benterix

15 ms·

331.
by benterix 1y ago
> No one is forced to buy this stuff. Actually, many companies are de facto forced to do that, for various reasons.
332.
by benterix 1y ago
Well, we have a naming issue (Hetzner also has Hetzner Cloud, it looks people still equal cloud with the three biggest public cloud providers). In any case, in order for this to happen, someone would have to collect reliable data (not all b
333.
by benterix 1y ago
Exactly. Hetzner is the equivalent of the original Raspberry Pi. It might not have all fancy features but it delivers and for the price that essentially unblocks you and allows you to do things you wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
334.
by benterix 1y ago
With these reports, I always wonder - do people really keep their software wallets on a machine they use every day? Personally I keep it on a laptop that is used just for that and it never occurred to me any other options is viable.
335.
by benterix 1y ago
I have 3 rules: 1. If possible, buy from the author directly (I mostly read tech books, so that's often an option). 2. Otherwise buy from elsewhere, without DRM. 3. If all other options fail, buy from Amazon but immediately download a
336.
by benterix 1y ago
While I agree with you in general, in this particular case the title is really very loosely related to the actual contents of the article.
337.
by benterix 1y ago
My friend had a kid with a bad eczema. She tried everything. Desperate, she took her to one of these charlatans. He asked the girl to stand on a copper plate. After a few days the eczema disappeared. Now my friend totally believes in all th
338.
by benterix 1y ago
It's a pity the author didn't decide to offer a trial without attaching a credit card. I get it, we had these discussions here many times. But as a person that could potentially subscribe, I'm baffled at the choice. You could
339.
by benterix 1y ago
> This is also why not everyone is an early adopter. Usually, there are relatively few adopters of a new technology. But with LLMs, it's quite the opposite: there was a huge number of early adopters. Some got extremely excited and r
340.
by benterix 1y ago
The world changes, everything changes. Already 20 years ago Stallman saw that his original idea was abused (tivoization etc.), hence GPLv3. In the web era we have a completely different set of issues to deal with, and one of them is the kil
341.
by benterix 1y ago
> over night. No, I think they bend over backwards not to do it overnight because of the outcry but try to make all required changes and enforcements gradually over the years so in the end you will have no choice but there will not be an
342.
by benterix 1y ago
Not entirely, in these RAD tools you also had flexible layout choices and obviously you could test it for various window sizes (although the maximum was the one supported by your graphics card). Too bad many chose the lazy way and just enfo
343.
by benterix 1y ago
First, it's not cynicism but a more realistic approach than just following SV marketing blindly, and second, it's not "everything else", just GenAI, NFTs/ICOs/Web3, "Metaverse" (or Zucks interpretatio
344.
by benterix 1y ago
> Getting secrets from Kubernetes Secrets API I've seen done but lock in again. I don't get this part. Why would you use Kubernetes secrets alone for storing secrets if they are not encrypted by default? Using k8s secrets only
345.
by benterix 1y ago
I'd be careful with extrapolating based on the creator of Linux and Git. His life and activities are not in line with those of more typical programmers.
346.
by benterix 1y ago
> There is so much framework stuff, when I started coding I could mostly concentrate on the algorithm, now I have to do so much framework stuff, I feel like telling the LLM really only the actual algorithm, minus all the overhead, is muc
347.
by benterix 1y ago
But this just doesn't correspond to reality. Most interesting algorithms in optimization etc. are metaheuristics as precise solutions are either proven to be impossible to get or we haven't found a solution yet. In the meantime, w
348.
by benterix 1y ago
My lessons so far: 1. Less fun. 2. A lot of more "review fatigue". 3. Tons of excess code I'd never put in there in the first place. 4. Frustration with agents being too optimistic which with time verges on the ludicurous (&q
349.
by benterix 1y ago
I upvoted you but strictly speaking it is not true. "AI" is such a broad term. You probably meant GenAI like LLMs, and even here there are some genuinely useful applications. But in general, there is a lot of extremely fascinating
350.
by benterix 1y ago
I had the same opinion several years ago but today it's just as easy PLUS you have a bonus of WiFi and all this for a fraction of the price.
351.
by benterix 1y ago
> Every time some tool I've used for years sends an email "Hey, we've got AI now!" my thought is just "well, that's unfortunate"... Same, also my first thought is how to turn the damn thing off.
352.
by benterix 1y ago
> ...$2 billion in funding at a $10 billion valuation. The company has not released a product and has refused to tell investors what they’re even trying to build. “It was the most absurd pitch meeting,” one investor who met with Murati s
353.
by benterix 1y ago
> I think we both would tweak (if just a little bit) how we presented our articles with the benefit of hindsight. Maybe you could present a joint statement of some kind, that would be interesting. I enjoy listening to the arguments of bo
354.
by benterix 1y ago
While I agree, on an unrelated note - I knew I know your nick from somewhere... And then I realized[0]. [0] https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/contra-ptaceks-terrible-arti...
355.
by benterix 1y ago
2000's: I use Excel for everything 2010's: I use Google Sheets for everything 2020's: I use Etherpad[0] for everything [0] Or any other alternative for that matter
356.
by benterix 1y ago
Yeah I remember these GPT-5 demos from influencers like "it practically created a whole 3D modeller for me" and then once we got the real thing it sometimes looked like a dumbed down version of the previous iteration.
357.
by benterix 1y ago
> I would love to see an anti-AI take that doesn't hinge on the idea that technology forces people to be lazy/careless/thoughtless. Not forces, encourages.
358.
by benterix 1y ago
> an unfirable European This is not true - most American companies hire contractors, usually through a local intermediary. > with a statutory month off every year. This is something work pondering about, really. Take step back, look a
359.
by benterix 1y ago
As a person working with Americans, if I may express my honest opinion, this is BS. Your advantage is the fact that you are professional, hard-working, are able to question the demands in a positive way, can communicate with American manage
360.
by benterix 1y ago
I wonder why you chose Qwen specifically - Mistral has a specialized model just for OCR that they advertised heavily (I tested it and it works surprisingly well, at least on English-language books from 80s and 90s).

More ›