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shapefrog··on Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody
Might retire the 20 year old bash script I use with its advanced Ai if pixelA != pixelB loop.
shapefrog··on Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org
> the SPAC entity

I stopped reading right there - MariaDB (corp) went public via a SPAC in Dec 2022. Hopefully this is nature healing itself and the Corp entity goes to the wall and the Open Source foundation sheds the parasite.

I also hope all the grifters involved wind up broke and homeless.

shapefrog··on DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
If you sell your horse to the glue factory you can't pull the Shocked Pikachu face it when gets tuned into glue.
shapefrog··on DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
Person who ran site for 9 years and sold it complains about it being shut down 16 years after they sold it ...
shapefrog··on DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
DPReview’s Founder drys tears with a handful of (undisclosed purchase price) Amazon $$$'s.
shapefrog··on What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?
> Applying something like ChatGPT to stock prices together with quarterly reports, industry research, and daily (minutely) news articles seems like a no-brainer

It has been done many times. It turns you predicting the flip of a coin can be done with extremely high levels of accuracy using traditional methods.

shapefrog··on What if ChatGPT was trained on decades of financial news and data?
The fund has $165 billion in discretionary assets under management
shapefrog··on OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
OO I can still subscribe ... I have only used it once or twice in the last 6 months, but if I dont subscribe now I might not be able to ever again ...
shapefrog··on OpenAI has temporarily stopped selling the Plus plan
Its Open so you can just grab a copy and spin up your own version ... /s
shapefrog··on Show HN: Walkie-talkie for teams
The phone handsets were/are beautifully indestructible and are weighted perfectly for use as an improvised hammer.
shapefrog··on Show HN: Walkie-talkie for teams
This reminds me quite a bit of the trading turret phone system used in trading rooms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_turret - Sorry I dont have much more to offer at this point.
shapefrog··on Virgin Orbit: Sir Richard Branson's rocket company lays off 85% of staff
> The company really was just ego stroking for Mr Billionaire

The modus operandi is to slap the "Virgin" brand onto a venture - lending the brand in return for some equity. If the dice roll between a 5 and a 9 he cashes out - every other outcome, someone else loses.

Its not far off the Dragons Den model of venture capitalism, and seems to be somewhat of the basis for the Celebrity SPAC model.

shapefrog··on Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
Learning to code.
shapefrog··on Is hand coding becoming obsolete?
By the time the stuff I have glued together breaks down there is a new glue based solution that has been invented with all the buzzwords of the day that barely works.

Makes me glad I didnt get too invested in the previous hacky solution.

shapefrog··on EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers
Lootboxes are for cosmetics only, not pay to win.

You would only get a special clown skin and crying emote to for your appraisal meeting.

shapefrog··on I wanted a beautiful computer and couldn't find one, so I made my own
> Ultima GTR is another example. An impressive vehicle except for the design.

I like that car a lot - was pretty close to getting one many years ago - its the exterior though its not ... pretty. Design underneath - simple and elegant.

shapefrog··on Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county
15 year olds are not going to go to some narc in a suit to check if the smart pills they bought on tiktok are legit or not.
shapefrog··on Teen-age fentanyl deaths in a Texas county
> thwarted by Democrats

The 115th United States Congress: Senate majority - Republican, House majority - Republican, Presidency - Republican.

Blame the party not in power.

shapefrog··on The teen mental illness epidemic is international – Part 1: The Anglosphere
Give me an angenda you want to promote and a segment of the population you want to propagandize to and I can intersect the population by age/race/wealth in such a way that the statistics work and it helps you signal all the virtues at once.
shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
Pretty much - although like underwriting natural disasters claims tend to cluster together.
shapefrog··on SBF’s legal defense is being funded with Alameda money he gave his father
The FTX bankruptcy trustee will charge $18 million in fees to claw back that 10 mil
shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
Keep my money in an account, let me buy things with pieces of plastic, let me have pieces of paper when I want them, let me send it to other people when I want to and do none of that when I dont want it done.

If you want someone to be glad when you get home and listen to you complain about bill from accounts then get a dog.

shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
"it always was"
shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
> Mercury is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group and Evolve Bank & Trust®; Members FDIC.
shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
The FDIC fund is currently at $128.2 billion - and collects ~5bn a year. I think they have this covered.
shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
> Are they confident First-Citizens can withstand 25% of deposits getting pulled in a few days because they’re flush with cash and short term treasuries?

Yes. The number gamed will likely be > 50% given the type of customers they are dealing with.

shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
> Still not clear to me if that extends beyond $250K

It does not. The deposit insurance limit was $250k before the svb collapse, it was unlimited while the (government) fdic held your account, and now it has been transfered back to a private institution it is 250k again.

<Insert "it always was" meme here>

shapefrog··on First-Citizens Bank to assume deposits and loans of Silicon Valley Bridge Bank
I do my day to day banking with a too big fail bank. The service is excellent.
shapefrog··on Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees
You gotta spend money to make money.
shapefrog··on Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees
CEO gets paid massive bonus for “taking responsibility” and firing others.
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