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by ojosilva 3y ago
Off-topic nitpicking: I find it intriguing to encounter the term "marsquake" in scientific articles, or anywhere outside science fiction. Replacing the prefix "earth" with the nomenclature of a celestial body is somewhat
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Now just wait for the deplorable impact of LLM on code quality and performance in the years ahead. There's a new wave of programmers who are "GPT whisperers" and spend most of their time hooked to a chatbot (sometimes right i
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by ojosilva 3y ago
> I have a Python program I run every day, it takes 1.5 seconds. I spent six hours re-writing it in rust, now it takes 0.06 seconds. That efficiency improvement means I'll make my time back in 41 years, 24 days :-) The key here is &
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Zardax called today's (MS Word) "Autotext" a "Glossary", cool.
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by ojosilva 3y ago
> While no chatbot is 100 percent reliable, code has the unique ability to be instantly verified by just testing it in your IDE, which makes it an ideal use case for chatbots. Oh, this is so wrong. Code is not instantly verified by any I
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by ojosilva 3y ago
The article is a bunch of hot quotes sequestered from various media sources (and from Putin very own Cerberus dog, Dimitri Medvedev), and does not make a case for a full-fledged World War breaking out anytime soon. Well it does say that AI
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by ojosilva 3y ago
The amount ranges sound right. It's not what Google is willing to/could pay for user acquisition. It's the amount competitors (Microsoft!) could pay for it if Google didn't, and that's what sets the market. And, fur
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Well, there are varieties, depending on the olive type you get more or less of a bitter, spicy or fruity taste. Here's a quick guide to Spanish olives used for oils: - Picual - strong, bitter and spicy, very grassy, also one of the m
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by ojosilva 3y ago
This. Sending kids to public universities in the US has always been a big money issue for even the better-off parents (not elite), especially with more than 1 kid seeking higher education. It's definitely not just tuition. You have to
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by ojosilva 3y ago
I fear Meta's AI chatbots are just uncanny valley totems. Just a publicity stunt or is there a market in GPT bots with personalities? The ones I've tried on poe.com lacked any interest or grit. Maybe they are useful as a gaming ch
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Slightly off-topic: I feel like persuasion, and negotiation rhetoric more specifically, is understated as an entrepreneurship must-have skill. I've brought that up at incubators many times to a blank stare in the room. But all your har
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by ojosilva 3y ago
> Apple mandating WebKit is the only thing holding v8 back from a total monopoly Or this could read as: Apple mandating WebKit is the thing preventing Firefox (and others) from properly competing against v8.
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Just don't "hack" YOUR iPhone then. I'm even ok with Apple warning on pre-install: "You're about to install software that could disrupt your stellar performance on your iPhone. Proceed? Yes, I understand the ri
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by ojosilva 3y ago
> "tech is not a noun, it's a verb" We don't know yet where and how AI, consumers, business and regulation will all come together and what the next thing will be after every AI milestone. Although the AI artistic doom
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by ojosilva 3y ago
The article mentions that iPhone Pro and Pro Max will have a Thunderbolt port. A Thunderbolt 4 port means double the speed of USB-C, 40Gbps instead of 20Gbps. There's plenty of powerful and legacy hardware that runs on Thunderbolt, lik
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by ojosilva 3y ago
For Putin's government the key here is censorship of Western content. Many Western blockbuster movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer included, disseminate ideas that are antagonistic to Putin's fascist narrative. Barbie is, among other t
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Clicked on ChatGPT / Compare ChatGPT plans / Enterprise ... > Contact sales Oops. Scary. I'm missing the Teams plan: transparent pricing with a common admin console for our team. Yes, fast GPT-4, 32k context, templates, AP
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Tbh I've had the same issue delivering my own 1.x software with 0.x dependencies and my argument has always been that it's my problem, not the client's, so "do not worry". Being realistic, no sw offers any guarantee
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Bun is currently below v1.0, so not declared production-ready either. But I'm not sure Bun should go to 1.0 without Zig going to 1.0 too. And Zig 1.0 is a distant target, which is a normal timeline for a programming language.
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by ojosilva 3y ago
If you may: The peacock has landed! (Indian national bird)
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by ojosilva 3y ago
The median is 1.8 cars per household in the US, so I'd say, from intuition and experience, that in these states the targeted vehicle will be +95% of the time driven by the DUI offender. But it doesn't matter, because "whiskey
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Terms of Use are a thing, and if the Times can prove that OpenAI infringed their web terms by scraping, they may have a case... but terms of use probably won't monetize well or give them enough leverage to prevent OpenAI from using the
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by ojosilva 3y ago
IANAL, but copyright protections are pretty much tied to content and format and not to the idea itself, with the intent of preventing (or putting a price on) the copying of original works. The Times will have a very hard time proving that t
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by ojosilva 3y ago
That's Al Gore at 11:28. https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI?t=688 If you watch the entire video, you'll see he's actively involved on this committee presentation, arguments and deliberation. https://clim
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by ojosilva 3y ago
I think you have better chances at competing fors jobs if your additional skillset enhances whatever your main focus snd experience has been: DevOps tools, server scripting, cloud deployments, specific JS libraries/frameworkd, database
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OceanGate in the making. Or would that be Blue Origin?
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https://xkcd.com/204/
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by ojosilva 3y ago
Quick recap of a rebranding mess: - X axes a renowned, recognizable tech brand - X was done hastily, without proper planning - X won't be a dictionary word, hardly a verb, not anything cultural - X means nothing really, like a branding
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by ojosilva 3y ago
How long approximately did it take you to get to state of the posted image? Any hardware specifics would be helpful to understand performance. Thanks!
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by ojosilva 3y ago
You can practice your Rust skills by writing performant and/or gluey extensions for higher-level language such as NodeJS (checkout napi-rs) and Python or complementing JS in the browser if you target Webassembly. For instance, checkout

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