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Not everything is made by AI.

Yeah, like I'm going to sue people for a couple bucks off my events photos...

I'm a photographer, and I've encountered people who stole my pictures. Believe me, waking up at 5AM, staying up running around all day to take pictures, to then see some people not even pay the price of a lunch for them is... well, doesn't feel great.

Thankfully that's a minority of people.

What I mean to say is: f*ck people who make such "watermark removal" tools.

I vote for the pedantic + axe combo \o/

Why would anyone respect patents for military hardware? It's for war, where's the respect in that?

Sure. Is that person going to run it for free alone in his basement?

It's not only the code base. It's employees, servers, processes, data...

Even if you get twitter for free, you still need to pay to run it.

It's still wrong that I would pay extra for those cards.

I understand that different networks have different fees. But I expect one type of card to cost me the same.

When you go to a store, you pay the same price, regardless of which card you have. What would be your reaction if you were charged more because you're using a specific type of card?

I can't ask my customers to foot the bill, so it's effectively 0.4% I lose.

Oh, so I'm going to pay more for customers who have "premium cards"?

> Standard EU cards: 1.5% + €0.25 per transaction > Premium EU card: 1.9% + €0.25 per transaction

That sounds completely backwards. They chose to have premium cards, not me.

Don't.

Just do good work with and for your team. The rest will follow.

Oh...

Well, took me 34 years for this one I guess -_-'

It took me around 25 years to figure out that the piece of clothing we call in french a "pullover" (yes, say that with a strong french accent) is actually an English word describing how you physically put on the piece of clothing.

It's hard to describe how much this felt like a french word for all this time. To be honest, I even thought it was local jargon... We typically call it a "pull". Everyone does it, it's the word.

I wouldn't think that a facial recognition software deployed e.g. in a metro station would have a model tuned to detect giraffes... Odds are, it's trained to find faces instead.

Sorry, can't play this, I'm laughing too much :D

This is awesome!

Also, love the music, a surprising change :)

Well, 20k isn't exactly "cheap"...

I agree that it's stupid to finance everything.

However some big things make sense to finance.

Take your car example: I'm not rich enough to buy a car that won't break down every year (I know, I tried).

However, when my car breaks down, I can't go to my clients and I lose money.

In this case, it makes sense to rent out a car that's going to be working properly, and with guarantees in case it doesn't.

However yes, I wouldn't buy a toaster in multiple payments...

Well, on that topic, I really wanted a good frites mayo tonight, but all the local barraques à frites are closed, nondedjeu!

To be fair, I wouldn't drink room temperature milk... Hot or cold, but definitely not in-between :D

Pretty simple setup here at home.

One RPI4 running 24/7, hosting my files with encrypted ZFS on two external drives. I access the files through SFTP, Syncthing and Samba. It also runs various nightly backups to/from the cloud. Oh, and it runs Pi-Hole.

It runs OK, but is a little slow when transferring files because of the encryption. The max throughput is 20MB/s which is not awesome, but not terrible at the same time. I have spare machines around that I should use instead, but it works well enough that I can't be bothered to do it. I'm also a little worried about data corruption, because apparently that happens with ZFS without ECC ram, so...

Well, what a laughably terrible idea :D

- the shoes are going to be heavy and hard to lift

- the "lift your heel to not die in stairs" feature sounds fun

Might as well ride one of those electric scooters...

I wish you a good tough happy year :D Keep believin'

Kinda been through that myself this year.

A few words of advice, if you care to hear them:

- do not sacrifice on food quality, sleep, or health in general. That'll bring you nothing good.

- find other places where you can save money. Identify and reduce waste first

- when you make less money, you have a lot less disposable income than you would think. Say you earn 25% less next year, but your fixed costs (rent, food, health, insurances) take up 60% of your current earnings. It means you'll have less than half the disposable money you have now. (100% - 60% = 40% of disposable income today. -25% diminished earnings next year, you only have 15% left.)

That being said, after struggling for an entire year, I think making your life cheaper is a good choice in the long run. If your time is cheaper, you can invest more of it into vacation, leisure, health, or simply your next product.

Good luck. Tough times ahead, but if you're careful, you could be a lot better off soon. Not richer in money, but in everything else.

Don't forget to sleep!

Oh you're in for a treat in 2023 then!

550 mile is very specific. Already planned the route?

And please do tell us about that company you're starting:)

Whatever happens, best of luck! Both are gonna be a wild ride, but you'll keep great memories for a lifetime!

If you're only thinking of performance as "profiling", you're missing the architecture step. Why make something faster if you can skip it altogether.

It's rare when performance issues happen at the line level, unless you're doing CPU intensive tight loops. I can't remember the last time I had to optimize for that, but maybe I'm just not in the right field.

However what I constantly have to optimize for is IO and latency. And for that, all you can do is a proper architecture.

Not back into the freshwater reserves, obviously.

Still, that's a lot of water. Surely there must be ways to reduce that. Filter it, clean it, reuse it, use rainwater...

I love it how they say "yeah, character substitution is a known issue". How was that ever fine?

I can't comment on your first two points, but in the context of video editing, yes, 500MB is cheap. Most of us photo/videographers are used to handling hundreds of GB of data.

I've had more issues with OSX upgrades than linux upgrades.

I don't understand why so many people complain about linux in this thread. Probably because the linux people don't care enough to comment here.

Linux works just fine for me, on a lot of different devices. Use KDE and be happy forever with your setup. No issue no nothing, just works.

Ruby is basically Perl++