bolobo

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by bolobo 10mo ago
> I'll never really understand how they ruined the opportunity presented, but they really soured people on their value proposition. I think that they took the opportunity and milked it as much as they could. They are making a lot of
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by bolobo 1y ago
The end result will be the same but I can give 3 docker commands to a new hire and they will be able to set up the stack on their MacBook or Linux or Windows system in 10 minutes. Nix is, as far as I know, not there and we would probably ne
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by bolobo 1y ago
> I genuinely don't understand what docker brings to the table. I mean, I get the value prop. But it's really not that hard to set up http on vanilla Ubuntu (or God forbid, OpenBSD) and not really have issues. For me, as an ex-
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by bolobo 1y ago
> Every developer is using LLM Citation needed. In my circles, Senior engineer are not using them a lot, or in very specific use cases. My company is blocking LLMs use apart from a few pilots (which I am part of, and while claude code is
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by bolobo 1y ago
Depends, in France for instance all the cards are dual "VISA/Mastercard" and "CB ". They will use CB in france and use the partner network in foreign countries.
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by bolobo 1y ago
And how would the LLM know that a comment in english in a random forum is applicable to a specific country but not another? UK, US, Australia all have different rules and regulations, but their websites don't exactly advertise their lo
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by bolobo 1y ago
And chatgpt is going to pull the data from an random UK website when you are in the US and vice-versa, and will augment it with knowledge from its model that come from a reddit thread from 2010 written by an italian plumber. I saw that on t
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by bolobo 1y ago
Yes, you are right, I missed it at first. I read it as another message from AI evangelists that overpromise every aspects of AI. After I finished writing the message I realized that you were blind but I was too enraged to do the right thing
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by bolobo 1y ago
> - Have a real time video conversation with an AI which can see what you see, translate between languages, read text, recognize objects, and interact with the real world. Maybe it's me having an extremely low imagination, but that
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by bolobo 1y ago
> Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible Why wouldn't it be feasible? Storage is cheap, backups are cheap. It's not for everyone, obviously, but for 20 EUR/month you can get a VM with a couple hundred GB
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by bolobo 1y ago
I use a laptop, desktop PC, phone, and 2 tablets at home. Another PC and laptop and tablet when I visit my parents. Not all of them are mine, and it is _very_ annoying to have to login to a website on them. You have to go through the unlock
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Why Your Brain Blinds You for 2 Hours Every Day [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bolobo 2y ago|0 comments
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by bolobo 2y ago
What would you use then? I am interested!
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by bolobo 2y ago
Where did you get that from? You are talking about millions of people scattered over hundreds of political entities over hundreds of years. There might have been some commonalities, but certainly not anything like this rule.
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by bolobo 2y ago
It's not about displaying the names next to the reviews on GLassdoor. It's about building an internal database of user profiles with their names. And they are apparently pretty aggressive, getting the names from support cases and
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by bolobo 3y ago
Hum, our CEO said something along these lines at the last All Hands. I don't really know where he got that... I always liked my coworkers and I had the chance to have consistently amazing managers, but I still left previous jobs becau
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by bolobo 3y ago
Well, that's the same for all documents. You can just make them up, it's not that hard with 5 minutes of photoshop. But if there is a control and a manufacturer get caught lying about the provenance they are going to have a bad ti
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by bolobo 3y ago
https://www.brita.ca/why-brita/health/whats-in-your-tap-wate... If you look at the list, even Brita doesn't claim that their pitcher filter the really nasty stuff. At most they "help to reduce". It
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by bolobo 3y ago
That’s a real little gem! I never heard of it before but I love the format and the content, thank you! Any other *zine suggestions ?
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by bolobo 3y ago
Question: That is a point that would protect GPT models in the abstract, but that doesn't hold for OpenAI and Microsoft that provide "Image generation as a service"? The actual implementation is irrelevant, if must not be abl
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Show HN: Automated translation of the Lewis and Clark journals in French(github.com)
1 points by bolobo 3y ago|1 comments
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by bolobo 3y ago
It doesn't matter, the "root" user inside the container is still jailed and none of these tricks will allow that user to escape.
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by bolobo 3y ago
Ahh the good old "Waterfall Scrum"
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by bolobo 3y ago
Why are you putting the blame on scrum if you don't even implement it? I did scum in a previous company and it worked fine. Nobody looked at the story points except the devs during planning. We had a honest discussion with the product
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by bolobo 3y ago
I am sorry but Genocide is not about actually killing people, it is about "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group", which includes "killing members of the g
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Show HN: A Tiny DALL-E 3 UI for your homelab(github.com)
2 points by bolobo 3y ago|1 comments
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by bolobo 3y ago
I have been using a lightly customised dwm and st for the last 4 years with absolutely zero hassle. I spent a nice afternoon once to customize it and then that's it. I must have spent an order of magnitude more time on my mac fighting
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by bolobo 3y ago
> The assumption EU bureaucrats and "EU citizens" make is that there are no limits to the punishment beatings executives will take to avoid bans in large geographical areas I am sorry but what makes you believe that the EU citi