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I've also built a similar service[1] that does this with inpainting instead of textual inversion, so it preserves the face exactly and returns in seconds, not hours.

[1] - https://app.gooey.ai/FaceInpainting/


doesn't show any controls after the loading banner in my Firefox


Fixed. Thanks for reporting.

Here's the bug that caused this too - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1689099


Hmm, looks like we didn't test on Firefox!


It does the masking automatically by doing face recognition.

That's why the mask and cutout are part of the output too!


Adding a privacy policy. "not that it would help much" -- Any ideas on what would help much?


For you the important part is informing us what happens to the data with a Privacy Policy, and I would also have a Terms of Service requiring uploaders to acknowledge the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual rights.


By others do you mean the people whose code/models I'm using?


No, I mean the uploader can upload any photo and your Terms of Service should specify what constitutes misuse. You are not legally required to have a Terms of Service, and the photos people upload are not published, but it still doesn't hurt to create an agreement.

You can put a "By uploading an image you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" text on the website with the links. This is not a legal advice of course, I cannot be sure that this makes your Terms of Service enforceable, but this is how others like Imgur do it.


Thanks, this is helpful!


Added.


Is this testing for spot instances?

In my limited experience, persistent (on-demand) GCP instances always boot up much faster than AWS EC2 instances.


I noticed that too and it does appear to be using spot instances. I have a feeling if it was ran without you may see much better startup times. Spot instances on GCP are hit and miss and you sort of have to build that into your workflow.


In my experience GPU persistent instances often simply don't boot up on GCP due to lack of available GPUs. One reason I didn't choose GCP at my last company.


Oh interesting. Which region and GPU type were you working with? (Asking so I can avoid in future)


I think it was us-east1 or us-east4. Had issues getting TPUs as well in us-central1. I know someone at a larger tech company who was told to only run certain workflows in a specific niche European region as that's the only one that had any A100 GPUs most of the time.


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Try flutter, its a breath of fresh air!


Does Flutter still render everything in a canvas? This has been a huge turn off for me.


Yes, and that's the main reason why I like it. You can do advanced UIs and animations that would otherwise be very annoying in other frameworks like React Native. Plus, a canvas makes it easy to port to other platforms like desktop and web because all you need is the ability to draw pixels on a screen.


aaand we're all the way back to Flash.


Adobe (now Apache) Flex.


Until a blind person contacts your support team to tell them your website/webapp is not working with their screen reader.


Flutter has accessibility FYI. It creates a parallel accessibility tree in the DOM that screen readers can read.

https://docs.flutter.dev/development/accessibility-and-local...


hah. I remember having to build HTML-only fallback versions of fancy Flash UI sites back in... 2002 to around 2008. We marketed this as an add-on for improved SEO. Allegedly Google used to manually check if the content matched what was in the Flash version and knock you down if it wasn't. That was probably just a rumor.


The lack of native scrolling kills it for me. It's painfully obvious using a flutter app on iOS, since the scrolling momentum is way off.

You never really think this stuff matters until you're exposed to it.


To be fair web content can also be ported easily pretty much everywhere because browsers run almost everywhere.


But it's more fun to rebuild the DOM inside a canvas. Then you can run it in another DOM inside a canvas inside a DOM, and stream the whole thing from a server into a thin client and call it a native app.


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Tech stack - You’ll be working with Flutter (Dart) as our primary client side language and Python (Django) on the server. We also use HTML/JS/CSS for rendering SEO content, and of course host our own servers for everything.

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I was wondering why all of a sudden the default github branch was “main”


What's dumb about that is, I'm sure it refers to the definition of master as:

adjective main; principal. "the apartment's master bathroom has a free-standing oval bathtub"


So what I didn't know was the origin of the word "master" in relation to housing.

"The phrase "master bedroom" first appeared in the 1926 Sears catalog, according to the real estate blog Trelora. It was a feature of a $4,398 Dutch colonial home, the most expensive in the catalog, referring to a large second floor bedroom with a private bathroom."

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_971e3114fec2c583d17a32ac8c...

1926 was only 60 years after the civil war, an era where the evils of slavery will still felt by those, also a year that the KKK still had marches in DC.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b39318/

The KKK even had political influence:

"In the case of the Democratic Party, the key battleground was the 1924 Convention. The Klan endorsed William Gibbs McAdoo, the frontrunner for the nomination."

http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/1920s/Eugenics/Klan.html

So the only question that remains was Sears and Roebuck racist? Some think they were, others point to the fact that they enabled blacks to still purchase from the Sears catalog.

Another option is that Sears was just marketing the house to the consumers that existed at the time. In 1926, what rich KKK sympathizer wouldn't like to sleep in the "Master Bedroom" gloriousness of the 1860's?


That's all very interesting but I don't think it has anything to do with if the phrase "master" is racist.

A quick search reveals the following English idioms:

master master plan master of ceremonies master key master class master baker master of arts baggage master past master grand master zen master puppet master master of fine arts master of science master sergeant chess master old master master builder master bedroom harbor master master of literature master copy master cylinder master at arms master of library science sailing master master race question master master of arts in library science master hand master file master of divinity master of theology master mason master of architecture master of arts in teaching master of education property master master switch drill master master lease master in business master of the rolls master cast ballet master master in public affairs master mechanic master stroke master vibrator master chief petty officer master of laws riding master harbour master job master rattlesnake master assay master master notes master of science in engineering master and servant wreck master dance master games master kong the master master plans bus master master in business administration master mind master tape senior master sergeant station master the master master slave mint master special master wagon master forage master jack of all trades and master of none master in chancery master keys quarter master three master two master be own master been own master dock master dutch master fencing master master electrician master of the horse writing master bush master corrected master cast gang master is own master master classes master gland master lode master switches master tap master two step exercise test


A quick google search on the origin of the word master comes up with this (and in fact, I don't know why you didn't search this originally).

"Master comes from the Latin adverb magis (“more”). It first appeared in English over a thousand years ago, referring to people who had authority over others, whether as rulers, employers, teachers, or fathers."

I would imagine slaves and slave owners would be in that list as well.

I'm not saying that "master" is always racist, but in certain cases, it seems pretty clear -- as in the Master/Slave J/K flip flop. The example given "master bathroom" surely seems like it could have racist connotations.


I will admit that I had no idea that "slave" was actually a tech term until I heard about the blacklist controversy. I will admit the term "slave file" is rather...uncomfy.


Does anyone know how to switch off animations in iOS? Quite a pity to have to wait for slow animations on the fastest mobile chip in the market!


You can reduce animations/motion, but I think there will always be a slight fade animation for things like switching between apps https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/motion-iph0b691d3ed/i...


The reduce motion stuff also makes the swipe navigation gestures impossible to use because there’s no physical button anymore


Incredibly sad state of affairs :(


After the most recent update apps started opening with a from-the-right sliding animation and I hate it so much.


That's a bug I think, have you tried rebooting?


Yep, you're right. Rebooting fixed it. Thanks :)


Transpile to Javascript https://dart.dev/overview#platform


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