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MontagFTB
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About MontagFTB
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Comment #49211481
> it just reads as more evidence that LLMs are better at replacing leadership than anybody else. I believe this counts as having “more confidence in AI’s advice than in that of col…
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Comment #49155695
In a 30M+ LOC repo we blew out Qwen3.6’s context thinking about a code review. This was via direct call to model. Do harnesses facilitate better context management, or is there som…
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Comment #48907797
I have heard of some high school classes reverting to typewriters. So your suggestion holds some weight.
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Comment #48906877
TLDR proof of care from the article: a low bandwidth process (e.g., from handwriting to tattooing it on your body) that you voluntarily put your words through to convey their level…
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Comment #48847704
This article was tremendous. My dad and I rebuilt an old GPW as my car in high school. His brother bought it as his car for high school a generation earlier. This article and the v…
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Comment #48660223
Do you have links to what you found? That solution sounds plausible in this case.
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Comment #48462217
iPhone Dynamic Crease (tm)
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Comment #48398555
Yes, that’s a great video. The Mythbusters used the same model to understand Bay Area current flows during their Alcatraz escape attempt episode.
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Comment #48168920
Multiple articles mention a vaccine for the Zaire strain but not this one. Is it possible to use one for the other? Does the existence of one make it easier to develop another?
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Comment #48056022
These changes were part of the Beta program. As far as I am aware the response there was not on the same level as this blog post.
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Comment #48050816
Thank you. Differing opinions of Adobe aside, you sound like the kind of engineer I'd enjoy a beer with.
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Comment #48050738
Thank you for the constructive feedback. I agree power users are a "keystone species" and improving their workflows will benefit everyone. Improving existing workflows without disr…
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Comment #48049897
There is a lot of effort put in to making the application usable, no question. At the same time, we have added a litany of new features and tools since Photoshop 4, many of which I…
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Comment #48049394
Well it depends on how you define it. We have done several re-skinnings. This migration is a transition from one framework to another, which we’ve never done before. The reasons to…
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Comment #48049248
In a word: they were. We do use Photoshop (though not to the level or extent of most users) and noticed the regressions. Shipping software is in perennial tension between getting i…
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Comment #48048879
Hey all- I am Foster Brereton and Principal Scientist for this UI effort. Suffice it to say, the article and this thread have had their impact on the people behind the software. We…
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Comment #47812119
Visually the results are very compelling! It also gives an at-a-glance intuition about the image that the bar-style options fail to convey. I am a fan.
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Comment #47613953
Could it be a symptom of high altitude oxygen deprivation?
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Comment #47555997
Putting code with side effects into an assert is asking for trouble. Compile with NDEBUG set and the effects mysteriously disappear! Anything beyond an equality expression or strai…
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Comment #47124490
It is entirely possible a Rust port could have caught previously unknown memory safety issues. Furthermore, a Rust port that looks and feels like C++ may be peppered with unsafe ca…
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Comment #47124222
Before preaching it to others, the writing of a homily or sermon first needs to affect the heart of the one delivering it. Such heart-work is exceedingly difficult if not impossibl…
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Comment #47124172
Any word on how much more memory safe the implementation is? If passing a previous test suite is the criteria for success, what has changed, really? Are there previous memory safet…
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Comment #46591339
> We do [cubic curve fitting] all the time in image processing, and it works very well. It would probably work well for audio as well, although it's not used -- not in the same for…
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Comment #46274935
We saw these is Ravenna
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Comment #46211459
What, no Doom running on Voyager 2?