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by troyvit 2y ago
> You have to demonstrate it in some way. Providing half your content for free while keeping half behind a paywall seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy to address this discoverability problem. I feel like 404media is doing a good j
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by troyvit 2y ago
I asked LeChat this question: If I upload a small PDF to you are you able to convert it to markdown? LeChat said yes and away we went.
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by troyvit 2y ago
It worked perfectly for me with a simple 2 page PDF that contained no graphics or formatting beyond headers and list items. Since it was so small I had the time to proof-read it and there were no errors. It added some formatting, such as bo
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by troyvit 2y ago
Getting PDFs into #$@ Confluence apparently. Just had to do this and Mistral saved me a ton of hassle compared to this: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Confluence-questions/...
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by troyvit 2y ago
I was pretty flippant and your reply makes it clear that there's a lot more going on than the apathy I was hinting at. Anybody who cares about democracy should look at those reasons very seriously to see what we can do better (polling
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by troyvit 2y ago
Welp, maybe those eligible voters who didn't vote will remember next time that not voting is the same as voting for the winner.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Wait everybody on HN says Europe is a technological backwater. How can this be?
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by troyvit 2y ago
Oh but don't worry about it! Remember how they all said 5G would replace wired internet completely? 'augmented reality, “the internet of things,” and seamless streaming to the mainstream': https://mitsloan.mit.edu&
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by troyvit 2y ago
When I saw the headline I thought, "what click-baity hyperbole is this now?" That was the attitude I had when I went to read the story, then I got to this part: > and while I always encourage readers to explore other options by
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Getting into a new MINI with Vescin for the first time it’s clear that Vescin is a step-up from what we’ve known as Leatherette. In the all the handful of new MINIs we’ve experienced it in the seats were softer to the touch than leathe
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by troyvit 2y ago
Here are a few links that support what you say: https://ecocult.com/is-leather-truly-a-byproduct-of-the-meat... https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-18/america-is... I don't se
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by troyvit 2y ago
It's only click bait if you aren't in Germany and think any non-US election should be labelled as such in a headline. The headline does use the words "research" and "potential" in it, because it is literally re
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by troyvit 2y ago
I think this comment sums it up well. As soon as advanced LLMs started making a splash we all saw the writing on the wall. AI will start taking on large chunks of cognitive load across industry, government, etc. that humans formerly held (I
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by troyvit 2y ago
Eh. Where I work they probably wouldn't care about the BDSM aspects but they are pretty sensitive to ableist slurs, which is primarily why I recommend Photopea instead of GIMP when they need to do Photoshop-ish things.
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by troyvit 2y ago
> offending people with prudish attitudes or without a sense of humor is a pretty common old-school hacker goal I agree, and to an extent laud it, but it also means keeping GIMP an old-school hacker project.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I just had my first experience with Caddy setting it up as a reverse proxy in front of Vaultwarden. Following along with Vaultwarden's documentation it worked like a charm and I was left thinking, "What a neat little project for h
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by troyvit 2y ago
Sure, but one could easily say plenty of threatening, illegal, manipulative things to a child without throwing an f-bomb. In fact getting a child to let down their guard probably works better that way. My only point is that curse words hard
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by troyvit 2y ago
Probably at Amazon HQ there lives a shitty PowerPoint, and one of that PowerPoint's slides says, "What to do with pirates who don't believe they are pirates". And this solution was in the speaker notes.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I've heard lots of bad about USAID from people directly involved in it too. I've heard lots of good as well fwiw, and your points about NGOs demanding cultural subjugation to American culture can't be more spot-on. It's
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by troyvit 2y ago
Holy cow same! I use lazygit as my VC tool and now I can just open it in a pane next to vim to make it simpler to interact with git while I'm coding. Been using vim for way to long to have missed this.
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by troyvit 2y ago
I'm not familiar with Groq, but it looks like: https://sdk.vercel.ai/providers/ai-sdk-providers/groq Some open models support it. It seems in theory that you could use your own cloud AI then right?
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by troyvit 2y ago
> I will continue working on this because I think it will eventually be of help. They say language shapes thought. Having an LLM speak such a different language natively seems like it would uncover so much about how these models work, as
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by troyvit 2y ago
That would be an awesome thing across the industry -- even for the big commercial models -- for those who care not only about price but also carbon footprint.
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by troyvit 2y ago
Totally agree that if an insurance company just paid out every claim sent to it, the whole concept of insurance breaks down. However, in UHC's case: https://www.valuepenguin.com/health-insurance-claim-denials-... They
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by troyvit 2y ago
> Eh? Biden, a Democrat, was President during the time of that judgement. Sorry, bad typing. The judgement was for the ex-president while Biden was in office and my point was that the spread might have been different if the case was agai
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by troyvit 2y ago
> I challenge you to find any specific court case taking up by the SCOTUS where you think the outcome was the result of corruption. The presidential immunity case is another good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr
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by troyvit 2y ago
Yeah I agree with this. Local news sources work as a good filter, only bringing national stories that have a local effect, plus you get more local news, plus your subscription goes to a news room of probably no more than a few dozen people
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by troyvit 2y ago
That is a very good point. I was all complainy because I was trying to get a modern version of podman on my Pop home server and can't. It's as much podman's fault as Pop's though, and if I really wanted to stop complaini
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by troyvit 2y ago
> So why cant US build its own Shenzhen or Hong Kong? taxes? I would guess labor costs and practices are a big aspect. We send all our kids to stupid school instead of paying them pennies to get their tiny little fingers to work building
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by troyvit 2y ago
He did. I only hope next time that the people who voted for him because of the truthiness of what he said (vs the actual truth) will think twice the next time they vote.

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