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by sofixa 8mo ago
> Wikipedia There is nothing wrong with Wikipedia, at least in the main languages. It's crowdsourced and has citations (and where there aren't "citation needed" help identify that). It gives you superficial, in depth
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by sofixa 8mo ago
Obviously you've never seen French software, so why pretend like you have? Counterpoints: Deezer, Doctolib, Back Market, Tidal, Adopte, Mistral, Dassault Systemes (the company behind the two main CAD softwares out there), Thales, Qonto
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by sofixa 8mo ago
They are saying that France is the only country that builds its own defence stuff only in country (unlike Germany that would buy American jets, for instance). And it's true for most things that matter. The only exception I can think of
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Doesn't mean, it significantly complicates state. Because the place that stores it (say, your bare metal machine with your database) is now the bottleneck.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
But you have to buy those servers, set them up, use them for that week, and then they're left idle for the whole of the year.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Autoscaling is a solution to the self-inflicted problem of insanely-high cloud prices, which cloud providers love because implementing it requires more reliance on proprietary vendor-specific APIs. The actual solution is a handful of m
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Paris has almost no East Asian food and what I did see when trying to find some was all in porcelain trays like slightly fancier Panda Express. This is simply not true. Are you sure you were in Paris, France? French people absolutely a
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by sofixa 9mo ago
I disagree, NYC was OK but LA and SF specifically, the average quality of food was pretty bad. There were absolutely good options, plenty of them, but on average, just walking around, seeing something that looks good and checking Google Map
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Not really, Apple permission prompts aren't different enough. It's just a random prompt to put in your password, with limited information why. The Windows ones look very different, dim the rest of the screen, and have more info.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> They've only ever had two really successful products: shopping and AWS AWS is not "a product", it's a suite of hundreds of different ones. You're also forgetting Kindles which are fairly popular.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Microsoft becoming Apple (but shittier) At least Microsoft haven't fallen so low as to fail basic design principles like having transparent on top of transparent buttons, having disappearing controls depending on window size (scro
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud? AirTags have no integration with Android devices. There's a shitty app from Apple you can install that allows you to scan for AirTags nearby
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> Oh, you mean like removing scores of covid videos from real doctors and scientists which were deemed to be misinformation The credentials don't matter, the actual content does. And if it's misinformation, then yes, you can be
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> for the express purpose of suppressing political protests (by New Caledonians angry at the French mainland government). No, to stop the spread of targeted disinformation by foreign actors stoking those protests to turn into riots. (and
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Because if it did, we'd know about it. If we can get researches from Russia to expose their country's nefarious dealings, at the threat of death, we could easily get French, or German, or Canadian, or British, or American, or Czec
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by sofixa 9mo ago
< The global cybersphere will split up, the west and other parties have shown they will use social media networks to organize regime change and take over legitimate protests. It's interesting you focus on "the west" when w
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by sofixa 9mo ago
And many things have been done, including Windows telling you in bold red letters that this software is dangerous if it wasn't signed by a trusted signer with lots of installs.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Have you seen iOS or macOS settings, like ever? Especially on macOS, the UI is infantile, you have settings in different menus that change each other (mouse / touchpad scroll direction, two buttons in two menus, they change each other)
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by sofixa 9mo ago
This is literally the point of robots.txt. It was created to allow site owners to configure how and which parts of their website can be scraped by what bot, and all the "decent" ones (Google, Bing) respect it.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Yes, but that's not useful advice to someone who currently has none.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Gradium ( https://gradium.ai/ ), a commercial company offshoot of Kyutai (open source lab), are focusing on emotion (both being able to recognise emotion and also understanding what emotion to use depending on context). I don
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by sofixa 9mo ago
No? It's still the same Astro that you can move to any other provider that supports it - and it's just Javascript, so pretty much everyone supports it.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
While this is generally good advice, it only works if you have women you're close with, at that level, already. If the only women you know are work colleagues, you can't go around asking them for advice on dating (depends on your
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by sofixa 9mo ago
Boeing themselves, including their CEOs, kept repeating that bullshit. Even after the FAA finally realised the issue, and refused Boeing's first attempted fix that relied on pilots being able to identify the situation and enact the p
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by sofixa 9mo ago
> they are tiresome to read about, and it doesn't lead to productive interesting discussion (which is supposed to be what the vote buttons are for here). Politics isn't 100% off topic for HN but mostly I come here to get away f
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by sofixa 9mo ago
The building has an onsite IT guy with enough spares to fix anything that could go wrong with the box?
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by sofixa 9mo ago
And when that box fails, you're looking at how long with no access? Longer than any AWS outage.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
But vLLM was half the t/s of Ollama, so something was obviously not ok.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
The server running that system needs cooling, yes. You can't just shove it in a closet with zero thought and expect it to not overheat/shut down/catch fire, unless you live in the Arctic.
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by sofixa 9mo ago
And? That doesn't mean, especially for a system with security impact (like door access), that it should never be updated.

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