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by gommm 7d ago
As my eyesight is getting worse I do end up appreciating bigger phones. Even though I miss how smaller phones felt in my hand, it's just hard to see small text on it and that's even though I don't use my phone all that much s
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by gommm 1mo ago
I've been running my own email server with exim and dovecot for 20ish years, I like the freedom it gives me but I have to say it's a significant investment. Not so much keeping things up to date but instead making sure that my ema
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by gommm 3mo ago
What would you recommend to increase international equity exposure? Index funds ETF like VWRA?
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by gommm 4mo ago
I think that it's been happening for a while. Movies in the 70s and 60s tended to have more pause in the dialogue, more silence than movies in early 2000s. Take a movie like the Godfather, it had a 8.4 seconds average shot length compa
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by gommm 4mo ago
We use luuni which is similar (except that it also enable choose your own story with audiobooks). Even then, we limit it because otherwise he would want to listen to it every time before sleeping (and it prevents him from sleeping)
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by gommm 4mo ago
True for children under 3, however I see plenty of 8-9 years old glued to their tablet in restaurants.
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by gommm 5mo ago
For me open source means that the entire training data is open sourced as well as the code used for training it otherwise it's open weight. You can run it where you like but it's a black box. Nomic's models are good example o
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by gommm 5mo ago
> My personal headcanon: this tooling works well when built on simple patterns, and can handle complex work. This tooling has also been not great at coming up with new patterns, and if left unsupervised will totally make up new patterns
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by gommm 5mo ago
I just run CC in a VM. It gets full control over the VM. The VM doesn't have access to my internal networks. I share the code repos it works on over virtiofs so it has access to the repos but doesn't have access to my github keys
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by gommm 5mo ago
That's been my experience as well. Claude code does better with Elixir (plus I enjoy working on the code better after :) )
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by gommm 5mo ago
That's not helped by a recent change to their system prompt "acting_vs_clarifying": > When a request leaves minor details unspecified, the person typically wants Claude to make a reasonable attempt now, not to be interview
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by gommm 6mo ago
Personally I love rust for agents because of types. In the ruby world there's sorbet and rbs so would be interesting to try that.
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by gommm 9mo ago
When I was an exchange student at RIT and had just arrived from France a month before, one of the admin staff invited me and a friend in the same situation for thanksgiving because she didn't want to leave us by ourselves for a major h
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by gommm 10mo ago
I've usually not been impressed in AI's implementation of math heavy rules so I wouldn't trust it much and I tend to find it easier for me to write them myself and then verify :) Yup, it's always interesting to see the d
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by gommm 10mo ago
Oh yeah, that's why I added the parenthesis. I consider lisp macros to be a dsl and that's exactly what I tend to like using. Similarly with ruby and some meta programming tricks.
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by gommm 11mo ago
I tend to find that for things like this that are really math heavy, it's usually better to create a DSL (or create easily readable function calls, etc) that you can easily write yourself instead of relying on AI to understand math hea
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by gommm 11mo ago
Oh I mean alternative would be a well regarded university/school in Germany or France... I'm French but we live in HK and most kids here (even the ones who go to the French International School or the German Swiss School) end up
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by gommm 11mo ago
That's what the French government paid per year per student at my engineering school in the early 2000s. Tuition fees paid by the student were 540 euros a year, but the cost to the government was quite high.
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by gommm 11mo ago
France is the same, the better universities are all public. But I know that the government spent an average of 35,000 euros per students at top public engineering schools in the early 2000s, not sure nowadays, so they do have funds it'
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by gommm 11mo ago
This is why when my son is old enough to choose a university, I'd probably try to advise him against doing undergrad in a UK or US university if he's studying STEM. Based on interviewing CS graduates, it doesn't seem that the
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by gommm 11mo ago
I've been using it since I got it. It's been working great with one small issue that I haven't been able to solve. For some reason when I use plasma on Arch linux (but not ubuntu), the display outputs garbage. I'm guessi
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by gommm 1y ago
Since you seem knowledgeable about knives, Do you know any great knives makers? And are those custom steels or carbide blades worth it? So far, I mostly sharpen my knives on the back of a plate. So definitely could be doing more :)
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by gommm 1y ago
To be fair, tipping the cook makes more sense to me than the waiter. I come to a restaurant for the food, I don't particularly care about the service beyond a certain baseline. It never makes sense to me that waiters can earn more with
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by gommm 1y ago
I end up using Perplexity a lot too, especially when I'm doing something unfamiliar. It's also a good way to quickly find out what are best practices for a given framework/language I'm not that familiar with (I usually a
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by gommm 1y ago
> The notch has been around for 4 years now, and Apple still hasn't provided a solution for the problem they introduced. As a lot of people told you, you can just disable it. I've been doing that for 4 years, just set your reso
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by gommm 1y ago
They pushed the U2 album a few years ago and had that blow over their face when they realized that people actually did mind. And when it comes to doing the analysis, how do they determine that users don't mind? Focus groups?
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by gommm 1y ago
It still sees active development, they keep adding new engines regularly. One of the engine I'm excited about is Macromedia Director [1] which they added initial support for in 2.5.0. That's a big endeavour though so will take tim
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by gommm 1y ago
This looks like LLM blog spam. To be taken seriously, they'd need to publish the implementation in each language of each benchmark which they didn't. Instead they show pseudocode with very vague descriptions of failure mode that d
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by gommm 1y ago
Outside of charities, I donate to a few projects: - Openbsd foundation (I use openssh all the time :)) - Corejs + babel (donated after reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34859766 - Magisk . I root my
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by gommm 1y ago
Exactly, it's not an either/or situation. I've worked on a codebase that did 3-4k/s jobs through sidekiq and in this case sidekiq is obviously the best option (although we also used a go sidekiq client for certain tasks

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