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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • applications should all look the same. no custom theming.

    there should not be a way to skirt the window manager theming system. i decide what my windows look like and that should be what all windows look like. that way it’s all uniform and easily parseable at a glance, not to mention a lot easier for accessibility tools to hook into. and for that matter, stop inventing new ways to present your application without doing a user study. we have years of user studies available showing what ui elements work well and what shapes they should be to be easily understood. just throwing something together because it looks cool and then shipping it like that should be a punishable offence.



  • generative ai is a subset of procedural generation algorithms. specifically it’s a procedural algorithm with a massive amount of weight parameters, on the order of hundreds of billions. you get the weights by training. for image generation (which i’m assuming is what was in use here), the term to look up is “latent diffusion”. basically you take all your training images and blur them step by step, then set your weights to mimic the blur operation. then when you want an image you run the model backwards.