coderintherye

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by coderintherye 11mo ago
Google's Vertex API for document processing absolutely does bounding boxes. In fact, some of the document processors are just a wrap around Google's product.
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by coderintherye 11mo ago
I remember participating in the workforce early on transcribing really bad audio recordings along with the cheap survey type stuff. It was pretty neat back in the day.
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by coderintherye 11mo ago
Really good read, we could all use a little more rest stops in our lives.
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by coderintherye 11mo ago
I mean you can easily mount the S3 bucket to the local filesystem (e.g. using s3fs-fuse) and then use standard command line tools such as ls and grep.
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Meshtastic: A Tale of Two Cities(hackaday.com)
4 points by coderintherye 1y ago|0 comments
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Admittedly, more detail would be better, but this high-level stuff is mostly the level that engineering leaders are discussing this topic currently (and it is by far the most discussed topic). They actually revelead an interesting tidbit wh
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Nine things I learned in ninety years(edwardpackard.com)
1006 points by coderintherye 1y ago|382 comments
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by coderintherye 1y ago
You are spreading misinformation. The FCC existed before Coughlin. Furthermore, the FCC declined to take action on Coughlin despite all the pressure it got from the public. Instead, it was the National Association of Broadcasters that force
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Neither of those are SFO.
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Zero. For the same reason there are never any stray civilian cars on the tarmac.
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Rotating shifts on customer service having them serve as a customer service rep for a day 1 to 4 times a year.
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Blind Man's Bluff is a great variant: Give everyone a card face-down, they put it on their forehead without looking at it. Bet based on whether or not you think the card on your forehead is higher than other people's. More fun in
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by coderintherye 1y ago
>Anyone reading War and Peace will need at the very least a list of characters Indeed, I almost gave up on it for that reason. Great story but does the character really need 6+ different ways to refer to them. "Too Like the Lightnin
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Allegedly. The charge that he paid to have someone killed was never brought into court and never ruled on. Federal agents had access to the site at that point and could have posed the chat. Not really provable one way or the other. Not defe
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248911 - Why Stack Exchange Isn’t in the Cloud (2011) The original blog post is down but available here: http://web.archive.org/web/20120120201529/htt
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Most large ships have large water storage vessels as well as make fresh water using pumps (while operating). They also usually have separate pumps to pump salt water for firefighting. But in the event the pumps are not running that's a
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by coderintherye 1y ago
> Chrome, the browser itself, hasn’t made any significant improvements to its user experience in years. (By comparison, Firefox has shipped more UI updates in the same 5 years, including ones like sidebar navigation for tabs Firefox has
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Will be interesting to see if these get pair up with Verifiable Credentials. My real world use case for emblems would be to have an ability to place an emblem on a website that is verifiably provable as having been offered to the website by
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by coderintherye 1y ago
>the real opportunity lies in understanding that you’re not bound by the conventions that have been passed down as “standard.” While in agreement with the author, I think Moxie is missing here that if you want external funding you are in
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by coderintherye 1y ago
>Don’t study the “common” things, but go all-in on the niche pockets. The common things are common enough that you’ll learn them through osmosis regardless of what your main activity is. But the niche things require active study, and ign
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by coderintherye 1y ago
Nice Twitter thread from Nov '24 analyzing the paper: https://x.com/Robert_Palgrave/status/1856273405965693430
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by coderintherye 1y ago
"A common trait of high-agency people is that they take accountability for achieving a goal, not just doing some work" Very well-said. Be agentic.
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by coderintherye 2y ago
Germans were the ones supplying Putin with the military technology components needed to fight his war: https://x.com/kamilkazani/status/1537133053889347584
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by coderintherye 2y ago
Thinly disguised ad.
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by coderintherye 2y ago
It's been much, much slower to load on click for me now. Surprised others haven't experienced that so wondering if it is some extension conflict. Consistently takes 2-3 seconds to load up after click whereas before was instant-ish
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by coderintherye 2y ago
If it's a simple app, consider NearlyFreeSpeech https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/hosting Easy, straight-forward no-frills hosting. Could you share the app if/when it's available somewhere? I hav
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by coderintherye 2y ago
Probably, but what's your negotiation position? If you believe management is amendable and just needs data, then pull data for typical equity grants at this stage to your equivalent position and present it to them. If not amenable, the
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Hypothesis Sheets: how to navigate and exit the idea maze with a startup idea(michaelrbock.com)
2 points by coderintherye 2y ago|0 comments
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by coderintherye 2y ago
Good example of everything that can wrong with a prediction market if left unchecked. Don't like that Waymo broke your prediction? Fine just move your goalposts. Like that prediction came true but on the wrong timeframe? Just move the
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by coderintherye 2y ago
Kiva's engineering drew quite a few lessons from Etsy, though we never got so big. I think Dan is missing mentioning one ingredient: Security. Not code security, the human feeling of personal security. Most especially, of being secure

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