dmkii

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5G, full bars, nothing loads: Or how I learned to start learning with LLMs(dumky.net)
3 points by dmkii 1mo ago|1 comments
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by dmkii 1mo ago
There is a surprising amount of science and technology to make your smartphone work on a train (h/t Deutsche Bahn). On a recent train ride from Berlin to Amsterdam I Clauded into a rabbit hole and learned about 5G in a way that I could
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by dmkii 4mo ago
Compared to what exactly? Snowflake? Hiring an engineer to deploy DuckDB? A hobby project? FWIW I work at MotherDuck so obviously biased, but curious to hear what makes you say that.
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by dmkii 6mo ago
I mean, it is one thing to build things for yourself or your company this way. It's a whole other thing to dump it on the rest of the world. I'm still flabbergasted by the fact that maintainers of projects I highly value have to s
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by dmkii 6mo ago
100% agree with the curators part. I think this is often implicit, but we look for signals of quality, whether that's Github stars or a person we trust. I feel the sense of what is a good curator has shifted, or even the curators are o
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You're right to be anxious about AI: This is how much we are building(dumky.net)
5 points by dmkii 6mo ago|6 comments
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by dmkii 6mo ago
I've been overwhelmed with the flood of interesting new things being released. I tried to put a number on it and across the board from Github repos to package registries to Show HN submissions there is just such an immense increase in
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by dmkii 11mo ago
It’s interesting you mention linguistics because I feel a lot of the discussions around AI come back to early 20th century linguistics debates between Russel, Wittgenstein and later Chomsky. I tend to side with (later) Wittgenstein’s percep
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by dmkii 1y ago
Most of our jobs consist of working with tools. Yet it’s very hard to get insights into which tools are required most, are growing in your area, etc. So I decided to keep track of tools and technologies mentioned in the data space by keepin
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by dmkii 1y ago
By far the stupidest version of this to me has been Snowflake’s implementation of previews. This is a database, where people preview the content of a table, not in an app, not on a phone, and someone thought it was a good idea to make that
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by dmkii 2y ago
I agree that there is a line at using someone else’s data to make a profit, but it is kind of ironic that you mention Google, because their exact business model is scraping websites to feed their search results and litter it with ads to mak
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by dmkii 4y ago
Am I missing something? This “hack” requires you to go to his site first, then use the back button and then click on a (fake) competitor link. How is he ever going to get people to his site in the first place? And if it’s through paid ads,
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by dmkii 4y ago
All you have to do is start a new country called Http, convince ICANN to adopt it as a new TLD (will need a lot of persuasion) and serve “http” as a dotless domain. But, you know, anything for a beer… (fyi: the host name is the part after @
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by dmkii 4y ago
You’re right, but only if the company wouldn’t track whether you’ve seen or even received that message. So yes, general or even contextual messages would be allowed, but “You haven’t seen X in 9 days” would imply processing personal data fo
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by dmkii 5y ago
The current state of browser tracking preventions also means that you’re unlikely to identify conversions from the same user that saw your experiment after a week or sometimes even 24 hours.
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by dmkii 5y ago
Most, or at least a lot, of the prefetching is for third party libraries (think jQuery, Google Fonts, Facebook Pixel, etc). There’s a general speed advantage for users caching commonly used libraries and fonts across sites. Nonetheless I be
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by dmkii 5y ago
There’s definitely high demand for “technical” web analysts at the moment. That usually means someone who isn’t afraid of html and JavaScript and can help less technical marketeers and analysts implement their measurement requirements and a
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by dmkii 6y ago
It’s true, but GA also does a pretty good job at filtering out bot traffic for example, so it depends on what your definition of more accurate is. There are also ways to send GA hits through a sub domain to make it look self hosted and bypa
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by dmkii 6y ago
No, it’s stored on the user’s own computer only. You could put an expiry date in there as well so you don’t accidentally use it after, say, 90 days.
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by dmkii 6y ago
Bored marketeer here. It’s much appreciated :-D.
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by dmkii 6y ago
Nice work! Have you considered using localStorage instead of sessionStorage so it works across browser tabs as well?