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by mtkd 2y ago
Keeping enterprise software behemoths on better life-support is no longer a viable strategy for most ... much of it is vulnerable to generative and predictive AI powered incarnations of whatever it was originally built to do ... retro-fitti
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by mtkd 2y ago
If someone wants to delist and have equity/executive control -- there is little minority shareholders can do to prevent it in practice The controlling interest can just hire incompetent ops heads and side-line competent ones for a few
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by mtkd 2y ago
Content delivery is becoming so dynamic and targeted, there is no way that can work effectively now -- even for first impression as one or more MVTs may be in place
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by mtkd 2y ago
Access to tech is different from handling of personal data though -- the EU GDPR laws around that are clear and fair People have a right to know where their personal data is going, what is being stored, what it is being used for and should
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by mtkd 2y ago
https://hypv.ai ... prototype ecom platform like Big Commerce etc. but with all the Algolia-type predictive stuff baked into the bare metal so can target content at a much more granular level than trad platforms and has visibilt
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by mtkd 2y ago
For anyone using Ruby who doesn't know ankane already, there are some very useful tools in his github ... like /disco which is a super simple collaborative filtering implemention if you want to quickly drop some recommendation in
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by mtkd 2y ago
Surely that logic should not sit in persistance layer though?
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by mtkd 2y ago
It appears to be an increasingly clear risk to LLM model vendors that EU cares about where personal data came from, how it is stored, where it is stored, how accurate it is and whether there is a mechanism for it to be removed
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by mtkd 3y ago
Embrace, extend, and extinguish
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by mtkd 3y ago
phind.com internal model is working fine
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by mtkd 3y ago
Been using Phind for a bit now and started paying for pro They're smashing it and can't do enough if you report an issue, also they have started a weekly voice call to discuss algos and such with senior devs, like a surgery, only
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by mtkd 3y ago
The author was clear what he was setting out to demonstrate in the piece This format is likely very useful for anyone working on such large sets using Jupyter/Python and waiting days for scripts to complete -- there is nothing wrong wi
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by mtkd 3y ago
It also usually means an app can be MVP'd a lot faster with less resource and fewer vertical skillsets Large structural changes can often then be made early in the project by a single person or alternate concepts quickly prototyped whe
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by mtkd 3y ago
Often happens that you can't see the next hill until you get to the top of the current hill
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by mtkd 3y ago
Have used Render for a few months to run some heavy worker scripts I wanted to place quickly -- it's a solid service but some of the UX is a bit rough and nearest DC to UK is Frankfurt although that turned out to not be an issue There
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by mtkd 3y ago
It's also the gift that keeps giving when setting up capybara-webkit on a new box
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by mtkd 3y ago
A no-cruft Ruby backed version of Delphi with full cross-platform support would clean up right now
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by mtkd 3y ago
> vegan meat products saw a 21 percent increase in unit sales from 2020 to 2022 > During the same period, animal-based meat and milk sales dropped by eight and nine percent, respectively There are likely additional factors at play in
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by mtkd 3y ago
Makes you wonder how many public repos you would need to seed with a carefully crafted attack/weakness in a common feature/pattern to start effectively poisoning codebases that are leaning on copilot
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by mtkd 4y ago
A cynic might say FB are confident in the limitations of current models and want to pour cold water on the ChatGPT excitement (esp. with what appears to be a goldrush this month to use it to generate numbers and insight into numbers)
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by mtkd 4y ago
Most people call it data poisoning, not sure why article didn't use that
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by mtkd 4y ago
I'm in the market for a new IDE as Atom is end of life (prev. Sublime) I tried VSCode and went back to Atom -- it still works fine but expecting that won't last Ideally I really need one where I can run bash sessions in tabs along
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by mtkd 4y ago
They come at a cost, one of the popular ones is 300K+ minified JS and they are common on retail sites with very high mobile traffic -- severely impacting Lighthouse score Also they often overlay and can block a cookie consent acceptance but
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by mtkd 4y ago
Any team starting with microservices on an unvalidated concept likely hasn't built a big project from the ground up before If it's a small engineering team there is nothing more optimal than working on a big scappy vertical codeba
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by mtkd 4y ago
My email has gone from big recruitment finders-fee offers in spring to a drip of single 'seasoned candidate available' contacts in summer to '3 hand picked senior CVs enclosed' this week It's possibly going to be ha
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by mtkd 4y ago
I moved from Sublime to Atom ... "Atom community involvement has declined significantly" Probably because it works well enough, some tools don't need endless enhancing
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by mtkd 4y ago
Any high level diagram usually needs one of the architects to produce it manually in the context of the audience and what aspect they specifically need to know about the structure/logic In most complex systems the part where the magic
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by mtkd 5y ago
'stingy as shit' or maximising short-term shareholder value -- the hardware is possibly not the only broken model here
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by mtkd 6y ago
https://www.stopspotifysurveillance.org is using Cloudflare CDN/Proxy! https://www.stopspotifysurveillance.org is using Cloudflare SSL!
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by mtkd 6y ago
It is only a threat if it can be leveraged. Deeper heuristics on the deviations in that telemetry from normal could also have provided a signal that something was off -- like the temporary file replacement activity. Without telemetry that k

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