jillesvangurp

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by jillesvangurp 8d ago
I look at product features through a lens of value adding features, commodity/basic non value adding features, and negative value adding features (commodity features done poorly). A good example is sign up and sign in functionality. Yo
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by jillesvangurp 10d ago
It's not that hard to bring old buildings (altbau in German) up to modern standards via renovation. Here in Berlin, there are lots of buildings from early last century that are very desirable property not just because of their exterior
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by jillesvangurp 11d ago
Those are pre-emptive moves for minimizing what is a very small chance of collisions, not narrowly escaped near certain collisions. Air traffic control does a similar thing with keeping planes spaced apart in zones under their control. In s
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by jillesvangurp 11d ago
Space is more like international waters legally. The outer space treaty is rooted in maritime law principles. The Chinese and Russians are in no mood to slow down relative to the US. There will likely be some escalation in debris and damage
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by jillesvangurp 11d ago
Ubuntu is basically a packages imported/synced from debian (I think they mostly cherry pick unstable) + ubuntu specific stuff. Debian Testing is pretty much what many Debian users use on a daily basis. They pretty much invented the not
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by jillesvangurp 11d ago
No, I did not claim that. I'm not sure how you jumped to that conclusion. But you are providing a beautiful example of "somebody is wrong on the internet". I was merely comparing the amount of low quality content that gets up
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by jillesvangurp 12d ago
I think getting people to read design documentation was always the challenge; this is not a new thing. I've both produced documentation and consumed it. When I consume documentation, I don't expect much. And to be honest, I don&#x
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by jillesvangurp 12d ago
Xpeng has an AI chip that they are putting in their robots (and in their cars). Their first robot walked off the production line last week. They want to be up and producing these things by the end of this year. These are intended for use in
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by jillesvangurp 15d ago
A few years ago, it was all web3 and block chains. I was just last week reflecting on how long ago it was I'd seen anything in that category make it to the HN front page. I think a lot of it has to do with where the investment money is
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by jillesvangurp 15d ago
Ah nice. I was dealing with that in one of our environments where a security update ended up causing apt to use more memory than usual so the oom killer nuked our elasticsearch process to "free up some memory". And since that happ
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by jillesvangurp 15d ago
People routinely buy cars that cost double that. This is a machine that people that typically earn six figure salaries use to do their work on. Exactly the target demographic that would buy/lease expensive cars as well. And then those
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by jillesvangurp 15d ago
Finland they made a few mistakes by becoming overly dependent on Russian reactor designs Russian sourced fuel for those reactors. Relations with Russia are a bit strained (especially recently, but they were always complex). Luckily, the win
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by jillesvangurp 16d ago
Google maps solves this neatly by just projecting the world map on a sphere when you zoom out. On desktop at least. It seems on mobile they use a 2D Mercator projection. But they just don't allow you to zoom out all the way, which is a
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by jillesvangurp 16d ago
I think given how far companies like XPeng are with their systems in China. This is more a question of "when" than "if" with the when part narrowed to a time range of perhaps 2027-2029. Xpeng seems to be planning for 202
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by jillesvangurp 16d ago
I half agree here. Now that the primary usage of Git is increasingly centered on providing auditable and revertible history for organizations that use a mix of AI (mostly) and people to do stuff with it, the requirements are going to shift
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by jillesvangurp 17d ago
This will be a gradual process. But probably getting a drivers license will become a lot less common for people over time. There won't be any need once cars drive themselves. Insurance and liability become a lot simpler if you just don
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by jillesvangurp 17d ago
It's not really a moral argument that there shouldn't be a business model but more an opinion that you might now consider verified as a correct one that the business model just wasn't there. I agree that there probably never
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by jillesvangurp 18d ago
To be clear, we migrated our domains to them after moving our websites there, not before. Our old registrar charged more.
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by jillesvangurp 18d ago
It's seriously good value for small websites. Basically, there is no cost aside from the domain. And for registering and managing domains, they are pretty much the most affordable option as well. And they have a few other things that a
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by jillesvangurp 18d ago
There are two separate issues here. One of which is very simple. That issue is where to run the models. For many companies this has to be in the EU, on EU terms. Mostly, this is not really optional from a compliance point of view. It's
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by jillesvangurp 19d ago
That's pretty much what the article states: > When using ferrocyanide, also consider that while this salt is relatively safe in its unaltered state, subjecting it to electrochemical abuse WILL generate free cyanide and it’s likely t
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by jillesvangurp 19d ago
When I worked in Helsinki, it was quite common to see people do this in the office as well. Some people that were otherwise appropriately dressed (business casual) would be walking around on slippers. Always thought that was slightly funny.
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by jillesvangurp 22d ago
They are doing that in a few places in the UK. It's working really well and they can rapidly transform the landscapes they are in. The flip side of course is that a lot of residential areas and farmland is in what used to be wetlands t
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by jillesvangurp 23d ago
I live in Germany. 500 miles is more than essentially all domestic flights in Germany. Two hours driving by car from Berlin gets you nowhere all that interesting. You'd probably spend close to an hour just getting out of the city. Two
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by jillesvangurp 23d ago
Obviously. But I don't think there are many documented cases of these things being dangerous despite obviously a lot of factories trialing these things now. I expect if you ever buy one for use at home, there will be some clear terms o
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by jillesvangurp 24d ago
They don't have to catch up, they just have to be good enough on a narrow set of tasks to be worth the trouble. Perfect is the enemy of good here. Everything I've seen suggests that the prototypes are already pretty good at simple
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by jillesvangurp 24d ago
Can't say I miss nedit. But it was alright for the mid nineties when I used it on university workstations (a mix of Sun, HP, and SGI hardware). I also got into Jedit for a while. Nice editor and the plugin system it had was pretty adva
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by jillesvangurp 25d ago
We have a quite shitty but effective version of basic income (not universal) today in many countries. People don't generally starve or freeze to death anymore. They get shelter and healthcare too. We might not give people free money di
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by jillesvangurp 29d ago
We've been testing and developing a few openai based applications. Relatively simple stuff. I topped up my api credit with 10$ a few months ago. I just checked, we burned something like 61 cents over this period. About 126 requests ove
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by jillesvangurp 1mo ago
That's a very narrow definition that might have been accurate a few years ago. But of course people mostly use things like chat gpt or claude which can use tools these days, including any search tools you make available as well as web

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