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by flowerlad 2y ago
All I want is for Apple to fix speech recognition in iMessage. Not sure if that’s in this release. They demo’d AI text review and rewrite but not LLM speech recognition. I currently use ChatGPT for it’s accurate speech recognition then copy
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by flowerlad 2y ago
For starters it is not web-based, does not work on Mac, does not support LLM query generation, etc.
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by flowerlad 2y ago
Right but Access is outdated. Microsoft tried to make a web version of Access, but gave up. Now they recommend Power Apps but it’s support for databases is pretty weak.
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by flowerlad 2y ago
> Users cannot interact with the database directly It is not super hard to find UI designed for end users, these days. If you know the basics such as what a relational database is, then here’s is a good UI: https://visualdb.
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by flowerlad 2y ago
This is very similar to Vanilla TSX: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder Here’s an app written using Vanilla TSX: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp/Cli
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by flowerlad 2y ago
Not everyone needs that kind of performance. Consider for example someone upgrading from an Excel spreadsheet. The fact that you can create a Neon database in just a few minutes, typing only 2 strings, is pretty incredible. And they don’t e
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by flowerlad 2y ago
“Drivers are tested extensively through a process that involves many companies.” That didn’t happen. Apparently, the policy for drivers does not apply to kernel modules… WTF!!
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by flowerlad 2y ago
Over engineering is the result when you focus too much on “future” needs.
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by flowerlad 2y ago
Good architecture reduces cost of achieving quality.
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by flowerlad 3y ago
If you want to recover from CSV errors you should ideally throw InvalidCSVException.
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by flowerlad 3y ago
Because otherwise, they will have to admit they messed up. Easier to blame it on the kids.
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by flowerlad 3y ago
Right, others such as NocoDB, Baserow, Plato and Mathesar don’t support grouping. Even Google Tables has only one level of grouping.
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by flowerlad 3y ago
Good question. There is no consensus on who is considered white. Nazis considered Jews to be a separate and inferior race. At one point in the US, Italians were not considered white. Irish, Greeks and Poles were not considered white at some
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by flowerlad 3y ago
So untrue. The best resource for preparing for standardized tests is Khan Academy. It is free. High school grades on the other hand are getting inflated now, because of parental pressure, now that colleges are abandoning standardized tests,
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by flowerlad 3y ago
It is important to note that Harward’s admission policy that is the subject of this case was designed to favor White students over Jewish ones [1]. Today it is being used to discriminate against Asian Americans. Colleges are already prepare
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by flowerlad 3y ago
Would it make sense to renew now for multiple years before squarespace takes over?
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by flowerlad 4y ago
This article suggests the Self Driving Car project at Tesla is suffering because Musk’s preoccupation with Twitter. Personally I believe it is the opposite - Musk lost interest in the Self Driving Car project because he finally realized he
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How Elon Musk Knocked Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ Off Course(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by flowerlad 4y ago|2 comments
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by flowerlad 4y ago
It doesn’t work. The screenshots appear to be aspirational as opposed to a real product at this point.
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by flowerlad 4y ago
There are? How do I find these VCs?
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by flowerlad 4y ago
This is a gem: Mr. Musk may also be testing Twitter’s engineers. He and his team have assigned some of them projects to complete, three people with knowledge of the matter said. One project involved changes to Twitter’s login screen, they
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by flowerlad 5y ago
A high resolution screen. Meaning 200% scale — nothing else looks good. This is also a rarity these days, even though my 5-year-old Samsung ATIV Book 9 has it. In the Windows world, sadly, things are a mess. Most new laptops including Micro
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by flowerlad 5y ago
I tried 13" 4K laptops on display at BestBuy, which has scale set to 300%, and I saw display artifacts.
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by flowerlad 5y ago
In the Windows world, sadly, things are a mess. Most new laptops including Microsoft's newest Surface Studio have fractional scaling, i.e., scaling set to a number other than 100% or 200%. As Steve Jobs said when he originally introduc
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by flowerlad 5y ago
Thank you. That does seem consequential.
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by flowerlad 5y ago
So nothing changed with the source code or its licensing, only the location on github? That seems a bit inconsequential, tbh. Are there strings attached to the new location? If no, then move on.
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by flowerlad 5y ago
Lidar costs have come down. Now it is around $1,000 soon it will be under $500 https://www.barrons.com/articles/lidar-is-the-future-of-auto...
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by flowerlad 5y ago
> solving for scaling problems Choosing database A instead of database B doesn't mean you're suddenly "solving for scaling problems". It just means you're better prepared to one day solve scaling problems, shou
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by flowerlad 5y ago
Are you an IT developer, who is developing applications for internal use? If so PostgreSQL is an excellent choice! But if you're developing an app that scales to internet users consider Couchbase or some other database that matches you
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by flowerlad 5y ago
> Just use a standard database and get on with coding features instead. Better still, choose a "standard database" that supports sharding.

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