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by tedmiston 3y ago
The difference between quality grinders is super easy to replicate. Buy some freshly roasted beans from a specialty coffee roaster, then have the shop ground half and grind the other half at home on your home grinder of choice. High-end (s
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Can you give more specific examples of what you mean by "packages that don't use Poetry" (AFAIK one can install any Python package with Poetry)? Like, I know developing a package with Poetry can be painful. And I also use pip
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What's the benefit to one using this over Poetry [which already has all of these commands built-in]? Are you using it to avoid Poetry for one of the use cases it doesn't handle well? (Otherwise, I don't see why one would use
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> A warning, not an admonishment: Use Apple services in a novel or unsupported manner and you're asking for trouble. +1 I've always had sync issues with iCloud Drive when storing developer projects and related things there. It
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> - Which version of my app is running in staging/production? (using ArgoCD helped a lot here, now they can simply go to Github and check) It's useful to expose this somehow, e.g., have an unlisted debug endpoint that includes
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> The yellow roads were a little visually overwhelming for me. Funny how that works. My experience is similar to OP's that the dark grey roads feel very "heavy" and visually overwhelming. I guess for me the light yellow
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It's not exactly what you're asking for, but a means to a similar idea... I setup a "site search" in Chrome for archive.is so that I can just type `a ` before the URL in the location bar and have it auto-complete the arc
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What do you mean? Obviously, yes, they have for more than a decade. I don't have many opinions about the former, but how does OpenAI change the relevance of SO?
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A bit of a stretch to say Charlie didn't practice what he preached just because he [an extremely well known value investor ] did not invest in cryptocurrencies [a market driven by hype and speculation and with unclear underlying intri
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> More confusion - Emmett Shear is a close friend of Sam Altman. He was part of the original 2005 YCombinator class alongside Altman, part of the justin.tv mafia, and later a part-time partner at YCombinator. ... Why would the Dustin-lea
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by tedmiston 3y ago
Thanks for the quick fix, Dan! So do you have the ability to pin deeply nested comments or do you have to remove it from the existing thread for this to work? Someone else proposed this first but didn't think pinning worked on nested c
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> OAI employees have no equity. OpenAI employees have no equity? Well, then where exactly is that $86B of "existing employees' shares" coming from? > ChatGPT creator OpenAI is in talks to sell existing employees'
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Someone mentioned that in the comments on the linked post, but I'm also not sure if pinning non-top level comments is possible.
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I've heard others take this stance, but a common response so far has been "Poe is so small as to be irrelevant", "I forgot it exists", etc in the grand scheme of things here.
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She was the first signature on the letter requesting the board to resign or the employees would go to MS, so...
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Boosting this deeply nested interesting comment from @alephnerd to the top level: > As I posted elsewhere, I think this is a conflict between Dustin Moskovitz and Sam Altman. Ilya may have been brought into this without his knowledge (wh
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If this isn't justification for bringing back Silicon Valley (HBO), I don't know what is...
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It was reported elsewhere in the news that MS needed an answer to the dilemma before the market opened this morning. I think that's what we got.
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by tedmiston 3y ago
Working fine from the US now.
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Depot raises $1.8M seed round(depot.dev)
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I have also found this to be surprisingly true.
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This happens often when I post a spicy contrarian opinion on reddit. Perhaps ironically (perhaps not), similar comments tend to get the opposite reaction here.
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by tedmiston 3y ago
Dan - Would you mind sharing a rough threshold for what "sets off the flamewar detector" means? In [1] (unofficial), a rough 1:1 ratio is mentioned. I see that, now, that submission has 31 points and 91 comments, say ~3x comments:
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Coding Randomized Zelda Patterns with SVG and JavaScript(cloudfour.com)
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> They literally run physical servers all over the world ... I've got to imagine then that this business has huge capital costs, and it's nearly impossible to grow a very capital intensive business without outside capital. I ge
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> There is an entirely possible and alternative funding model that perpetually allocates a responsible amount of incremental funds for the purposes of novel R&D. You are completely missing the point of venture capital here. Of course
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> Why won’t you suffer the fate of every single other tech company that raises a shit load of money which is completely and irrevocably selling out any pretense of being beneficial for customers and employees (primarily) in the extreme l
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> How does it differ from Obsidian? Out of curiosity. I am not OP, but I am a heavy Obsidian user. Obsidian has 2 different editing modes [0]: "Live Preview" and "Source mode". Your implementation and Obsidian'
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by tedmiston 3y ago
With respect to EDP, AWS doesn't do "discounted negotiated rates", only discounts tied to specific committed spend levels (non-negotiated).
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I wonder if Reddit will let arbitrary users generate their own API keys and then each user plugs their own key into a third party app as creds to stay within the free tier limits. Right now the new "Dev Platform" (API) is waitlist

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