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by belval 2y ago
I am Canadian so I am "biased" (whatever that means in this context) but tariffs on resources are just non-sensical to me. Take Aluminium, it's produced in Canada because our energy cost is low, we don't even have bauxit
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by belval 2y ago
> to watch most videos ad-free Seems like when your pitch is 8$/month for no ads they could have spared a paragraph to explain what "most videos" encompasses.
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by belval 2y ago
I think the duration makes it different, the ECMO (blood + oxygen being pumped out of the body) record according to Google is something like 554 days. That's much much longer than the typical transplant.
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by belval 2y ago
> If my contributions were that valuable, I'd wonder if it made sense to keep me on life support just to extract my blood every two weeks. It's a really interesting somewhat thought provoking idea. To some extent these people a
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by belval 2y ago
> I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face. It's the whole package, not just one factor. Motion sickness, strapping something to your face, requirement for "free space" to m
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by belval 2y ago
Every once in a while you encounter an opinion on the Internet that you so deeply disagree that it's not even clear how you would even start to counter it. "Use RTF instead of Markdown" is one of those.
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by belval 2y ago
> Could I run my terminals in there? Yes. Did I? Yes, for a while. Was I effective? Not really. I missed my desk, my normal chair, my big Thunderbolt monitor, my full-size (and yet entirely boring) keyboard, and a relatively odor-free en
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by belval 2y ago
By default pip will give you a warning that package X requires package Y ==1.0 but you have 1.1 which is incompatible instead of just failing. That's the feature that I'd like to have, basically a "--just-warn" flag or a
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by belval 2y ago
> I had a friend who decided to not use uv, because the first time he used it, it was on a 15 years old codebase that had just been migrated to Python 3. It was standing on a pile of never cleaned up pip freeze exports, and uv could not
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by belval 2y ago
Might be true, but as someone who worked on a few legacy projects, the opposite, i.e. "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a greenfield project" is also true. There are skills that you won't pickup b
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by belval 2y ago
> I suppose PhDs can get a shortcut into Prinicple or Senior roles, so there's some tangible benefit. I don't think that's a thing. Some government job will use a pay scale that varies based on your education level, but fa
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by belval 2y ago
For some reason people downvote you, but batteries seem to have this constant flux of N=1 articles explaining why X new chemistry is about to dethrone lithium. When it's not aluminium, it's solid state. This article itself has sev
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by belval 2y ago
Google isn't even the worst in my opinion. From the top of my head Anthropic: Claude 1 Claude Instant 1 Claude 2 Claude Haiku 3 Claude Sonnet 3 Claude Opus 3 Claude Haiku 3.5 Claude Sonnet 3.5 Claude Sonnet 3.5v2 OpenAI: GPT-3.5 GPT-4
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by belval 2y ago
The name change is stupid, but not sure how it could qualify as evil.
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by belval 2y ago
Sure, but reading the article, what processes should be changed and do we have confidence that they will address the issue? The reporting on this ends with: > although it’s unclear whether the reservoir would have made a meaningful diffe
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by belval 2y ago
Also they added their god-awful Microsoft SSO to Minecraft which, coupled with the Xbox app means that you have to be careful with the sequence of action when requesting a password change otherwise the whole thing will just go blank and not
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by belval 2y ago
Read this with a smug "eh I still don't have TPM 2.0 so good luck with that", but little did I know TPM 2.0 is no longer a requirement since December 2024[1], guess I am getting upgraded whether I like it or not. [1] https:&
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by belval 2y ago
I get where you are coming from with this, but in my opinion being able to give feedback in a clear and concise fashion is a skill that people should have. LLMs will help you elaborate but they will also add their own flair by choosing the
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by belval 2y ago
Right now at Amazon we are going through the annual feedback cycle where you have to write strengths and growth areas for your colleagues. You will usually have to do ~12 of those. I don't use ChatGPT for those, but it is the epitome o
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by belval 2y ago
Over the holidays we played a game called Hitster which has a very simple premise of listening to music and guessing the release year. My in-laws have a Sonos system and it was so laughably bad connectivity-wise with the wrong song playing,
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by belval 2y ago
Maybe if one enjoys endless conversations with unhappy customers. Easier to simply isolate the PDF rendering/parsing and move on.
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by belval 2y ago
Propaganda? I am the only one of my friend group with a house at 30 years old. Most have completely given up on home ownership, we just registered a 62B$ deficit and homelessness is the worse it's been in my living memory. Universitie
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by belval 2y ago
Sensationalistic headline aside, this is a very thorny issue. On one hand you want to provide livable wages to your athletes, but Canada just registered a deficit of 62 billions. Cuts are coming and more money to Olympians will be put up ag
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by belval 2y ago
> Monitoring the Future Study, which annually surveys eighth, 10th and 12th grade students across the United States. I wonder if there is correlation to the opioid crisis, where the "downsides" (if you want to call it that) of
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by belval 2y ago
Do you mean on vultr or in general? Because $2.5/month VPS are still widely available on lowendbox: https://lowendbox.com/ .
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by belval 2y ago
I had missed the idle consumption. That being said I guess if they are that energy conscious the next question would be why aren't they shutting down their computer when not in use.
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by belval 2y ago
My hypothesis would be that white people in Canada, and especially Quebec, are culturally very ok with MAID due to being less religious than other groups (on average). Since at least as far as I know most if not all religions condemn suicid
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by belval 2y ago
Perf/watts is a deal breaker when used to "hide" lackluster performance. Intel did this with the 11th and 13th CPU gen and it showed a lot. I don't think it makes much sense here because the gap is not that large. The B5
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by belval 2y ago
Hey! Just to be clear I really didn't want to imply that you were trying to clone my voice. I think your product is very interesting and this demo is a nice showcase of your tech. It was meant more as a reflection on how, due to how fa
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by belval 2y ago
Does it regionalize at all? There are a few comments about Portugal Portuguese vs Brazil Portuguese so I think it only tries to find your first language, not actually pinpoint the underlying accent.

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