silversmith

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by silversmith 1y ago
I'm passively interested in small, local LLM OCR, due to couple ideas kicking around between my ears. Tried some a while ago, but most of my recent knowledge is second-hand. Waiting for someone to exclaim "hey this works now!&quot
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by silversmith 1y ago
I'm curious, how does it do with non-english texts? It's my understanding that LLM-based OCR solutions fall way behind traditional ones once you introduce other languages.
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by silversmith 1y ago
Isn't that what "direct feedback" means? I firmly believe you should be able to hit your fingers with a hammer, and in the process learn whether that's a good idea or not :)
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by silversmith 1y ago
Aranet runs on e-ink, with silly low energy refresh rate. The two (or was it one? ages since I last checked) AA batteries last me well over two years. As for vendor lock-in, the basic readings get broadcast over bluetooth advertisments, and
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by silversmith 1y ago
I use Aranet devices myself - https://www.aranet.com/en/home/products/aranet4-home What you could take from them is how prominent the current measurement is on the screen. I can glance over from a distance an
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by silversmith 1y ago
I have the good fortune of working in an office, with easy access to never-ending physical labour options courtesy of relatives living in the countryside. Every now and then the issues of IT projects make me say "screw it all, I'm
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by silversmith 1y ago
I'll share the one I contribute to - https://stopify.org.ua/ I like the subscription concept here - monthly donations, set to stop the moment Ukraine wins. Because they need our help continuously, not just after a part
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by silversmith 1y ago
While the monetary overhead of an office is a fact, that couch also built their show. The in-person dynamics of both the podcast and their other shows were a class above the remote-only version that was forced by the east/west split, a
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by silversmith 1y ago
But is "I asked chatgpt" assigning any authority to it? I use precisely that sentence as a shorthand for "I didn't know, looked it up in the most convenient way, and it sounded plausible enough to pass on".
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by silversmith 1y ago
I often do this - ask a LLM for an answer when I already have it from an expert. I do it to evaluate the ability of the LLM. Usually not in the presence of said expert tho.
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by silversmith 1y ago
I owe my developer career to my mother giving me her old laptop sometime in late 90s. With the condition that if I break it, I fix it. Helped me through the process of installing Windows 3.11 for the first time, and then I was largely on my
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by silversmith 2y ago
If there is a procedure in place, you follow the procedure. You can argue how the procedure is ass backwards, but you don't just ignore the procedure because it's giving you bad vibes. Especially with PII. Every junior I've m
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by silversmith 2y ago
"Their own" in the same way as people of India were English.
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by silversmith 2y ago
This reminds me of the twitter conversation I saw - someone cheering on the dismantling of US meteorological service, because they have weather apps on their phone.
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by silversmith 2y ago
Based on what's being commented here - some absolutely will. And sitting on the eastern border of EU, that truly scares me.
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by silversmith 2y ago
According to the Economist series linked above, the industry has switched from scamming the chinese, to bigger targets in west. Taken a proven business model to new markets, so to speak. It was implied that CCP had a firm guiding hand helpi
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by silversmith 2y ago
> so subtle as to make it feel like something is wrong Nailed it. At first, I thought my eyes were going bad. Or the monitor?
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by silversmith 2y ago
If used in California. Mix in wetter conditions, and salted roads in winter, and you have a recipe for disaster - the components experience all of the weather, but none of the "cleaning" force of actual braking. Anecdotal evidence
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by silversmith 2y ago
I update my "smart home" stuff when I have the time to spare. Otherwise, things live their lives isolated form internet, with auto-updates disabled. Yes, there are exceptions, like non-local-control devices. But fingers crossed, t
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by silversmith 2y ago
Not sure about color change, but dimming works fine - I have Shelly Dimmer2 modules behind switches, paired with "dumb" dimmable bulbs. Remotely controlled by HA / Adaptive Lighting, while also working with physical switch.
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by silversmith 2y ago
Not necessarily. Most of Rails+React apps I have worked on have had the frontend code live in the same repository, and get deployed during the same step. Yes, you have to keep API compatibility in mind when doing changes, because long-lived
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by silversmith 2y ago
Have not travelled for a while now, but the relatively tiny travel agency I used to use had a 24/7 support phone line. Did not personally have a need to use it, but a friend did, and the agency indeed handled the situation to his satis
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by silversmith 2y ago
I own a Samsung S24 Ultra, by choice. Would not consider myself a charity case. I got my first smartphone years and years ago, and it was an android. Then they came out with the iPhone 3GS, and I briefly had that. Didn't like it, trade
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by silversmith 2y ago
I'm curious, what did you select, and how is the UX? With OneDrive, it looks like any other folder in your windows/mac computer, and the built in gallery of the Samsung phones my family uses will transparently sync to OneDrive. Ot
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by silversmith 2y ago
My use case: for 100$/year, I can provide my family and my parents plenty of reliable cloud storage for their documents and pictures. With office suite thrown in as added bonus. I know of no other alternative that would provide equival
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by silversmith 2y ago
So, in other words, get more sunlight?
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by silversmith 2y ago
Low battery detection relies on reliable battery level reporting. Most of my devices hover around 90% for months, then drop to 60% and die within a day. I've stopped bothering with preemptive maintenance, and just replace batteries whe
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by silversmith 2y ago
Could you elaborate? I run HA in docker, and the extent of necessary configuration was adding this in docker-compose.yml: devices: - /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0
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by silversmith 2y ago
Is this wholly self-hostable? I'd be curious to run something like this on a home server, have some small model via ollama slowly chew through my documents / conversations / receipts / .... and provide a chat-like search
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by silversmith 2y ago
10 years? Multiple vendors have 1600w PSUs on market right now. What's more, you'll need an AC to play pc games. My home office room is ~6m2, and even the current 500w machine I have there can noticeably bump the temperatures unde

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