albert_e

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by albert_e 3y ago
bug report: when you are playing a playlist and go to the "pop out" window, clicking on "Next video" button on the pop out player messes up the payback (moves to next video only in the main parent window to new video whi
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by albert_e 3y ago
Impressive. Is there a Andoid app with similar features? Also, is there a equivalent for Coursera Videos? (Jut unhappy with Coursera UX) :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Both list objects and delete object are API actions that incur the standard cost for "requests" ... isn't it? >> PUT, COPY, POST, LIST requests (per 1,000 requests) = $0.005 GET, SELECT, and all other requests (per 1,00
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by albert_e 3y ago
Bulk deletes on S3 should be done using a Life Cycle Policy to avoid the per object delete cost
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by albert_e 3y ago
tin foil hat ... the battery pack is manufactured in a rival nation and stores and forwards data :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
And just to add -- even desktop websites these days nag people to install desktop apps instead of using the browser (Zoom, Slack)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Agreed. the relentless nagging by some sites to install the mobile apps needs to die. Just like the other popular post today lamenting the terrible state of scrollbars and other UI elements that has degraded the desktop UX in recent years..
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by albert_e 3y ago
I discovered Dave Seah's printable CEO series of tools and templates early in my working career (some 15+ years ago) and found them super practical and useful. I have diligently used (my own variation of) his Emergent Task Planner for
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by albert_e 3y ago
May be they are so busy figuring out how to upload our data to their servers and sneak in clauses in their terms and conditions to cover it ... that they forgot to build the actual functionality of showing search results to user.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Off-topic: The "listen to the article" feature on this blog post ... is it using an AI voice trained specifically on the author's real voice? Or is it a real recording by any chance?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Okay -- I havent come across a critique of LangChain yet. Just starting to learn and use it. I suppose if LangChain doesnt find a good path to becoming more mature -- then some other equivalent open-source library will replace it in coming
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by albert_e 3y ago
Can you elaborate a little on why LangChain is bad and should be avoided? I had modest success in using LLMs to achieve productivity improvements and results for my clients that are otherwise not possible. I used more direct API calls to in
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by albert_e 3y ago
> After all it's an indisputable fact that computers only ever do exactly what you tell them to. too broad a generalization i think. who told these computers to do what they did? https://www.bbc.com/future/artic
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by albert_e 3y ago
> I can just imagine someone inheriting my coins and spending them for face value! self-deprecating joke about your genes :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Bangalore India dust is everywhere ..haven't learnt to classify it into types :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
> everything in my studio would accumulate a thin layer just a week or so after cleaning I wish I ONLY had to clean the surfaces once a week. In my country and city unfortunately -- even though I dont live near a major road or constructi
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by albert_e 3y ago
Really? "Microwave safe" container labels are not labelled so because it is safe to heat food in them in Microwaves? Why would anyone just heat empty containers in a microwave? Because that's what the label is saying otherwis
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by albert_e 3y ago
And I am sure a future study might also say : one risk factor for healthy and long life is reading about various health risks and worrying about them all the time :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
is this already blocked by default in most corporate environments? it seems this opens up a easy way to exfilarate corporate data (without detection?) correct me if I am wrong please attacker (or a cooperating employee) can browse and downl
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by albert_e 3y ago
recently every (google) search I made about some JupyterLab settings landed me (top search result) on very similar sounding blog articles on saturn.cloud website -- definitely seemed mass generated (all recent dates, attributed to no author
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by albert_e 3y ago
Also imagine all such exposed data sources including those that are not yet discovered... are crawled and trained on by GPT5. Meanwhile a big enterprise provider like MS suffers a bigger leak and exposes MS Teams/ OneDrive / Share
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by albert_e 3y ago
any good examples you can share please?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Looks like this app is not available in Google Play Store from India
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by albert_e 3y ago
is there a printable template / instructions somewhere? EDIT: my bad -- I skkiped over to youtube video -- see the instructions in liked blog post now. Thanks
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yes each image independently shows the illusion -- different images are only to provide a variation i guess, since some proportions work better for some people than others I personally found the illusion not strong though definitely present
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by albert_e 3y ago
first few seconds : nothing special, just flat then: blue ring appeared "closer" to me (very similar to a stereogram - yes) I was able to "force" the blue ring to snap to being "behind" the red rings by rapidly
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by albert_e 3y ago
The badges we see today on Github repos do look a lot like these, don't they?
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Indian hacker steals and spends $0.5M worth of Rewards Points from Banks(thehindu.com)
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by albert_e 3y ago
You are right. I was actually expecting pushback on the second line :)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Blatant lies fool no one. Subtle ones fool every one.

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