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baltimoreon AI World Clocks

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!

baltimoreon Problems with the heap

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

baltimoreon 4o Image Generation

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.

baltimoreon Pi-hole v6

> 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.

baltimoreon Watermark Anything

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

baltimoreon Watermark Anything

> ... for a repressive government ...

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

baltimoreon Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon

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...

baltimoreon PRQL: a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement

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.

baltimoreon I drink before I interview

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

baltimoreon I drink before I interview

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

baltimoreon Ask HN: Should I Leave Twitter (as a user) ?

Yes. But not because of Elon Musk.

baltimoreon Unicode character “ꙮ” (U+A66E) is being updated

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=...

baltimoreon Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York

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.

baltimoreon Algorithms you should know before you take system design interviews

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

baltimoreon Knuth changes his mind on Bernoulli number B_1

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

baltimoreon ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

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

baltimoreon ShotSpotter requests to be held in contempt rather than disclose its methodology

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

baltimoreon Most Americans think NASA’s $10B space telescope is a good investment

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.

baltimoreon Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

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

baltimoreon MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts (2018)

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

baltimoreon One centimeter long bacterium discovered

Here is what I want to see when I click that link: a picture. Of a bacterium. Next to a ruler. Thank you.

UPDATE: My bad, there are plenty of pictures in the supplemental materials downloadable further down the page

baltimoreon Ford to Impose Non-Negotiable Pricing on EV Sales as Part of Model E Plan

This made me think of the Saturn GM brand in the 90s, which made the "no haggle" price and salespeople NOT working on commission a refreshing proposition.

baltimoreon Home-built Bugatti replica [video]

Obviously, legislation to prohibit these untraceable and dangerous ghost automatic super-cars is called for!

baltimoreon Ultra High Resolution Photo of Night Watch (2022)

From the website:

> This is the largest and most detailed photo ever taken of a work of art. It is 717 gigapixels, or 717,000,000 pixels, in size.

One of the numbers above is off by a factor of 1,000

baltimoreon Ambient Chaos

For this on steroids (in a good way), see https://mynoise.net/

baltimoreon Show HN: AI-Generated Illustrations of Plants

A lot of them seem to be growing out of books :-)

baltimoreon Why does NBC make it so difficult to watch the Olympics?

You've misspelled it. It should be "runs".