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by rmsaksida 3y ago
Last time I tried Langchain (admittedly, that was ~6 months ago) the implementations for content extraction from PDFs and HTML files were very basic. Enough to get a prototype RAG solution going, but not enough to build anything reliable. T
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by rmsaksida 3y ago
> That's handy, because I am looking for a fast Linux with small memory footprint, but reliable. You might want to look into MX Linux. It's a Debian-based distro that offers a good balance of performance, package selection, adm
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by rmsaksida 3y ago
Same! You are probably thinking about the murals by Hugues Desmaziéres (and Douglas Melo) [1][2]. Seeing those murals in the 90s really excited my imagination as a kid. [1] https://repositorio.ufmg.br/handle/1843/3
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by rmsaksida 3y ago
I totally get it, but the song is also very famous in Brazil and not because of her.
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by rmsaksida 3y ago
Girl from Ipanema (Garota de Ipanema) was composed by Tom Jobim, one of the greatest Brazilian composers, and written by Vinícius de Moraes, one of the greatest Brazilian poets. João Gilberto, another one of our greatest musicians, also con
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by rmsaksida 3y ago
Apple products (Macbooks especially) are prohibitively expensive in most of the world. The US market is very important, of course, but Microsoft has very little competition elsewhere.
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by rmsaksida 4y ago
When hiring, I always pay close attention to a person's writing skills. I find it to be a useful heuristic for general software engineering competency. But I actually look at this from the opposite direction - someone who's good a
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Time Commando – The Saturn Version(blog.defence-force.org)
2 points by rmsaksida 4y ago|0 comments
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by rmsaksida 4y ago
Wise does offer virtual cards as well as a physical one.
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by rmsaksida 4y ago
It depends. There are so many terrible posters with blue checkmarks that I almost consider it a red flag. Most of my favorite twitter profiles are unverified.
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by rmsaksida 4y ago
In many countries, SMS isn't free (or didn't used to be). That's the reason why Whatsapp was successful in the first place, it was cheaper to use Whatsapp over data than to use SMS for texting.
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by rmsaksida 4y ago
It's a website where you can upload and browse pictures. Like Instagram.
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Mellified man(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by rmsaksida 4y ago|0 comments
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
I meant the MFA variety where you have to reinput the code versus the one where you need to confirm a login via a mobile prompt. The former seems safer, because it requires a lot more activity from the user.
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
Isn't manual TOTP MFA (using codes generated by Google Authenticator or similar) significantly more secure than those MFA prompts? I don't understand the push for MFA prompts when the previous technology worked just fine and was p
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
I disagree. I think the cynicism is there because the audience on HN is more aware of the technical aspects of crypto and thus has a better understanding of its flaws. The criticisms of web3 are legitimate, especially when it comes to the q
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Stan Lee Fans Are Outraged over His Twitter Account Being Used to Sell NFTs(cbr.com)
14 points by rmsaksida 5y ago|2 comments
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
I don't know how "evil" they are, but this incident made me drop any plans of ever building a web project with .NET Core. I like C# and would love to find an excuse to use it, but I'm not relying on a framework that MS w
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
I live in South America and virtually everyone I know has moved to Instagram. People still keep their FB profiles around but they don't use it much. Also, I was not aware I don't live in the "free world". You learn somet
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
Just to clear up some misconceptions: > now 3rd largest in the world It is large and ineffective but it is not the 3rd largest in the world if you look at the incarceration rate per 100k, which is a more reasonable metric. It is the 19t
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
I imagine that's what China is going to do. It's too good an opportunity to pass up.
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
Pressure cooking is very common in some countries, but I'm only familiar with the simple mechanical pressure cookers (that work on gas or induction stoves). Can electric pressure cookers do things that a regular one can't?
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
Mozilla pays millions of dollars per year to their CEO, despite the decrease in usage and user base. Could be a symptom of a larger problem in the organization.
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Kuai Kuai Culture(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rmsaksida 5y ago|0 comments
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by rmsaksida 5y ago
> Problem is that VR took too long to arrive and death on mobile can kill Facebook? Facebook owns the most popular messaging app in the world (WhatsApp) and two of the most popular social networks in the world (Facebook, Instagram). Are
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I can't speak for Venezuela, but you are entirely wrong about Brazil.
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Jenaro Gajardo Vera, proprietor of the moon(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rmsaksida 6y ago|0 comments
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Infections caused by the P1 coronavirus strain display 10-fold higher viral load(researchsquare.com)
2 points by rmsaksida 6y ago|0 comments
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
Congrats!
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by rmsaksida 6y ago
I've been using it for Ruby and Node.js for years and never had issues with it. Great tool.

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