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by smcleod 3y ago
Good blog post, shame the site has no RSS feed!
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by smcleod 3y ago
I replied to a comment in another post yesterday on this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37120346 Honestly the easiest way that “just works” is to use LM Studio which you can run locally https://lmstudio.a
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by smcleod 3y ago
Shouldn't it be x.co now? Also doesn't t.co embed some tracking information as well?
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by smcleod 3y ago
Perhaps, I suspect that it did correlate my input to Breaking Bad as it named the character Jesse. If not - that’s one hell of a coincidence.
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by smcleod 3y ago
Jesse Jesse is a resourceful and daring individual who is looking to establish a successful meth business. With concerns about getting caught, Jesse has decided to operate out of a caravan in the desert, believing that this unconventional a
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by smcleod 3y ago
Sarah is a middle manager who thrives on the traditional office environment. She believes that face-to-face interactions and formal presentations are essential for her success. Sarah feels a lack of relevance and struggles when she's u
907.
by smcleod 3y ago
I think the world will be in flames with the climate and forced mass migration in the very near future - I figure the vast majority of the next generations population probably doesn’t have much of a future as the rest of the world is still
908.
by smcleod 3y ago
There’s plenty of resources out there as to why such tools might be useful but no one is forcing you to be interested or find value in them. Personally I think we’re at that point a bit like when the horse and carriage met the motor car and
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by smcleod 3y ago
Honestly if you can get yourself a video card with at least 12gb of RAM and I highly recommend running open source models locally. It doesn’t have to be the latest fancy gaming card - I run an old 2016 Tesla P100 ($200AUD~) which is fine fo
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by smcleod 3y ago
Personally I appreciate the honesty and look for it in vendors, there are too many that cover up the truth (MS/Github etc...). However I agree that it doesn't look good for a storage company.
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Borgbase backups have been unavailable for 3 days(status.borgbase.com)
105 points by smcleod 3y ago|85 comments
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by smcleod 3y ago
Their current ETA for service restoration is another 2-4 days. Despite the warning banner the uptime for customers on us10 instance which has been unavailable for almost a week now is showing at 100%. They are compensating affected customer
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by smcleod 3y ago
The world has a chrome problem.
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by smcleod 3y ago
It’s probably been about 10 years since I’ve had to run any php, would you not just clone the repo and run whatever the modern equivalent of php-fpm+Nginx is in a container passing in the code as a volume? Or if you’re not using containers
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by smcleod 3y ago
But surely if your code base is that difficult to setup your dev environment for - it’s likely a sign of much bigger problems? The reason I asked about windows was because a few folks here said it is helping them with their windows dev envi
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by smcleod 3y ago
I’m not across the Microsoft ecosystem but why is it (that people say) it’s so difficult for people to setup their dev environments? Is it something to do with running windows or is it a .net thing?
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by smcleod 3y ago
Trained specifically for Python*
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by smcleod 3y ago
MS teams is a dumpster fire, no one should be forced to use that piece of crap for communication.
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by smcleod 3y ago
I know quite a few of them in Australia run … windows, I think CE. You see them crashed all over the place here.
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by smcleod 3y ago
If I’m reading this correctly this could be an open source model that may compete with the likes of copilot? That is something I’d be very interested in if they can get the compute requirements down to those of say a standard 13B model. The
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by smcleod 3y ago
I’m sure part of it is secret source but Vlad (CEO) is a lovely, helpful chap - I’m sure if you dropped an open question on the Kagi forums, he or someone else might be able to point you to some of the technologies or patterns used.
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by smcleod 3y ago
I’d recommend going to a local meetup around something you’re interested in or think you might be interested in. If you’re looking to make friends online, I think if you find a community for whatever you’re interested in or passionate about
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by smcleod 3y ago
Honestly, I do find that Slack helps me focus. I can pretty easily make sure that I ignore non-critical rooms, and only get notifications if someone @‘s me. It would be really nice if as a user you could suppress all @here, @channel etc sho
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by smcleod 3y ago
This annoys me every single day, have logged several bugs for it but haven’t really gotten anywhere.
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by smcleod 3y ago
*USA only
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by smcleod 3y ago
The ublock cookie ones will decline if it’s possible I believe. IANAL but I doubt that most of the things that pop up websites, get you to agree to would really hold up in court unless they had evidence that you specifically agreed to somet
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by smcleod 3y ago
Use uBlock Origin and then you won't have to see them ;)
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by smcleod 3y ago
Oh maybe it’s iOS 17 only? I’ve got the option there in maps to download any area offline and have the city I’m in downloaded.
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by smcleod 3y ago
Apple Maps lets you download maps offline, also check out Organic Maps which uses OSM - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/organic-maps-offline-hike-bike...
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by smcleod 3y ago
No, generally managers see themselves as “above” engineers and tend not to work as peers on the same projects. They (try to) manage rather than lead by example and practise.

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