sebastian

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by sebastian 4mo ago
Yeah, I like the ratio framing. That does seem like the kind of experiment you'd want to run next. The thing I'd be curious to separate out is ratio vs density. The fiction examples were positive, but a lot of the tokens are still
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by sebastian 4mo ago
I think the paper cuts a bit against the "just write nicer AI stories" version of this. They tried something close to that. Positive AI fiction and also a "virtuous character" setup. Those didn't seem to do nearly a
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by sebastian 7y ago
Which benefits does EdgeDB have over Hasura which isn't built on top of PostgreSQL but as a layer that runs on top of it and exposes a GraphQL API along with access control, event triggers and other features?
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by sebastian 8y ago
I would love to see the code open sourced! (it's ok if you have edge cases pending as long as they have been documented or at least mentioned in a README). Managing and running migrations smoothly without downtime is a very common chal
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by sebastian 8y ago
There is an small bug that I found when trying to signup. The signup form doesn't allow signing up with .co domains [1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/NDcd6X1.png
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by sebastian 8y ago
Lenovo Thinkpad 580, never been happier.
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by sebastian 8y ago
Highly unrelated (and lots of reasons missing): I was never a fan of Gnome and for years ended up "just going with LXDE instead" until I gave Budgie a try about 6 months ago. I have never been happier in my life.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Check out https://dgraph.io/ . I haven't had the chance to use it yet, but I have been following its development for a while. Definitely worth looking into.
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by sebastian 9y ago
The story in not over yet. He should sell the rights of his story for a movie and make the 1.2m back, only this time, the legit way.
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by sebastian 9y ago
> Open isn't a magic bullet. But closeness makes it extremely difficult to find actual backdoors left on purpose. Open processors would be a first step in the right direction.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Very helpful. It definitely would be worth developing an addon that would apply these settings for you.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Even though Mutt, Alpine, Sup and Notmuch might work great for some people they seem to be accessible only from a terminal, emacs, etc and very text heavy. As much as I love spending time on the terminal, I prefer a GUI app for my email. Po
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by sebastian 9y ago
Thanks for not letting Thunderbird die. In my opinion it's still the best and most customizable opensource email client and there is just not a viable replacement. Most of the open source email clients I have tested require you to run
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by sebastian 9y ago
A realtime chat without auth but with private messages or multiple rooms. Basically the user will pick a nickname, click next and then be able to chat on a general or create/join a room.
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by sebastian 9y ago
A WebSockets / realtime / push/pull exercise would be a good addition.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Golang, Python, Javascript, Typescript, Vue.js, Node.js, Relational and NoSQL databases, Scalability, High-availability, High Scale Web Scraping, Microservices, Serv
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by sebastian 9y ago
Another approach would be to have to pay the equivalent of USD 5-10 cents in some email crypto currency in order to allow an unknown sender to put their email on my inbox. If I reply or add the sender to my whitelist the fee is automaticall
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by sebastian 9y ago
Some type of proof‐of‐work for email addresses that have not been previously white-listed. Similar to what BitMessage does[1]. Sending emails to new/random contacts shouldn't be that easy anyway. [1] https://bitmessage.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Same discussion every time there is a post about CockroachDB. It's time to get over it.
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by sebastian 9y ago
Checkout discord. It was developed for gamers but lots of people are now using it for remote pairing.
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by sebastian 9y ago
It looks like a very good first step. I wonder how structured/semantic the generated HTML would be for engeniers to "hook' the generated code with a backend
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by sebastian 9y ago
The demo video shows two examples and iOS UI and a web UI, it looks like it's using Bootstrap for the web UIs
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by sebastian 9y ago
Different colour + underlined.
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by sebastian 9y ago
A good way to fix this would be coloring all Unicode characters in the URL bar.
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by sebastian 10y ago
Good job, do you plan to add more components?
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by sebastian 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote My background includes 4 university majors (Computer Science, Information Technology/Web Development, Multimedia Design and Media Arts). I have been developing web applications for nearly 9 years. Although I usual
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by sebastian 14y ago
Excellent information. Checking out yodlee and wesabe's ssu.
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Ask HN: How do sites like coinbase.com or mint.com access your bank accounts?
9 points by sebastian 14y ago|2 comments
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by sebastian 14y ago
But, how much would I need to write to update the data in realtime as it changes in the backend?
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by sebastian 14y ago
How possible would it be to use something like Spark or Derby.js's Racer in a django site? I like the realtime concept/behavior but I want to keep developing in django.

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