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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Another minor point of contention: Lamborghini’s are at best 4-5 times faster than a shitbox car. A single-billionaire earns 20 000 times more than the average person. The scales are all out of wack.

    A closer comparison would be the difference between a private jet and a person walking. Even that would only be a 200x difference. A snail and private jet is much closer to that 20 000x difference.

    It’s so absurd a difference in scale that the comparison is hard for people to imagine.

    A world where the difference between the average person and the richest people is only as large as a shitbox and a Lamborghini’s speed would be actually be a pretty palatable society to live in.


  • Presumably this is satire, as these are clearly not equivalent statements.

    We don’t share limited horsepower, but we do share limited wealth, and it can be redistributed.

    This anaology also implies there is an essentialism to people’s financial situations. That rich and poor people are inherently different. In reality rich people have been allowed to be rich by current societal structures.

    Looks like I have over-analyzed the meme. If you are a troll, you’ve got me.







  • Google actually already has a system to automatically detect and filter incoming nude pictures. It allows apps to blur then and you can then opt to view them. It’s a separate application and uses locally running machine learning.

    I can’t remember the name of it and if it’s just on Pixels, nor what applications it works with. Might just be for their own messaging apps or it might be more deeply integrated. If anyone is curious I’ll try to look it up after work.

    The point is they already have something similar to this they could maybe leverage.



  • I’ve just discovered another use for grain synthesis:

    Adding grain using to DVD movies with badly compressed grain.

    I just bought Breakfast at Tiffany’s on DVD and despite it being a 60s movie that should have had clean grain, it has very little and what is there looks bad because of mediocre DVD compression. You end up with some minor but distracting compression artifacts and static grain. By adding a little grain synthesis, you end up with an appearance that strangely seems more authentic and hides compression artifacts.

    Here are the results. I’ve added clips wit 0-36 strength grain synthesis strength, and I personally think 24 looks pretty good.

    video-compare screenshot of grain 24 vs 0