theolivenbaum

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by theolivenbaum 25d ago
They added a whole set of skills and python scripts for interacting with office files using libreoffice headless, it's not writing the XML files directly
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by theolivenbaum 3mo ago
Wild times when one can go from a HN post about an interesting open source code to a port to a new language in a matter of hours (wip, but almost complete: https://github.com/theolivenbaum/copybara )
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by theolivenbaum 4mo ago
For me it was even worse than that. One laptop has copilot blocked by policy, and it shows a blocking modal every time you press the key by mistake
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by theolivenbaum 4mo ago
If I remember correctly the status page was not precise before the acquisition - so take with a big grain of salt the 100% pre-acquisition values
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by theolivenbaum 5mo ago
It's worse than that - the feature exists in the paid OneDrive app, it lets you scan, edit, add pages etc just like the office lens. It just doesn't save the output - scanned files just disappear in the void.
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BCG's Data Warehouse Hacked – 3.17T Rows, Zero Authentication(codewall.ai)
2 points by theolivenbaum 6mo ago|0 comments
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by theolivenbaum 7mo ago
Seems like this is going to be the year of AI slop being released everywhere by Microsoft. Just wish they'd put as much effort into a post morten for this one as they're doing for a diagram on a blog post https://github
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by theolivenbaum 8mo ago
Maybe I'm not seeing it but wouldn't it be just easier to pump the river water back up instead of letting it flow on the sea?
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Show HN: Library to help find memory leaks for C#(github.com)
2 points by theolivenbaum 9mo ago|0 comments
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by theolivenbaum 1y ago
See here for more info: https://github.com/Cysharp/ZLinq?tab=readme-ov-file#differen...
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by theolivenbaum 1y ago
There are some minor breaking changes like the order of iteration is not always the same as the official Linq implementation, or Sum might give different values due to checked vs unchecked summing. Probably not an issue for most people, but
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by theolivenbaum 1y ago
To add on that, you can define your lambdas as static to make sure you're not capturing anything by mistake. Something like dates.Where(static x => x.Date > DateTime.Now)
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
There's also a really nice implementation of Rope for C# here: https://github.com/FlatlinerDOA/Rope
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Specially because there are no network effects and no lock in.
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Netflix did that many years ago, interesting idea even if a bit disruptive in the beginning https://netflix.github.io/chaosmonkey/
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
What a bunch of corporate newspeak. Their demand of 8% of gross revenue in annual license fees, or >$30M for 2024, shows how much this was only about profits and not about contributing to the WP community: "It’s important to note th
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
I think the original quote was "One in a million is next Tuesday": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterma...
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Isn't that precisely what they were doing? Forcing landlords to follow the recommended prices? "RealPage thus makes it hard for customers to override its recommendations, according to the lawsuits, allegedly even requiring a writt
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Reminded me of their Command-E acquisition from a few years ago ( https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/welcome-command-e-to... )
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
That's what our app does: curiosity.ai, local index, support for many files types and apps out of the box, and integrated local OCR, STT and even local LLM
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
You forgot to mention how he also single-handed solved search at Twitter /s
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
And nowadays by ego
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
They turned into an online version of the mob. Pay them and they'll take care that your bad reviews are gone. Don't pay and risk getting a few extra bad reviews
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World of Goo 2: now available(worldofgoo2.com)
71 points by theolivenbaum 2y ago|45 comments
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
If you want to try our software (includes search, RAG, file handling, and a bunch of integrations, and can be deployed on prem or cloud), happy to give you a license in exchange for some feedback! Just shout me an email at rafael (at) curio
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Show HN: Florence2-Sharp – Advanced Image Understanding and OCR in C#(github.com)
1 points by theolivenbaum 2y ago|0 comments
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Going up the wrong road and ending up inside a favela https://www.france24.com/en/20170807-british-tourist-shot-af...
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Came here to say that. The nerve one has to have to put a sign up for a trial on that page - guess any publicity is better than no publicity after all
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Except that there's still a grey area on who owns the copyright of the generated text, and they might be able to use the output without you knowing.
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by theolivenbaum 2y ago
Reminds me of the MIT's magic switch story http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

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