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by albert_e 2y ago
Even if they move only part of the data before the deadline ..they stop paying for that the moment they delete it from S3. (Doesn't work that way in reverse.) They can start saving thousands of dollars even before the deadline if they
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by albert_e 2y ago
Seems a bit needlessly long when employed for a concept more mundanely called "half". A lay person uses half more often, I would imagine. For all other fractions, I don't feel it is that odd to use X out of Y construct.
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I know this format is common usage but don't see it commonly used to represent this fraction-- 50% or half -- where this construct seems needlessly long or formal. The second part was just playful aside -- not serious. Ofcourse that di
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> One out of every two Danes has seen the documentary. Why not simpler English -- "half of the country has watched it" Also pendatic aside -- i think "every two danes" is a stretch -- i am sure we can find many instan
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by albert_e 2y ago
I don't have a great writing style -- it's too verbose and often has run-on sentences that seemingly never end. And I do use the en-dash / em-dash a lot -- probably incorrectly. All flaws aside, it would be very unfair of any
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by albert_e 2y ago
Sorry to be pedantic > flaunting I believe you meant to say flouting
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Make a bookmarklet to do X Make a vbscript to toggle scroll-lock every 15 seconds ... to prevent system from auto locking Ad hoc text processing ... like strip the HTML from this snippet (drop-down list copied from a web page DOM)
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by albert_e 2y ago
Looks Great ad a freeform note taking tool / blogging tool I would like to understand more how this works -- where the data is stored esp if I were to self host it.
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by albert_e 2y ago
You _thought_ You disabled that setting forever. It only takes a routine Windows Update to bring those setting back to helpful defaults. And those updates are helpfully set to download and install by default.
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by albert_e 2y ago
OT: funny quirk in the article mark up ... > Individual engineers don’t own software; engineering teams own software. the portion "software; engineering" -- just because the words are adjacent here, even though they belong to s
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by albert_e 2y ago
Excellent - Thanks! I always wondered if we could convert an old andoid phone or tablet into a USB/wireless graphics-tablet for drawing input -- or as a live annotator for screen presentations where I can mirror the PC slideshow on the
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by albert_e 2y ago
I am sold. Sign me up. I have never used virtual environments well -- the learning curve after dealing with python installation and conda/pip setup and environment variables was exhausting enough. Gave up multiple times or only used th
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by albert_e 2y ago
The linked article does not mention Amazon S3 or AWS Is there a different source for the "open S3 bucket" in HN title?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Interesting ! I have a bunch of older android phones that could be repurposed for some tinkering. The touchscreen display and input would open a lot more interactive possibilities. Is there a community or gallery of ideas and projects that
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by albert_e 2y ago
We laugh at hollwood movies where the protagonist calls his hacker sidekick and says "get me into this building. quick." and the friend goes "one sec. done." and click! the door opens.
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I am in same camp. I recently read the book Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman. Resonates a lot with my experience and struggle with trying to stay productive. I may not have learnt any new skills from this book but at least feel a
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by albert_e 2y ago
In casual usage they feel like two separate concepts to me. I think of it this way: We put iron grills on our apartment balconies. 1. For SAFETY -- prevents the risk of people and kids falling off balconies. 2. For SECURITY -- prevents any
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by albert_e 2y ago
"You ... autocomplete me." Could be a good subtitle for the blog post?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Tried Andrej Karpathy's latest video -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI It said "too long video" Exactly, duh ;D
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So the solution is to pre-scrape all bitly URL expansions by brute force and seed the torrent so that someone else can build a librebit.ly ?
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by albert_e 2y ago
Settings > Profile > Preferences New Threads Are Public [Enabled By Default] Do Not Train on My Data [Disabled by Default] The first one seems problematic -- does it mean what it seems to suggest? all conversations are "public&qu
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by albert_e 2y ago
How is this available for free without sign-up? Does it not cost a ton to run this service amd maintain the infra?
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So each country is now free to engage in this zero value games and cry foul when big tech doesn't heed or update quickly enough?
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by albert_e 2y ago
"Apple Intelligence" meant whatever Apple marketing wants it to be. Now "GPT 5" is also a marketing term. You are paying for the abstracted experience and brand. Not a specific model or defined capabilities anymore.
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by albert_e 2y ago
Author Oliver Burkeman discusses this marshmallow test in his book Meditations for Mortals. Paraphrasing from memory - Who is to say that stockpiling as many marshmallows as you can is inherently more virtuous or objectively more positive t
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by albert_e 2y ago
This result -- https://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1889704768135905332 Is this a consequence of the fact that "multiplication tables" For kindergarteners are available online (in training data) abundantly .
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Some questions that might help answer the reasons ... What are the sub categories What are the outliers What is the mix of same machines from past benchmarking versus newly added to pool Etc.
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In India, there are dozens of imposter accounts on twitter that pose as a bank's or telco's official handle. They are very often the more responsive, and very caring and polite, quick to admit they are at fault ... and lure compla
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by albert_e 2y ago
Interesting are there any other good reads on the Economic impact of AI that is not just hype or marketing but more considered analysis of data / indicators?
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OT: What is a good place to discuss the original video -- once it has dropped out of the HN front-page? I am going through the video myself -- roughly halfway through -- and have a fw things to bring up. Here they are now that we have a fre

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