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by geor9e 3y ago
The downside of websites like that is that it travels over the internet, so you're throttled by every bottleneck along the way, which can be very painful if you're out and about and your hotspot is suffering 3G speeds. Meanwhile,
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by geor9e 3y ago
Google will delete your account for a bad joke (actually happened to me - they wiped my entire decade-old account, including my GMail/GDrive/etc for a "This comment only viewable with Youtube Gold, comment your credit card nu
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by geor9e 3y ago
>why do techies still even go to the city? I guess it depends what you're into. I work in south bay, and go out there, and try to find fun stuff there, but in general I find it a boring place. I take a company bus back to SF where I
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by geor9e 3y ago
If you find the scan hard to read, here is a text version https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-...
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by geor9e 3y ago
Your assessment of open source OCR performance is the same as mine - it still sucks. Even proprietary large models like Google Gemini suck at it. If it helps at all, someone manually did it https://www.starwarz.com/starkille
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by geor9e 3y ago
I mean, look at him https://imgur.com/a/7UTrwCQ.png . I don't think the philosophy goes too deep.
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by geor9e 3y ago
I've been in a Waymo when a voice message informed me that a difficult situation was detected and a remote human driver is taking over, then a couple blocks laters another voice message said it's returning control to the Waymo dri
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by geor9e 3y ago
Are you just reposting your own tweet as a HN headline, and then again as a comment? I get the insinuation that you found a smoking gun of Google impropriety, but there's a simpler explanation. It's a next-token-finding machine, s
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by geor9e 3y ago
How long until you drag this PDF into an AI chatbot and it spits out a 1 hour movie
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by geor9e 3y ago
I (stupidly) stored all my 4k video footage on facebook. It was great for a while. Only later did I learn that if the video viewership drops below a threshold, they delete the 4k stream without warning, leaving only the 360p stream. So I ju
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by geor9e 3y ago
Now put some of those reaction wheels in one of these, to give them lateral self balancing https://alienrides.com/collections/electric-unicycles
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by geor9e 3y ago
There is something a lot more healthy-feeling about tinkering in the shop using your hands, versus staring down a panel of colorful monospaced ascii. But the individual contributor MechE career plateaus in pay around $170k. There's no
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by geor9e 3y ago
Soon after Remarkable 2 was released, a hacked version of Remarkable 1 was released that added pretty much all the feature upgrades. You needed to buy a new stylus (to use the new eraser end), but you could choose from dozens of brands sinc
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by geor9e 3y ago
Constants are the simplest assumption. It's a "first round" of modeling that lets you start having philosophical thoughts on the implications. You can always increase the complexity of the model after. If you don't hold
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by geor9e 3y ago
I think I said something silly like "alright im on a 100 mile trip, have fun in the park" and floored the throttle to 1300 watts
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by geor9e 3y ago
You didn't get agreement from over 90% of people. That's not at all what it says. You agreed with the majority 90% of the time. If you don't understand the huge difference, let me illustrate an easier to understand example.
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by geor9e 3y ago
A bicyclist in Golden Gate Park once yelled at me for being on an e-bike, while pointing at a giant "No Motor Vehicles" banner at the entrance. I told him, actually, California vehicle code 24016 specifically states “an electric b
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by geor9e 3y ago
I had no idea it was this crazy expensive. I can host a 1 TB folder of movies on my Google Fiber internet Synology NAS website, and let my friend download it for free. But if I hosted my website on Google Cloud, they bill me $111.60? How ar
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by geor9e 3y ago
I have not. It looks like it just does some things Alfred was already doing 10 years earlier, and some ChatGPT. Seems like everything has ChatGPT integration these days. I don't think it's compelling enough for me to try tho perso
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by geor9e 3y ago
By your definition Hacker News would be anti-free because NCSA Mosaic 1.0 can't render it. Youtube didn't add anything to block IE6, they simply removed all the non-compliant hacks that barely kept IE6 working as long as it did. I
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by geor9e 3y ago
They targeted IE 6 or older by recommending folks install IE 8, Firefox 3, or Chrome 4, shown in random order. Since Firefox and Chrome were self-updating, they didn't have the problem of obsolete versions floating around.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Shippable, goodness no, but a 1-hour-limit prototype already solving a problem you haven't even begun thinking about? I'd take that. I tend to start over from scratch after the first prototype anyway. You're interviewing peop
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by geor9e 3y ago
I'm assuming paypal customer service just needs name, address, and phone number to fully authenticate a caller and perform all actions.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Plus you get a bunch of free work out of every applicant if you delegate real issues out as work-sample tests :P I'm pretty sure the new Audi A8 cup holders are from my mechanical design engineer third round volkswagen interview a coup
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by geor9e 3y ago
>Some examples of possible descents are: Caucasian, Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, South Asian, White. They should all have equal probability. I wonder why they included both Caucasian and White, but excluded East Asian.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Also funny is how many Wikipedia accounts exist only to edit his personal article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Student3... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr
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by geor9e 3y ago
I put couple screenshots here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39283515 to show the API call part. The rest is just whatever you want it to feed into in Shortcuts. For launching a shortcut on keydown, and clicking out o
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by geor9e 3y ago
Only a few dollars a month
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by geor9e 3y ago
I use role: system, temperature 0.7, prompt: Fix the spelling, grammar, punctuation, order, and sentence structure. It's does sometimes change the style too much, but not often enough to annoy me into fiddling with it.
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by geor9e 3y ago
You might want BetterTouchTool too, since it adds things like cut and paste, to Apple Shortcuts All Actions list. I also use it as the initial trigger usually, to make a hotkey launch a Shortcut. Whisper looks like this https://i

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