brandon272

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by brandon272 7mo ago
Active public discourse seems to have not made even a slight dent in the growth of surveillance in the last 25 years.
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by brandon272 9mo ago
I think you are mixing up oats and oatmeal. And I think (but am not positive) that the study is referring to 300g of prepared oatmeal.
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by brandon272 9mo ago
From a UX and simplicity standpoint, in terms of what a typical user touches and experiences in an OS, I think XP SP2 was Windows at its peak. The UI seemed minimal, balanced and practical compared to the obtrusive mess that exists today.
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by brandon272 9mo ago
Whatever the U.S. feels it needs to do in that regard can be accomplished with the current arrangement. It doesn’t need to invade or unilaterally annex or violate international law.
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by brandon272 9mo ago
I had the same feeling and I had the same experience on DALnet.
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by brandon272 9mo ago
Anytime I see something like this my mind immediately thinks of the 'Full House' episode where Uncle Jesse keeps getting interrupted in his basement recording studio so he installs a red light at the top of the stairs. Red light =
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by brandon272 10mo ago
Watching other people use Google, the predominant method of searching for information involves a query followed by getting their answer from the AI summary that appears above any search results. I'm not sure what impact this would be h
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by brandon272 10mo ago
How do people find your service? It seems like there are a million "send a fax" online services out there so it would be difficult to get in front of potential customers.
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by brandon272 10mo ago
One thing I've had to explain to many confused friends who use reddit is that many of the people presenting themselves as domain experts in subreddits related to fields like law, accounting, plumbing, electrical, construction, etc. hav
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by brandon272 11mo ago
Mine? Not really
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by brandon272 11mo ago
I think we should be vigilant against AI generated content. And I find it does read similar to the output of some locally hosted LLMs.
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by brandon272 11mo ago
The account's comment history today is all the same style. Almost certainly AI.
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by brandon272 11mo ago
Just a note that your HN bio says "Developer Relations @OpenAI"
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by brandon272 11mo ago
I tried demo'ing Incus from their "Try it online" page but it just spins endlessly and nothing happens.
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by brandon272 11mo ago
That's unfortunate. I'll need to investigate whether Porkbun plans on decoupling its auth from being reliant on CloudFlare, otherwise I will need to migrate a few domains off of that registrar.
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by brandon272 11mo ago
A lot of people are "on prem" but use CloudFlare to proxy traffic for DDoS attack mitigation, among other reasons.
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by brandon272 11mo ago
Isn't it wild that traditional bricks and mortar retail is now considered - not just "dystopian" - but " wildly dystopian" and perusing Amazon while on the toilet is now considered not dystopian? How times have cha
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by brandon272 11mo ago
Has nothing to do with whether it's art or a shrink-wrapped product, different people value different things. As an example, a vehicle may be an engineering wonder or a work of art to one person and a "silly mass-produced hunk of
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by brandon272 11mo ago
Not everything needs to be completely efficient, experienced through a computer or mobile phone screen, nor does it need to be "researched extensively". Some people prefer the option of a tactile, in-person, sometimes social exper
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by brandon272 11mo ago
> I'm actually genuinely baffled to see geeks lining up for a Costco-like experience to get stuff that you can easily get online without needing to get into a car. "Why go to a fine restaurant when you can just stick something
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by brandon272 1y ago
"Self hosting" may actually be referring not to hosting your own on-prem hardware, but to renting bare metal in which case the concerns around power usage, networking, etc. are offloaded to the provider.
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by brandon272 1y ago
Was the Masters in CS from the Open University?
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by brandon272 1y ago
Why would we expect LLMs to get “massively better” in the next 6 months instead of the incremental improvement we have seen to date?
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by brandon272 1y ago
What are you doing with it?
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by brandon272 1y ago
S3 is both a product and basically an API standard.
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by brandon272 1y ago
Obviously, OpenAI could have had copyright restrictions in place from the get-go with this, but instead made an intentional decision to allow people to generate everything ranging from Spongebob videos to Michael Jackson videos to South Par
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by brandon272 1y ago
> The point is not that everyone is throwing away their ChatGPT subscriptions and getting DeepSeek Currently.
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by brandon272 1y ago
I have always found the argument of "They deserve this because they should know better" to be a very bizarre way of thinking. It implies there is only one correct way to think or to prioritize or to approach a problem. It also (po
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by brandon272 1y ago
Feeling incredulous that this "mistake" ever would have been rectified had it not been for the public attention this is getting.
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by brandon272 1y ago
It's quite different. Both are rude. But in one case the person is looking at their phone, and in another case the person is basically looking directly at you but engaged with some other thing happening on their device, as if they are

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