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pierotofy

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About pierotofy

Creator WebODM Founder LibreTranslate

piero.dev github.com/pierotofy

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48969738

    Taking credit for other people's work while raising millions? Yeah, pretty bad and relevant.

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    Comment #48545417

    To me, what's not rational is believing you must rent the tools of your trade while exposing all of your employer's intellectual property to a third party. Difference of opinion.

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    Comment #48544879

    I use it for work.

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    Comment #48544796

    Yep. Screw Anthropic, CloseAI and all other rent seekers in this space.

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    Comment #48544416

    Yes. Llama.cpp + Qwen3.6-35b (MTP) + OpenCode is quite capable and runs on a single RTX 3090 and is faster than most cloud models. Quality is like running edge models from 8-12 mon…

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    Comment #48189545

    I stopped most spam with a simple AGENTS.md. It actually seems to work (for now). https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate/blob/main/A...

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    Show HN: TB Chess – Play Chess IRL at Local Venues

    Still in beta, would love to hear feedback and/or connect with others who might be interested in running a tournament for their chess group. Code for the app is also free and open …

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    Comment #43677646

    The inference process via ONNX (where most of the CPU time is spent) is multi-threaded. I briefly explored adding multiprocess capabilities for the tiling/downsampling/result mergi…

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    Comment #43677431

    On the ONNX choice: it's fairly lightweight to install and runs decently fast on a CPU. Other existing libraries forced me to install torch or tensorflow.

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    Comment #43677422

    Hey, I wrote GeoDeep, what a cool writeup! Glad someone tried to run these on satellite imagery. I did most of my testing on drone derived orthophotos, so was curious to see how it…

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    Comment #43448371

    Worked on something similar a few months ago (albeit for smaller scale geographic data): https://github.com/uav4geo/GeoDeep

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    Comment #43430674

    It's not about the ability to migrate to other products. If I switch to your product, I need guarantees that you will not screw me over pricing 5 years down the road when you need …

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    Comment #43419487

    Here's what I'd want from accounting software; a credible exit strategy that if you go bankrupt or decide that you need to tweak your pricing too much, I can take my data and run i…

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    Comment #39910196

    A lot of 3DGS/Nerf research is like this unfortunately (ugh). Check https://github.com/pierotofy/OpenSplat for something you can run on your 10 year old laptop, even without a GPU!…

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    Comment #39910170

    Photogrammetry struggles with certain types of materials (e.g. reflective surfaces). It's also very difficult to capture fine details (thin structures, hair). 3DGS is very good at …

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    Comment #39740508

    For training you can also try https://github.com/pierotofy/opensplat