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by selcuka 3y ago
Some pragmatic and short term advice: 1. It is hard to explain not being able to land a job for 36 months for a Python backend developer, even if you are below average as you said, or too focused on a niche industry. Unless you have very hi
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by selcuka 3y ago
> If the originals are so good and can be played today on modern systems, what more could you bring to the table with modern versions to guarantee a big success. That's a weird deduction. Everything can be improved upon. Why do we h
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Of course it's also a question about what the end goal is. It's pretty rare to have significant subtitles but no audio I think the question was about dubbing a movie in another language, using SRT files.
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by selcuka 3y ago
Django, too [1]: > In fall 2003, the World Online developers (Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison) ditched PHP and began using Python to develop its websites. As they built intensive, richly interactive sites such as Lawrence.com, they be
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Keypad UIs are hard to create - and competitors certainly had some toxically useless UIs. I still think that the wheel (navi-roller) they introduced with 7710 [1] was revolutionary and they should have used it in other phones they made
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Having less features on a cheaper tier is entirely normal. Oh, definitely. Removing features from your existing subscription, on the other hand, is not normal. I guess we will have to get used to live with skimpflation [1], but it&#x27
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by selcuka 3y ago
> OTOH, we don't have the infrastructure to go back to the days of DVD rentals. We already have streaming rentals. I believe while monthly subscription models are not profitable, pay per view still makes money.
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by selcuka 3y ago
> On a side note "import GOTO" works in python :) Never heard of this, and it doesn't work on my interpreter (tested with both 2.7 and 3.11). Are you sure it's not a third party package?
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by selcuka 3y ago
It was a (slow) migration, though, not a rewrite from scratch. They kept shipping software.
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Most language I'm aware of wouldn't have that in their standard lib. Python has str.ljust [1] (and str.rjust [2]): > Return the string left justified in a string of length width. Padding is done using the specified fillcha
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by selcuka 3y ago
Well, it's also an animal [1]: > A pika is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative, the r
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by selcuka 3y ago
> The surest way to fail is to blame your parents. You wouldn't be wrong as they have a very strong correlation [1]. [1] https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/parents-income-not-smarts-...
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by selcuka 3y ago
Note that you can also accomplish the same with pip using the tilde operator in your requirements.txt (e.g. Django~=4.0), and Constraints Files [1] for the subdependencies. A multistage build is still recommended as building your dependenci
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by selcuka 3y ago
> I think you overestimate how "easy" piracy is for the average user. Netflix revenue keeps growing [...] According to TFA piracy is also growing rapidly, so it's apparently easy enough. You may be thinking of usenet, torr
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by selcuka 3y ago
Apparently it uses the Web Speech API [1], not a specific service. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...
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by selcuka 3y ago
> I asked the bot and it claimed you're using Google's speech recognition That doesn't sound plausible. How can the LLM part know which speech recognition service is being used?
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> I've seen some interesting research about [...] the "young blood" causing a slow down of senescence in cells, This is excellent material for the conspiracy theorists.
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> They were the bidder. Does it matter? Apparent from the fact that they collapsed, they have been getting unfair value.
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Would probably be way too expensive Using OpenAI GPT-4, sure. On the other hand, running a small, fine-tuned LLM shouldn't be that resource intensive. It may not be any better than the current generation of spam detection, but it
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Hacker Newsers do this on purpose. Did you mean HNers?
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by selcuka 3y ago
Yes, it's apparently consensual and transparent: > Dean.Bot didn’t all-out pretend to be Phillips himself; before engaging with Dean.Bot, website visitors would be shown a disclaimer describing the nature of the chatbot.
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by selcuka 3y ago
> I believe we will see the day when we have an LLM model running for President. An LLM would probably win a landslide victory over its (human) opposition, if the voters don't know that they are voting for a robot.
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by selcuka 3y ago
In real world, as a developer you can't control what IT uses for WAF, so you may have to work around it as much as you can. At a previous job the IT set up a spam filter which used a keyword list (dumb attempt anyway), but it also sear
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by selcuka 3y ago
> And if you drop it on something, the something will probably get hurt more. Make sure that you don't have another T520 lying around!
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by selcuka 3y ago
> I have to think GIMP has caught up with and surpassed CS6 by now. Feature-wise, maybe, but UX is totally different. If you are using the latest Adobe products at work, for example, you would want the same UI when you are doing somethin
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by selcuka 3y ago
The article answers the question in the second paragraph (not that I agree or disagree): > Hertz initially ordered 100,000 cars from Tesla, but has since pushed back its EV adoption for a multitude of reasons. The company blamed high rep
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by selcuka 3y ago
> it's entirely reasonable to assume base 10 unless stated otherwise The point of the parent comment is that this is not a property of numbers in general. It's just a coincidence that only works in base-10. For example, a prime
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by selcuka 3y ago
> Other bases would have different words for their numbers - bit in binary, for example Do we have another example? I don't think there are special terms for "octal digits" or "hexadecimal digits".
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The article mentions a few reasons, but I believe the most important reason is the fact that they can reduce the average salary they pay by doing this. A new hire will obviously seek the market average, so there is not much you can do about
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by selcuka 3y ago
> A former coworker went to get an offer from another firm and tried to use that as leverage for a salary increase and ended up getting fired. This is normally what HR does. I'm surprised that they didn't do the same to you. Th

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