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by mvieira38 1y ago
This is so huge in finance. Lots of smaller shops will hire data scientists or even SWEs hoping to up productivity and replace slow Excel sheets, and end up disilusioned when the team just glues together some Python scripts with no UI and n
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LLMs are amazing at anything requiring text analysis (go figure). Everyone I know doing equity or economic research in finance is using it extensively for that, and from what I hear from doctors the LLMs are as good as that in their space i
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Hard agree. In what other art forms are people expected to produce for "global appeal"? A lot of my enjoyment of books and music IS the fact that I "don't get it", and slowly learning the cultural references is fun
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The industry betrayed consumers' trust to the point where no project can be trusted to be mindful of data anymore. Even Proton Mail ended up ratting to the French, and that was just IP and session info, so who can we even trust to get
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FWIW I've been experiencing memory leaks on web Youtube for a month or two even on Chrome, particularly with livestreams
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Nice reminder to disable javascript or just use Tor Browser to open any links you don't want associated with your public presence
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This list manages to be mostly correct while still spreading FUD. These can all be tracked, but the threat actors are very much uncoordinated in exploiting this info, and much of it (especially things like keystroke and mouse fingerprinting
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(I'm critical of LLMs but mean no harm with this question) Have you measured if this workflow is actually faster or better at all? I have tried the autocomplete stuff, chat interface (copy snippets + give context and then copy back to
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by mvieira38 1y ago
The Sopranos has an episode more or less about this, Commendatori. It's basically the glorified crew visiting their "home" in Italy and being your run-of-the-mill american tourists. Some interesting stuff is Paulie asking for
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Not to mention the question of if these setups are financially feasible for the consumer of the AI and for the AI provider. It doesn't make that much business sense for a multi-billion dollar operation to fully automate their data engi
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The famously dangerous threats that are thoroughly documented college level students. Americans have commited the majority of terrorist attacks in their own country, especially if you count school shootings
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Look at the guy's profile, they might actually be on a marketing team for Trump. Literally everything is talking points and tailor-made to shift perception.
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Wow this shows some really nice propagandist accumen, I wonder if it's literally a paid employee or something, judging by the comment history. You first rope in drunk drivers and illegal immigrants with the point being discussed (legal
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Your feelings against news focused on America are valid, but there's no denying that the second Trump administration is such a world-shaking event, in a scale not foreseen by mainstream media or markets, that it would be weird not to h
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Different strokes, I guess. I just think search is still not there as a full Google replacement and a lot of nice-to-haves are being put on the backburner (maybe forever) for more and more features unrelated to search (I wrote out a few of
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No one from what I can tell, that's why I still pay and give a damn. But they are missing a lot of desired features: Financial: can't pay with Monero or cash, can't just buy Privacy Pass tokens instead of generating them from
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Offering a non-editorialized solution for news in 2025 is the opposite of what I thought Kagi stood for. They make a "small web" feature and the best fediverse search index, both to highlight human created content, but then make a
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Remember when we paid for Kagi because it was "search"? I was basically an unpaid sponsor of them for the last year or so, but damn this constant pipeline of new shiny stuff is getting on my nerves. How can a company focus on buil
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by mvieira38 1y ago
Great read. I wouldn't have had the restraint required not to spam a gazillion push notifications to everyone saying "UNINSTALL IMMEDIATELY" or something like that
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Yeah I mean mostly estate sales
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This is frequently the case IME, especially with chat interfaces. One or two bad messages and you derail the quality
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Not to mention everyone would be better off if the money invested in these VCs was invested in clean energy, public transportation and whatnot. Many of us just have to live with the knowledge that we are handicapping our life expectancies j
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One option is buying second-hand. Seniors are likely to have a goldmine of sturdy, repairable, dumb appliances just sitting at home like it's no big deal.
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“ChatGPT is built to sense our vulnerability and to tap into that to keep us engaged with it.” says this Sherry Turkle person from MIT. This seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of the business model in place, or am I incorrect? OpenA
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Bummer, it was probably the most exciting ongoing project related to the Fediverse... With lemm.ee shutting down today and all it's a hard time being optimistic about these platforms
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Speed and size, mainly. If you don't need the data validation there's no reason to use pydantic, it's a huge dependency
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TypedDicts are so underutilized in general. I'm using them a lot even for simpler scripts
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Or maybe the community will embrace Rust as it is implemented... There's no reason to think because you or the current gen of Python devs are focused on C then the next gen or further will too.
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Your predictions assume I live in a contemporary, "atomic", social organization where people aren't integrated in tight-knit communities apart from the internet. My core friend group meets a few times a week because of church
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Because then they have the option of readding you to group chats and sending you messages ETA: there is no way to really uninstall Whatsapp around here because so much of society runs on it, the most I can do is move all of my private exist

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