flippy_flops

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by flippy_flops 3y ago
Generally agree, but Siri is out and is awful
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
Agree - fwiw, I added "ChatGPT should keep answers brief and direct." as part of my Custom instructions and it's a massive improvement.
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
I am absolutely baffled that Apple (and others) haven't updated their smart assistants with a competitive LLM. With Apple's privacy shtick and their mobile GPU efficiency, I was convinced we'd see something today. What am I m
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
Amazing. I've always wanted a similar game card readers: Remove your card before the clerk gets annoyed at you. The screen is flashes various messages like "PLEASE REMOVE YOUR CARD after the TRANSACTION IS COMPLETE". Push the
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
Glad to hear there's a roadmap. In my PAAS thrashing I've got quite a few notes: - no wildcard subdomain ssl - poor metrics, nothing per instance - poor dyno granularity - (jumps from 2.5GB RAM to 14, no cpu/storage control)
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
Strongly disagree with this take and especially the tone. "Is two years enough experience to create a curriculum?" is a good discussion prompt but it's hardly a silver bullet for dismissing the project. A counter argument is
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
I hate what Salesforce has done to Heroku but after a year of running our saas on aws, render, and fly - here I am, back on Heroku. It sucks, but slightly less than the alternatives. Fly has potential, but they've changed/grown so
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
5-10 years ago I’d agree they were very good. My suspicion is that the base spam filter is not very good but it trains on your email history and becomes better. So my “newer” gmail accounts have very poor filtering. Like I get all caps subj
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by flippy_flops 3y ago
I’ll be more interested in Google’s ML when they use it as a competent spam filter for Gmail. As it stands the false positives and false negatives are baffling. Maybe it’s unfair but to me that directly reflects their ML abilities
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by flippy_flops 4y ago
I want this as a social media platform - in the same vein as BeReal
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by flippy_flops 4y ago
Can a quantum computer fit in an answering machine? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bAa6gFvLs
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by flippy_flops 4y ago
If it’s listed on a marketplace, find their direct contact info and they’ll likely take a lower number since there are no fees. If you’re emailing them, word your message to make it clear you’re not a bot. Persistence over time is often nec
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by flippy_flops 4y ago
IMHO Apple’s AR/VR device will be another incremental but major milestone for mainstream VR. Stable Diffusion is already making waves in digital art. I expect more specialized models fairly soon. Free data and services we used to take
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by flippy_flops 4y ago
The best manager I've had described his job as "working for developers". Like a shared assistant that acts as the communication point for stakeholders, gladhands needy customers, completes rfps/security questionnaires&#x
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by flippy_flops 5y ago
At a high enough volume, links will also get you blocked by carriers
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by flippy_flops 5y ago
Several jobs ago we had an external hard drive that was plugged in under an IT guys desk. Despite having a high end server room 50 feet away, all of our companies main financial/etc files were stored exclusively on that hard drive. It
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by flippy_flops 5y ago
a dark sky clone Apple bought Dark Sky and closed the api for new devs. Supposedly they'll shut down the api next year for existing customers. If that happens, there are a bunch of sites/apps that would love to swap out their conn
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by flippy_flops 7y ago
I’ve developed on two computers for about 6 years - an iMac at my office and MacBook Air for home and travel. All my projects are in a Dropbox folder but I also use Git. It works really well. The biggest issues are when Dropbox detects conf
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by flippy_flops 7y ago
This is good advice, but I think the fundamental issue for many people is that they are looking for a formula to supplement their own brain. In reality there are many classes of successful businesses. It’s hard to explain the success of a r