hnben

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by hnben 3mo ago
I am sympathetic to the sentiment, but the argument does not hold water. > the fact remains some of my money can end up empowering politics I find repugnant are you paying taxes? are you using gasoline? are you paying for amazon? Some ra
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by hnben 3mo ago
> America was supposed to be the next step of humanity, a new land stripped from the ills of the old wor wat
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by hnben 4mo ago
i switched from bambu a1 combo to snapmaker u1 and i am very happy. I installed paxx12 custom firmware, and now i am even happier.
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by hnben 4mo ago
for instance, see MMAcevedo aka Miguel https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by hnben 5mo ago
> Swift --(claude)--> Plasmoid --(claude)--> CLI --(claude)--> Rust-Port --(claude)--> Intercal Is this the human centipede of programming?
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by hnben 5mo ago
>> People had this "why you probably can't run a GPT-4 (or even GPT-3.5) class model on your MBP anytime soon" conversation before.
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by hnben 5mo ago
that sounds like a win-win to me. on one hand 95% of users get an improved experience. While a competitor gets the chance to build a business for the remaining 5%.
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by hnben 5mo ago
<10 Stars is a strong signal, that a repo is not relevant to anyone except maybe the maintainer. This fact does not change even if other repos have bough 10.000 stars.
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by hnben 5mo ago
i am building yet another ai powered language-learning app. user uploads random texts, and the ai gives grammar and vocab hints, so the user can try to translate it on their own. Basically google lens, but without the final translation. iro
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by hnben 6mo ago
when i did openscad, i just did a minowski hull with a 4sided bipyramid (aka rotated cube) to get chamfers for my cubes. bonus: minowski hull with a round pyramid adds chamfers in the vertical and fillets in the horizontal, which is what i
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by hnben 7mo ago
> I don't think open source can get a big market share but it can give you a nice niche market of tech enthusiasts companies and governments in Europe start embracing digital sovereignty. Governments start to realize, that US corpor
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by hnben 7mo ago
did you have issues with banking apps, authenticator apps or outlook on workprofile? I ask, because when I was using cyanogenmod a hundred years ago, banking apps were a major pain. And now I am using outlook on a flagship with stockrom, an
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by hnben 8mo ago
is this whataboutism?
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by hnben 8mo ago
Yes. You have to treat the model like an eager yet incompetent worker, i.e. don't go full yolo mode and review everything they do.
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by hnben 8mo ago
I selfhost for >10 years, but only for receiving, i.e. I can not send anything from my domain, because I thought that would have been to much stress to set up. My setup: I have a root server with DNS attached to it. On there is a postfix
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by hnben 8mo ago
> No one buys a Porsche because they want a sensible car for their family or they need something with large storage I know two porsche-owners personally. One sometimes uses his porsche (non SUV, but the small fast one) to go on family va
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by hnben 8mo ago
> I can give you an example of when I am glad I rebased I think the question was about situations where you were glad to rebase, when you could have merged instead
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by hnben 9mo ago
we do annual unannounced firedrills and now one dies as a consequence.
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by hnben 9mo ago
how are some tracks more profitable to spotify than others?
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by hnben 9mo ago
> which is a problem for professionals dont worry, leadership will find another metric to turn into a target, after the old metric has stopped working for a decade or two.
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by hnben 9mo ago
> From this point, everyone outside the US should stop using iPhones to prevent surveillance from the American empire. yes. > From another angle, the iPhones are primarily made in China AND India via third-party factories, so no one s
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by hnben 9mo ago
I like to browse HN via "/front" and "Go back day" and then look at the couple of top posts for each day. I don't see such a day-by-day view on TPE. What is the "official" acronym? TPE? TP? TecPeu? Wh
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by hnben 10mo ago
> Consolidating streaming services down to a handful of offerings will make price competition more fierce because they'll have richer catalogs to do battle with. this is not how markets usually work.
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by hnben 10mo ago
exactly.
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by hnben 10mo ago
pick your battles. You decide what extra work is worth your effort. learn to say "no", by which i mean "yes, but...". e.g. "can you look at this production issue?" --> "yes, but it is outside my comfort
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by hnben 1y ago
I use the tasks that come with my email account/calendar. It integrates well with thunderbird and android-apps. I am surpised, that no one here seems to use it, since it seems like an obvious choice.
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by hnben 1y ago
people seem downvote you, but I think this is a good example of how discussions SHOULD work. > A: makes a strong claim, suggesting it to be well known > B: doubts > [100 people provide credible sources] Also congrats for being 1 of
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by hnben 1y ago
> if you assume all the computational pathways happen in parallel on a GPU, that doesn't necessarily increase the time the model spends thinking about the question The layout of the NN is actually quite complex, which a large amount
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by hnben 1y ago
your 7yo can multiply a 5digit number with another 5digit number with >95% accuracy?
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by hnben 1y ago
iirc some european countries are currently exploring the idea of "law as code", i.e. law in a machine-readable format that can be parsed algorithmically. iirc austria already made some progress by converting some of their lawbooks

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