duckmysick

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by duckmysick 7mo ago
From what I've observed in different parts of the world, small restaurants, hair salons, beauty salons, boutiques, etc. all go straight to Facebook/Instagram. Opening hours and driving directions are already there, menus/offe
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by duckmysick 7mo ago
The above is specifically from a different LLM trained on the data with the knowledge cutoff of year 1913. Gemini has a cutoff date somewhere in 2025 from what I remember. If you want to replicate, you should try the same question on the sa
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by duckmysick 7mo ago
I thought it was WiZ of the lightbulbs fame. Figured they were going all in their smart home approach. But yeah, the other Wiz makes more sense.
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
https://lobste.rs/ has a system like that.
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
That's a butterfly.
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
I wish there was a wiki like that for Windows.
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
Most open source projects start small. The author writes code that solves some issue they have. Likely, someone else has the same problem and they would find the code useful. So it's published. For a while it's quiet, but one day
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
We already have a "user agent" as a term for software (browsers, curl, etc.) that fetches web content on behalf of a user. It predates current AI agents by a few decades. I don't think it has much agency either, but here we a
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
How am I supposed to research things myself? Let's say I want to research effectiveness and safety of a flu vaccine by myself. I don't have resources to set up my own lab. I don't even know if the manufacturer will sell a do
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by duckmysick 8mo ago
SQLite or DuckDB if your needs are more analytical than transactional.
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
It's there in the The Model Services Contract, under Core Terms: > Quality Plans > 6.1 The Supplier shall develop, within [insert number] Working Days of the Effective Date, quality plans that ensure that all aspects of the Servi
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
> i dunno how else to prove it to you A prompt to generate similar output would be a good start.
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
Is there anywhere where we can learn more about creating your own agents/skills? Maybe some decent public repos that you could recommend.
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
I'm referring to the part where Mark was scraping the photos from the Harvard's houses face book pages.
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
I'd argue that no, managing your own VPN is not a basic skill - certainly not in the realms of software engineering (more like network engineering).
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
Software engineering is a broad spectrum where we can move up and down its abstraction ladder. Using off-the-shelf tools and even third-party providers is fine. I don't have to do everything from scratch - after all, I didn't writ
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by duckmysick 9mo ago
That made me think - are there any depictions of Markdown in movies and tv shows? I've seen a fair share of C, Java, HTML, and (in newer works) JavaScript and Python. And Perl in The Social Network. n.b.: the above quote is from The Ma
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by duckmysick 10mo ago
GPWS = ground proximity warning system TCAS = traffic alert and collision avoidance system
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by duckmysick 10mo ago
Me neither. When I deal with structured logs, I use Structured Query Language, typically with ClickHouse or DuckDB which are CLI tools too. grep is all right, but sometimes I need to tease out a complex data relationship.
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by duckmysick 10mo ago
> no publicly available data that would demonstrate adherence to the rule. What kind of data would satisfy you? I imagine any data coming directly from YC would be untrustworthy and third-party data would be incomplete (say, it wouldn&#x
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by duckmysick 10mo ago
> have been reviewed by multiple security org/researchers I imagine reviewing all the code for all the packages for all the published versions gets really expensive. Who's paying for this?
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by duckmysick 10mo ago
Which models have you been using?
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by duckmysick 11mo ago
Sort of related - 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45456188
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by duckmysick 11mo ago
On the other hand, #1 makes it extremely difficult (if not impossible at all) to have a decent UI automation on Wayland. Sure, you can still do it if you're not leaving the terminal or a web browser, but anything else (including Electr
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by duckmysick 1y ago
> Companies like SunCulture (who used to be a customer of ours) started maintaining all their customers on spreadsheets. But with high volume low-value sales, you need to have good software to manage this. That's pretty interesting
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by duckmysick 1y ago
Based on the photos it's a fence in a fairly private location. I assume it's not viable if the solar fence is right next to a street or a sidewalk, because of potential vandalism and obstructions from trees or street lights.
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by duckmysick 1y ago
Not OP but when I make burgers at home I bake my own potato buns (not necessarily on the same day). No bakery around me makes soft savory buns and the prepacked store-bought ones have this weird synthetic and stale flavor.
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by duckmysick 1y ago
Can you share more details about it? Like who did you contact in those companies (owner? HR? your past manager?), what did you say, was it in-person or over an email, etc.
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by duckmysick 1y ago
> If your product is good, word will spread via word-of-mouth. Not necessarily. First, you somehow need to reach the initial batch of customers - whether by free samples or talking to power users, you're already engaging in marketin
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by duckmysick 1y ago
> And yet, the rationalist community has hosted perhaps half a dozen small groups with very strange beliefs (including two separate groups that wound up interacting with demons). Some — which I won’t name in this article for privacy reas

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