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by rescbr 5mo ago
> Google has... ? former Oracle salespeople
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by rescbr 5mo ago
Zero fees for an individual, by regulation. Companies pay for PIX usage. Some banks waive these fees, and it is comparable to debit card transaction fees.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
No need to be wealthy. Last December I paid $180 for an year of Z.ai's coding plan. It's enough for hobby use.
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by rescbr 5mo ago
This is why I ended up paying extra for a static IP from my ISP. While they always provided me with a public IP outside a CGNAT, I guess whole IP blocks were being targeted by these web security providers. I guess my ISP allocates static IP
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by rescbr 5mo ago
Yeah, if I wanted to pay the crazy spread on currency exchange, I’d use my credit card instead. 10 years ago I was still traveling with a bunch of $100 banknotes and reading blogs to find the most honest shady currency exchange place with g
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by rescbr 5mo ago
> sitting at school for 25 hours a week School is closer to a prison than to a place where one can be creative and build things. There is historical context why schools are designed and operated in this way: it creates factory workers th
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by rescbr 5mo ago
In my country you can enumerate the branch entity tax IDs of any company and therefore very easily obtain the addresses of any data center.
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by rescbr 6mo ago
Yeah, but bringing back a brand new Mac that I personally bought at an Apple Store for a friend won’t ever land me in jail - worst case scenario is that the friend would have to pay me back for whatever import duties the customs officials l
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by rescbr 6mo ago
I don’t think the providers intentionally nerf the models to make the new one look better. It’s a matter of them being stingy with infrastructure, either by choice to increase profit and/or sheer lack of resources to keep n+1 models de
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by rescbr 6mo ago
> Free trade has already broken down, what do they have to lose? The US parking an aircraft carrier nearby so the crew can enjoy a sunny vacation. Or meddling with elections. Or both.
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by rescbr 6mo ago
Oh, as somebody who wrote C++/CX code at the time, I was very pissed when they replaced it with WinRT.
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by rescbr 6mo ago
People use Windows because Office runs on Windows, and Windows ran in any shitty cheap beige box. This is the whole story since the 1990's. On hardware: it's because Windows has a stable kernel ABI and makes it very simple for har
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by rescbr 7mo ago
Go to https://models.dev/ and you're going to see plenty of providers. OpenRouter makes it easy to use them, just add credits to your account. I thought this was common knowledge to anyone looking to use an inference A
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by rescbr 7mo ago
Employee needs to download Microsoft Remote Desktop (sorry, Windows App) that is only distributed through App Store. Employee does not trust the company having access to everything else in their personal iCloud account - photos, mails, mess
105.
by rescbr 7mo ago
Once I had to use a Mesa3D build for Windows and use the zink driver to render OpenGL to Vulkan, otherwise it would use Windows' software renderer.
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by rescbr 7mo ago
> what computers are you buying that are more environmentally friendly? Any computer that you can upgrade its parts? SSD, RAM, Wifi cards, etc. The only parts that wear out on a modern laptop are the SSD and the battery. If I replace tho
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by rescbr 7mo ago
I miss the glowing apple on my white polycarbonate MacBook. What I don't miss is the shitty Intel GMA X3100 iGPU and Apple not releasing a 64 bit driver for it. Should have spent the money on a MacBook Pro with a real GPU, I would have
108.
by rescbr 8mo ago
Eh... Prohibiting access to MSN Messenger on school computers was one of the catalysts to me being a highly paid professional today. Tell children they can't do X, some will find ways around it, tell their friends the workaround and ma
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by rescbr 8mo ago
I have a personal 16 GB M4 Macbook Air and my wife’s work computer is a 24 GB M4 Macbook Pro. My laptop runs circles around her work’s. Companies install so many invasive shit in the name of security theater and employee control that there
110.
by rescbr 8mo ago
If you ask an LLM to code whatever, it definitely won’t produce optimized code. If you direct it to do a specific task to find memory and cpu optimization points, based on perf metrics, then it’s a completely different world.
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by rescbr 8mo ago
Yeah, this is more pronounced with watches.
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by rescbr 8mo ago
If shipping then yes, customs got stricter thanks to Shein. If flying then you can bring up to 1000 USD of stuff tax-free every 30 days. On top of a personal phone and watch. Plus 1000 USD of stuff you can purchase at the duty-free shop onc
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by rescbr 8mo ago
Yeah, I now need a pyroceram skillet too! But as the solo meat-eater human in my apartment, I ended up buying a gas-canister camping grill to barbecue steaks on my terrace on weekends and then I reheat the rare steaks through the week in th
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by rescbr 8mo ago
I think it does more harm than good on recent models. The LLM has to override its system prompt to role-play, wasting context and computing cycles instead of working on the task.
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by rescbr 8mo ago
Hah, yesterday I was discussing solar panels and moving shadows. I would have wasted money buying a commercial solar panel if I didn’t have this chat. Learned a lot on how it works, to the point I’m confident that I can go the DIY route and
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Polars.net – High-Performance, DataFrame Engine for .NET(github.com)
5 points by rescbr 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rescbr 8mo ago
No need, at least when I was there when the day was still one, before the pandemic. And well, Firecracker is open source. A few of the best technical presentations that I've watched were at a pre-SKO event. Nitro, Graviton and Firecrac
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by rescbr 9mo ago
> Craft isn't about writing beautiful code. It's about having developed judgment for which corners you can't cut - something that comes from having been burned by the consequences. That's why I'm of the opinion t
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by rescbr 9mo ago
This is great. I hate LLMs fiddling around with logging calls to get some debugging capability. Now they can be promoted from junior coders into mid-level coders :)
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by rescbr 9mo ago
That's why I keep using Gentoo and X11 to handle my three GPU setup. An Intel iGPU, an AMD dGPU on the same package as the Intel CPU and a RTX 4060 Ti eGPU connected through Thunderbolt.

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