ballon_monkey

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by ballon_monkey 6d ago
No they arent? See BYD for sure, but see most other brands more often still.
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by ballon_monkey 8d ago
They are car lite. You need to purchase a CoE before you buy a car, those last 10 years, and are auctioned off. Current prices are ~133k sgd for a CoE not including the car which can often be 100k+
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by ballon_monkey 13d ago
Bedrock is really bad. It seems like they don't host the models very well because they produce tons of bugs/errors calling the model. For example you can end up with Anthropic models not returning a stop token and you end up waiti
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by ballon_monkey 19d ago
Is this what you truly believe?
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by ballon_monkey 19d ago
Oh sorry, to catch you up on the conversation. We are talking about Twitter, and we are discussing it on HN where the uneducated like to hate on Elon.
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by ballon_monkey 20d ago
hagbard_c replied with a bunch of examples to the initial reply to me.
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by ballon_monkey 20d ago
> iirc your comments weren't even making any big statements, just giving out your simple opinions without even invoking any political beliefs Initially I did type out more, but I didn't want to turn it into an argument, so I ke
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by ballon_monkey 20d ago
No. They don't have eyes, because its quite clear to anyone with half a brain that it's not a nazi salute, and is no different to the same hand gesture that democrats use. It's sad the loud minority still believe calling ever
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by ballon_monkey 23d ago
It's smooth in Chrome but its buggy and unplayable in Firefox :( but fun!
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by ballon_monkey 23d ago
I'll happily pay for Grok, it's a great model. 4.6 often does better than Anthropic at coding and analysis where Anthropic fails for 'oh no cyber security, don't ask me to check if you're redacting passwords correct
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by ballon_monkey 1mo ago
If you're building your own system this is an easy problem to solve.
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by ballon_monkey 1mo ago
> This is exactly how tightly coupled, unmaintainable software is constructed. No. If you're struggling to build software against a DB and then abstract parts to use Redis or ES or whatever in the future, that's kinda a skill i
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by ballon_monkey 1mo ago
Yeah this really isn't so true anymore. I was a diehard Dapper fan for a long time, but the performance of EF Core is comparable to Dapper now. Dropping down to SQL in EF Core is super easy and parameterized. I just don't even bot
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by ballon_monkey 1mo ago
Probably has better uptime, tho I think everyone beats github on this right now.
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by ballon_monkey 1mo ago
Payments themselves are so much complicated. Payments to support multi-currency, jurisdictions, countries, scenarios, that's complicated.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
I have no interest in this topic at all, but I couldn't stop watching the video. It turned out to be really interesting!
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
Musk didn't break the law. Your analogy is breaking the law.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
> this is a wildly bad-faith argument No. Calling it illegal is just something people do because they hate musk. They fell into a loop hole and had no permits as they were technically allowed if they stayed in 1 spot for less than 364 da
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
> unpermitted gas turbines they've been running at their Memphis Colossus data center Just a reminder that when you're building a business, having land and a datacenter ready and cannot be switched on, with idle staff, costs th
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
If your DB is write heavy, tune it for writes...
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
I tried it on all major models and it just tells me it a satire website. Would like to know what it fails on.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
Why is this 'Honeypot'?
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
When FB was private Zuck had 57% of class B voting right stock. He retained this on IPO. My point is, if he did not have control over voting, before/after IPO, FB/Meta would not be where it is today. He prevented Ads being on FB f
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
I just like being able to pick up old projects that i avoided for ages, and being able to pull in HTMX and make it a bit more modern without rewriting in react/vue etc. And it feels like a modern app, not a 90s app.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
Facebook would never have become what it is today if Zuck had lost control of the voting. It would have been sold 10 times over and prob not exist today. I suspect the same could be said for Mask and his businesses.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
What failing companies?
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
I love HTMX and use it in a few projects, but its amusing how whats old is new again. .NET Framework / Web Forms had update panels to do partial rendering of web pages back in 2005. Outside of .NET developers it got a lot of hate. But
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
Streaming is impossible without the efforts of things like JustWatch. Especially when you want to find old movies for the kids.
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
The 2 things people need to remember: 1) China can (and does) use the models to influence the west. They train in false information about Taiwan and Hong Kong. Or pretend like history is in favor of China. 2) Ignoring the models containing
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by ballon_monkey 2mo ago
NZ uses AI dictation and according to doctors who were apprehensive at first, they now love it because they feel they spend less time note taking, more time listening to the patient, and can deal with patients better.

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