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by filoleg 1y ago
Agreed. For those who don’t know btw, Claude Code has an official VS Code extensiob that does pretty much exactly that.
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by filoleg 1y ago
In the US, it would be unthinkable for a hospital to send patient data to something like ChatGPT or any other public services. Might be possible with some certain specific regions/environments of Azure tho, because iirc they have a few
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by filoleg 1y ago
Add big law to the list as well. There are at least a few firms here that I am just personally aware of running their models locally. In reality, I bet there are way more.
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by filoleg 1y ago
> god forbid you have the word Android somewhere in your app I literally have an app installed on my iPhone called “Android TV” (a remote to control android smart TVs, which I used to have years ago), and it says “Connect to Android TV”
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by filoleg 1y ago
>>No jumping off high buildings is perfectly safe as long as you land skillfully. Not really, because no matter how you spin it, the person in your scenario dies. However, doing Steve Jobs’ diet might actually be fine (or at least not
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by filoleg 1y ago
Boomer men complaining about their wives is an actual boomer facebook meme for a reason. Whether men just sitting down and talking openly about their feelings comes from the “men should be more sensitive and willing to share their feelings
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by filoleg 1y ago
Not defending your mother-in-law here (because I agree with you that it is a pretty silly and maybe even potentially harmful diet), afaik it wasn’t the diet itself that killed Steve Jobs. It was his decision to do that diet instead of doin
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by filoleg 1y ago
> How are you supposed to spot errors if you don't know the material? By noticing that something is not adding up at a certain point. If you rely on an incorrect answer, further material will clash with it eventually one way or anot
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by filoleg 1y ago
> what if i could purchase a unique qr code, good for maybe a month, that I could use online to probe my age? I can already smell a business opportunity to start illegally reselling/dealing age-verification qr codes.
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by filoleg 1y ago
Full anesthesia - yeah, not an option, you need to be awake. Something milder - it could be an option (depending on the state, maybe? not sure, mine was done in WA). Neither me nor my friends (all of us who got lasik) asked for it, but my c
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by filoleg 1y ago
> Yes. Behavioral data is in most cases far more useful to them than DNA. Makes perfect sense to me, to be honest. Outside of certain genetic deceases, the behavioral aspect is what ultimately matters. And afaik in terms of the US, a lar
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by filoleg 1y ago
Just to clarify for those who might've been as confused as I was upon reading that, this seems to be a thing with podcasts on Spotify. I only ever used it for music, so I genuinely had no idea (as I am yet to encounter a single ad whil
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by filoleg 1y ago
> You can [...] switch off your watching history Yup, and, for those who don't know, you can toggle an option in your Google account settings to do the same for your recommendations in search and for any Google-served ads you will s
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by filoleg 1y ago
Yeah, pretty much the same for me. Plus, Star Wars universe just felt way more interesting and fascinating to me than Star Trek as a kid. Star Wars felt like knights and wizards and jet fighter pilots and heroic adventures in space, Star Tr
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by filoleg 1y ago
You are totally fine, the grandparent comment is just either needlessly nitpicking (“great is the enemy of the perfect”) or misunderstanding what the tool is supposed to be used for. P.S. Your idea of having two distinct quick start guides
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by filoleg 1y ago
> Europe isn’t “starting from scratch.”It already has 12nm-class fabs (just like the US did until very recently), designs its own chips, and developed the very architecture — ARM. Sure, but the way you put it makes the final outcome look
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by filoleg 1y ago
Not to dismiss your point about pricing numbers (as it is valid and makes sense to me), but I don’t think iCloud comparison is that applicable to my argument, given there is no option to pay for larger iCloud storage with ad exposure. What
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by filoleg 1y ago
Not every nerdy person is into Star Trek? Star Wars is imo way more mainstream than Star Trek these days (especially with Disney pumping it), but even then there are tons of people in their 20s working in tech who haven’t seen it and have n
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by filoleg 1y ago
I don’t have the actual stats, but, sadly, it seems like a gigantic chunk of the “i would rather pay a small fee to use a service rather than paying for it with exposure to ads” crowd is mostly all-talk. And I am saying this as someone who
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by filoleg 1y ago
Not what I got out of that comment, but I fully agree with your take on new hires not being able to tell whether an unfamiliar version control piece of software is good or bad until they get at least somewhat familiar with it.
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by filoleg 1y ago
Why did you omit the rest of the sentence, which (imo) provides relevant context for your quote? Here is the relevant context I was referring to: > […] the fact that it is not using a custom CPU and XPU created by European companies, as
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by filoleg 1y ago
> I cannot believe that new hires would be upset by the choice of version control software. I can, if the version control software is just not up to standards. I absolutely didn’t mind using mercurial/hg, even though I literally hav
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by filoleg 1y ago
Realistically, I feel like most women (and men) have never even heard about IJ, even those who read books on a regular basis and would call themselves readers. The only crowds I know of where IJ has truly become a mainstream piece of knowle
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by filoleg 1y ago
This is my favorite type of HN posts by far. Seeing just some out there single-minded proof of concept projects, which are both ridiculous but, also, not really, is awesome.
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by filoleg 1y ago
It’s not a requirement, just a suggestion. The most i ever got was “say cheese!” once at one of my DL renewals, but that was it. In the US, I had to take photos for driver’s license at least 4 times, for green card 1 time, and for passport
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by filoleg 1y ago
> I would follow up with, if the shoe was on the other foot, do you believe that a lawyer with tattoos and or purple hair should be allowed to practice? Yes, they should be allowed to practice, because a lawyer’s tattoos and purple hair
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by filoleg 1y ago
> With the possible exception of 'vandalism', none of the offenses for which it may be applied [1] have any impact on visitors perception of cleanliness, that was my "argument" (although I don't think my comment
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by filoleg 1y ago
> Are companies really doing 100% remote interviews, as in: you sign the offer letter without even meeting a single person in person? Yes, I got multiple job offers like that back in 2022 at FAANG and similar places, and a lot of my frie
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by filoleg 1y ago
> the dollar lost about 10% of valuation, and GDP is contracting .3% in Q1 > How this relates to property valuations isn't clear to me If I was a rich person living outside of the US, and I wanted to find a solid way to park my m
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by filoleg 1y ago
> drug abuse > vandalism > unlawful possession of weapons > drug trafficking > foreigners who overstay by more than 90 days Majority of the things you listed, for which caning is either allowed or mandatory in Singapore, woul

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