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by ragnarsson 3y ago
When you write an article like this better mention hard numbers. Like what percentage of the population of the city is digital nomads. My guess - less than 1%. Its easy to blame all the problems of your city on outsiders than take responsib
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by ragnarsson 3y ago
I have written crawlers for a while, most sites are unfriendly to anything other than Google (maybe they spare bing as well), some make it downright impossible without extensive work on evading their blocking techniques. I expect (but can n
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by ragnarsson 3y ago
Thanks Andrew, for me a big frustration with Rust is the compilation times coming from Go. Based on your Milan presentation as well, I have a lot of hope that Zig is seriously pushing on this.
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Jibble.io (Employee Surveillance as a Service)(jibble.io)
3 points by ragnarsson 3y ago|1 comments
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by ragnarsson 3y ago
It happened to me when I was junior engineer during covid, honestly I came out as a better developer since I learned how to get answers from the code, I got much better at navigating different codebases. Though it was still a drag sometimes
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by ragnarsson 3y ago
They mentioned in the Technical paper of GPT-4 that the capabilities of the model were not from RLHF. https://youtu.be/2zW33LfffPc?t=842
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by ragnarsson 3y ago
He absolutely should have gotten rid of the troublemaker. Many folks used this publicity to leave for higher positions or higher pay (which is very common at google) but made it look like Jeff Dean was the problem.
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
I used to own 20$ headphones for few years, I upgraded to 50$ ones for the next couple of years and finally to 200$ ones. I have felt big differences each time. I don't see whats funny about that. If I upgrade now (I can't quite a
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
I got a bill on GC that was less than a cent and my bank couldn't process that. GC closed my project (free tier) and then I paid the minimum amount that my bank allowed.
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
> You simply can't count on the baseline configuration of your account and instances provided by AMS, you need advanced knowledge on how to secure your resources beyond basic stuff like MFA and monitoring. What advanced knowledge ar
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
I felt disillusioned 4-5 months in my first job after college. I could see the project I was working would take a long time to create something of value (3-5 years) but we were always put under pressure to show some stupid demos to manageme
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Some good MongoDB documentation. (Unix/ulimit)(mongodb.com)
12 points by ragnarsson 4y ago|0 comments
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
Modern problems require modern solutions. I keep a separate gmail id just for this. Also I signed in using gmail and redirect didn't work in firefox.
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
yes https://cp4space.hatsya.com/2021/01/08/the-neural-network-of...
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
Failure of Self driving certainly can't be attributed to Sundar. Yes GCP has obviously failed. What Sundar has done well is the AI first focus. Deepmind acquisition was key and they are developing their own chat thing which very well m
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
clicks
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
My experience with React has been different hence commenting here. That is just not true. I have used react with nextjs in the past but moved to remix. Moving to a new framework requires you to learn it, quite similar to learning a new lang
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by ragnarsson 4y ago
For me democratizing can mean "We have done something hard and we are going to share the benefits of it for minimal gain". The business is not lucrative for others to copy because margins are low. OpenAI is a capped profit company