Netcob

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by Netcob 1y ago
Once in a while I save ~10 minutes by using AI. About as often as embarrassing myself by having to admit that my primary source was an AI while researching some topic. The main thing that changed is that the CTO is in more of a "move f
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by Netcob 1y ago
Interesting that the bus bandwidth was such a bottleneck, when you could also argue it was VRAM. I never looked into why "Hardware transform&lighting" was introduced so late (I'm guessing it didn't fit on the die nex
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by Netcob 1y ago
I struggle with habits a lot, but this is one of the few that work for me. I think the kids call it "habit stacking"? Basically, I have to brush my teeth and shower before going to bed. It's all one package, and I'm very
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by Netcob 1y ago
True, local LLMs might be a better idea for this particular purpose. Most self-hosted services are generally a better idea, if you know what you're doing.
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by Netcob 1y ago
Imagine typing 80085 into your calculator as a kid, but the number disappears and a finger-wagging animation plays instead.
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by Netcob 1y ago
I don't think LLMs are mature enough as a technology to be blindly used as a dependency, and they might never be. The big question is, how do you train LLMs that are useful to both humans and services while not embarrassing the company
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by Netcob 1y ago
Maybe some people would prefer that. Not everyone will happily open up to another human, especially when people are the reason for the trauma...
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by Netcob 2y ago
Even if you try to look at the situation from a detached POV I think you can't help but be baffled at how much influence the US is giving up for no apparent reason. It always felt like a house of cards here in Europe - we rely on defen
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by Netcob 2y ago
Probably any hardware that requires you to use some intermediate code. Nowadays probably some TPU or NPU or whatever. This made me think of what "accelerators" I've come across (just as a regular consumer): In the late 90s, t
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by Netcob 2y ago
If anything, this is just putting the huge disconnect between the ideals and the realities of higher education on display. I studied CS because I love computers and programming and I wanted an SWE job. The idea was to earn a living doing so
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by Netcob 2y ago
In a perfect world, we would have had a very broad conversation not just about AI in education, but about the role of education in society. I don't think it has ever been a purely intellectual pursuit. Especially in societies that tell
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by Netcob 2y ago
The admin API wasn't really official - at least I couldn't find documentation anywhere and had to piece it together from the source code. And regex filters didn't seem to work through that - didn't get an error back, but
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by Netcob 2y ago
Finally a REST API! I've been waiting for this - I wanted to play around with blocking distractions on various rules, but controlling pi-hole remotely was a huge pain and often didn't work until now.
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by Netcob 2y ago
Here in Germany, you often come across surnames that end in "-ski", which I assume come from Poland. That is also an example of getting "stuck" with a specific version of a name: in Poland, that ending would indicate tha
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by Netcob 2y ago
I think most people who care about code have a bit of OCD over these things, but there is a difference between how the code looks vs. how it is structured. I think that's what the author means.
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by Netcob 2y ago
This is really complicated... - NVIDIA has probably been overvalued for a while - But what is happening now is clearly a panic - GPUs are still needed for training and inference, and I guess people will figure that out in the next few days
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by Netcob 2y ago
I got my first 3d printer, an MK3S+ a year ago. Pretty late in its lifecycle, but I wanted to spend more time printing than fixing issues. And it definitely worked! I got the kit and built it within 10h or so (very enjoyable time actually,
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by Netcob 2y ago
When I see someone use that word, it's almost always a clear knee-jerk reaction to: - Media featuring women who aren't exclusively an attractive love interest or a very minor character - Media featuring non-white or non-heterosexu
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by Netcob 2y ago
I always wondered - why do we usually need to build software for a target architecture/system on the same architecture/system? Unless the build includes tests, it doesn't need to be run? I get that Apple has its own BS reason
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by Netcob 2y ago
Not to be confused with the "lemonscape", a hallucinated world you enter when you've eaten too many lemons.
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by Netcob 2y ago
A few days ago I made a 50x timelapse of a drive using my dashcam and... oddly enough, that looked exactly like that pseudo 3D effect. It looks like the road is just bending left and right, whipping around out of the blue, while everything
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by Netcob 2y ago
I love the ingenuity, I also love youtube documentaries on this topic, but... as a child (in the 90s), I did not like these pseudo 3D racing games at all! Mode 7 on the SNES was usually fine. I don't know how accurately it rendered a s
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by Netcob 2y ago
How many of these people didn't understand that anyone could see their videos? It might be a bit difficult for the highly technical HN crowd to grasp how little many people understand technology. Not changing the title is already a big
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by Netcob 2y ago
I was experimenting with Python for some personal data-based project. My goal was to play around with some statistics functions, maybe train some models and so on. Unfortunately most of my data needs a lot of preprocessing before it will be
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by Netcob 2y ago
Yes please. I am currently driving a pre-touchscreen car and I hope I can just skip that era entirely. Touchscreens are a menace. The most dangerous moments I have in my car are when I'm trying to skip the ads in my podcasts. Which got
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by Netcob 2y ago
I live in Germany, and I've developed a similar rule with doctors in general. But here I can use an even better rule of thumb - be extremely suspicious of anything that isn't covered by public health insurance. I'm sure other
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by Netcob 2y ago
Just for yourself, write a short script for a youtube video. Try to make it engaging, even if it's just a paragraph. Then put your phone up on your desk, put your script next to it. Read the script and record yourself. Also go out and
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by Netcob 2y ago
My vacuum has often lost various parts around the apartment whenever it got caught on something, but so far it has never shat on the floor. It is quite a fancy one so that's expected.
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by Netcob 2y ago
That's mainly what the built-in "AI camera" feature is for. Technically I don't need it - I don't have pets, I don't leave stuff lying around on the floor, and I usually make it to the toilet on time. I am curi
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by Netcob 2y ago
Raspberry Pi at the beginning, before the IPO: very affordable, compact SBCs with low power and lots of community support. Raspberry Pi after the IPO: Raspberry-colored tech products. Can't wait for the first "subscription" p

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