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by mguerville 3y ago
I'm using it to write short stories where my 3 year old kid is the hero (a custom GPT sets the proper context (name, age, location, interest) so the prompts can be short like "a story about learning to read with a new dragon frien
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by mguerville 3y ago
I work for CCC IS, we make software to help collision repair facilities and auto insurers estimate the damage to your vehicle and the needed repair… only in the US, only private vehicle auto insurance… $7B market cap
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by mguerville 3y ago
I use clearVPN because it comes standard in my Setapp subscription and it does a good enough job for my limited use (geo unblock, occasional p2p download) I’d only recommend it in context of it being included for “free” thru the setapp bund
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by mguerville 3y ago
That was my experience as well trying to pivot into AE from the PM/Strategy role, I was very quickly humbled and finally understood why even some technically inept people can be successful AEs
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by mguerville 3y ago
I collect memorabilia of business scandals, crises, etc. and getting a newspaper or magazine from the early days of an event is often eye opening when contrasted to the final version that ends up in the history books
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by mguerville 3y ago
A niche provider that doesn't do generative AI very well but does "AI powered search with citations" is perplexity.ai I've used for rather obscure queries and liked the summary the AI wrote as well as the links to dive d
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by mguerville 3y ago
Location: US (Chicago) Remote: Yes (US and EU time zones) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: CRM (Salesforce, pipedrive), BI tools, some SQL, basic API tasks, any productivity software Bio/Web: < http://mathieuguerville
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by mguerville 3y ago
Haven't read the whole thing yet but in "Meet Joe" I found a very astute description of the situation my best friend and I were commiserating about just yesterday. Through the common cog blog I also stumbled onto this book re
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by mguerville 3y ago
As a non developer it's even more daunting because if I want to create something it's likely to be a web app and to learn about front end + back end + infra/hosting + security + database just to build a basic CRUD app it&#x27
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by mguerville 3y ago
I work at a large publicly traded tech company and spend 3-5 hours a week in various meetings solely focused on getting updates on the contracting process with fewer than 20 enterprise accounts... I may not be able to use this near term but
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by mguerville 3y ago
Oh right, how could I forget…
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by mguerville 3y ago
I am not a lawyer but the claims here seem pretty damning and asset that Musk flat out doesn't respect contractual agreements (nor building codes apparently) in the least. I can't recall anyone quite so broadly deciding they'
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by mguerville 3y ago
I think it's smart, it makes it tangible to an audience that has time and time again demonstrated incompetence at understanding technology when explained with any level of abstraction.
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by mguerville 4y ago
Public transit robs citizens of motivation to walk for health benefit or robs them of potential capitalist-nationalistic pride of stimulating the economy by owning an expensive vehicle.
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by mguerville 4y ago
My smartest employers always said they preferred hiring the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers, or the stars from unheralded companies rather than the employee #987563 from big name logos. Unfortunately that&
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by mguerville 4y ago
perplexity.ai does provide them and I try to use them over phind or ChatGPT for that reason
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by mguerville 4y ago
Amazon is an aggregator or e-commerce that harmonizes the buyer experience across all manufacturers on its platform, and allows buyers to build a shopping cart of disparate items from many vendors, all with more of less the same terms and c
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by mguerville 4y ago
Has to be. It's funny to me as a non engineer that is getting more fluent over time with engineering concepts, to notice that it's not just occasional comments but a good proportion of the posts themselves on HN that are somewhat
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by mguerville 4y ago
I only have anecdotes and it’s from Chicago (not SF where indeed a lot of drivers commute an hour to get to a high demand area) but here it’s not that uncommon for people to be able to quickly hop on or off driving on short notice. It proba
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by mguerville 4y ago
And I believe there's an entire subgroup of Uber drivers that monitors the current rates and opts to drive only when there's a good enough surge, thereby dynamically creating more supply.
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by mguerville 4y ago
That’s likely because at a F500 you have a lot of variation between jurisdictions (states, or worse nations) on pretty fundamental things like PTO, overtime, etc. So each has its own set of rules and HR helps communicate them (via handbook
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by mguerville 4y ago
It’s all about the markets, if company A hires a lot and the market thinks it’s a sign of growth it rewards it with demand for its shares, then company B looks at A and sees a hiring wave as the only material event that could have triggered
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by mguerville 4y ago
Devs in Vancouver would benefit
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by mguerville 4y ago
I think part of it is that the quality of the hard product, as the Atlantic calls it, has declined. The catalog is thinner than ever (in quality and IP, perhaps less so in raw quantity) and the magic of recommendations is now poorly disguis
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by mguerville 4y ago
I've tried a couple of apps that promise to create children stories based on ChatGPT and while it works (-ish) for short stories I think the only way to get a better and longer output that is decent enough to warrant publishing is to b
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by mguerville 4y ago
Mobile stabbed the scroll bar but SPAs and infinite scroll put the nail in their coffin. My other pet peeve triggered by your transit app comment is creeping privacy intrusion. I use a private DNS and can barely go a week without having to
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by mguerville 4y ago
I did a cursory search but now realize it's a bit dated (2018), nevertheless here is the original source that prompted my comment: https://drivemag.com/news/these-are-the-5-best-cheap-new-car...
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by mguerville 4y ago
There's bound to be a market for cheap vehicles in the US. It's crazy to me that Europe has several models with MSRP below EUR 10k (Dacias at EUR 7k) and here there's just 2 or 3 below $20k. Every other material good I can t
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by mguerville 4y ago
Gross Profit isn't a helpful number as it doesn't account for any fixed costs like offices, wages, sales and marketing, etc. Operating profits is a better indicator (EBIT or EBITDA) and also much closer to the holy grail of Free C
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by mguerville 4y ago
I got smart light switches for security reasons so I can have timed lights when on vacation and make it look like we’re home. A smart thermostat to save a bit on HVAC cost, and an alexa that is exclusively used as kitchen timer and weather

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