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by rldjbpin 1y ago
> They previously asked VPN companies to log and gather every bit of information they could about their users including their name and address (effectively driving all VPN companies out of India) in NordVPN (a paid mainstream provider wi
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by rldjbpin 1y ago
> yet the bazillion scam call centers are somehow not a problem. the local population is also in the blast radius of scam calls, and is recognized by the government as well. so much so that one receives a disclaimer voice message before
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by rldjbpin 1y ago
being critical about the messaging and the timeline of achieving these goals is fair. however the rest of the thesis seems too harsh, despite the author's credentials. there is nothing wrong with "shoot for the moon, even if you m
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
along the same lines, a student's visa got revoked due to protesting an "unsuitable" side in the Gaza war. [1] in the past having a contrarian opinion would get you ostracised or fired maybe. but restricting access post grant
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
humans often don't trust (certain) other humans too. but replacing that with a random number(/token) generator is more reliable to someone, then more power to them. there is value to be had in the output of this tool. but personal
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
just like many open-source projects (primarily maintained by a company) turning their projects non-commercial, a la redhat, terraform
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
IANAEE but is the frame itself enough to dissipate heat of the internals while being sealed shut like this? love the concept and would like them to succeed. just feels like that the relative ease of installation also means it might be easie
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
at the expense of turning this a platform to rant away my grievances, the past year i faced a weird issue with the store that lasted several months! the tailscale client introduced a bug with a new updated that crashes on launch. the develo
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
> Light mode might be annoying to read in no-light environments, but dark mode is nigh impossible to read in high-light environments. Ever try to read a dark mode UI on your phone on a bright summer's day? Can't read a thing, e
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
it is all about growing complexities/limitations and convenience. even at the software level, you are reliant on the os makers allowing certain things to happen. i could not care less about homelab if at the end of the day you need to
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
both at work and my personal emails have been at good unread counts for the past decade (at most double digits on hectic times or vacation). at first i would use a lot of filters at work (especially for the automated reporting mails made by
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
even more naive way - just club several requests into batch of classification requests into one prompt. in practice, this is not production-ready as the llm output does not always contain results for the same number of input (sometimes more
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
any advice on how to get the first n posts from the /front page of hn as an rss feed? since it keeps on changing, a daily snapshot (at midnight UTC for example) could be handy.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
even if they were a beacon of truth, they were active market participant and would stand to benefit if the markets do react to their report. how large businesses get away with things is true across markets and the precedence set let them be
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
Interesting parallels, but some important distinctions needed: - Kurds have at least a millennium-old history [1], while Sikhism is much more recent in comparison. The latter do not share the same level of regional complexities as besides t
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
feels like i somehow only applied to the fake ones during my last job search. outside of the us for context, so should rule out the h1b explanation. seen many of them staying up for months on end, and getting reposted on job sites as if som
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
reads to me like 95% of the "conventional AI" was applied to the problem and then using llm in the end seems to work like a lucky three-faced dice. when "embeddings" are used to perform closeness test, you are using a pr
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
funny how nobody (even the OP) commented on the apple-like nature of the pricing here. especially when it reminds of the recent m4 mac mini memory upgrade costing more than the base model. (EDIT: yes i get that for the mac mini the ram is g
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
perhaps before i could in a sane way sync files from one using an open-source, self-hosted solution
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
interesting launch but vague in its own way like the one from AMD (less so but in a different way). it is easy to be carried away with vram size, but keeping in mind that most people with apple silicon (who can enjoy several times more memo
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
TSMC 4NP process Source: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/technologies/blackw...
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
this might be nice for the shareholders, and quite surprising compared to most platforms, but not everyone is content. from the artist's perspective, it is quite bad money wise ( https://www.rocksoffmag.com/the-impact-of
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
nice writeup, but i feel that for most people, the software side of training models should be more interesting and accessible. for one, "full" gpu utilization, one or many, remains an open topic in training workflows. spending eff
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
this is yet another step in the frog-cooking approach to identity management. from a weak passport owner's perspective, our biometrics are already taken away whenever you apply for a visa. as shown in the article, for domestic purposes
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
i'm ready to buy a 2027 HN GR GTR in NISMO trim.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
there are "smart monitors" now, which are just smaller-sized tv with better panel performance ( https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/smart-monitors... )
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
quite astonished to see very little counts of rally events, especially considering the history of spectators up against non-existing barriers.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
before judging too hard, this might be a project from a 15yo forking another project that replaces indentation with brackets in python code ( https://github.com/mathialo/bython ). bro actually made a meme into reality.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
there has to be legislative precedence already for this scheme, especially if focused on those allowing fiat money to exchange hands in return of memecoins like this.
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by rldjbpin 2y ago
for memecoins, right about the first half but almost all them do not take much to run. it can be wagered that all the social media airtime spent on them would probably waste more electricity in the process.

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