Veuxdo

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by Veuxdo 2y ago
They're all crossed wires.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Friendly reminder that computers are for computing, not advice.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> and no, a $5,000 MacBook Pro is not attainable In many professions, $5000 for tools is almost nothing.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> They are also experimenting with synthetic data, but this approach has its limitations. I was really looking forward to using "synthetic data" euphemistically during debates.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
You can still sign and notarize your .dmg without distributing it via the app store. Users who download from your website won't see the "unknown developer" warning as long as you do that. Your second point about your target m
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
What benefit do you hope to realize from distributing via the App Store? They aren't going to handle payments for you. They won't market your app for you.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Author here. I don't expect you'd see a difference. For the simple case of iterating on a diagram you describe to ChatGPT, 4o is perfectly fine as-is. I can't see how you'd meaningfully improve on it. However, for the ad
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Diagrams AI Can, and Cannot, Generate(ilograph.com)
9 points by Veuxdo 2y ago|3 comments
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Programs that produce diagrams should be (and are) written in a programming language. They accept input, execute, and produce output. Diagrams themselves do not execute and have state (unless they are interactive[0]). There's a dif
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Yeah, just about every diagram you see online commits these sins. Probably because companies that create detailed diagrams don't make them public. What's left is mostly diagrams by tech companies (e.g. cloud providers) created spe
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
You can do it, certainly, but it is overkill. It also limits your potential editors to people who know Python and are willing to install it on their machine. In contrast to Python (or other programming languages), a language like YAML or
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> It will be saved as web_service.png on your working directory. Nice and simple, but unfortunately you lose all accessibility with a .png diagram. Specifically, they're impenetrable to screen readers.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
I'm biased, but I think it's a bad decision. Programming languages are for writing, well, programs. Programs execute, accept input, have state, and all manner of other things that just don't apply to diagrams. Diagramming in
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Previous discussions: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32652291 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34064921 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39805529 - https://ne
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Is the name for this kind SEO practice, where a company creates a new domain for a strictly "informational" page like this?
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Sometimes. In the face of entrenched competition, you can't be just a little bit better. You have to be a lot better. And in a way that said competition can't easily match (or exceed).
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> To address this problem, we built decisioning models that take into account 100’s of datapoints, such as customer and payment metadata as well as internal classifiers of error codes and messages. The models determine the optimal time t
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Feels like automated title moderation.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> Do you post your blog on social media to be found and shared? It wouldn't do you any good. Social media sites will kill your post if it has a link in it. They don't want you leaving.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> More users online than ever, and able to get their attention too. Not really. There are some people walking around with giant teddy bears[0], but that is entirely for show. [0] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-pla
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> On the other hand, social media platforms arbitrarily locking you out is a daily occurrence for tens of thousands of innocent people per day. If you're at all legit, you don't have to worry about being locked out. Everyone ha
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
I thought fragrances in perfumes couldn't be trademarked because they were functional. But you could trademark fragrances as a nonfunctional component of a product (e.g. Play-doh).
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> In fact, they'd likely pay more because then they could reduce investment in detecting bots. A lot more. Preventing bots from eating up your entire digital advertising budget takes a lot of time and money.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
I can all but promise you these "headwinds" that they are facing in terms of negative PR are in fact a net positive. At their stage, any press is good press.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Trademark, but yeah, that was my understanding as well.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
I think as a general rule, any shiny new market strategy will perform worse in year 10 than it will in year 1. Law of diminished returns and all. And that's before factoring in any platform enshittification.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
> I turn off personalisation wherever possible Think about it: if the ad auction house knows nothing about you, then you'd expect to only get least-common-denominator ads. Everyone has a butt, after all.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
This might be a fine solution for individuals, but of course won't help the ads/publishing industry recover from its current death spiral.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I appreciate the feedback and understand where you're coming from.
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by Veuxdo 2y ago
"DLS-based diagramming tools like Terrastruct, mermaid, or graphviz definitely have their perks and are very well established for manual graph curation. But I found the lack of programmatic a bit of a pain point." Hi, creator of I

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