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by mpeg 3y ago
I think that's one view, but I personally own some NFT pieces that I bought directly from the artist – for me this is no different than buying a real painting, and the value IMHO is that I have clear cryptographical proof that my piece
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by mpeg 3y ago
Thanks, I always forget I can do that! I've given it a go and it's really impressive – the default chunker is very smart and manages to keep most of the chunk context together The table parser in particular is really good. Is the
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by mpeg 3y ago
Same here, fitz is great, it does well enough out of the box that I can apply some simple heuristics for things like joining/splitting paragraphs where it makes a mistake and extract drawings and such and get pretty close to 100% accur
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by mpeg 3y ago
Off-topic, but do you know how Tika compares to other pdf parsing libraries? I was very unimpressed by pdfminer.six (what unstructured uses) as the layout detection seems pretty basic, it fails to parse multi column text, whereas MuPDF does
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by mpeg 3y ago
I couldn't try this tool as it doesn't build on apple silicon (and there's no ARM docker image) However, I have a PDF parsing use-case that I tried those RAG tools for, but the output they give me is pretty low quality – it k
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by mpeg 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's so clear, if you read the article it seems like the developer was investigating an issue and found the database credentials, assumed the database connection was single-tenant (or that the user would be limited
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by mpeg 3y ago
The CNN article makes it seem like it was a mystery for a long time, but if you look at the original blog, it's clear in the comments that from the very beginning readers of the blog suggested it might be a telegraph code, but they did
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by mpeg 3y ago
I imagine tailwind didn’t exist when they created this. Plus, there are many benefits to this approach vs tailwind; much easier to theme (crucial for fb), easier composition of styles in general and easier refactoring
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by mpeg 3y ago
I think this is why, for me, the future of JS are resumable frameworks like Qwik and Marko 6 – you get all the benefits of NextJS + React (composable UIs, state management, server-side code, etc) with no hydration, which is a big cause of s
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by mpeg 3y ago
The "add a frame to a video" use-cases are probably the least exciting here, the image annotation capabilities seem to me the bigger deal.
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by mpeg 3y ago
Guess I better improve my golf swing then
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by mpeg 3y ago
This is great advice for ICs but I've never really understood how to leverage networking in management – most of time the person I know in a company is already doing my job!
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by mpeg 3y ago
Not great! I've been luckier than most in that I had a decent year, but the writing is on the wall for 2024 and I have never seen such a hostile job search environment. There are barely any leadership roles available in the UK and it f
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by mpeg 3y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I got contacted like a decade ago by these two super friendly guys, who wanted some advice on how to handle infosec/devops in their fast growing startup I happened to be travelling to San Jose as I had
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by mpeg 3y ago
The ATS won't judge a resume, but it will parse it and display in an easier format for the recruiter to browse through. If your resume does not parse well (for example, a PDF with two columns can sometimes mean the right column text en
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by mpeg 3y ago
You'd think large software makers like Autodesk would ensure their software works on Mac, but they are the main reason I still have PCs running windows at home – Revit doesn't have a Mac version, doesn't run on Wine and is ex
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by mpeg 3y ago
It might surprise you to learn computers are not magic... I’ve used the CLI tool for a lot of my media library and it really isn’t that hard, there are even wrapper scripts in GitHub that simplify the whole thing and are easier than handbra
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by mpeg 3y ago
I feel everyone saying handbrake is fine have never used it; it’s the least user friendly app ever. Much easier to google / llm for the right ffmpeg arguments
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by mpeg 3y ago
I think it's just semantics, but what I found incorrect was saying that DHTML was just little snippets – that entirely depends on the use, I remember entire websites written with DHTML that were cutting edge at the time. For me the rea
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by mpeg 3y ago
No, DHTML is exactly what is now called a "web app" or HTML/CSS + Javascript It was just called DHTML instead of javascript because: 1. Javascript was not nearly as popular as it is today. 2. DHTML actually supported multiple
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by mpeg 3y ago
I agree with you, I sometimes do this kind of thing professionally too (although usually not for early stage startups) My point was that it’s surprisingly easy to get good connections and advice simply by putting yourself out there and whil
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by mpeg 3y ago
FWIW I've always got great advice from people in this site, having reached out to a couple over the years for advice / mentorship. I've also occasionally received random emails from founders, students, former coworkers... and
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by mpeg 3y ago
I think it’s often the opposite, sites have cookie banners that are actually useless because they’re still not compliant. Often if it’s a custom cookie banner it will only have an “accept” button (no way to reject!) and usually with vague l
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by mpeg 3y ago
Using semantic css doesn't always mean your markup and styling are separate. There are plenty of modern frameworks nowadays that use single file components (pretty much every popular framework except react?) and often you even choose t
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by mpeg 3y ago
Brilliant product! I worked for a startup that got acquired by Experian and I can see how you're going to quickly become an acquisition target for companies that can scale your sales pipeline. Are you looking to stay focused on the cre
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by mpeg 3y ago
DDG is based in the US, what assurances do you have they would not comply to this kind of data request?
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by mpeg 3y ago
I'm only into infosec as a hobby, but I already find LLMs extremely useful and (annoyigly!) better than me at certain things. For instance, I can analyse some obfuscated malware code manually but it takes time and a bit of trial and er
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by mpeg 3y ago
I know this, and I know logically it makes sense but I can also understand as a founder it's partly an emotional choice and you prefer to join the company that is courting you better. Just like in any kind of b2b sales, the decisions a
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by mpeg 3y ago
Off topic, but I’ve been thinking about doing the same, I’ve seen other people at my level take pay cuts of only 10%~ going from management to IC while erasing meetings from their calendars I’m kinda jealous, the only thing that is keeping
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by mpeg 3y ago
Good question, not always; I suppose. The founders had quite a good share of stock which probably helped but ultimately it came down to vision. My understanding was that Google didn’t really offer us a future plan, and the competitor they e

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