Lazare

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by Lazare 3y ago
Tried Obsidian for a while, loved a lot about it, but....mmm. Obsidian out of the box is a bit limited; plugins are great and add tons of features, but then you start hitting issues with plugin maintainers abandoning plugins you rely on, or
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by Lazare 3y ago
This is how https://aider.chat works; it gives you answers in the form of git commits that include the prompt and a description of what it did. It's an interesting UX.
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by Lazare 3y ago
I spent a while trying to install and run this but it never worked. Seems like it might be an interesting tool. I've had more luck with https://aider.chat although for whatever reason I haven't found it useful enough t
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by Lazare 3y ago
Interestingly the article actually calls out the 4Runner as "among the most reliable models in the survey". Apparently the newer model years are still pretty solid!
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by Lazare 3y ago
The linked article is pretty explicit about how they calculate it. A detailed explanation is literally the first section. And as they explain, they ask people about the actual problems they've had in the last 12 months with their car;
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by Lazare 3y ago
PBEM (Play By Email) was (and maybe still is) a big thing in the wargaming space. Long, long ago I was part of a group on USENET and later IRC that organised games of Stars! ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars !) with
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by Lazare 3y ago
Paying for GPT-4 is worth it. ChatGPT Plus is one way of doing so and works fine. There is no 50 per month limit; not idea where you got that from. The limit is 50 per 3 hours , but I've honestly never hit it. You can also just get an
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by Lazare 3y ago
I have grave reservations about AI art, but...nope, that doesn't follow. It's true that there are a lot of (human) artists in the US. (Something like 80 million, broadly defined.) And it's also true that the art and media eac
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by Lazare 3y ago
For anyone curious what's going on here: You can't carbon date human activity , you can carbon date the point that organic material stopped growing. If you carbon date some partially burned wood found in the remains of a fireplac
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by Lazare 3y ago
> Thus far, it remains undetermined, as things are still in progress. My question was, do you think the 3rd circuit got it wrong, and that the spin off didn't have access to that money when it initially tried to file for bankruptcy
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by Lazare 3y ago
I mean...the 3rd circuit ruled that J&J did fully fund the spin off's liabilities - or rather, that the spin off had access not to "a couple of hundred million", but to at least $61.5b. In that specific case, are you su
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by Lazare 3y ago
Well, fraud, obviously. :) Beyond that, you can still, in theory, make a lot of money being a supplier to a low margin business. By some estimates NVIDIA booked over $2b in extra revenue due to crypto.
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by Lazare 3y ago
Kagi is great if you're willing to pay. DuckDuckGo is...okay if you aren't.
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by Lazare 3y ago
Yes, although if you think about it a bit: With a VPN you're hoping there's no logs at all, and it's pretty easy for a VPN vendor - entirely by accident - to keep some logs around. And then a search warrant lands, they look a
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by Lazare 3y ago
Yes. Quite useful. Also groups listacle spam ("top 10 X" type articles).
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by Lazare 3y ago
A fair call, but to quote their privacy policy: > Unlike "free" search engines, we do not log searches or in any way tie them to an account. So if you trust them to do what they say, then yes, that pretty much solves the issue.
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by Lazare 3y ago
Just chiming in here. My experience is: * Google search was good, but has been steadily getting worse. Over the last 1-3 years it's become actively unplesant. * DDG solves a lot of privacy issues, but the search quality is strictly wor
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by Lazare 3y ago
UUIDv7 is a nice idea, and should probably be what people use by default instead of UUIDv4 for internal facing uses. For the curious: * UUIDv4 are 128 bits long, 122 bits of which are random, with 6 bits used for the version. Traditionall
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by Lazare 3y ago
When people say something is a ponzi, they generally mean that they think it's deceptive, fraudulent, or otherwise unsavoury. They don't mean that it's literally the sort of scheme made infamous by Charles Ponzi. I think th
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by Lazare 3y ago
I agree with your overall point, but I would note that US security regulation focuses heavily on disclosure as a mechanism to protect investors, and the owners of pre-deal SPAC shares are not well protected in that regard. It's good
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by Lazare 3y ago
> SPACs, in theory, democratized access to late-stage private markets, aiming to give retail investors an early seat at the table. I question how that's even true in theory. A SPAC is an elaborate (and expensive) mechanism to bring
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by Lazare 3y ago
I feel like the moderation culture of Stack Overflow became toxic and counterproductive years ago. It's like the worst parts of Wikipedia, but squared. Just endless arguments over what is or isn't a duplicate or is or isn't r
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by Lazare 3y ago
ULIDs work, but: The spec has a really weird choice in it - it attempts to guarantee monotonicity. There's a few problems with that, namely that it's almost entirely pointless, it's impossible to actually guarantee it, and
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by Lazare 3y ago
I agree; base58 or base62 (which KSUIDs use) have a lot to recommend them. Crockford's base32 works, but I don't love it. My first choice would be to just use type-prefixed KSUIDs, which gives you 160-bit K-sortable IDs with base6
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by Lazare 3y ago
Doesn't help; what matters is your total R&D spend which - apparently according to current guidance - includes all/most of programmer salaries. If you spend is going up, you're pre-paying more and more tax on profits you
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by Lazare 3y ago
If such things interest anyone, here's some relevant Wikipedia links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours (one of the larger systems, and the one Kootenay's was copied from, now defunct) https:/&
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by Lazare 3y ago
No, hilariously Buzzfeed News was top tier investigative journalism, and at their best was as good as anything done by NYT or WaPo. The business model seemed to be "what if we have truly great investigative journalism, funded by clic
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by Lazare 3y ago
> I don't know of any jurisdiction (apart from the US, apparently) which allowed 100% non-amortized tax credit for loosely defined R&D salaries. This is not about tax credits, this is about whether salaries are an expense. If Wi
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by Lazare 3y ago
No. After 5 years the first years salaries are considered to be a "finished" R&D project, which means there's nothing left to amortize. The only thing like that is that if, after a few years, you fire all your devs (or at
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by Lazare 3y ago
> it makes total sense to me that an "off the record" chat doesn't need to be preserved, even by a court order to keep all records. Let's assume there is a chat app that is officially designed to be off-the-record, Y

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