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by garciasn 3y ago
The great thing was that women saw men (and vv) who aren’t only a handful of Gram-worthy photos and a couple of stolen clever pickup lines. It allowed folks a direct avenue to those they found attractive and could use skills other than payi
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by garciasn 3y ago
I just want them to stop treating those of us who have known this for years and opted for pseudoephedrine to be treated as if we were drug manufacturers/users by forcing ID checks at a pharmacy.
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by garciasn 3y ago
As some of these RTO companies have already done: they will force you to come in to a regional/main office and if you don't, you're out a job.
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by garciasn 3y ago
With the recent news that Tesla had been overstating their range by more than 50% and the EPA estimates were similarly inflated, are the true ranges still going to be halved? I have a vacation home and due to antiquated electric service and
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by garciasn 3y ago
They're saying it's a LLaMA-2 7B model, but I assume it's heavily quantized (Q2 or Q3 are mostly likely) because if it's got to fit in 8GB of RAM, it's going to need to be. Q2 and Q3 quantized models will require so
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by garciasn 3y ago
We can speculate for sure and their real estate investments are a likely reason but I was trying to only use their historical behaviors and known information about the decision to make the point.
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by garciasn 3y ago
Amazon’s CEO admits there’s no data driving the RTO policy decision. It’s simply his opinion and the opinion of unnamed other CEOs that employees must return. That’s my issue with it all. Companies are supposedly data-driven and Amazon is k
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by garciasn 3y ago
Yes, of course it begs the question: that's the whole point of science. To explore and provide hypotheses which can be studied and potentially eventually proven when we can gain enough evidence at a later time. The problem with the uni
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by garciasn 3y ago
On top of the promise of remote work for the last several years and then changing the terms of employment w/o any tangible reason, asking salaried employees to pay for incremental childcare, transit cost, potential COL increase, and pe
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by garciasn 3y ago
To use similar ridiculous tropes but in reverse: The Minneapolis PD officers might kneel on your neck, keep bystanders from rendering aid, and murder you. It’s possible they might even execute you, acting as judge, jury, and executioner in
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by garciasn 3y ago
You are likely: 1. Trolling. 2. Don't live here. 3. (or) are clearly subsisting on a diet of misinformation. --- The areas where unrest was rampant were not known to be hotbeds of quality dining anyway and very few people here, aside f
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by garciasn 3y ago
There are plenty of great restaurants in the Minneapolis and St Paul proper 'cities', but specifically downtown Minneapolis is generally reserved for some very high-end restaurants, food trucks, or garbage fast casual/&#x27
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by garciasn 3y ago
I live in the MSP area and now WFH. Corporate Target employees aren’t the only ones missing from downtown and Fhima’s restaurants shouldn’t require our work location to change to make his businesses survive. Hell, his latest restaurant isn’
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by garciasn 3y ago
What part of it is cool? - His claim that he took on his deceased brother’s identity at the direction of the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations while participating in an undercover operation in the 1960s? - The fact that his benef
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by garciasn 3y ago
As someone who has been a code-writing 'engineering manager' for 10+ years, much of this rings true, aside from the insinuation that I haven't been doing this all along anyway and that it's related to business cost savin
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by garciasn 3y ago
> You check their LinkedIn out and they have a B.A. in Library Sciences or something. Yeah. Those guys have the upper hand now. Even joking (I hope), I can see why it's possible that you may have had so many rejections. I have a BA
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by garciasn 3y ago
Getting fired could be the least of their concerns depending on the nature of the data shared with third parties.
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by garciasn 3y ago
1. We can and do disallow sharing of client and company data with third party LLMs by policy and, yes, we can ‘force’ them to use our product capabilities. 2. We tested 13 and 30b parameter pretrained LLMs and found them “good enough” withi
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by garciasn 3y ago
From the article: It would make California the 19th state to install cameras that would automatically issue tickets to the owners of vehicles that are spotted exceeding the speed limit by at least 11 miles an hour. [...] The fines could be
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by garciasn 3y ago
We host our own LLM because: 1. We are not permitted, by rule, to send client data to unapproved third parties. 2. I generally do not trust third parties with our data, even if it falls outside of #1. Just look at the hoopla with Zoom; do y
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by garciasn 3y ago
The problem as I have witnessed it during my 15+ years of experience in the field as a DE by trade leading DEs, PM, ProdMs, and DSs is that even if you have DSs, The Business does NOT want to do what is required for the actual and reliable
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by garciasn 3y ago
It's great that your personal experience and of those you interact with on the regular can provide your entire society a level of finality in this decision. Here in the US, we generally rely on our judicial system (ending at the Suprem
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by garciasn 3y ago
There are folks who are vegetarians + fish (they call themselves pescatarians), so there are arguments, even from vegetarians, that fish don't count as meat. I don't know what the right answer is, but my personal opinion is that f
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by garciasn 3y ago
I am an independent. My biggest problem with the Clarence Thomas news isn’t that he (or any other justice) is being swayed with gifts. It’s that Thomas has publicly stated he leads a simple life where he doesn’t do any of the things he’s do
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by garciasn 3y ago
You’re right. VW, for example, would NEVER have broken the law by pushing for detection of emissions tests and changing the engine’s outputs when in this mode vs when it was on the road. Never!
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by garciasn 3y ago
I mean, hosting your own outside of OpenAI is mainly to avoid OpenAI accessing the data and using it for X, Y, and Z. I wouldn't roll my own if there weren't concerns about safety due to the cost and quality of the results.
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Ask HN: What questions to ask a new/relatively unknown telco now offering fiber
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by garciasn 3y ago
They change somewhat frequently. We were previously working with some of the highest ranked that we could handle and we were getting acceptable results for the parameters of our tests. That said, if you’re looking for these to be a similar
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by garciasn 3y ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/welfare-dru...
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by garciasn 3y ago
That’s over double the dose considered “safe”. Obviously, I’m not suggesting you do otherwise; it’s just way outside the bounds of what most adults would do unless directed to by their physician.

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