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by markerz 15d ago
Property rights are not the only way to create profit. That's a very capitalistic mindset. Plenty of societies have functioned adequately without our current form of property rights, either physical or intellectual. Before AI, it wa
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by markerz 23d ago
Exactly my and top commenter's point. "Temporary price reduction" and "production workloads" are two different worlds. I'm against the idea that "there's really no point in locking in model choice fo
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by markerz 23d ago
What about companies purchasing enterprise contracts? Most contracts are minimum 12 months. At a minimum, to secure enteprise requirements like zero-data retention, you'll need to lock into a single provider. These price reductions a
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by markerz 26d ago
So Next.JS actually pre-fetches links when they move into the viewport or you hover over it. It's interesting, but then you get wasted battery on mobile while on bad networks. The world is full of tradeoffs. Tech workers tend to wan
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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B(techcrunch.com)
11 points by markerz 1mo ago|1 comments
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by markerz 1mo ago
Retool | Remote (US) & Hybrid (SF/NYC) Retool is how companies let all their employees build with AI. We provide everything you don't want to AI slop: permissions, authentication, security, audit logs, and hosting. You just
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by markerz 2mo ago
Yeah. I've never done that. I can see the value in it, though. Personally, I do a Kagi search, or I make an LLM do it for me. I highly prefer word-of-mouth recommendations like Reddit, HackerNews, or Lobsters. It's quite easy t
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by markerz 2mo ago
I had a Japanese teacher a few years ago who explained that Japan's ramen is the US's "burger and fries". It's calorie-rich processed food that's available everywhere. They are prepared in advance, served ver
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by markerz 2mo ago
Are we using GitHub differently? I don’t understand how the social network part of GitHub has to do with having your code discoverable and to discover. I’ve never stumbled upon a project by browsing GitHub casually. It’s always through fi
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by markerz 2mo ago
In my world, most multilingual speakers are children of immigrant families, and that transcends socio-economic boundaries. Plenty of immigrants were already wealthy before coming to the SF Bay Area, where we import highly educated, special
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Farewell, atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider(popsci.com)
3 points by markerz 2mo ago|1 comments
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by markerz 3mo ago
I’m a particular fan of the ai-for-brains emoji in Slack https://slackmojis.com/emojis/63197-ai-for-brains
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by markerz 3mo ago
I suspect it’s by construction, looks like they’re offering every permutation of treat choice twice. Below, I filtered for A vs E, the top two choices. Notice how they switch left and right hand each time: A/E :: A E/A :: A A&#x2
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by markerz 3mo ago
There’s a few polls that have shown most people use AI, but they also dislike it. I’m in that boat, where my company pays for my subscription, and I use it to be productive. But I don’t really feel good about it. https://gizmod
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by markerz 3mo ago
There are plenty of providers of open models that offer very affordable rates. Generally, I recommend looking at OpenRouter since they track various metrics for the various providers.
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by markerz 3mo ago
The loss with age is super commin, and all in the same direction (people hear more flat but guess more sharp).
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by markerz 3mo ago
> Like, do you even understand what you're saying? That comment is unnecessary and has the effect of making people feel bad. I think the rationale is that wages are stagnant in comparison to investments (stocks) and costs (inflation
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by markerz 3mo ago
If Strava is sharing or reselling users GPS locations to third parties without user consent, yes.
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by markerz 4mo ago
Took me a bit of digging but I found this screenshot of fox-news.in: https://urlscan.io/result/50f1da5b-5b1f-417c-91b8-8690638a6e... That URL is linked from https://assets.recordedfuture.com/insikt-repo
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by markerz 4mo ago
I have a wife. I love my wife. My wife loves me. I cannot return my wife’s love for me at the same amount or manner. She loves me more than I can ever love her. She loves me in ways I can never. It’s very poetically written and sounds
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by markerz 6mo ago
> they attract birds that that poo on vehicles I think this is a tree density problem. Most cities have a small number of trees, and they’re almost always over cars. These are trees that line streets and parking lots. Without trees, b
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by markerz 8mo ago
Cocaine (the powder) is extracted from the coca leaf, which indigenous South Americans have chewed for over 8000 years. While the synthetic drug is insanely addictive, the natural form is still commonly used as a mild stimulant, probably s
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by markerz 8mo ago
Surely, they don't spend $500 per month , though, as the quote implies.
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by markerz 9mo ago
re: the phone number Businesses really underestimate how much having a human representative helps customers feel connected to a business. I see it in corporate sales (B2B) where accounts are pretty much tied to the account manager. When t
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by markerz 9mo ago
LLMs will always have the tool call overhead, which I find to be quite expensive (seconds) on most models. Directly using vector databases without the LLM interface gets you a lot of the semantic search ability without the multi-second lat
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by markerz 9mo ago
> From a critical perspective, this signals organizational dysfunction. If a company requires 13 people to sign off on a hire, it… implies a fear of making mistakes… The company with 13 rounds was fishing for a reason to say "no” I
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by markerz 9mo ago
The problem with LLMs using full-text-search is they’re very slow compared to a vector search query. I will admit the results are impressive but often it’s because I kick off an agent query and step away for 5 minutes. On the other hand, g
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Please stop using middleware to protect your routes(pilcrowonpaper.com)
3 points by markerz 9mo ago|1 comments
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Can you spot AI videos from real ones? Take our quiz(npr.org)
12 points by markerz 10mo ago|1 comments
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Video posted by Garry Tan shows suspect who robbed his friend of $11M in crypto(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by markerz 10mo ago|1 comments

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