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by bambax 9mo ago
Thanks but as a contractor/freelancer I prefer to be paid with real money.
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by bambax 9mo ago
Yes, you're not who the GP was talking about ;-)
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Agree 100%; and the analogy with SEO is spot on! Those were everywhere 20 years ago. They're mostly gone, and so are their secret recipes and special tags and whatnot. AI gurus are the same! Not the same people but the same profile. It
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by bambax 9mo ago
Also, PdfTk has existed for decades and is very solid (but Windows only, I think).
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by bambax 9mo ago
Kissinger, one of the worst war criminals in history, got a Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 (and didn't steal it from someone else). Those prizes don't mean much. Time spent by Trump toying with medals is time not spent doing harm. We s
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by bambax 9mo ago
So true! And Maher is probably the worst of the lot.
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by bambax 9mo ago
Scott Adams was more clever than most because, as the article says more than once, he was named "Scott A." and so was the author, to whom an elementary school teacher said he was going to "cure cancer", whatever that mea
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by bambax 9mo ago
Ok but what is this question trying to say? I never quite understood the argument that God should be "perfect"; it's entirely possible the universe we're in is a toy made for the amusement of an evil god-child, like we h
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by bambax 9mo ago
> Windows: Open a PowerShell prompt as Administrator The need for this is mainly on work machines that are locked down; if admin mode is necessary then it's DOA... A local MITM proxy that doesn't require elevated rights and w
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by bambax 9mo ago
You're never free to unsubscribe because you become accustomed to the tools, and use the file formats, etc. (That's why I don't do subscription, ever.)
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by bambax 9mo ago
> The best thing for consumers would be if all these model providers strictly provided usage-based API pricing Using openrouter myself I find the costs of APIs to be extremely low and affordable? I don't send the whole codebase to
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by bambax 9mo ago
Well, yes. When competition is "pure and perfect" then profits eventually tend to be zero. That's a law of economics that is always true regardless of the industry.
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by bambax 9mo ago
Yes! information is surprise, and that's why a measure of intelligence is the ability to predict.
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by bambax 9mo ago
Cool project! There was something quite similar but with RFID cards showed on HN a few months ago: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-li... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41
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by bambax 9mo ago
SQL was also initially built for end users and not considered "code". I'm not sure we should continue to stack supposedly simple languages one on top of the other for ever. Why not learn SQL instead?
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by bambax 9mo ago
Mostly agree with the article; but the problem is not just about people getting fired, it's about the people not getting hired. How will we create experts in the future without newbies today?
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by bambax 9mo ago
I self-host many things on a NAS (Asustor) using Portainer (a Docker UI/facilitator). It all works perfectly and has a marginal cost of about zero, since I need the NAS in any case. But I wouldn't give the keys of the house to Cla
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by bambax 9mo ago
Love the idea! Read only the beginning of the first "giant blog post" so maybe it's discussed there, but in Sqlite doesn't WAL mode give you a kind of super simple, super basic temporal data system? If you somehow kept a
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Bureaucrats are a problem, but they're eventually accountable to the people. Companies are accountable to shareholders located in another country, who don't give a damn about whatever so long as the money keeps coming. I choose bu
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> I don't want my politicians deciding The whole concept of democracy is based on this: you elect politicians, they decide. If you don't like that, you don't like democracy. Which is fine, but then you don't get to
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by bambax 9mo ago
Not just Russia and China. Musk does Nazi salutes and Grok promotes pedophilia. Trump invades countries and talks about taking over Greenland, which is part of Europe. The US are no less of a threat than Russia. Contrary to widespread belie
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by bambax 9mo ago
I kind of like(d) Cloudflare, but appealing to Musk and the couch lover that's currently serving as VP is despicable. What a swamp the US have become.
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Original title was > Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds If we need to edit titles, could we at least take the opportunity to correct obvious typos? (Missing the t in Vietnam)
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by bambax 9mo ago
I turn off notifications for every app except calls and messages; it's fine because almost no-one ever calls or texts anymore (Whatsapp messages can wait until I look at them). Turning the phone on silent isn't really a solution s
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UI OS for ordinary people peaked with Windows NT (1993).
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> But lately, over the past 5 or 10 years, it seems to me that perfection in UI is just as arbitrary and mutable as people's tastes and preferences. No. Perfection exists, but it's not how something works or looks. Perfection
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Yes exactly! It would need some publicity of some kind to get started but it's the best solution, certainly? And all of the tools and infrastructure already exist.
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Many, many moons ago I was finishing a uni. essay on an Amstrad PC that didn't even have a hard drive. The way I worked at the time was, type first, then save to a floppy disk, because the saving operation took something like 5 minutes
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True, but then you can search for specific strings in the div, etc. Maybe not worth it for something you visit occasionally, but well worth it for a website you see often.
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Ha! I don't yet know much about 'incremental computing engines' but Feldera seem to be something I need. Because at some point I inevitably have to create materialized views to speed up some parts of the pipeline. Materialize

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