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by axegon_ 1y ago
I'll start off by saying that I hate mechanical keyboards with a passion. That said, Logitech MX keys - silent(huge deal for me), short travel space also sturdy, sets you back around 80 bucks. Mouse - Logitech G205 if you wanna stick t
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Been there, done that and I don't have an answer. For around 4 years I was a de facto consultant on paper(LLC-equivalent + invoicing) but the truth is, it was just a remote role for a foreign company, nothing to do with building someth
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by axegon_ 1y ago
This. I've had my email for years. Admittedly my engagement on HN is chaotic and somewhat rare but in all those years, I think I've had half a dozen one-off emails.
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Oh don't even get me started on cities, states, towns and addresses :D https://www.google.com/maps/place/95450+Us,+France/@49.10531...
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by axegon_ 1y ago
This isn't wildly different from what I've done but it's the sheer volume of crap that's scattered through all the different fields. The countries are the least of my problems. There are others where I'm faced with
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Not a data engineer but my work revolves around processing a ton of data(let's call it partial data engineering). Much of the data I get is inputted by humans from different sources and platforms and countries. My biggest pain in a nut
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by axegon_ 1y ago
None but the best story I have is from around a decade ago - a guy did not lock his screen and had his facebook opened. His manager changed his birthday to the current day. The best part is when his aunt wished him a happy birthday.
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Disclosure: I do not have a facebook account and I am not a lawyer. But... I am pretty sure that's in breach of several EU regulations if this is happening to EU citizens and EU residents: DSA, GDPR, ePrivacy directive, consumer protec
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Same thing as comparing a phone camera to a professional camera really. For the average person, nothing really changes beyond a steep learning curve. But better quality video, faster(not fpv fast of course), can carry a heavier payload, a l
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Fully open source cinematography drone. Spoilers: I only started a few weeks ago and I've got a long way to go still. Currently prototyping the gimbal for more context and wasting a ton of PLA in the process.
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by axegon_ 1y ago
I saw that article in 2023 and I have mixed feelings. In general there are cases where you want a program to crash and it's a preferable option as opposed to a never-ending chain of handling. For that purpose, unwrap is actually perfec
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by axegon_ 1y ago
> who has pondered their ideal scripting language Et tu, brute? :D
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Idk, maybe not cheating but a very unfair advantage - everything I ever did took me a fraction of the time compared to everyone else - while everyone was going nuts last minute, I had long forgotten about anything I had to do and was spendi
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by axegon_ 1y ago
For a number of reasons I got my university degree in Spanish(and Spanish speaking country), where very few people spoke English - I was one of two in total as a matter of fact. I always felt like I was cheating my way through cause I had a
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by axegon_ 1y ago
> "elon is wrong about {X}" People are (very) slowly waking up. The number of X-es is large to say the least.
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by axegon_ 1y ago
No, thanks, I'll stick to qwant: https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Honestly? I'm somewhat OK with Mistral, in that it's a French company, therefore they need to comply (on paper anyways) with GDPR. And if they do not, there are serious consequences. But overall - locally. If it is not running on
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Having used both Kafka and Redpanda on several occasions, I'd pick Redpanda any day of the week without a second thought. Easier to setup, easier to maintain, a lot less finicky ans uses a fraction of the resources.
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by axegon_ 1y ago
Oh, that's really neat! Thanks for sharing!
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by axegon_ 2y ago
The true and sad truth is that manufacturing can be moved anywhere but the people that keep parroting about it's importance are in complete denial about the primary issue: costs. These costs have very little to do with infrastructure a
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by axegon_ 2y ago
True but the mass adoption and flooding social media was far more gradual compared to the US still - all the big social media came out of the US really, so did all the massively centralized services. Computers in general have a steep learni
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by axegon_ 2y ago
The sad thing is I've always seen (and still do see) the US as a friend, despite the fact that the current government is trying really hard to turn the US into a dictatorship(shutting down medias that criticize them, cozying up with li
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by axegon_ 2y ago
It is next in the pipeline but I need to clean up my home lab first cause it's become a bit of a mess.
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by axegon_ 2y ago
I too have been on a very aggressive mission to decloudify myself lately(as in, since comrade musk and co took over everything and I have 0 reason to trust him or anyone around him). And to be fair, for all the hundreds of gigabytes of data
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by axegon_ 2y ago
There was an interview with the local marketing managers for Coca Cola and Pepsi when I was a kid. I vaguely remember it (and also the idea was somewhat foreign to me since the world had just started opening for eastern Europe and it was th
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by axegon_ 2y ago
Qwant has been reasonably good with programming for me though or maybe I'm more commonly going straight to the documentation or source code, idk. My only complaint is that wikipedia tends to be pretty far down in the results for non-pr
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by axegon_ 2y ago
Yes, I do. I'd never use an LLM for any meaningful or important information because by design, they will simply shove the most likely next token and you get a ton of responses which are pure nonsense if you start digging into it. Mind
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by axegon_ 2y ago
> interns handle that Reality has entered the chat.
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by axegon_ 2y ago
Oh yeah a 15 second spinning circle and 250mb memory is sooooo much better than a 500ms refresh </sarcasm>
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by axegon_ 2y ago
> Updates that users would not expect to see on a refresh (or a new page load) I always hated this idea. As a user, a refresh indicates that something is happening and it's abundantly clear when something is wrong. People don't

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