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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   Yeah, or you can get a gpu server with 20GB VRAM on hetzner for ~200 EUR per month. Runpod and DigitalOcean are also quite competitive on prices if you need a different GPU. AWS is stupidly expensive.
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   I'd rather have ads than pay. Better get money from some inept company marketing budget than from my own pocket. To each their own - except thanks to the EU we're all forced to choose cookie banner popups and get less ads revenue
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   They were very friendly and welcoming. The main problem is quality, Eleven labs is so far ahead, even though their API is not very flexible. Meta's Voicebox is the only other option that feels realistic - but it's for research onl
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   No way, plenty of companies running simpler software can survive almost everyone leaving
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   That's why I moved back to Arch. Sometimes you do need that app and I'd rather use AUR vs writing Nix.
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   I started using Linux (nixos first, now back to Arch) more frequently one year ago and I have a nice boring KDE desktop. Everything works pretty well and the UX is way ahead of OS X. In the past I was a full time user of KDE3/4 but I&#
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   The datasets should not be used for knowledge but to train a language model. Using it for knowledge is bonkers. Why not buy some educational textbook company and use 99.9% correct data? Oh and use RAG while you are at it so you can point to
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   Nice thought experiment. I absolutely hate exceptions and I'd like a language without exception. They're the goto of our time. When we have Maybe/Option and Effect/Result, there is really no reason to throw exceptions an
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   by jokethrowaway 2y ago

   You never know what unintended consequences you have with subsidies Central Planning is never free.
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    This is like saying people buy baldur's gate because you can undress your characters or make them date Consumers don't want pornography in their games, they're completely different products: visual novels are closer to a slid
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    This has been known for more than a decade, you can bet the competition does that too
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    It was valued by hobbyists and small companies spending relatively little money (albeit a significant amount for the resource provided). Heroku had excellent DX, it was an experience similar to working in a mid-large company with a working
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    1. I don't trust code from humans too 2. You can't trust LLM for anything. They are a Large Language Model, you could consider LLMs having knowledge to be a bug. Their architecture is not meant to reason. 3. ChatGPT and co really
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    How come these altruistic cells end up reproducing and favoring their offspring? I still see Dawkins's point as valid. Genes are responsible for some behaviours, they are certainly not EVERYTHING there is to human identity. Saying ther
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    It's not easy but you can find similar (even arguably better) climate in Europe (Cyprus, Canary Islands, Malta) at a much cheaper COL, with lower crime rate, healthier food - and even less taxes with the right choices. South East Asia
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    What happened to people before processes?
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    You get the same effect when you go zero carbs
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    Chargebacks are a pain but are not that frequent. You need to make a way to refund your product easily discoverable because customers go unpunished. You can use chargeback protection on stripe or use a different payment provider which absor
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    5% of my support has to do with payments and it's all about refunds. Everybody pays for stuff online
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    by jokethrowaway 2y ago

    Funnily enough some Google resellers are paying more than Google. I have no clue how, they must be burning investors' money
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    OP salary at 38k is pretty low. From my experience that's in line with people doing "body rentals" for agencies under threat of being deported or because they couldn't find another job. I think he could have doubled that
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    I think it's the actual content. Tiktok promotes mental illness, fake influencer tricks and stupid dances, Douyin promotes heroic 3 year olds cooking eggs with chopsticks on a giant wok for their sick brothers.
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    It is because of regulations. Nothing is trivial and anything has a cost. Not only it impacts existing businesses, it also make it harder for a struggling new business to compete with the current leaders. Regulations in the name of the user
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    This can happen in any work. But I concede, medicine is grueling - not worth the money if you ask me.
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    Public healthcare doesn't work. They just get progressively worse and start adding expenses for the patients. The quality is terrible, despite the propaganda. The best companies were offering private healthcare with their offer. I&#x27
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    I've been through similar transformation (just 250 microservices) and I'm not sure the end result was actually better. Microservices are ok if things go well and you can maintain a large army of developers - which you didn't
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    I look mostly at JS and some Rust codebases and almost nobody uses inheritance! I believe it doesn't make any sense, you can use different patterns to have the benefits without creating a complicated type hierarchy where state and func
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    The problem arise when your friends can text you on Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Viber, Facebook Messenger, Linkedin, Instagram, Twitter, Bsky, Mastodon, Skype, Slack, Email. It's not that you don't receive messages but th
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    Not parent but yes, that's exactly why I stopped using PiHole
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    by jokethrowaway 3y ago

    Slightly off topic but I never logged in on my kindle so I don't get ads. I just load ebooks on it with my computer.