomla199 in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

joomla199 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:36:52 +0000

By the way, this is what I got from Kontext after just a couple of tries: https://i.imgur.com/J4LwkVI.png

Prompt: "Keeping the glass and the hand behind the glass the same, please change only the three brown candies in the glass into green, yellow, red, and orange candies. Make no other changes. Change the reflection to remove the brown candy too." Seed was 1070229954903864, but your setup is probably too different for that to help.

It seems like Gemini 2.5 Flash was the only model that successfully removed the reflections...it should get some points for that!

New comment by joomla199 in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

joomla199 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:39:50 +0000

I understood that much, at least from the description you added on the Kontext result. I agree that you should provide more information here, though, especially around "we adapt the exact prompts depending on the model", since your strategy here could also reflect model strengths and weaknesses.

New comment by joomla199 in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

joomla199 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:31:48 +0000

I have a 4080 RTX and Kontext runs great at fp8. I run several other models besides. If you want to get at all good at this, you need tons of throwaway generations and fast iteration and an API quickly becomes pricier than a GPU.

New comment by joomla199 in "Generative AI Image Editing Showdown"

joomla199 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:26:21 +0000

Good effort, somewhat marred by poor prompting. Passing in “the tower in the image is leaning to the right,” for example, is a big mistake. That context is already in the image, and passing that as a prompt will only make the model apt to lean the tower in the result.

New comment by joomla199 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

joomla199 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:28:44 +0000

I quit Google last year because I was just done with the incessant push for "AI" in everything (AI exclusively means LLMs of course). I still believe in the company as a whole, the work culture just took a hard right towards kafkaville. Nowadays when my relatives say "AI will replace X" or whatever I just nod along. People are incredibly naive and unbelievably ignorant, but that's about as new as eating wheat.

New comment by joomla199 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

joomla199 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:49:39 +0000

Did you read the whole thread and all of your own comment each time you had to type another half-word? If not, I’m afraid your first statement doesn’t hold.

New comment by joomla199 in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

joomla199 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:53:00 +0000

The real AGI was the money we siphoned along the way.

New comment by joomla199 in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

joomla199 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:47:43 +0000

Your comment reminded me of Business Business [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/WO5wpeYSotg?si=hgwzJ5mxJyAZeYoA

New comment by joomla199 in "A definition of AGI"

joomla199 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:05:11 +0000

All models are wrong, but some are useful. However when it comes to cognition and intelligence we seem to be in the “wrong and useless” era or maybe even “wrong and harmful” (history seems to suggest this as a necessary milestone…anyone remember “humorism”?)

New comment by joomla199 in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

joomla199 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:25:31 +0000

I think there is a kernel of truth in what you said but your language is a bit of an overreach. No athlete who trains only when told to train is making it to the Olympics.

New comment by joomla199 in "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B"

joomla199 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:27:08 +0000

The police does not like being screwed with either. These aren’t good things. People with significant authority perform a duty and ought to act independently of their personal feeling.

New comment by joomla199 in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"

joomla199 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:47:50 +0000

This comment has a double negative, which makes it a false positive.

New comment by joomla199 in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

joomla199 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:41:28 +0000

I wanted to look up Japanese vocab easily with my voice while running. Wouldn’t let me do it (it could show me dictionary pages but wouldn’t speak the translation into my AirPods). However, I could look up English words just fine.

So I had to set my Siri language to Japanese, and now I can look up English translations of Japanese words…though I do have to speak Japanese.

New comment by joomla199 in "Be Careful with Obsidian"

joomla199 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:15:08 +0000

If MacOS, an OS with posix style permissions, app level permissions, and folder access limits per app does not have a “granular permissions model”, which OS does? What are you trying to say?

New comment by joomla199 in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

joomla199 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:54:06 +0000

Given that Wanamaker died in 1922 it’s safe to say his quote was in the context of a different problem entirely (which still exists, on top of the bot issue). Maybe it’s time to update to “three fourths”?

New comment by joomla199 in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

joomla199 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:36:03 +0000

I had the same feeling, but also the feeling that it was written for AI, as in marketing. That’s probably not the case, but it looks suspicious because this person only found this issue using AI and would’ve otherwise missed it, and then made a blog post saying so (which arguably makes one look incompetent, whether that’s justifiable or not, and makes AI look like the hero).

New comment by joomla199 in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

joomla199 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:55:37 +0000

Neither, you’re reading it wrong. Think of it as codebases getting more reliable over time as they accumulate fixes and tests. (As opposed to, say, writing code in NodeJS versus C++)