a7fort

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   by a7fort 5mo ago

   Finally we have a simple way to get machines to generate a truly random number
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   by a7fort 5mo ago

   Recently started using it, it works really well and it's much more reliable than AirDrop. But the UX could be improved. But I just wish Apple fixed AirDrop, every time I go to use I have so little confidence in it, it often doesn'
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   by a7fort 1y ago

   It's two separate issues: 1) I do a lot of scraping, and Go concurrency + Colly has better performance 2) My DB size is exploding and I have limited budget, and it looks like CH is so much better at compressing data. I recently did a t
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   by a7fort 1y ago

   You're right and I will still use it, but only for more limited scopes. I've also cancelled my Claude subscription recently, but for different reasons - it doesn't have the "memory" feature that makes ChatGPT so muc
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   by a7fort 1y ago

   I hope we get to that "10x better" point. I think the problem right now is people advertising LLMs as if we're there already. And it's not just the providers, it's also the enthusiasts on X/Reddit/etc that
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   by a7fort 1y ago

   I think you're doing it right, it's just hard to resist the temptation to use AI for everything, when you're getting decent results for small things.
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   After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain(albertofortin.com)

   365 points by a7fort 1y ago|221 comments
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   by a7fort 1y ago

   SEEKING WORK | UK or Remote | Full Stack Engineer Technologies: PHP, Laravel (10yrs exp), VueJS/NuxtJS, AlpineJS, MySQL, TailwindCSS, AWS, Azure, RESTful APIs, Adwords, GA Ecommerce, Git, Twilio, Stripe, Docker, Replicate APIs, Openrou