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by rexreed 4y ago
When ChatGPT bots or AI systems start generating or modifying content here, I absolutely will. Perhaps it already is happening.
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I'd use the double old man filter and look like a raisin screaming at the younguns.
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Social media is a scourge. In 20 yrs, we'll be reading about the harm it's done as much as smoking and alcoholism.
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Get. Off. Tiktok. Get. Off. Social media. I feel like an old man screaming at kids to get off the lawn. But am I the only one? What's the draw on Tiktok really? I never got it. Then again I never got Twitter either. In my day, we had U
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by rexreed 4y ago
From the Copyright Alliance, a copyright notice isn't needed to retain full copyright protection, including on new works, since 1989: https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai... "A copyrig
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I use PHP with SQLite just fine. In fact, been doing it since before the non-boomers picked it up.
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Why not PHP on a shared or dedicated hosted server?
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Is there a website or link for more details on that Lockheed store?
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by rexreed 4y ago
How is it possible SAP is still such a poor product after almost 4 decades? Time does not cure all ills with software. The powers that purchase software are not swayed by arguments about user experience or even efficiency.
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It's a fabulous farcical melange of quite a few tech execs. It's all about the box.
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by rexreed 4y ago
If you haven't seen that one scene in HBO's Silicon Valley, it was a fairly casual reference to that. Do I dare link it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCtEXbOezM
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by rexreed 4y ago
A picture is worth a thousand words. This would be the literal case for this article. Perhaps 2,000 words.
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Thousands of YouTubers beg to differ
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That approach is called the "fast follow" strategy in business vs. the "first mover" strategy. There are some advantages in fast follow vs. first mover but also some key disadvantages, especially in markets of winner-tak
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by rexreed 4y ago
Sure that might be the case, but what about Twitter, did it even launch until they went public?
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by rexreed 4y ago
A 21 minute video and the term launch was never really defined. What exactly is a launch anyways? Is it a press release? Getting a website up? Email blasts? A big PR blitz? Or are each of those things separate launches in themselves? There
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by rexreed 4y ago
The point is to allocate money for yourself first, and if there aren't sufficient funds to fund operations then you know you have a problem. Clearly paying necessary expenses must come first from a cash perspective but in terms of the
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by rexreed 4y ago
My point is proven. @jgrahamc never responded. Because just like all the rest of you, I'm too small and unimportant to get the attention that others have. That's why resorting to HN to get your critical support needs met doesn&#x2
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by rexreed 4y ago
At what point does a minimally positive income-generating concern become a hobby? I know many people who collect and sell Magic cards and make roughly the same amount net, but they wouldn't consider themselves bootstrapped founders. Yo
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Judging from the decreasing quality of Google Search I'd say they've been doing it to themselves over the past decade regardless of large language models or not. However, that being said, Google is still super dominant and when pe
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by rexreed 4y ago
From an earlier comment I made regarding Stripe shutting merchants down, and those merchants resorting to posting on HN and getting someone on HN to advocate for them to resolve their problem [0]: "The main issue is not that [COMPANY]
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by rexreed 4y ago
So I wanted to call BS on the statement that 19th century elementary school textbooks had the & character as the final letter of the alphabet, but lo and behold: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.timetoast.com/public&#x2F
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by rexreed 4y ago
I'd love to learn how you managed to scale on a single server - other than the above, any tips or tricks? I'm also a PHP guy on Ngnix with MySQL but want to know what tips you might have for a dynamic (non-static) site to handle s
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Would an alternative to this approach be to let your customers copy a spreadsheet of yours that already has an API function connection to your data? This would avoid the need to create users and upserts and all that, no? Or am I missing som
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by rexreed 4y ago
While this may be true, there's no practical opposition to the force of automation. What can be automated, inevitably will be automated. The efficiencies offered by machines doing what people can do is too irresistible, even to the peo
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How is it being fine-tuned to be able to generate relevant SQL queries on the crunchbase data set? How does this jibe with the article saying they imported 2.5m records from crunchbase? Where and how are you able to import or fine tune the
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by rexreed 4y ago
The installation instructions mention Render but doesn't say what it's needed for, or if it's needed. Is only the Docker needed? Can you provide more details on the installation page?
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Is this a self-hosted GPT model? One of the smaller models? Fine tuned on Crunchbase data? Any insights into how this was put together?
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Incorrect numbers to use. From the NY Times Article on this topic ( https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/21/business/jpmorgan-chase-c... ): "Mr. Salisbury, a former director of institutional research and a
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by rexreed 4y ago
Syncthing doesn't support my older Mac devices anymore. I can't get Syncthing to work on Mac OSX Yosemite (10.10.5). And no, the device is not upgradable for a variety of reasons not worth going into. Any solutions there?

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