jillesvangurp

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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Meta's problem is not models but doing something productive with them. Meta never really nailed that. Just like Google is struggling with this. And MS. It's the classic disruptors dilemma. In order to embrace the new thing, they h
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
You can get an EV right now and if you have a house in the country side, you can power it almost exclusively using solar power. That would be fusion power from the big fusion reactor in the sky. We've had fission power for about 80 yea
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I took the Amsterdam to Berlin route a few days ago with almost two hour delays because of some diversions. There are very few proper high speed tracks in Germany. Mostly the trains are routed over older tracks that aren't suitable for
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Some countries have really high housing prices and housing scarcity right on a border with another country where this isn't the case. You can get 30-40% differences just by moving a few km on the borders of the Netherlands. The reason
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
What's optimal for LLMs and for people is probably not going to be the same. People are a bit lazy. Coding agents do much more than generating code though. Much of what they do relates to validating that what was generated is a valid s
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Many people don't really understand the languages they learn until well after they are done mastering them. And some never really pick the deep detail there is to semantics and type theory. If it is done right, the language might feel
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
There's more to a language than the syntax. The libraries, tools, and the ecosystem of developers, documentation, support, etc. are much more important. There are quite a few academic languages that are interesting to people that never
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I think it's more likely model creators will up their game. I've been generating some copy for our company website. I'll be honest, not all of it is great and there are clear AI slop signs. However, you can use guard rails to
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
We build asset tracking software solutions. We tend to work with a lot of third parties for hardware tracking solutions. I know Pozyx who are mentioned in the article, they are a good example of a company active in this space. Nice technolo
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Because the US has some policies that make those currently more expensive than they should be while. A combination of tariffs, removal of incentives for local producers, etc. has caused prices to be higher than they could be. All of this is
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I like a good steak but setting off the fire alarms (plural) is a big risk when I cook them in my apartment :-). Scorching hot cast iron pan plus meat means some smoke is unavoidable. And that's the proper way to do it. The problem wit
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
Models without tools and harnesses are not really that useful. My observation is that the tool ux is driving most progress at this point. There are of course open source tools and harnesses but they require more effort to setup properly. Th
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by jillesvangurp 2mo ago
I'm on Mastodon, Bluesky, and X. Most of my network seems to have abandoned X at this point. Bluesky has the most of my old network. Some of those are also on Mastodon. In terms of UX and algorithm, X has a one size fits all algorithm
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Depends on the weather. A lot of approaches to airports are GPS only these days. If GPS doesn't work and you are not in VFR weather, you can't fly those approaches. In bad weather you'd be diverting to an airport that still h
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Because they aren't going to be alone doing this for very long. Competitors will just undercut each other until just above the cost threshold. And people will simply pick the one that gets them from A to B fast and cheap. I've nev
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I created a simple git repository with company skills. Basically just a collection of skills around tools and practices we share. One of the skills is "update company skills" this simply pulls the changes from git and wires them i
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
A few years ago, I gobbled together some bash scripts around pandoc to build a site generator for my personal website. Works great. I use html templates, markdown for the content, etc. Mostly the bash scripts just serve to list files and pr
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There are 50K public chargers in Denmark. 7K of which are fast chargers. There's no shortage of public chargers and more are deployed as demand is increasing. Also, Denmark is a small country. Most return trips inside the country would
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Batteries paired with the right inverters solve this fully. Buys you enough time for powering up backup power in the form of a good old steam turbine (gas or coal powered). No need to keep spinning if they aren't needed. The good news
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There's a bubble around data centers, mainly. That's fueled by projected demand of AI and assumptions companies make about how the pie for that revenue is going to be divided up. What's very real is the rapidly growing amount
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
If you are already using agentic tools, making them crawl and summarize the news with some RSS feeds is super useful. If you use a vector database to store your feeds, you can do RAG against that content as well. Super useful for lots of th
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Fun fact, youtube channels have proper Atom feeds that you can subscribe to from most feed readers out there. Here's @realcountbinface's feed: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UClAxTtZ...
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
If you publish content, Atom is the superior format. All the parsers support it so there's no argument there against using it. You use it, everything should work just fine. There are no real downsides. The issue with RSS of course is t
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Speaking of the eighties, special effects were still done without CGI and typically on the cheap. That didn't make the movies and television series any less fun to watch. In the end it's about what people do with the tools, not th
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There's going to be plenty of work helping other companies make some sense of their vibe coded efforts. The value of individual projects might decrease, but there will be a lot more of them. And without help they won't actually wo
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Most languages simply don't have all the frameworks that were created specifically for use in an enterprise context. There's cobol and there's maybe C#, Java and then a long tail of everything else. A lot of the Java stuff ac
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Sodium ion batteries are already being mass produced in China. CATL actually just started producing their second generation sodium ion batteries. In the US, Peak energy is doing storage solutions based on sodium ion. Anyway, you are compari
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There's a bigger trend that isn't going away any time soon. Basically we are at the beginning of what will be a decades long s-curve in terms of electrifying absolutely everything that we possibly can across essentially every sect
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Discussions about baseload are meaningless unless you can articulate how much of it we're talking about (in gw, gwh, and $). Most discussions about this topic completely skip over that. Technically, what grids mostly need now that we h
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
The history is that Aurelien Pierre was leading some big changes in Darktable around the time the filmic module was introduced and the bigger switch from rethinking the internal architecture and processing pipeline to be happening in the ri

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