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A week of not using a search engine(neilzone.co.uk)
4 points by _xivi 2y ago|2 comments
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by _xivi 2y ago
> I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle What's on the approved stack? I imagine .Net and Java/spring are the standard, right? any
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by _xivi 2y ago
> I bet they could have 2 interns porting the thing to Google App Engine and then migrate the database How can you possibly have this assessment without looking at the code/infra? There are many things that affect cost beyond the vi
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by _xivi 2y ago
The real reason is probably maintenance due to some hidden costs like conflicting infrastructure and they couldn't justify migrating it. Related discussion (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549 Di
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by _xivi 2y ago
Normally I'd not pay too much attention to these comments but the assessment here is spot on. I'd say LLMs articles in general are: 1- Always longer than necessary with a lot of fluff 2- Favor lists and hierarchy Because
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In many cases we need something less like AI and more like a basic algorithm (2023)(zacs.site)
30 points by _xivi 2y ago|23 comments
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by _xivi 2y ago
> What are the use cases you Invision? Not OP, but they said the following in an answer to similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940707 "The technology is extremely flexibile, off the top of my he
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by _xivi 2y ago
I think you're on the same page here. They might not have expressed it clearly but it's about pivoting and adapting to the market. I'm also reminded of Mike Tyson's quote: "Everybody has a plan until they get punche
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The "Modern Day Slaves" of the AI Tech World [video](youtube.com)
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> Feature factories are a thing for a reason. If anything that goes against the parent comment, how Apple has more revenue per engineer while not being a feature factory by any stretch In any case, taking both of the comments combined ki
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by _xivi 2y ago
What does revenue got to do with producing/shipping products? maybe you quoted the wrong sentence? You can have millions of dollars in revenue without producing anything, on the other hand, you can also provide a lot of services and pr
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by _xivi 2y ago
> from this obviously bad take This is like saying your evaluation of my property, back when it was in bad shape was wrong... because after renovating the entire thing and fixing its issues, I got a different price. From the linked artic
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by _xivi 2y ago
PG wasn't wrong, it's just that Microsoft was resurrected later in 2014 by Satya Nadella. When Paul wrote this, the industry was witnessing a technological revolution across the board (smartphones, AWS, Google docs, etc) while Mic
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Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)(robindoherty.com)
193 points by _xivi 2y ago|132 comments
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by _xivi 2y ago
What are you expectations of Google X based on? in other words, what are you measuring against? Are there similar research ventures pursuing moonshots that are doing better? Your comment was pretty harsh. Google X has been around for what?
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by _xivi 2y ago
> Google X is a failure. Waymo is the only worthwhile thing they ever did and it predates X (as Chauffeur). A failure in what sense? It's their research arm. It feels crazy to bash down what they're doing even if it led nowhere
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by _xivi 2y ago
> Seems strange that people were damning algorithmic social media walls but are now welcoming preprocessed reality. Are they the same people? The vast majority of users are consumers, they don't even think about these stuff, they on
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by _xivi 2y ago
> Not if they're trying to sell me something... How do you know they're trying to sell you something without even reading the email? Your question was "Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?" which doesn&#
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by _xivi 2y ago
> If someone manages to generate a letter that I actually find useful and interesting But that's inconsistent with the example you put forward. For the email to be interesting a human would need to research and approach every prospe
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by _xivi 2y ago
> Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why? Do you only read emails from recognized addresses? No new communication whatsoever unless it's initiated by you?
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by _xivi 2y ago
> what’s the difference? The key difference here is personalization. Traditionally, if a message was personalized it fell under 'cold outreach' and users were more likely to interact and play along. Just like what happened with
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by _xivi 2y ago
> What evidence of AI is there? They admit (or actually brag) about it on their company blog "I used AI agents to send out nearly 1,000 personalized emails to developers with public blogs on GitHub." Do you think they're b
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I Received an AI Email(timharek.no)
716 points by _xivi 2y ago|574 comments
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Code reviews do find bugs(two-wrongs.com)
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> That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me? Right? They didn't abandon the concept, they just picked a solution that better fits their needs. Less headache, less abstraction, and less surprises overall.
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by _xivi 2y ago
> How do you scale your site or add * number of posts or headers and footers that do things like show the latest post? It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a s
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All web "content" is freeware(rubenerd.com)
160 points by _xivi 2y ago|98 comments
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> I’m not sure the customer really loses out if ms are saving them another subscription + integration cost. Not only the customer will pay the price 10 fold down the line, the entire industry/ecosystem will suffer after Microsoft ef
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by _xivi 2y ago
It's true that the US lawsuit was in 2001, but the EU antitrust fine (the discussion subject here) for failing to comply with offering a browsers ballot screen was in 2013[1], merely 11 years ago. Roughly the same crew still running th
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by _xivi 2y ago
Some background for anyone interested: The project is a fork of `roblox/react-lua` to basically open it up for community engagement and it uses Luau Roblox's Luau: https://luau-lang.org/ > Luau is a fast, small

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