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by siquick 3y ago
And Sydney has superior public transport to Melbourne.
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by siquick 3y ago
> After getting this big mess approved, the then state premier Mike Baird resigned to take part in what has become a great Australian political tradition: Resigning from political office amidst corruption allegations to take up executive
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by siquick 3y ago
> Doesn’t this sound like Toner herself is playing god? That is, only she is the gatekeeper of humanity and only she knows what is good for the entire humanity Not sure why you’re singling her out - all execs of massive tech companies th
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by siquick 3y ago
That was not the context the OP was addressing.
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by siquick 3y ago
You can get rid of this in ChatGPT with a custom prompt: “NEVER mention that you’re an AI. Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like ‘s
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by siquick 3y ago
There are many of us working at smaller companies who do all of the above.
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by siquick 3y ago
FAANG would probably be viewed as a step down from OpenAI at this point (or at least until today)
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by siquick 3y ago
Lived in Australia for over 10 years and can confirm that GPs here are, on the whole, pretty useless. Most appointments last under 2 minutes and end with a script, usually antibiotics of some kind. I had covid recently and a woman at work w
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by siquick 3y ago
What’s the definition of value here? You’d have a hard time arguing that touch screen phones have been a net positive on societies well being.
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by siquick 3y ago
Is there any rough rules on what model sizes will work on various RAM sizes on consumer machines?
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by siquick 3y ago
One of the major problems with apartment living here in Sydney (or Melbourne) is the lack of 3 bedroom apartments - there just isn’t any. So once you have a family you either stay in a 2 bedroom (most of which are pretty small) or move mile
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by siquick 3y ago
Did not ever expect to see Jazzanova mentioned on HN.
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by siquick 3y ago
V for Vendetta and Years and Years seem more and more like a warning
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by siquick 3y ago
Kagi can do that in 30 seconds https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html
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by siquick 3y ago
Seems like an odd thing to do when all we’ve been hearing about for the last 10 years is how great Google’s AI capabilities are (“but you’re not allowed to actually see or use them”) - even more so when Amazon just invested $1.5B in Anthrop
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by siquick 3y ago
In my experience of using both, AWS AppRunner is as good as Cloud Run except you can’t scale AppRunner down to 0 instances so it has an ongoing cost.
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by siquick 3y ago
We cancel each service as soon as we subscribe (easy through Apple subscriptions. Most of the time we don’t even realise the month has passed and the service has cancelled until we want to watch something on the service, then it takes 15 se
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by siquick 3y ago
> With the ability to pull near infinite mass and a towing capability of over 14,000 pounds, Cybertruck can perform in almost any extreme situation with ease. Can someone explain the “near infinite mass” claim?
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by siquick 3y ago
Peter Rabbit and his associates are the bad guys. Mr Macgregor, Mr Tod, and Old Brown are just trying to lead a simple quiet life but instead live under a reign of terror from the rabbit and squirrel gangs.
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by siquick 3y ago
Sydney has a 0.9% vacancy rate for rentals at the moment.
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by siquick 3y ago
Pretty straightforward with Ollama + LlamaIndex https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/llm/olla...
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by siquick 3y ago
Just finished it recently, what a book.
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by siquick 3y ago
These guys have been trying to get something similar off the ground for years but don’t seem to have been able to get traction. https://resonate.coop/
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by siquick 3y ago
> People don't move to the big city because they want to live there Cities are the only place that some people have a chance of finding like-minded people.
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by siquick 3y ago
Weird jump to make from my comment. Carmack is obviously in the former group.
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by siquick 3y ago
For a bunch of computer scientists to keep their curious minds entertained and another bunch of already rich individuals to get richer.
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by siquick 3y ago
Can we take a break from this already - why are a handful of computer scientists and VCs suddenly setting the course for the entire human race? Didn’t we learn anything from social media? None of the AI features I’ve encountered being added
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Wildfires burn across the world – what’s the role of Australia's eucalyptus tree(abc.net.au)
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by siquick 3y ago
Slack, and messaging apps in general are the absolute last place I want AI functionality. I don’t want to think I’m chatting with someone when I’m actually with their AI PA.
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by siquick 3y ago
I had been considering moving back home after 10 years of living in Australia so started researching wages for Engineering roles and the salaries were so low, with the cost of living nowhere near balancing out against the low salaries. I’d

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