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by aconsult1 6mo ago
I've tried using HA a couple years ago and gave up. It was too complicated to run it in a Pi4 - I'm an experienced software engineer, familiar with containers and Linux. I was trying to get some of the IoT I have at home like pool
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by aconsult1 2y ago
I agree with your statement on quality control issues. Also fake cigars are a huge problem. I've heard about many cases of cigars made in Cuba by "freelancers" and then sold in repurposed boxes and labels. Those aren't t
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by aconsult1 2y ago
I've been smoking cigars for the past 15 years. I was lucky enough to have smoked only cuban cigars (which are legal where I'm from), so I know them very well. Nicaragua and Dominican Republic are garbage compared to Cubans, still
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by aconsult1 2y ago
Beautiful indeed. It still baffles me how some people have a such gift with words. They can tell stories and make you have feelings, just magical. I know it's a lot of hard work to write like this. I can write code alright, but I could
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by aconsult1 2y ago
I see with completely different eyes here. This is a sort of manifesto that tells me where the heart of the founders is. It also inspired me to do better and look at my own company and myself as a fellow founder. I agree with almost everyth
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by aconsult1 3y ago
All of a sudden the saying "eat your own dog food" takes a twist and is no longer fun.
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I can't really disagree with you. Although I want to believe this problem is more exacerbated with LLMs than with human-tutors. I have no evidence other than hundreds of hours using ChatGPT.
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I absolutely have the same overall feeling, when the task at hand is related to text processing (including understanding and spinning off new takes or ideas from it). But when the task at hand involves logical thinking, that's when I b
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by aconsult1 3y ago
It's actually worse than that because although LLMs are capable of a lot, they still hallucinate quite frequently and sometimes are just plain stupid. Recently I was trying to manipulate data in Google Sheets and was using ChatGPT to h
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by aconsult1 3y ago
"These galaxies are so old, they are likely still in the process of being formed." This makes no sense to me. Older galaxies should be formed long time ago, no?
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by aconsult1 3y ago
Then suddenly you buy a car that has several kg of equipment that are not yours, but theirs, just so you could activate it with a subscription at a later point in time. Great! But now I'm the one paying gas/electricity to carry th
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I've been following this "good example" for both my kids who are 10 and 2 years old and I can say it works very well. At least for the addictive behavior. We still allow them to watch movies and cartoons plus games in TVs and
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I watched a movie today and ended up ordering pop corn + soda + water. 1 pop corn, 1 soda, 1 water freaking bottle (250ml). They charged me $30 + tips. I think National Geographic (which I'm a subscriber) can charge 10x more without lo
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I definitely relate to that. I only started saving money seriously (with proper planning) after reading about FIRE (financial independence retire early) in a blog. Reading about that idea completely changed my mind about the true purpose of
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by aconsult1 3y ago
I have to say that improving the battery by 11% is not nearly enough. I have a Framework Intel 12th Gen running Mint and I can't use it for more than 3h without having to plug it in. I've followed all instructions on your forums b
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I relate to your current state of mind. I wasn't sure either before I had my first child. I didn't particularly like kids, but wondered what would it be like. Then I had my first child by accident at 33 and it was by far the best
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by aconsult1 4y ago
In my experience this isn't true at all. Having kids really is a blank slate and it's up to you to decide how you want to raise yours. I do a lot of things different than my parents did to me, including being more thoughtful about
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by aconsult1 4y ago
There's a similar interesting solution here: https://forum.moddevices.com/t/ai-research-at-mod/8368
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I have at least one example of Airbnb ignoring a bad review. I had a pretty bad experience in Washington DC once and left a review to warn future guests. To my surprise such review never came online. I checked for several weeks after and sa
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by aconsult1 4y ago
Which location are you seeing those rates?
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MOD Devices files for insolvency, while still being transparent with userbase(forum.moddevices.com)
3 points by aconsult1 4y ago|1 comments
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by aconsult1 4y ago
MOD Devices has filed for insolvency in Germany and instead of playing games it opens up the door giving full transparency about what's happening and the possible outcomes.
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I don't want to deposit fear into your dreams. You should follow what your heart tells you. But not going all in was probably the smartest decision you've made. Good luck!
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by aconsult1 4y ago
The future is still bright. I was lucky enough to have two business going and the second one is a thriving consulting software company. Sorry if it looked like I was in a dire situation personally. Not really the case.
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I appreciate the sympathy, really. The thing that I probably regret the most is really the time invested. That's the only thing I can't make up for. Even if I try to look back fondly of the learning experience I'm still sever
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I'm a co-founder of a niche multi-effect pedalboard company and we're filing for bankruptcy in Germany this very week. It's not only the crazy price changes and random stocking issues. Small players have zero leverage with su
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by aconsult1 4y ago
Absolutely agree. Having a number that brings joy to a specific group of people is way better than having an obvious "lots of X digits" kind of number. I had a mobile phone for 10+ years that was composed of a sequence of 2-digit
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by aconsult1 4y ago
I relate a lot to your comments. I'm currently in a situation which seems to be the pinnacle of the trajectory you described and I'm slowly coming to that exact conclusion about not enjoying the work but just the hobby. My passion
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by aconsult1 4y ago
It's funny how my brain reacts to all caps very similarly as if someone is literally shouting in front of me during a conversation. Must be the decades of internet forums and emails. The first time you shouted my eye was twitching. By
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by aconsult1 4y ago
Back to the original argument of this article: it does feel sometimes that there are as many stars in that patch as stupidity in our human friends in the current world we live in. Sigh.

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