hadlock

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by hadlock 2y ago
That's the consequence of designing a curriculum for ~68-70% of the population.
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by hadlock 2y ago
Most every company I know has had a drag and drop PDF to LLM tool since Q1 2023. It's not a phenomenally difficult product to code up.
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by hadlock 2y ago
no
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by hadlock 2y ago
That doesn't take into account zoonotic crossovers like covid and the handful of avian flu cases in recent the
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by hadlock 2y ago
One thing I learned from the california wildfires, after buying an indoor air quality monitor, was that doing something as innocuous as baking a pizza in an ELECTRIC oven was enough to spike the AQI PM 2.5 air quality to 400, briefly (15 mi
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by hadlock 2y ago
A config file would be useful, as I can template the config file, which means I can effectively do auto-discovery of intranet resources working on my cluster. Stepping further into config files, a helm chart (once config file support is add
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by hadlock 2y ago
My quest (1) I bought on launch day got an OS update and now I have to find my old credentials to log in (and thus accept some (probably) draconian EULA, just to enable developer mode to side load apps on there. You can't just plug a U
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by hadlock 3y ago
Google implemented ARC for their partner sites, Advanced Rsomthing Cache, I believe. It was a way for google to consume popular websites and host them optimized for mobile (android) devices. It was all the rage for a while, because, I think
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by hadlock 3y ago
This is better because it's "serverless" DNS over https
490.
by hadlock 3y ago
How true is your experience at a major international airport, which most travelers use.
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by hadlock 3y ago
Until recently, most people had kids by the time they were 25 and it's hard to tell people who are in charge of raising other people, that they can't do something. You have to pick a cut off date somewhere. The chasm between 21 an
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by hadlock 3y ago
European trains will take you from city center to city center with little to no security line. If you go by air, first you need to leave the city to go to the airport, hand off your luggage to a stranger with the promise it will be reunited
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by hadlock 3y ago
In addition, there is no pedestrian walkway between san francisco and either marin (north bay) or oakland (east bay) depite both being major commuter hubs. 7 miles is a long ways to walk, but it's only about 30 min by bike, and even le
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by hadlock 3y ago
A lot of youtubers who run full time travel channels have started their own backup streaming video system. A lot of these guys have half million dollar sailboats or catamarans and getting demonetized would be disastrous. If you hitch your w
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by hadlock 3y ago
Asbestos is a wonder material, and insanely cheap. They put it in everything from roads to siding for homes to insulation for ventilation ducts, and everything inbetween. And it's "totally safe" for these purposes - so long a
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by hadlock 3y ago
.net is used widely in enterprise, but the overlap between .net users and hacker news is slight at best. Microsoft is investing heavily in rust these days, but it'll be 5+ years before we see developer level support for it.
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by hadlock 3y ago
Security was handled (owned) by airports since the dawn of time. Airports with high risk (JFK) had higher security, airports with lower security (SAT). Airports hired typical staff from the local community and you would go through a metal d
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by hadlock 3y ago
This was also the third time it has been posted in five months.
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by hadlock 3y ago
I like your optimism, but twitter had already hired the best and brightest for a decade and were completely unable to move the needle, barely maintaining existing user count. You can see the same usercount story for traditional message boar
500.
by hadlock 3y ago
Twitter/X hasn't seen notable user growth since ~2015/16 and has been absolutely flat since then, coming up on a decade now. It was 325 million active users in 2015 and it's still about 300 million active users today (sp
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by hadlock 3y ago
This might be functional for a startup with an exit horizon of 2 years and nobody needs to inherit/own the mistakes of green biz-ops people who don't know what they're doing. I've had to integrate new functionality with
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by hadlock 3y ago
The barrier of entry to building a "foundational model" is less than $400 of compute time (72 hours) on a handful of rental A100 using widely available open source data sets. Open source projects by ICs are already on par with GPT
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by hadlock 3y ago
This is your semi-annual reminder to fork and archive offline copies of everything you use in your stack.
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by hadlock 3y ago
Yes, but I've also used it to do my own RC sailboat missions
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by hadlock 3y ago
Ardupilot is very very mature software. It stopped being able to be run on an arduino about a decade ago. There's a guy who has been doing aireal waypoint missions for miles and miles, as well as terrestrial boat missions lasting days.
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by hadlock 3y ago
In the last six months model size has come way down and quality has gone way up through different training styles/methods. There is an incentive to release separate models capable of running on 8/16/32gb ram. On my laptop I h
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by hadlock 3y ago
> and in a few years likely to create short movie sequences all based upon a prompt It depends on the director and style of the era, but average "shot length" runs between 5 and 14 seconds. Six months ago companies were already
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by hadlock 3y ago
Childcare is universally the cost of a medium quality 1 bedroom apartment in a safe neighborhood, just about everywhere in the US
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by hadlock 3y ago
Closing the day care is a big deal. I don't know how they justified that; most company daycares cost as much, if not more than regular daycares and are run either at break-even, or at a very small profit. And it's a huge, huge per
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by hadlock 3y ago
In just the last 20 years there has probably been more free learning materials produced, than in the last 5000 years, and we can translate them all in to nearly any language instantly for free thanks to LLMs. There is no shortage of materia

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