evilsaloon

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Unified Dasher Onboarding: A modular platform to scale globally(careersatdoordash.com)
1 points by evilsaloon 7mo ago|0 comments
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Groq Deprecates Distil Whisper Large V3(console.groq.com)
2 points by evilsaloon 1y ago|1 comments
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by evilsaloon 1y ago
I just got an email from Groq saying that distil-whisper-large-v3-en will be deprecated by August 23, 2025. Their suggested replacement model, whisper-large-v3-turbo, is quite capable, but is also about twice as expensive to run.
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by evilsaloon 1y ago
I love the idea of Waymo in theory, but unfortunately the only times I've seen them in the news are when things go horribly wrong (like the fact that they've gotten almost 600 parking tickets in SF last year). I will still prefer
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by evilsaloon 2y ago
The PayPal debit card lets you choose a 5% cash back category every month. Gas, restaurants, and a few other I don't remember. It's a much better deal than most of the credit cards I carry.
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by evilsaloon 2y ago
As someone who lived in Russia for a while, I have personal experience with these mini-exchanges. They're the Internet equivalent of those currency exchange stands at airports, I wouldn't call them full crypto exchanges like Binan
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An update on Google's compliance with the DMA(blog.google)
33 points by evilsaloon 2y ago|49 comments
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by evilsaloon 2y ago
> Durant, a graduate of the California Institute of Technology, found the new prime number using only publicly available unused cloud storage space. > I was able to find this number that’s astonishingly large … but I was able to do it
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by evilsaloon 3y ago
"Green" hydrogen is anything but. Electrolysis is a fundamentally inefficient technique. Scale it all you want, but you will hit diminishing returns faster than with water desalination. Natural hydrogen is the way to go, and I hop
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by evilsaloon 3y ago
Always funny seeing SaaS companies pitch their own product in blog posts. I understand it's just how marketing works, but pitching your own product as a solution to a problem (that you yourself are introducing, perhaps the first time
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Ask HN: Non-Intrusive Human Verification?
1 points by evilsaloon 4y ago|1 comments
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America's Pager Giant(hackernoon.com)
8 points by evilsaloon 4y ago|2 comments