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by cube00 4mo ago
> The only awkward thing is when I am in person or on the phone and have to explain that my customer email address I had one small business aggressively threaten me that they fully owned their business name and I wasn't allowed to u
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by cube00 4mo ago
The challenge I have is getting a large enough context window so tool calls work reliably, the local models easily slip into hallucinated JSON tool responses and won't trigger the tools as a result.
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by cube00 4mo ago
> I've only ever done ollama and wonder what I'm missing. Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788385
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by cube00 4mo ago
> Most people weren’t using Fable for everything anyway because it’s so expensive. Or they were getting silently rerouted and couldn't realise they weren't using Fable
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by cube00 4mo ago
Can't say I agree with Costco anymore, staff are now rude and needlessly petty at multiple locations which I can only assume is because they're getting squeezed from the top in a similar way to the grocery stores. It used to feel
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by cube00 4mo ago
> Here's the transcript It's frustrating that superfluous tokens are burning up our quotas: key insight, crucially this, real engineering deltas, net assessment, definitive picture, acid tests, real limits, sharp boundary, prop
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by cube00 4mo ago
Retention and legal holds: Data can still be deleted even if a retention policy or legal hold is in place, unless licensing or billing is restored first. Do not rely on holds alone to protect unlicensed data. Surprising it doesn't au
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by cube00 4mo ago
Just wanted to check in on how we're tracking, I've booked a quick sync meeting for 4:45pm on Friday followed by a release cadence checkpoint meeting for 9am on Monday.
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by cube00 4mo ago
> The thing is basically already done! I'm seeing so many of these come in with "this is 95% done, just need a couple of minor tweaks for production release" "Minor tweaks" being fix the layout so it's not m
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by cube00 4mo ago
Please don't, even "polish" can make it sound completely AI written.
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by cube00 4mo ago
Ideally it would follow the same model as politicians. All entities you receive payment from over a threshold amount from would be published so it's up to the public to decide if a conflict of interest exists. Under the current approac
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by cube00 4mo ago
> I don't think so, but the whole point of "subconsciously" is you don't know for sure. I provide ad-hoc consulting and training services to a number of different companies and organizations. If any of those represen
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by cube00 4mo ago
> Software Engineers, like all licensed professional Engineers will be just fine, as AI can't assume liability, nor be professionally licensed. There's no such licensing, unlike other fields such as medicine you are not require
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by cube00 4mo ago
I'm really pleased he's embraced long form videos showing the steps (and the failures) along the way, in the early videos you can hear he's apprehensive about if people would find it interesting in a world of short form conte
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by cube00 5mo ago
Adding ads to Echo Show devices after purchase was a bold move and they seem to have gotten away with it. https://advertising.amazon.com/resources/ad-specs/alexa-disp... Similar to Google adding ads to the Android
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by cube00 5mo ago
They're working on it, they've recently stopped allowing the Australian government to be treated a single customer. [1] While each agency still gets the same whole of government pricing for the next five years, I worry the next st
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by cube00 5mo ago
Highly recommend this, I no longer need any spam filtering following this approach. My old Gmail would be loaded with spam and the filter would screw up and mislabel legitimate mail. Now, no spam at all. It also helps when your email is inv
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by cube00 5mo ago
> State library is prob all you need now. Hopefully if the signals standard proposal (TC39) gets up we may not even need state libraries soon.
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by cube00 5mo ago
After the disaster of AngularJS that we are still paying external EOL support on, I will never trust another Google led framework.
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by cube00 5mo ago
> Hopefully your manager understands that calculus. The majority of jobs are still paid on a 40 hour per week basis. Disappearing for a day each week (20%) won't fly when you're full time.
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by cube00 5mo ago
> I even remember the days when dailies were actually held standing up in the office. I switched my team to text based daily updates submitted anytime before ~10am. A nice perk was it gave people the option to do it at the end of the day
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by cube00 5mo ago
I still prefer having deterministic control over when the free occurs. For example, I can transmit the response to the client and then free the memory afterwards so they're not kept waiting.
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by cube00 5mo ago
I never understood why Microsoft didn't have affordable licences to encourage kids to program. The school computer lab had Visual Basic but you only got an hour week in there as part of the computing subject, the school library compute
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by cube00 5mo ago
I used love watching these over and over again as a kid, taped off TV on VHS, now both up in excellent quality on IA. Triumph of the Nerds (1996) - https://archive.org/details/triumph_of_the_nerds Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief
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by cube00 5mo ago
> (What did the account manager say exactly?) I doubt we'll ever know, especially if it makes Google look negligent (ie. not reaching out to the customer first before restricting their production account) Whatever the account manage
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by cube00 5mo ago
There's been a few mistakes like this recently in BBC articles and more troubling is they've stopped adding notes to indicate they've made revisions to the published article when they fix them.
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by cube00 5mo ago
Railway "What we know so far: May 19th 2026": https://station.railway.com/community/what-we-know-so-far-ma...
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by cube00 5mo ago
The way they're charging for failed generations is brutal. Checked my 5 hour quota, it was 0%, got this for multiple attempts: I'm getting more image requests than usual, so I can't create that for you right now. Please try
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by cube00 5mo ago
> Surprising for a company of their scale with all this VC money. Not sure too many VCs would be cool with deep redundancy when there's more features to build to bring in more customers instead.
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by cube00 5mo ago
Jamie Zawinski at the end of the Code Rush doco: We're at the beginning of an industry and who knows where that industry's going to go? This could all turn into television again. It could be controlled by a small number of compan

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