Thank you for the examples. I tried the one with a pink cake. Turns out that on my machine only web browsers are capable of displaying the image properly. All viewers (IrfanView, XnView, Nomacs, Windows Photos) and editors (Paint .NET, GIMP) that I've tried only showed the "washed out" picture.
Yeah. We were able to get buy-in from some big players. We cannot contact every group, though. My hope is since big players have bought in, others will hear the message and update their programs.
Sooooo file some bugs :D
Also, be kind to them. This literally launched yesterday.
It's interesting that Paint.NET supports the vivid image if you screenshot the cake (Win+Shift+S) and paste it. But, opening the PNG opens up the washed out picture.
I do. Housing prices are constantly rising, when you take a loan you are buying an asset which (with some luck) may appreciate in value more than mortgage interest rates. That's why in some countries it's worth taking a loan as soon as possible without saving for too long.
Sure, without mortgage you may not be able to afford a house at all but it does not change the fact that mortgage is a "good" loan (i.e. you benefit from taking it)
Mortgages with low interest rates are also one of the (main) reasons houses are so "expensive" in the first place.
The cheaper money (credit) is, the "higher" the prices will go.
It's not so much that houses became expensive, it's more that money to buy a house (specifically mortgages) became relatively cheaper. Low interest rates did that.
I don't know about this - when I see quotes on build cost in my area they add up to more than similar properties sell for in some cases, and generally aren't a whole lot different than buying to the point that I've wondered why it's like that.
This is a one-time effect, though. Or at least, an effect that only changes periodically (and should reverse) when interest rates change. 30-year mortgages have been standard in the US for most of my life, and houses have gotten a lot more expensive during that time.
The effect may pause when interest rates change, but it's unlikely to reverse significantly. People who have homes now aren't going to want to sell for less than they paid for them, so there's a lot of inertia against prices going down.
Home prices have doubled in most areas since 2009 (and worse in many areas.) when people complain about prices in 2025, this is what they’re talking about. This is not driven by the novel existence of 30-year mortgages and interest rates are at a near-term high.
Median home prices aren’t very interesting because most of the increase is limited to specific competitive areas, and median US home prices hides that effect. I’m sure houses in deeply rural areas haven’t gotten much more expensive, but it isn’t relevant to me.
Well over half of Americans are living in Urban areas so median here is a measure of urban home prices.
Further average home prices reflects overall economic gains. The top 10%, 1%, 0.1%, etc getting richer buy nicer stuff driving up the average but that says little about overall affordability.
House size, build "quality" (the details in the house), resource scarcity, and zoning policy are the drivers of cost. Cheap credit and lifetime loans allow the system to continue.
Every time a municipality levies a requirement upon new development the price of everything that could be used the same way goes up by that amount since it's the "next best thing". I got told I need to spend $20-50k on engineered assessments and plans to clear an old farm field that was left to grown over for 30yr and is now considered "forest" by (a single unelected employee of) the municipality.
Game out the economic implications of that sort of regulatory behavior across the entire real estate and housing sectors and suddenly a lot of stuff that makes no sense makes a lot more sense.
Housing prices are _generally_ rising. It's entirely possible to buy a house and wind up selling it later, having lost money in it. Many times through no real fault.
I hope most people haven't forgotten about 2008 financial crisis and how it was caused by declining housing prices (and the banks/markets not taking that risk into account)
Housing prices typically appreciate up with inflation over the long run, although local markets don't always follow the same pattern. (IE, Silicon Valley is a case where real estate appreciated faster than inflation.)
Remember, it's over the long run. There can be periods where a house will appreciate faster than inflation, and other periods where the real value of a house doesn't keep up. If you understand this dynamic, you can make a lot of money. (IE, flipping and then becoming a landlord when the market turns.)
Since the not-yet-homeowner is no doubt paying rent, home appreciation can slip by some measure below the rate of inflation and still have been a wise investment.
Of course there is home insurance and repairs to consider. But also there is the increase in rent to consider on the other side as well.
My house is 7 years old and the various amount of things I need to fix is making me miss being a renter.
That being said, generally the reason why home ownership is a "good deal" in the US is because you can accumulate equity, even when the value of the home keeps up with inflation. (Technically it means that inflation works in your favor if you have a fixed-rate mortgage.)
Depends on how long the not yet homeowener will live there. If you live in the same house for the next 40 years you are almost certainly better off owning it. However if you have to move after a year (which might not be in your control) you probably will lose money. 7 years is a good rule of thumb for minimum time you need to live in a house before it is better than renting, but exact circumstances can be very different.
Just kill it with uBlock.
The more elegant way would be to inject a proper parameter to session storage with some kind of extension. Or switch to the light version of the service https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite/
edit: I can see that in a comment below @yegg shared an even better way - switching to https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
For $100 more you could get a used 3090 with twice as much VRAM. You could also get 4060 Ti which is cheaper than 4070 and it has 16 GB VRAM (although it's less powerfull too, so I guess depends on the use case)
Yeah, I have rather aggressive blocking on with uBlock Origin. Google started blocking me about a month ago, I have to solve captcha for literally every query. I know it's uBlock as things are back to normal when I disable it. Well, this helps me to learn new muscle memory to rely on DuckDuckGo and Brave Search instead.
3090, the 24 GB of VRAM will be more relevant than running smaller models even faster on lower capacity card (small models already run fast by nature of being less to copy from memory and compute on).
3090. Models like flux or wanvideo with fp16 text encoders will push your VRAM usage over 20GB. LLMs with functional context (or workflows with multi-model, not modal, tie in) will all break 16GB.
There's no point to performance without context. At its pricepoint, the 5080 is purely a gaming card.
Do you think you can get a 5080 for a 1000?
In the Netherland they're going for 1600 euro's minimum, more like 1800. So I would totally get a new 5080 for a 1000 dollars.
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