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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
Google did the same bullshit on Android. With Google Assistant (old assistant) I could say "Hey Google, play daft punk" and it would start playing Daft Punk on Spotify. With Gemini (new assistant) it says "sorry I cannot play
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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
This breaks down when someone goes on holiday to Greece for a week, and the RTT over the airbnb wifi is 5 seconds. Optimistic updates on the frontend are probably simpler too.
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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
The best box cutter is the Moby Safety Knife. I used it when I was working in a supermarket 20 years ago, and I haven't found anything even remotely comparable. The short blade on top is perfect for breaking the tape to open the box wi
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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
I think it's more a consequence of pushing for the biggest valuation/IPO. Rumoured profits on inference are north of 70%. Taking SpaceX as an example, they have increased prices across all their consumer products over the past six
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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
Reolink has always been like that, but at least they aren't a random no-name brand that could disappear at any minute.
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by lucaspiller 3mo ago
Don't forget the fan controllers to try to make it silent and the neon lights. I still have that machine at my parents house, used it a couple of years ago to rip all my teenage CDs to digital formats.
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
Netflix has the same problem. Downloaded some TV shows for my daughter to watch while we were travelling. Worked fine on the plane, arrived to the hotel, connected to WiFi "This content is not available in your location". Ok, disc
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
My agent has access to my email, my messages, my work, my finances, my life. But thank god it doesn't have access to root on my machine.
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
> we like all the dopamine hijacking garbage I basically don't use Facebook any more because of this. Opening the app shows me the most sensationalist, fearmongering and outrage bait content they can find. It's worse than news
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
This also perfectly describes the career change from software engineer to engineering manager. Instead of solving things yourself, you need to learn how to describe them in a way others can solve them. Otherwise you will just be fighting th
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
Better to outsource, then if something goes wrong, the execs don't have to take the blame themselves.
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
There are enough big banks in Europe that want to use AI, but almost all of them have very terrible software engineering (sorry to anyone who works there), so it's not like they are going to spin up their own cluster on top of open sou
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
If training robots doesn't pan out, they could always pivot and use the data to train AI to control humans instead. Some industries such as Amazon warehouse pickers and drivers are effectively already this. https://marshallb
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We run Gemini at scale across billions of posts(modash.io)
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
This is why they are pushing more for non-tech folks to use their products with desktop apps. They are not going to switch on a whim.
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
You mean a team of humans who are labelling datasets?
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
I run some numbers, how much would it cost to build MaltaGPT - sovereign hosted ChatGPT. Malta has a population of 500k. Let's assume 100k people use MaltaGPT daily, and they send an average of 10 messages per day, so roughly 1M messag
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by lucaspiller 4mo ago
Is there any progress being made on cars so they are less susceptible to rust? In my country that's the main reason why vehicles are scrapped, engines can be repaired easily enough, but when various suspension parts are corroded and ne
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by lucaspiller 7mo ago
I'm in the early phases of working on a game that explores that. The backstory is that in the late 2050s when AI has its hands in everything, humans loose trust of it. There are a few high profile incidents - based on AI decisions -, w
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by lucaspiller 2y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE (North America or Europe) or ONSITE (San Francisco) | Electron Expert We sell digital signage, and a host of related products, that create interactive retail experiences. This is powered by a small stick, that yo
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by lucaspiller 2y ago
Is there a good alternative available in the EU? Anthropic announced it was available in the EU last month, but it seems now that they've changed their mind. https://www.anthropic.com/claude-ai-locations
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by lucaspiller 3y ago
SEEKING WORK | EU or UK | Remote or potentially on-site With over a decade of experience as a versatile full-stack software engineer, I bring a wealth of expertise gained working with small to medium-sized startups. Recently I've build
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by lucaspiller 3y ago
I haven't seen any of OPs comments, but I remember when Checkly (also in this space) first launched the founder of that was posting a lot here and on Reddit. I wouldn't say their comments were that helpful or insightful - mainly j
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by lucaspiller 3y ago
That's the wholesale price paid to producers. Consumers are paying around 23c/kWh, however that (as with most European countries) has been subsided by the government - the real price should be higher. https://www.reuter
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by lucaspiller 3y ago
It's probably worth noting why cars are finally scrapped. It's usually not because of problems with the engine, but other issues that EVs also have. Rust (in Northern Europe this is a big thing), crash damage, generate state of di
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by lucaspiller 3y ago
Actually fingerprinting is pretty reliable: https://amiunique.org/fingerprint
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by lucaspiller 5y ago
I saw a similar technique posted here a few weeks ago [0]. This guy is even worse, as his blog sounds like the typical "five simple steps to loose 200lbs, only $99 a month!" (and he does actually charge $99 a month for coaching).
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by lucaspiller 6y ago
For anyone thinking to simply host assets in S3 (i.e. skip the Cloudfront part), please do not. I'm not sure if it's my ISP throttling it, or the routing, but from where I am in Europe, accessing a file from an S3 bucket in us-eas
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by lucaspiller 6y ago
In reality: Even if in a few hundred years we have the capability to travel at FTL to other solar systems, we will still be using GMT as "ship's time".
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by lucaspiller 6y ago
On Linux you can do the same with ddccontrol. I wrote an article last year explaining how I have my monitor automatically dim at night, in combination with Redshift: https://www.stackednotion.com/blog/2019/05/

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