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by canada_dry 8mo ago
This is what I've been doing for a couple years now: having AI help to code/test projects that I've had in my long TODO list but would never realistically started/completed. AI is now pretty capable of producing decent
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
The outlier where name recognition on the ballot is not an advantage?
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
In pretty much all cases, the companies in question had peaked were experiencing declining growth and attempting to do a hail-Mary... and failed miserably. Compare Digg and slash. One completely died, the other has stuck with its formula an
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
He's a handsome boy. Guessing they probably just ran some rudimentary OCR on the image to compare the name and DOB. I modified the actual license# as well as the picture.
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
To protect my privacy, I have a photoshopped drivers license with a photo of my dog that I've successfully used for verification (e.g. AirBnB) in the past. Though, with AI being used I suspect it wouldn't pass any longer.
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
An interesting approach to the worsening signal-to-noise ratio OSS projects are experiencing. However, it's not hard to envision a future where the exact opposite will be occur: a few key AI tools/models will become specialized an
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
TL;DR no pricing. no launch date
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by canada_dry 8mo ago
> AI-only interviews Lord. I can see this quickly extending even further into HR e.g. performance reviews: employee must 'speak' to an HR avatar about their performance in the last quarter. the AI will then summarize the discu
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by canada_dry 9mo ago
Assuming that Ukraine cyber attacks (novel/0-day) on the Russian energy grid must be happening, I don't often hear of this happening there. Why not?? Is Russia's grid infrastructure so old as to not be as vulnerable?
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by canada_dry 9mo ago
Absolutely gorgeous and extremely smart creatures. They generally bond with one care giver and when that person dies it really is a traumatic event for the bird. Birds that are traumatized pick out their feathers and look terrible. You ca
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by canada_dry 9mo ago
This is certainly the future! Where the internet gave advertisers data on your surfing habits, smart devices + AI will give them every intimate detail of your life: calendar events, email, shopping, friends/family, health data, car tr
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by canada_dry 9mo ago
> A journey of 35 kilometers, or, in DB units, somewhere between forty-five minutes and the heat death of the universe. A bit like "no frills" airlines in the west.
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by canada_dry 11mo ago
A way to select all (or by Q/A paragraph) for export (e.g. to pdf or how about a .ipynb) would probably be the most useful. Perhaps as just a plain "export" option in addition to an analysis/insights summary. p.s. kudos
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by canada_dry 11mo ago
The tool gave me advice and code to do what I asked... but when I used the "export analysis" it did NOT include the code. It was simply an overview. It would be more useful for the export to have an option (or by default) to incl
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by canada_dry 11mo ago
I'm curious why a GRUB based replacement for ventoy isn't popular? SSDs are ubiquitous/inexpensive. SSD+USB+GRUB with either a single GRUB partition and multiple ISO files stored in subdirectories, OR one parition per ISO&#x
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by canada_dry 1y ago
Guessing the stats will show lower than $1M typical claims for rideshare accidents. But... I wouldn't want to be an outlier i.e. serious injuries. That would require suing the driver that has few/no assets. Uber/Lyft sure as
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by canada_dry 1y ago
When confronted with the story today in the Oval Office Trump said: "I don't know anything about it". Delivered with the same bland expression he uses when he's clearly lying.
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by canada_dry 1y ago
Perhaps they're feeling the effect of losing PRO clients (like me) lately. Their PRO models were not (IMHO) worth 10X that of PLUS! Not even close. Especially when new competitors (eg. z.ai) are offering very compelling competition.
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by canada_dry 1y ago
Canceling my OpenAI "PRO" subscription. This model solved a complex networking issue that O3 PRO couldn't. And it did it more quickly. Every O3 prompt took ~3-5mins to answer!! For F R E E !!
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by canada_dry 1y ago
OpenAI's "PRO" subscription is really a waste of money IMHO for this and other reasons. Decided to give PRO a try when I kept getting terrible results from the $20 option. So far it's perhaps 20% improved in complex code
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by canada_dry 1y ago
> solo dev/no name company is going to suddenly drop a product A developer/company with an opaque background that you're to trust to give access to backend systems using passwordless embedded SSH (no keys needed!). That&#x
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by canada_dry 1y ago
For me it highlights the issue of how easily nefarious/misleading information will be able to be injected into responses to suit the AI service provider's position (as desired/purchased/dictated by some 3rd party) in the
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by canada_dry 2y ago
First thing I looked for and read: the FAQ. No mention of privacy (or on prem) - so assumed it's 100% cloud. Non-starter for me. Accuracy is important, but privacy is more so. Hopefully a service with these capabilities will be availa
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by canada_dry 2y ago
I would hazard to guess that Google classroom (starting at Kindergarten and continuing through post secondary) software is mostly installed via next-next-finish (i.e. whatever the defaults set by Google are). I'd also assume that thes
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by canada_dry 2y ago
> the enshittification I've assumed that when AI becomes much more mainstream we'll see multiple levels of services. The cheapest (free or cash strapped services) will implement several (hidden/opaque) ways to reduce the c
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by canada_dry 2y ago
> It's a huge industry. It's a hugely under innovative, insular and overpriced industry that has been begging for disruption for decades. Now that there's critical mass in an aging population, companies like Apple that hav
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by canada_dry 2y ago
Phind was my go-to for getting more relevant and up-to-date information that could be found on the internet... but that stopped about 3+ months ago. Many times the answers seemed to be getting more and more incomplete or incorrect as time
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Innovations in Credit Cards (1985) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by canada_dry 2y ago|1 comments
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by canada_dry 2y ago
Interesting look back at the beginning of automated credit card authorizations - back when paging through a weekly printed fraud list was the routine practice.
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by canada_dry 2y ago
This. I'm a former/old-school professional programmer (now a retired CIO) and I still love automating my life with an assortment of tech (e.g. python, bash, c#, c++, jscript, etc). My knowledge of these tools isn't indepth..

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