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by iamjackg 3y ago
A Python package was split into free/pro tiers, and the author deleted previous versions of the "free" library that still contained all functionality.
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by iamjackg 3y ago
I get what they mean -- it has definitely gained a foothold in the tool/utility world thanks to easy cross-compilation and single-binary output. Given their target, I definitely understand why they would put it in that group.
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by iamjackg 3y ago
To be fair, the ones I've seen use a form of point 1 (giving all facts in the prompt) by allowing for searching the web, which becomes a version of point 2 (summarization).
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by iamjackg 3y ago
Take a look at https://phind.com Being able to search the web allows it to deal with recent information: you can ask it to limit its search to the API documentation for the library you're working with.
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by iamjackg 3y ago
There's also this! https://camrobjones.com/hackercast/ It was posted a few days ago and got 0 comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35751065
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by iamjackg 4y ago
You can use https://github.com/openai/tiktoken
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by iamjackg 4y ago
If you really don't want to use different ports you can handle it with Docker. Since each container has its own IP, they can all expose the same port. Otherwise, for non-containerized deployments you'll have to resort to two diffe
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by iamjackg 4y ago
This is very similar to Bashly ( https://bashly.dannyb.co/ ) but with a lot more weird magic going on.
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by iamjackg 4y ago
100% agree. There are some libraries like https://amoffat.github.io/sh/ that aim to make that easier, but they always have some quirks that, funnily enough, are often the corner cases you were hitting in your complicat
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by iamjackg 4y ago
You raise a very valid point, but one could make an argument that it's _okay_ for innovation and entrepreneurship to slow down, if it's done to protect people's rights and ensure that companies do things "properly."
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by iamjackg 4y ago
Hm, this is actually a very interesting case. If the extension is (I'm assuming) literally just leveraging the API and not storing anything at all, would it be sufficient to let people know it's doing so in order to be compliant w
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I love, love, love Teenage Engineering's design and they create really cool products, but this seems too crazy a price point even for them. When they released the TX-6 mixer for $1199 I almost understood their reasoning, since pro au
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I started a series on how the Game Boy works a few years ago while I wasn't working. I posted the first episode on r/videos and it was unexpectedly successful, so I rushed to buy a better microphone and got to work on the second v
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by iamjackg 4y ago
Oh I've definitely been doing it for years, but only for things I don't care very much about. For example, I used to have a password protected livestream of a camera that was literally an ffmpeg command running in a tmux session t
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by iamjackg 4y ago
You're right, my bad: Wikipedia only mentions them in the "animation" section of the side panel, while the actual article only mentions Frederator and Powerhouse. My reply was incorrect, and I'm not trying to move the go
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by iamjackg 4y ago
For the record, while Netflix really pushed the anime angle, Castlevania is actually an entirely American production. It was written, directed, and animated entirely in America by Americans.
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I've been using a Garmin Vivoactive 3 for a few years after owning a Pebble Time that eventually stopped working. I've been pretty happy with it: it also has a retroreflective screen that's always on and perfectly visible in
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I love asciinema. A key difference between these two tools seems to be that asciinema records a human using the terminal, whereas VHS generates output based on a list of steps to execute. I can see VHS being nicer than asciinema for a lot o
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by iamjackg 4y ago
Ahh yeah, I guess I should specify that these were not breaks I took "on purpose": one was while waiting for some documentation to go through, and the other one was parental leave, and at least one of them was partially paid.
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I'm curious: how long were your breaks? I've had two rather long (>6 months) breaks in my career, and I've enjoyed them immensely and have been very productive: finished personal projects, made music, YouTube videos, learn
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by iamjackg 4y ago
One thing I've learned over the years is that this 100% depends on you and nobody's answer will really satisfy you, because the needs and routines of every individual can be radically different. Do you care about energy consumptio
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by iamjackg 4y ago
Yeah that looks like the kind of artifacting you might get from a 360° camera that's trying to hide itself from the footage.
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by iamjackg 4y ago
Thanks for the tips! That's pretty much exactly what my process looks like today if I want to figure out which variant is the most "popular." Most of the uncertainty is specifically about specialist sites like Digi-Key. For e
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by iamjackg 4y ago
It's very interesting to me that, as an absolute amateur at electronics, I find the Amazon/AliExpress approach infinitely more usable, even though Digi-Key has a better selection of products. Of course, this is because my needs ar
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I've had a bash script in my PATH that uses ffmpeg exactly to do this for the longest time. This is great!
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by iamjackg 4y ago
I had a friend lend hers to me when I was a kid, and I did in fact try it in a cassette player! I even tried to make my own cassette, but I soon realized that I couldn't because... All 4 tracks had to be recorded in the same direction.
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by iamjackg 5y ago
Most emulators are able to export a PNG that you could then print with something like this project! They don't support using a webcam with the ROM for the Game Boy Camera though. If you buy the real thing, there are lots of projects fo
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by iamjackg 5y ago
I bought all the equipment to do something like this a while ago, and wanted to set up a script that would print a daily briefing every morning. Then I realized that I would basically be generating tons of garbage for an absolutely frivolou
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by iamjackg 5y ago
This reminds me of a comment I read a long time ago about somebody's experience working for a company that had a branch in Japan. They would demand that some spreadsheets be sent as a fax, and then some employee would be tasked with re
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by iamjackg 5y ago
I don't know about higher level, more expensive stuff, but many popular microcontrollers (like the ESP8266 and ESP32) have SPI flash onboard, without any built-in wear leveling.

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