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by dheera 1y ago
I've never had a competent company ask me for that. The only ones who did were "old fart" companies. New companies, especially ones with good tech, have always taken my PDF. > Probably so they can make changes behind you
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by dheera 1y ago
> salaries Yeah, this is going to be the ultimate deciding factor. When local companies don't pay enough to live and Bay Area companies are paying upto 10X+ the compensation (for AI roles) people are going to make the move.
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by dheera 1y ago
I applied to Intel once a long time ago when I was just getting out of school, but when they replied asking for my resume in "Word format" I stopped pursuing it. I didn't use Word to create my resume and if they can't de
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by dheera 1y ago
Curious, what happened to the Palm phone ( https://palm.com/ )?
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by dheera 1y ago
That's how people probably felt about the first cars, the first laptops, the first <anything>. People like you grumbled when their early car broke down in the middle of a dirt road in the boondocks and they had to eat grass and s
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by dheera 1y ago
I made a script of this sort too originally called "ffmpeg-english" last year. Interesting how people reacted to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40410637 I then made a more general version of it for all c
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by dheera 1y ago
This is also how I feel as well. There are symptoms and idiopathic conditions I've had that multiple specialists at top-tier hospitals were unable to diagnose, but mostly because they were too-narrowminded in their approach (blood test
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by dheera 1y ago
Honest question, what the hell is everyone monitoring in a home lab that isn't already monitored? I have an enterprise grade NAS, but if there's any kind of disk or RAID issue it beeps the shit out of me; I call that enough for ho
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by dheera 1y ago
Well, mine doesn't work, so I'm still using Chrome. When they make it work, I'll switch to Firefox. There should really be a big fat "report bug" button on all these apps that captures logs and sends it with 1-click
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by dheera 1y ago
Yes, Linux. No site works for me. Facebook, Google, none of them work. Even the demo at https://demo.yubico.com/webauthn-technical/ does not work.
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by dheera 1y ago
Firefox still doesn't work. 1 - Google Meet consumes 40%-100% of my CPU on Firefox, and my laptop becomes a space heater 2 - My Yubikeys don't work. Touching them doesn't get into any of the websites I use that use 2FA. So, n
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by dheera 1y ago
> So the compressed data in a JPEG will look random, right? I don't think JPEG data is compressed enough to be indistinguishable from random. SD VAE with some bits lopped off gets you better compression than JPEG and yet the latents
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by dheera 1y ago
(a) How do we know there isn't some hollow part inside the cube? (b) Whovever hypothetically got that money would have 37% stolen by the government so they'd be left with about a million anyways. It's effectively a million.
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by dheera 1y ago
I don't believe in "efficient" pricing being a good thing. Railway systems with flat pricing and no stupid games are such a relief.
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by dheera 1y ago
> You won't have any wealth when you become very old and cannot work. You and your family will end up with nothing. What do you propose? Borrow money and buy a house for millions that I can't afford? Sounds like a faster way to
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by dheera 1y ago
Aw hell they picked up on that stupid American capitalist crap? I worked in Germany in 2005 and back then everything was fixed price per kilometer for each train class, and you could get rail passes of sorts and get on whatever the hell tra
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by dheera 1y ago
Meanwhile our trains in the USA run at 50-100 km/h and are nonexistent in most places, so it's still an achievement.
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by dheera 1y ago
> Buy a house now. It's usually cheaper since apartments (in expensive metro areas) are often tantamount to setting money on fire. :o) Not really. I live in an expensive area. I pay $4K+/month in rent for a nice apartment, and
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by dheera 1y ago
I have a rack for convenience, not education. It got rid of all of my wiring mess since 90% of my networked stuff just lives together and now uses a single UPS. It's also relatively easy to move from place to place as I move apartments
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by dheera 1y ago
The delta between the typical obese person and my weight is much more than the typical weight of my carry-on bag. There is zero reason to charge for the carry-on bag if you don't also charge the obese person.
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by dheera 1y ago
I took a break from a toxic big tech job. I spent a couple months travelling. Then I spent a couple months trying to use transformer-based models of sorts to detect short-lived inefficiencies in the stock market to try to create a passive i
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by dheera 1y ago
> Some malware samples are known to do various checks to determine if they are running in a virtual machine. Not just malware, but some apps are known to do this too, e.g. WeChat. There needs to be a better virtual machine that tries to
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by dheera 1y ago
I'm against charging for bathrooms, water, or other such basic human needs while you are in the custody of the airline for the duration of travel. There should be a basic standard of human care that includes those things. Food should a
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by dheera 1y ago
I don't mind it honestly. I'm the one carrying the bag, not them. If they aren't doing work they should not be allowed to charge extra.
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by dheera 1y ago
I don't really understand what's privacy-focused about it that Framework isn't. Isn't privacy mostly a software problem, other than hardware switches on camera/mic, which Framework already has? > We do not use Go
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by dheera 1y ago
> One of Qwen's strengths historically has been their open-weights strategy > let researchers and individuals get the weights for free and let startups pay for a reasonably-priced license for commercial use I'm personally do
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by dheera 1y ago
> I don't want to review code the author doesn't understand The author is me and my silicon buddy. We understand this stuff.
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by dheera 1y ago
That and also just AI glasses that become an extension of my mind and body, just giving me clues and guidance on everything I do including what's on my screen. I see those glasses as becoming just a part of me, just like my current dum
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by dheera 1y ago
On the other hand, I think it's cute when LLMs hallucinate a Python library that doesn't exist, because it probably means it's worth creating into existence.
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by dheera 1y ago
def __main__: You run main(). If there are issues, you edit __file__ to try to fix the errors and re-run it. You are determined, persistent, and never give up.

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