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> You can take an image and use DDIM inversion to find the coordinates I'd like to try this. Any suggestions where I can learn how to implement this technique?

The article that first described what came to be known as responsive design was published on ALA by Marc van den Dobbelsteen in 2006: https://alistapart.com/article/switchymclayout…

"Start Paying for Internet Stuff" … says the man using a free Google Font on his website

Nothing says "rebellious" like private equity — "Code and Theory is a proud member of The Stagwell Group, a private equity firm" https://www.codeandtheory.com/about-us

As an individual developer with many open-source projects, I'm pretty sure that my docs would be better if I had $2+ billion in funding ;)

> the journalists in question never followed up this incredible bombshell They did publish more stories on the topic, which are collected here: https://www.bloomberg.com/2018-the-b…

Bitcoin: by limiting issuance to 21M we have made price manipulation of our currency impossible Tether: hold my beer

> Jack Dorsey ... probably left Twitter to focus more on Block. I don't think he was fired by the Twitter board, exactly. But given the increasing conflict of interest between bein…

From the article: > The magic is that all Scheme code, by virtue of supporting the capture (and unwind) of delimited continuation Is that true? I thought Racket was the only Scheme…

Variable fonts aren't "Metafont-style procedural fonts"

Would it be legal for the US govt to take over the renters' leases under the 5th amendment? That is, they would "take" the leases (just like they might take land) and pay "just com…

1) No, you don't need to speculate. He describes three years of events that all happened in private (with no resolution). Starting from the very first sentence of the piece ("In Ja…

Apple is creating a yawning double standard between its "privacy is a human right" [1] refrain and its own profit interests. If you're skeptical, the pricing says it all. Apple cou…

> Mine report as “With you” so perhaps they don’t advertise themselves in this state. So you know for certain that AirTags have multiple broadcast states (e.g., "with me" vs. not)?…

What are the practical ramifications of Apple harnessing every existing iPhone as an AirTag discovery device in the Find My network? (I think it's awful from a privacy and device-o…

Once it reaches a certain size, many tech companies grow a department called "business development". This department always seems to contain highly paid people who take a lot of me…

> I don't get why so many great fonts have a dot inside the digit 0 instead of a stroke A slashed zero often looks too similar to the figure 8

A mystifying and self-destructive decision by the FSF board. The FSF board has always been overloaded with white guys. If it wants to assert its relevance for another generation, i…

This is a sample Pollen project, annotated by the author using Racket's literate-programming dialect. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen-tfl/

Pollen, written in Racket, is arguably a "dsl for specifying ssgs" https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

> the false Supermicro hack story (never retracted BTW) So the idea is that Bloomberg, a company owned by a multibillionaire, published a story full of libel, and for some inexplic…

> Frankly I'm surprised the effect was so small Only because of the moratorium on evictions, which is deferring a lot of financial pain till later, and thereby making today's numbe…

Yes! For instance, the Albertsons/Vons/Pavilions grocery chain recently fired all its in-house delivery drivers and contracted with Doordash instead, in order to take advantage of …

I have bought Apple refurbished machines. I always understood them to be more-or-less unused returns. IIRC Apple cannot legally advertise returned machines as "new", hence the "ref…

I'm referring to GUI apps like the kind currently sold in the app store. There has long been a path to sell these apps direct to customers. But with each OS release, it has become …