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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
> Darktable is however, bad at photograpy organization and collections. Something Lightroom shines at. It has a very clunky UX for this. But it actually has a lot of useful features for organizing large amounts of photos. There's a
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Was just watching a video about a guy who has a boat that runs on solar power that he drove all the way from Finland to the Mediterranean in Winter. Obviously in the winter he was charging his batteries using shore power. But since spring h
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
It's not so much unavoidable as one of the things we're doing already with grey hydrogen (made from methane). It's about cleaning that up and using blue (grey with carbon capture) or green hydrogen, not finding new uses for a
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Brutalist buildings in Brussels. Not a great choice for a continent with 2000+ years of very rich architecture history.
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Small businesses tend to be very clumsy with stuff like this. Here in Berlin it's very common for small restaurants and food places to have half broken websites with some pdf as their menu. Their online marketing is generally pretty po
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There's a baby and bathwater situation here. If the US actually starts entertaining protectionism here, it might push most of the rest of the world (including places like the EU, India, South America, etc.) away from Openai and Anthrop
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I don't see the OSS world as transactional. For example, I contribute some modest OSS projects for free without expectation of direct compensation. Lots of other people do similar things. That's what makes OSS work. Some of that s
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Exactly, I've been using their community edition for years for Kotlin development. Works fine for normal day to day development needs. I had a paid subscription for a while that I just let expire because I rely more on agentic coding t
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Then you might want to spend more time on the quality of your guard rails. It's the best way to ensure LLMs produce higher quality output. To get the best results, you need to get systematic about enforcing what you want. Guardrails ar
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Open models still need to run somewhere. If that's not your machine, expect to pay or watch some ads.
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Good that they are integrating that into the main browser. For me the big use case is having different Google accounts active in one window. Work and private. And when I was doing freelance projects, I sometimes had 3 or 4 different Google
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Bots in team chat is not a bad idea. I've been experimenting with that for a few months. We started with Slack. This kind of works but dialing in the gazillion of permissions needed to end up with something that works is a bit painful.
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I don't think it's that black and white. OpenAI and Anthropic are building valuable tools on top of their models. You get a very rough and much less polished version of that with open source tools and and open source models. And y
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Works fine for me. I also took a zoom call from Firefox just yesterday (153.0b13 on mac). So, I think this is false alarm. I also see no good reason why Zoom would want to restrict this. Likewise, I don't see them dropping support for
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I just made chat gpt list all the key indications that this article was LLM generated. I'll spare you the details, it's a very long list. It's actually possible to counter some of this stuff with skills and guard rails. The a
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
It seems Google is repeating it's mistakes of chat apps (they had gazillions of those at some point) with AI. There are just way too many tools that they are pushing. And none of them address the glaring issue that most of their users
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I grew up in the eighties. Tapes, records, cds, etc. I've seen it all. I haven't used a device that can play any of these in over two decades. I have more music at my fingertips in Spotify than I ever had on these. Love it. I was
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
The way around this is the people that listened to this also listened to that feature. That's the main way I discover new music these days. I find something new that I like and then I explore whatever it is that people listen to that a
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
There are a few things going on at the same time that mean that electricity cost might actually go down. The reasons for that are complex but have to do with how electricity pricing works. In many markets the price includes a lot of taxes,
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
SaaS partially took the place of bespoke projects that people were doing before. They never stopped doing those of course and there were also off the shelf packages that people bought before SaaS. AI lowers the cost of creating bespoke soft
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
You'd pretty much have to self host on premise or in a fully certified environment for classified stuff like that. That will limit your options of course. But some of the OSS models might still be OK for this.
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
The article seems to be very unspecific about what it is this company does that is so different. It also steps over the fact that there are already quite a few companies active in the US, EU, and China that are recycling batteries. Nor is t
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
We gave it a few months try. My conclusion was that it did interesting things but is designed completely wrong from the ground up which means it's got a lot of moving parts that are part of the code base that can break for all sorts of
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
You seem to assume that people still have an inherent advantage here. Mostly those sectors compensate for well documented human failures with very rigid and expensive processes and testing. And of course despite that, stuff still goes wrong
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
Sensible policy. I think with mainstream news publications now obviously using LLMs in their day to day workflows, it's going to be hard to take a purist stance here. Some do this more responsibly than others. But I don't think it
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
The relevant question is who is going to pay you to write code manually. It's something that's increasingly hard to justify. The answer is of course that people are not paying for code to be written or generated but for some probl
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
People seem to have a poor understanding of just how much space there is up there. It's just very empty up there. And these things are in precisely controlled orbits that are well documented, etc. Even if you simplify your thinking of
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Many people have never seen that properly due to light pollution.
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The star link network is actually remarkably cost effective in getting internet access to rural areas. There's a reason that these areas still have poor connectivity: it's just not cost effective for anyone to build land based inf
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by jillesvangurp 3mo ago
I've barely touched Intellij for the last half year or so. I rarely edit code manually at this point. I also did not renew my subscription and am back on the community edition. I've noticed that my preferences for tools and langua

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