Maxion

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by Maxion 3y ago
This is normal in any slightly larger project, the company that wins the bid rarely has hundreds of people twiddling their thumbs waiting for the next contract to be won. Instead the contracting company goes out to find sub contractors who
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by Maxion 3y ago
Can you elaborate on the insulation part? My understanding is that if you have a poorly insulated house you just need more heat energy to keep it warm, I.e. a larger heat pump.
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by Maxion 3y ago
> I think a compelling alternative to Reddit would be a non venture capital backed company that is small headcount wise (think 50 people) and very straightforward about how it earns a profit, is sustainable, and focused on direct pay. No
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by Maxion 3y ago
One big issue with Reddit is that it is mismanaged. With the revenue they are generating ($456 million USD), it should be more than enough to run a site like Reddit. Over the last few years they've invested heavily in things that are v
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by Maxion 3y ago
Mastodon is not P2P
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by Maxion 3y ago
> Care to show some proof? I said large, not huge :P I'm afraid I don't want to dox myself so I can't post publicly stuff from my employer. And I don't really have time to do what ask and write it up in my free time.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Ad tracking, and obfuscation to make scraping harder, plus it's trendy to use lot's of JS libraries.
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by Maxion 3y ago
> I am sick and tired of systems engineering being grandized, when all you have to do is sit down somewhere quiet and think about the problem — with a bit of tea, and some way to access reference material. > Reddit is not a hard or in
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by Maxion 3y ago
The problem with trains is that the infrastructure is very expensive, and also wildly unprofitable, and very slow to build.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Capturing Co2 requires energy, laws of thermodynamics say there is no way to get free energy. Any Co2 capture system will undoubtedly be responsible for some small amount of Co2 emissions.
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by Maxion 3y ago
If I burn 10^21 gallons of sustainable, carbon neutral, aviation fuel every year, what would happen? Somehow I think the CO2 sensor on Mauna Loa would need to be dug out from a piece of percipitated carbon.
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by Maxion 3y ago
Yep, same. Django can also serve a boatload of concurrent users, way more than one would think. It is a boring, old-fashioned, but stable and very functional framework.
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by Maxion 4y ago
Nail on the head. Airliners have already moved away from the hub-and-spoke model to a point-to-point model where smaller narrowbodies fly direct from small airport to small airport (E.g. Southwest in the US). They do this specifically becau
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by Maxion 4y ago
It's way cheaper and more efficient for electricity consumers to purchase power from the grid, and for the grid to figure out the most optimal way to produce and deliver the power. Solar and wind are in many areas a) only available dur
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by Maxion 4y ago
There's a reason early Model T's are collectibles, and why 1980s Ford Escorts are in junkyards.
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by Maxion 4y ago
Sentry has a lot of GDPR problems, it's not easy to set it up so you don't leak PII in e.g. traces sent to it.
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by Maxion 4y ago
Ugh yes, nested serializers in DRF are always fun. Almost makes you want to go noSQL.
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by Maxion 4y ago
I was going to comment the same, horrible name collision. Surprised they didn't notice it.
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by Maxion 4y ago
On the other hand, if it doesn't pan out in a mouse model, it most likely won't in a human. So these are still useful studies to make, as it is not viable and ethical to test everything on humans first. Also, one should never read
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by Maxion 4y ago
Please let's not turn Hackernews into Reddit where every comment is a meme or a joke :(
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by Maxion 4y ago
This is an interesting comment, and highlights the accuracy problem with LLMs. But this is but one type of query that LLMs are used for, akin to an informational web search (E.g. How tall is the Eiffel tower).
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by Maxion 4y ago
And n+1 things that HAVE to be done against the spec. Or that for some region some field has to be hidden, but only for that region - not any else.
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by Maxion 4y ago
Most CRUD apps in enterprise settings relate to something in the real world. E.g. ordering systems, warehouse management and so on. The hard part here isn’t really the coding - but understanding the business logic and getting it out of the
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by Maxion 4y ago
It's kind of remarkable when you think about it that old typewrites from the 1960's gave more user friendly fine control over the document layout and symbols typed than modern word processing software. Sure LaTeX is a thing, but t
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by Maxion 4y ago
Consider the relationship between a writer and an editor in a newspaper setting. The writer creates the content, while the editor reviews and refines it to ensure it aligns with the publication's standards and style. The editor's
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by Maxion 4y ago
Yup, it’s a bit of a learning curve how to get it to output the most useful stuff with the least amount of prompts. Figure out what your goal is, and then start by giving a wide context and at first it will give wrong answers due to lack of
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by Maxion 4y ago
This is literally what humans do in many corporations today without ai.
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by Maxion 4y ago
I recommend trying out GPT3 and now the new released GPT4. Using them to collaboratly write correspondence is eye opening. You use ai as a tool, you prompt it, change its results and feed it back. A little work gives you impressive results
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by Maxion 4y ago
Heh that might even be a better experience
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by Maxion 4y ago
In the end the cost for you is how many tokens consumed, if you can get more value out of one request with 32k context that multiple with lower, then it’s cheaper (and faster). Some problems also require a larger context to be able to solve

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