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by pid-1 3y ago
Not American, but DocuSign is becoming quite popular in my country and was deemed as a legal way of signing documents by courts.
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by pid-1 3y ago
(4) it's being developed by a VC backed company without a transparent monetization strategy. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/modular-ai Andrew Kelley predicts the future: https://youtube.com&#x2
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by pid-1 3y ago
So they decided to fork Lemmy because a mastodon.social user finds the devs positions on Stalin and North Korea problematic. Talk about picking your battles.
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by pid-1 3y ago
Android is another example of OS that gets sandboxing right, I think (though not a Desktop OS). Anyway, that's also something I've been thinking lately after distro hoping for about 6 years... My average Linux install isn't p
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by pid-1 3y ago
IMO ECS is in a weird position right now, because: 1 - It's simpler thank K8s, but not that much simpler than your avg managed K8s offering 2 - It really locks you in the AWS ecosystem 3 - It is way less used than K8s or just running t
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by pid-1 3y ago
For companies, there is no sane equivalent to Active Directory. The switch is actually much harder than for home users.
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by pid-1 3y ago
> It's no more illogical than, say, the progression of the SPX500 and Dow Jones Industrial stock market indexes between 2019-2020-2023. > "How does the market not care vis-a-vis the gruelling recent pandemic, ongoing supply
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by pid-1 3y ago
I use Windows at work and dual boot windows + distro hop in home desktop (currently: Fedora) The good: - In the past 5 years my Windows development experience went from garbage to pretty good. - VS Code + devcontainers + Docker / Podma
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by pid-1 3y ago
> quite fascinated how has the art progressed in the past hundred or so years. There are people remembering "we were doing it wrong". Incredible If you think about it, that's practically a given in any engineering field th
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by pid-1 3y ago
I've been playing with using documents as OpenAI embeddings for the past weeks and, at least for my use case, the results are meh. It seems sometimes just using context is not enough. My next step is to play with fine tunning, but I ha
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by pid-1 3y ago
Docker Desktop: 1. In the past, created a managed WSL vm to run containers. 2. At some point, it included the option to use a WSL distro instead, but you had to tell it explicitly. 3. Nowadays it detects whether a default WSL distro is pres
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by pid-1 3y ago
TIL about caimans BR Portuguese uses the same word for caimans and alligators: Jacaré "Crocodilo", in contrast, generally refers to true crocodiles.
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by pid-1 3y ago
What pisses me off is that many smart tvs aren't even in the cheap spectrum of things, yet are full of dark pattern stuff
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by pid-1 3y ago
I learned bookbinding, now I print my own books and make pretty hardcovers as a hobby. Highly recommend.
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by pid-1 3y ago
After GitLab's price hikes I've checked their income statements and decided to leave as well. I'm playing with self hosted Gitea and enjoying so far. Really easy to admin and supports oauth2. It doesn't have all GitLab D
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by pid-1 3y ago
Since this whole argument is untestable wild guessing: maybe there was a future in which Microsoft buying Activision pushed more companies to hedge against a possible MS monopoly by properly supporting Linux, like Valve has been doing for t
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by pid-1 3y ago
Or in old Dota wisdom: "never go half retard"
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by pid-1 3y ago
Using G Maps / Waze in Rio de Janeiro used to produce similar stories, but somehow they got better at recognizing risky areas over the years.
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by pid-1 3y ago
Even if no VC was involved, how do you make money developing an open source linter?
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by pid-1 4y ago
Taking the derivative of a matrix is equivalent to writing a system of differential equations.
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by pid-1 4y ago
I can picture a malicious actor convincing less tech savvy folks into enabling USB debugging to "unlock wifi speed" or some similar BS.
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by pid-1 4y ago
> Unclear if you're talking about Bitcoin specifically or cryptocurrencies in general, but there are cryptocurrencies that handle transactions quickly and at scale in a secure and decentralized manner. Algorand is one of those, but
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by pid-1 4y ago
> Another thing to consider: cloud providers are not very interested in individuals as customers A key theme in the "cloud vs data center" story is that most public cloud providers (AWS, etc...) were really easy to sign up, req
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by pid-1 4y ago
> But I don’t think it’s bullshit because it does solve a real problem - verifying transactions independently. But of course there are trade offs with this, such as bitcoin’s power consumption. The disconnect comes from crypto people mis
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by pid-1 4y ago
> expected right? The market is currently pricing is that central banks will be pressured to stop increasing rates due political pressure and / or systemic risk triggers. Bears / short sellers are actually losing money.
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by pid-1 4y ago
Well I didn't know about Substack Notes, now I do. Streisand Effect strikes again.
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by pid-1 4y ago
I think the real reason the web was built was because Google, etc... Decided they need a distribution platform that could not be locked by OS vendors, as that would be a theat to their business.
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by pid-1 4y ago
Really unfortunate how that was true for all Nintendo games I've played on mobile: Mario Kart, Pokemon Go, TCG and United. Seems mobile gaming is a lost cause.
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by pid-1 4y ago
> Okay, so, where is your training data? Is your training data in the layout which your training code can just linearly scan on S3? Or you have to transform them first? Or provision a dataset cache on-demamd? Is this data engineering or
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by pid-1 4y ago
Why isn't that solved by k8s + a node autoscaler such as Karpenter?

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