cheema33

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by cheema33 6d ago
> This is an incredibly boring task. We all want super exciting jobs. But plenty have boring jobs like this. Between not having a job or having a boring job that pays well, the choice is obvious for many of us.
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by cheema33 7d ago
"Windows", "Word" and "Excel" are just plain English words, but it appears you can trademark them for specific industry. Maybe you have to make it more specific. Like "Microsoft Windows"?
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by cheema33 7d ago
Yep. I faced the exact same issue. Too many times. And then just gave up.
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by cheema33 8d ago
> I miss Craigslist more and more I do not. Craigslist was completely anonymous. Marketplace a lot less so. This makes a massive difference. > marketplace seems to be where everyone in my area has congregated. I think that is not just
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by cheema33 8d ago
> it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is. You are closer to a normie than most here I assume.
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by cheema33 11d ago
selfprivacy appears to be limited to a handful of services. e.g. It is not clear to me if I can host postgresql with it. i.e. It is not a general purpose container hosting product.
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by cheema33 11d ago
> OS/2 was the only thing I remembering being great. Thinkpads were great too. I had the Thinkpad 701C with the butterfly keyboard. It was awesome for its time.
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by cheema33 12d ago
> If there is ever a conflict, US will seize assets of whatever country.. Canadians, and the rest of the world is finding out that you don't even need a conflict for US to lay claim over your stuff. "We want it", is perfec
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by cheema33 13d ago
> The problem inference providers will not be able to get anywhere near the contributor pricing. Maybe if they started collecting data..
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by cheema33 13d ago
> Like, who actually cares? Are people excited for the new benchmarks? You may not care. But that does not mean that nobody else does either. Some of us are trying to eke out every last bit of performance from these things. And so yeah,
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by cheema33 14d ago
> in contrast Chinese provider like Z.AI promises ZDR I do not trust any provider, US or Chinese when they say they will not train on my data. I still use these services, but I am under no illusion that any of these people are trustworth
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by cheema33 16d ago
> If there was a continuous 500 watt GPU per person... Would we all be driving the 500 Watt GPU hard 24/7? And the premise that the "AI frontier progress stops as of 1 September 2026" likely does not include semiconductor
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by cheema33 16d ago
> Most people still go to work every day.. And trees and mountains and animals still exist... Rate of change, it appears, depends entirely on someone's perspective.
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by cheema33 16d ago
> Wouldn't it better to run your own checker instead of asking to disclose Do you know of a "checker" that can reliably detect AI-assisted writing with 100% accuracy? One does not exist. > If you anyway intend to use th
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by cheema33 17d ago
Cruelty is the point.
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by cheema33 20d ago
I have not tried it yet. Is it similar to LiteLLM? If so, what sets it apart?
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by cheema33 21d ago
> Most US companies that have anything to do with government, finance, medical, etc... That's a huge market. Compared to the rest of the world?
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by cheema33 28d ago
Link? Why won't you just take his word for it? What is this world coming to?
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by cheema33 28d ago
I have been working on training AI models on my Palm Pilot. And no, I don't have a URL or anything to show either. But don't worry the tech is very deep. Too deep even.
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by cheema33 1mo ago
With some of these changes, it appears to be encroaching on clickhouse territory. Or are they still very different products?
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> Is it fair to then infer that when decisions are to be made, single agent environments are going to make them better than multi-agent if the relevant information can fit into a single agents context window? Context window for most fron
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> When the flat-earth craze started I've been trying to at least get that bit actually personally verified. Haven't managed to do it to this day, though. How do I say this in the most gentle way I can...? Your brain is broke. N
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> Why is anything going to be catastrophic? Many believe, including myself, that the market is currently propped by a massive AI bubble. Nearly a US $1 trillion is being spent this year, and more is planned for next year. All of this is
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by cheema33 1mo ago
Agreed. I personally am very uncomfortable with the idea of SaaS-only DB tech. Databases I deal with are very large. And we are a small company. Self-hosted works for us. We cannot afford hosted database solutions as they charge by storage
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by cheema33 1mo ago
If it were available back then, Microsoft may be a small shop today or may have gone the way of Lotus.
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> What do you think is unique to skills that does not apply to how MCP servers are managed? I have a skill that describes my database schema with hundreds of tables, stored procedures, triggers at a high level. It tells the LLM to use a
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> you can actually invoke an MCP App by name in both Codex and Claude using the @ handle Even when it is disabled? The point is to have the skill or mcp app to not use ANY tokens until I call it by name. I can do that with a skill. Can I
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by cheema33 1mo ago
> Modern harnesses don't do that, MCP is also progressive disclosure now. Last time I checked, and it may be different now, Claude Code used tool search only if context usage was greater than 10%. Also, even with tool search, MCP us
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by cheema33 1mo ago
I can turn off auto invocation of a skill. It uses zero tokens when in this mode. I can still invoke it by calling it by name. How can I do that with MCP servers?
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by cheema33 1mo ago
My main issue with MCP servers has been context bloat. Skills have progressive disclosure, and allow me to turn off auto invocation with something like this in the SKILL.md file: disable-model-invocation: true Most MCP servers still bloat u

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