technotarek

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by technotarek 9d ago
I spend a big chunk of my summers in nowhere cow-ville France (la Creuse). No Michelin star restaurants, no art galleries, no shopping worth note. Just landscapes, hiking, lakes and slower life. BUT what surprises me most is how often I de
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by technotarek 4mo ago
Apparently CloudFlare’s turnstile can’t, as evidenced by several public-facing CRUD and mail routines we maintain that no longer are warding off the spam.
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by technotarek 4mo ago
I’m not a furniture maker, but I have a rather close connection to the industry. I used to hate ikea furniture. In fact I hated almost all modern furniture that mass market, that wasn’t high end. I was a huge proponent of vintage furniture
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by technotarek 4mo ago
“ Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems. AI-generated content must not be treated as authoritative without independent verification appropriate to its context.” I’m lost, how do individuals actually do this in our current w
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by technotarek 5mo ago
Like Mr Jobs said, “You’re holding it wrong.”
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by technotarek 1y ago
Not a fan of my own medical example there. If I knew my kid was going to be blind, there are lots of actions I would take: Educating myself, potentially preparing the home environment etc.
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by technotarek 1y ago
A sincere question : In a home environment, what information do devices like this provide that you regularly act upon and how? Can you give some examples? I’m trying to understand the use case given I already have a thermostat with humidity
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by technotarek 1y ago
But whatever came of the lost cat??!!
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by technotarek 1y ago
Wow, what an interesting piece of journalism, in regards to the presentation. It reminded me of when I saw the NYT’s Snow Fall piece for the first time. At the time, it was an amazing display of cutting edge UI skills that exhibited both sk
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by technotarek 2y ago
As a native (suburban) Detroiter (who departed 20 years ago), I don’t want to throw shade but articles like these rarely give a good sense of the size or scope of decades of decay. There are still miles (and miles) of apocalyptic looking ne
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by technotarek 2y ago
RE prices were zero in my rave days : https://technotarek.com/shows/richie-hawtin
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by technotarek 2y ago
FYI the demo’s login credentials are case sensitive for the email field (when they probably shouldn’t be?).
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by technotarek 2y ago
I’ve got about twenty domains listed with them. No problems after 2-3 years, but I do wonder whether it’s a good idea to use the same vendor for DNS and domain registration.
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by technotarek 2y ago
I love this photo: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_bobbing#/media/File%3A...
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Apple Bobbing(en.wikipedia.org)
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by technotarek 2y ago
If anyone is interested in connecting with someone working in this space, please hit me up. We’ve been building tools for political media buyers for the last several years. We draw data from the Google Transparency DB, Meta’s equivalent and
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by technotarek 2y ago
Here’s a cover of his I like, kind of turned on its head. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYJwydTxYA
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by technotarek 2y ago
Tangential…Anyone from the HN community using Yuka app. (Scan barcodes to get info about dangerous additives and other health info about food and healthcare products.) I discovered it in France where it’s rather popular and continue to use
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by technotarek 2y ago
Whenever I see statements like this that correlate price and product quality (eg wine, spirits), I’m always wondering why a “fake” wouldn’t just elevate its price to the level of the non-fake. I have a feeling most customers won’t know the
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by technotarek 2y ago
Breaking news
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by technotarek 2y ago
Just installed and gave it a try. Good initial vibe. One of the first things I wanted to do was share a particular story/summary with someone else (ideally by text or email). Since you’re pushing the sharing idea at the bottom of the f
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by technotarek 3y ago
We need an acknowledgment of the past, the origins, which may no longer be present. Detroit starting in the ‘80s and into the 90s would be the prime example. I wrote a short essay about the latter : https://technotarek.com/s
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by technotarek 3y ago
I was being specific when I chose an LLM product like ChatGPT, not LLMs generically. I do so because it is a product like ChatGPT that boils away the noise to the end user, for better or worse. That is, to grossly simplify my point, it prov
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by technotarek 3y ago
Sure, but that’s huge. And probably the reason some (or at least me) are becoming so disillusioned with the web. It’s why I find it hard to believe/trust what I read from news to health advice to product reviews. The noise numbs us to
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by technotarek 3y ago
Sorry, yes 10KWh!
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by technotarek 3y ago
One man’s experience in DC (where the SRECs are crazy valuable): Installed 10Mwh system in 2021 for ~$40k. After federal tax credits, SREC earnings, reductions in electric bills, and payments from electric co for over production, we have $7
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by technotarek 3y ago
Yes! And occasionally, I still miss them.
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by technotarek 3y ago
? I guess you haven’t been around Paris in the last couple of years. Nike’s dominate street shoes - Jordan’s, AF1s, and Dunks.
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by technotarek 3y ago
Also in use at (at least some of) Paris’ libraries. I was quite impressed with the frictionless book borrowing experience. Scan your card and put your mess of a pile of kids books on the platform. Done. Happy kid. To boot, I was worried I w
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by technotarek 3y ago
They work on me and that’s exactly the problem — that is they work at manipulating me. And that’s why I want them gone. I’d rather free up the energy I spend on trying to ignore them and put that energy into something that actually makes my

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