albert_e

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by albert_e 7mo ago
There is an organization named Tapestry (parent of Coach Inc). Wonder how they can avoid the trop while not censoring themselves out.
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by albert_e 7mo ago
Astra Astral (maker of uv) Astro (javascript web framework) I am trying to keep these terms straight in my head -- it's hard
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by albert_e 7mo ago
Looks like I am hitting some Cloudflare Block when accessing this URL
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by albert_e 7mo ago
I use the quick access list but the experience of scrolling and searching through a long tree view is not the same as having fixed toolbar buttons always in one place. And there is a lot of free space on the toolbar i could use. If only Win
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by albert_e 7mo ago
The equation change a bit when you have distributed teams.
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by albert_e 7mo ago
I want to pin my most frequently used folders as favorites to the toolbar of File Explorer (just like we have a favorites bar on Edge browser). Why is this not possible.
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by albert_e 8mo ago
> 82 pairs are pixel-identical > a string like “аpple.com” with Cyrillic а (U+0430) is pixel-identical to “apple.com” in 40+ fonts. The user, the browser’s address bar, and any visual review process all see the same pixels. This is no
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by albert_e 8mo ago
Thanks for that link! There is a bit more ... justification (pun intended) on that page for this recommendation to turn-on hypenation; and also some valuable advice on choosing spacing between words over spacing between letters.
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by albert_e 8mo ago
I feel both cases involved documentation, approval, months of lead time -- only the OP didnt have to deal with paperwork themselves in the physical securtiy domain. In every sphere there are attempts at security that either achieve a practi
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by albert_e 8mo ago
Are hypens no longer acceptable? There is no mention of it in the post. If words (in any language) can be arbitrarily long and columns can be arbitrarily narrow, we will need to solve for this anyway. Even without those extremes, I feel th
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by albert_e 8mo ago
Does this offer truly "deterministic" responses when temperature is set to zero? (Of course excluding any cosmic rays / bit flips)? I didnt see a editable temperature parameter on their chatjimmy demosite -- only a topK.
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by albert_e 8mo ago
anything that blocks the doom-scrolling mode on twitter videos? I dont see youtube shorts, have no login to instagram or tiktok, and stopped using facebook years ago; only social media i frequent is twitter -- and once i view a video in the
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by albert_e 8mo ago
I use a physical notebook but not really an engeneering notebook as described here. I make notes while working and notes during meetings. Honestly most of it never gets read after a eay but I still do it. Very few of my colleagues carry a n
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by albert_e 8mo ago
I tried writing a plain text wordle loop as a python exercise in loops and lists along with my kid. I saved the blank file as wordle.py to start the coding while explaining ideas. That was enough context for github copilot to suggest the en
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by albert_e 8mo ago
On the other hand ... I recently had to deal with official Microsoft Support for an Azure service degradation / silent failure. Their email responses were broadly all like this -- fully drafted by GPT. The only thing i liked about that
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by albert_e 8mo ago
Agree. I thought the title meant I should type ,ls instead of ls.
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by albert_e 8mo ago
I cant wait for models to get smaller enough that they can run on commodity devices. Hope we can build an app like Whispr Flow using this with the model running completely on device.
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by albert_e 8mo ago
MechanicalTurk is for desk jobs and for tasks that originate as ideas in a human mind -- even if they get routed via an API. Here we are talking about AI agents coming up with a set of tasks as part of their thinking/reasoning step ..a
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by albert_e 8mo ago
This is happening as we speak. Codex started this and OpenCode followed suit with the hour. https://x.com/embirico/status/2018415923930206718
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by albert_e 8mo ago
The future is now
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by albert_e 8mo ago
This is sane advice but maintaining strong internal engineering and IT teams is not everone's cup of tea; even organizations gthat intend and try to do this cannot achieve it -- and furthermore the big cloud operators have spent millio
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by albert_e 8mo ago
It's not just geographic regions around the globe. It is also the wide array of services -- well integrated into their primitives of security, authentication, governance, monitoring and logging, etc Is there a EU cloud provider that pr
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by albert_e 8mo ago
AWS seems to have seen the writing on the wall and has already launched a European Soverign Cloud -- a separate partition like they have for GovCloud and China. I am guessing other hyperscalers must be doing the same? Are we seeing a strong
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by albert_e 9mo ago
iframes are cool again :)
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by albert_e 9mo ago
I saw 6 youtube video recommendations on this new Clawdbot -- all less than 24 hours old. What are we doing to ourselves!
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by albert_e 9mo ago
agreed. execution of the idea is tasteful. who thought showing markdown as markdown could be cool :)
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by albert_e 9mo ago
Ha -- and the "Customer Service - Banking" scenario claims that it demos "accent control" and the prompt gives the agent a definitely non-indian name, yet the agents sounds 100% Indian - I found that hilarious but also i
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by albert_e 9mo ago
Offtopic but -- The "Listen to article" media player at the top of the post -- was super quick to load on mobile but took two attempts and a page refresh to load on desktop. If I want to listen as well as read the article ... the
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by albert_e 9mo ago
The kind of "optimization" that Cloudflare is attempting to do here ... doesnt that transfer the burden of more expensive parsing downstream to all the DNS clients instead? Sounds low key selfish / inconsiderate to me ... to
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by albert_e 9mo ago
offline is even great! if you are able to share the repo - that's great - thanks! i am toying with an idea of having a very light weight "idea capture" solution so i can capture my raw ideas with least friction .. and then ch

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