okdood64

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by okdood64 1y ago
Why cherrypick Newark?
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by okdood64 1y ago
> Canada and many other countries have talent drained by the US since they can't compete on pay. What's the relevance here of this? Canada should make better opportunities for their citizens.
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by okdood64 1y ago
It's curious how YouTube's is so bad still given the current state of the art; but it has got a lot better in the last 6 months.
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by okdood64 1y ago
What's performance of running OpenAI OSS 120B on a Mac Studio as compared to running a paid subscription frontier LLM?
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by okdood64 1y ago
> Flash has gotten much, much better. It's my go-to model even though I'm paying for Pro. Same I think also Pro got worse...
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by okdood64 1y ago
The converse(?) is also true; how easy is it to leave somewhere you've made roots (family, friends, community) in for a decade or two?
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by okdood64 1y ago
So notary publics?
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by okdood64 1y ago
> no company wants to migrate manufacturing there https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/...
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by okdood64 1y ago
One person's definition of a few is 3 over 4 hours. Another person's is 5 over 2 hours. (That's even mentioning the size of the drink. A standard can of beer or a pint? A 1 ounce shot or 1.5 ounce shot?) Here-in lies a major
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by okdood64 1y ago
I'll take it further. Regular cloud compute have batch workload capabilities at cheaper rates, as well since forever.
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by okdood64 1y ago
I don't understand the point you're making. This has been a commonly used offering since cloud blew up. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot/
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by okdood64 1y ago
> And a few more of the seedier bars just have the (time honored) “no foreigners” sign out front. Eh, even some non "seedy" ones have it. It's common enough.
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by okdood64 1y ago
I was on a Hawaiian Airlines flights with FREE Starlink; game changing. You pretty much would not know it was plane internet connectivity. Was streaming HD videos flawlessly. I did a latency test for fun and it was around 70ms.
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by okdood64 1y ago
As I understand it they don't even make any competitive foundational models themselves? Isn't that the kind of talent Apple is after?
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by okdood64 1y ago
> We’re seeing endless waves of specialized wrappers around LLM API calls. AFAIK, doing proper RAG is much, much more than this. What's your technical background if you don't mind me asking?
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by okdood64 1y ago
For anyone else, who for some reason, feels compelled to comment without reading the article: > Haaretz has learned that the Military Advocate General has instructed the IDF General Staff's Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism – a body
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by okdood64 1y ago
Does YouTube allow massive scraping like this in their ToS?
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by okdood64 1y ago
Thank you for this, I just watched. Very enlightening.
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by okdood64 1y ago
It's still incredible how many people STILL equate "Made in China" with low quality. These folks are stuck in the 90s. China builds things to spec. If you want low quality they'll give you that. But require high quality,
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by okdood64 1y ago
Or just pay for Premium... No one's forcing you to do anything.
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by okdood64 1y ago
2014: Who would not carry their wallet and solely rely on their iPhone to pay for things when running errands? I understand it's cool to be cynical on HN but: this is a step in the direction for a future world where a lot of countries
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by okdood64 1y ago
> S-tier status here in Germany What does this mean exactly?
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by okdood64 1y ago
> travel router What's the difference between that and tethering off your phone?
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by okdood64 1y ago
Low quality comment that is provably untrue based on the team's leadership. Can we stop blaming Gen Z for everything? This happens with every generation.
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by okdood64 1y ago
Their not asking them to be mission specialists. They're asking to guidance on how to build out and maintain a tech platform for the product (drone) folks to build on.
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by okdood64 1y ago
blancolirio on YT gives more timely but objective (i.e., tries to stick to the latest facts) takes on aviation incidents. There will be a fair bit of speculation still...
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by okdood64 1y ago
I still don't understand any practical use cases. Can you give some examples? (I'm not being obtuse here I'm genuinely curious what this can enable now.)
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by okdood64 1y ago
How a feature works, and how a feature is coded (how "nice" & canonical the code is) are two very different things. He's dunking on the design of it.
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by okdood64 1y ago
Precisely the reason I don't understand how people can daily drive Linux on their laptop. (I say laptop because additionally: trackpad issues, Bluetooth issues, etc.) Is it much better than 10 or 20 years ago? Yes. Is it still annoying
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by okdood64 1y ago
Camera movement in FFXIV is fine. Character movement was a bit clunky but still very usable.

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