srazzaque

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by srazzaque 1y ago
Agree with what others have said: you need to try a few out. But I'd put Qwen3-14B on your list of things to try out.
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by srazzaque 1y ago
Get the LLM to read and summarise N pages at a time, and store the outputs. Then, you concatenate those outputs into one "super summary" and use _that_ as context. Theres some fidelity loss but it works for text, because there&#x2
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by srazzaque 1y ago
This is impressive! Some interesting (and seemingly accurate) insights on my own behaviours :-) Caveat: I didn't try this on desktop. On mobile (DDG Browser) I couldn't actually see any charts on the questions I asked. Whilst the
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by srazzaque 2y ago
I have been using Linux on "bare metal" for quite some time, as my primary operating system on the machines I've owned. When I've needed Windows, I've run it in a virtual machine. This has been my MO on my personal
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by srazzaque 2y ago
Whilst it doesn't have the mindshare or some features which are tablestakes for enterprise customers, I've found Linode's pricing to be extremely predictable for small projects. Even post Akamai acquisition. I'm sure oth
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by srazzaque 2y ago
Makes sense! What's the current best virtualisation software on Windows in your opinion? I tried searching online for this. And quickly realised that highly ranked sites targeting Windows users are quite low quality.
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by srazzaque 2y ago
> At home, I no longer dual-boot because I vm. Curious, do you have a Windows host and Linux guest(s)? Or the other way around? I currently have Linux as my primary with a Windows guest OS for when I need it (e.g. Office - I actually thi
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Interesting analysis. I think it suffices to say that quite a bit of thought and justification would precede striking a hospital in all of these scenarios. I do hope that this level of thought and consideration is standard operating proced
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by srazzaque 3y ago
I'll preface this with the fact that I appreciate the opportunity for discourse without degenerating to our base/tribal/Neanderthal brains. And, also, a chance to converse with someone outside my own echo chambers. Most of m
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by srazzaque 3y ago
+1 I've found that, for me anyway, one centered large monitor with enough real estate for your daily tasks is better than N smaller monitors. This is even if "total number of pixels" is larger on the N-monitor setup. It'
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by srazzaque 3y ago
I see your point, but comparing this with an off-line AV scanner with a regularly updated internal database (assuming that's what you meant) is not an apt comparison. The analog would be an AV scanner that sends a list of your files&#x
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Interesting, I wasn't aware Google had actually stated "we don't use this data for tracking, and we only use it for link protection" (does it?). Assuming true: you are right in that it's basically no-win. The fact t
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by srazzaque 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the stated intent of the redirect is to prevent phishing (that is, provide an opportunity for Google to warn users about visiting a known dodgy site). The ability to track is just an added bonus! Microsoft does this too
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by srazzaque 3y ago
To be clear: I'm not bashing Excel. Agree that there isn't a viable alternative for explorative table manipulation, and the experience of "think/change/see-results" is second to none. I myself use it for low-st
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Yep, I've long conjectured that Excel is what sells MS office. Every other product in the Office suite, including PowerPoint, has very viable alternatives. Excel has a 100% a strong-hold in most finance departments. I've worked wi
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by srazzaque 3y ago
As did I. Lotus Notes is something that cannot be unseen.
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by srazzaque 3y ago
(2) is perhaps poorly and ambiguously worded on my part. What I meant to convey was: "It's rude/impolite to refuse your friend's offer to top your drink up" (context being: you're already out drinking).
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by srazzaque 3y ago
I've not been to Japan, but heard what seems to be an exception to this rule from a colleague. When out having drinks, it is considered (1) rude to let your friend's drink go empty, and (2) rude to refuse your friends offer for a
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Good read, a lot that resonated with me. My comms (written and verbal) to stakeholders are something I'd rate as "OK". But, on occasion I still do catch myself out diving into tech talk at the wrong times. I'd add that w
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Personally I love the usability of KDE, the speed (and information density) of the file browser, and love constantly discovering little "touches" of polish as I use it. However, the thing that's killed it from being my primar
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by srazzaque 3y ago
I've seen a few reasons in big-corps. To list 2: 1. Old version, and security updates are still required There's some critical piece of legacy software that has only been tested and observed to work on an old version of the JVM (e
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by srazzaque 3y ago
> It's basically all vanilla Java Have you considered rewriting it in rust? ;) In all seriousness, it's great to see something written in a "boring" language like Java, which seems to get a lot of hate in developer ci
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by srazzaque 3y ago
Whilst I can only speak anecdata, in my experience majority of people who "know" the song definitely only know the chorus, and have no idea about the song's history or lyrics. They'll sing along (loudly, I might add) dur
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by srazzaque 4y ago
Sounds simple enough, but there's a small problem. Increasing supply might negatively affect property values. ... And people influencing policy are likely property owners, or at least represent property owners.
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by srazzaque 4y ago
Whilst slightly off-topic, curious if they published, or if anyone knows, what OS the compromised employee machine was running?
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by srazzaque 4y ago
Your role is to manage engineers. That sounds very simple, but let's break it down. Starting with the term "management". The best definition I ever received was "management is getting things done through people". Th
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by srazzaque 4y ago
This is a great list. My thoughts on two of the points: > The biggest value in estimating isn’t the estimate but to check if there is common understanding. Wholeheartedly agree. The amount of extra detail I've captured out from the
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by srazzaque 4y ago
Ha! I was a wimp and did a "stage 3" install back in the day. Or was it stage 2? (shrug). Now I'm even wimpier and just use Fedora. Came across this page, on the motivations of Gentoo, a few years later: > Installing a wor
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by srazzaque 4y ago
I see your point, and that is indeed the case in some companies (or even roles within companies). I also advocate for keeping a separate work/personal phone. However, being a background checking company, making phone calls is absolutel
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by srazzaque 4y ago
> They have some hokey secure email thing that is basically a link to a webform upload. Not Equifax per se, but my understanding from dealing with background checking companies is that this pattern is to discourage people from sending se

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