t_mahmood

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by t_mahmood 8d ago
Which is why they are just making sure we can't buy any GPU to use any models. And because GPUs are so costly, I would be just worried to ruin it running a model continuously. Yeah, might be far fetched, but it seems like heading that
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by t_mahmood 8d ago
Yeah, it reminds me of Google. Fool me twice ... I'm not trusting any of these corporates any more
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by t_mahmood 9d ago
Well at least you own the hammer that you paid for, but do you own the LLM?
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by t_mahmood 11d ago
I believe voters are unfortunately useless. In my country people voted in a party as majority that, not once left their terms peacefully in the past. AFTER our genZ ousted the other party, that came to power as a majority 17 years ago, chan
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by t_mahmood 12d ago
Oh, then do explain the unbearable temp that we're going through last few years, that's completely not normal for my country, winters not needing worm clothes, and very little rain during the monsoon. This weeks heatwave left us w
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by t_mahmood 13d ago
I was thinking few days ago something that is very common feature in my city, which made us unsafe in the name of safety without most of us realizing at all. So, in my city each and every window has metal grills, without anyway to open them
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by t_mahmood 18d ago
You're just jumping around a single point about rooting, whereas the video shows it's logging all the devices, with their ip, name, even detecting someone being in a Teams call. And you are as with the article, trying to sidetrack
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by t_mahmood 23d ago
You can use Firefox plugin "Unhook remove youtube recommended and shorts" I think I also have some ublock filters that blocks those things. So, I only have videos.
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by t_mahmood 24d ago
I don't think you can turn that off in Chrome
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
But for dehumidifier in AC, the heat is dispensed through the outdoor unit, so end result actually cools the house. I use our AC in dehumidifier mode, also, as I understand it has less power consumption (please correct me if I am wrong). In
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
I am from an SE-Asian country, AC usage has increased a lot, and, also we are hell bent on devastating every green that is available, as much as possible. Dehumidifier works pretty well, provided it's built in to the AC unit, portable
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
Multiple kids died in my country forced by the teacher to play soccer during a heatwave. This really should not be allowed.
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
Right now in my city it's 30c, with 79% humidity, and real feel is 41c, and it's late evening. And, next year it's probably going to be worse. I can see things going really bad for health compromised people pretty soon. And,
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
ahh now I realize why I get so much completely irrelevant search results in many sites recently. I mean I'm searching for betel and you're giving me nuts. haha
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
When I was booting from a spinning disk, at that time it took over a minute to boot. I upgraded the system to SSD later, and that same system took less than 20s. That was 10 years ago. Another example as a developer, one particular large pr
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
But RA already eats up huge amount if storage when working in a large project, if you're using disk cache, it'll gobble up more, That's the biggest complain I had with RA. Somehow never had this issue with jetbrains rust plug
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
pinky promise?
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
Well, from an ADHD book, do not remember the exact statement but goes like this, "But doctor, how do I remember to take the medicine that is supposed to help me remember things" If I have to charge it every day, it will create ano
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
We don't know if it's all marketing stunts, or real, do we now? > It's a lot easier to re-establish goodwill when you can clear the memory and context of a program vs. a human though. That's the point. You can't
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
LLM doesn't need soft skills, but just knowing how to write a prompt to get the correct percentage values in a RAG and get the result close to your expectations out. Well it might be different based on the training data, which ai compa
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by t_mahmood 1mo ago
Having a Garmin, ruined me with awesome battery life, but after I melted it, I was using Amazfit ActiveEdge (can't find straps, the watch is still ok), which made me realize, I'm fine with it, both serves what I need, with over we
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by t_mahmood 2mo ago
Was the Wright brothers working for any corporation or for money?
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by t_mahmood 2mo ago
Yeah! This point jumped at me. And, immediately I don't trust this. This sounds same as Google's "don't be evil" enshiftification, consolidating technologies that was available in a competitive way. I prefer Scienti
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by t_mahmood 2mo ago
i didn't even realized they are dead, was looking for a cheap one for running my calendar server and couldn't find a single one. I had one it was really handy
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by t_mahmood 2mo ago
Yeah, too many lead batteries here, and there are a lot of battery recycle factories. It's been a health and environment concern for a while. And these batteries allowed to put motors on rickshaw, we call them "Tesla", And t
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Show HN: Fluffy Sparrow – Frictionless, Fast, Note Taking App(tmahmood.github.io)
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by t_mahmood 3mo ago
And when it's time to solve some bugs in these code base in a year, which one's going to be more expensive in terms of time, and tokens?
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by t_mahmood 3mo ago
This made me test my own app with the book. And even though it had no issues loading it, it still left me thinking I can get much better performance on scrolling. small video I made for demonstration purpose: https://youtu.be&#x2
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by t_mahmood 3mo ago
Interesting! I already have a Python script that can download anything from Gmail. Making it a product?! Really have not thought about it! Which is why I am probably broke Ha Ha
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by t_mahmood 3mo ago
My previous house, which was a pretty big "modern" house, on 7th floor, had no tree in view, I didn't realize how it affected me, but everyday I grew more cluster-phobic, days went I was having sudden panic attacks, with sudd

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