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by vosper 1y ago
> 3. Could pretyy easily cause anotger ice age if miscalculated Could they? At least for stratospheric aerosol injection it would be easy to just stop doing it if things seemed like they were tipping. It doesn't happen _that_ fast,
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by vosper 1y ago
A cup of mustard powder? What does it feel like and how did you come across this?
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by vosper 1y ago
That's neat, thanks!
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by vosper 1y ago
I’ve used it on the backend to validate and clean up tens of thousands of documents from Elasticsearch queries, and the time spent in Zod was very much noticeable
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by vosper 1y ago
Could you give an example or two of “more than that”?
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by vosper 2y ago
> Typically the scam is that an offshore consultancy wants to place some roles to collect wages. Many of these agencies are from collectivist cultures, so in the mind of the agency, they all work in our project. This may not be true, but
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by vosper 2y ago
Interesting looking headphones - I'd be interested to read your review of them
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by vosper 2y ago
How many of those people are using an LLM other than one supplied by OpenAI?
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by vosper 2y ago
How would you define “ready” here?
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by vosper 2y ago
Tortured?
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by vosper 2y ago
Siri today is capable of doing anything I really want it to. If it only it could f*ckin understand me! Whisper (or whatever the ChatGPT app uses) runs rings around. Basically zero errors. For me they just need to fix the goddamn voice recog
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by vosper 2y ago
> I will gladly pay more for a TV that doesn't try to advertise Roku's streaming service to me or track my kids' watch history. Seems like they are few and far between, though. Plug in an Apple TV?
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by vosper 2y ago
> Are there risks associated with sending DB info off to these third parties? You can use AWS Bedrock and get access to Claude, and then just have something that proxies from your tool over to AWS. It'll work provided you can set a
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by vosper 2y ago
> Whoever had the reigns when Apple finally reversed these decisions and made the M1 MBP They shoulda kept the touchbar and restored the functions keys (including restoring volume controls etc to function keys). That would have been amaz
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by vosper 2y ago
Tired vote-bait quote.
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by vosper 2y ago
This is how hosted Elasticsearch works today, too. Really mess up your ES? Good luck with the web UI!
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by vosper 2y ago
They do have a good product, but "they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they can't move away" is the story of the place I worked at a few years ago. The database was such a disorganized, inconsistent
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by vosper 2y ago
> alking to ChatGPT with Advanced Voice mode or listening a podcast during a walk or bike ride or so is a really nice experience with these. I've recently thought that a killer bit of hardware would be a way to interact with an LLM
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by vosper 2y ago
> Watch sensations come and go while refraining from moving your attention in reaction to what you're watching. This sounds like standard "mindfulness" meditation, to me.
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by vosper 2y ago
Sounds useful - do you still practice samatha meditation? If not then what made you stop?
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by vosper 2y ago
Yeah +1 for NextDNS. It's so easy to setup and manage, and works really well.
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by vosper 2y ago
The person in question (Richard Feldman) is the creator of Roc, which the linked article is about. He also shows up in the comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42954103
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by vosper 2y ago
> He walked out of Japan Even better: He escaped by hiding in a music equipment box that was carried onto a private jet https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57760993
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by vosper 2y ago
I learned about the idea of Generative UI from a Sharp Talk podcast, and it's stuck with me ever since. Many SaaS (especially the complex ones, which are the also the most important ones) have a tonne of UI often imposing a huge amount
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by vosper 2y ago
I've enjoyed a great many of the games I've played lately :)
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by vosper 2y ago
> Why do people use this phrase? Google are being depicted as the bad guys (devil) in the original comment, and the person you're replying to was advocating for Google's stated position of trying to improve user security. They
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by vosper 2y ago
Was it Projection Lab, which has been on HN before? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42450913 https://projectionlab.com/
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by vosper 2y ago
> The Handmaid's Tale, a good book, you should read it sometime. Yes, I've read it, excellent book. > What are you trying to argue anyway? That "life imitates art" is not a generally true statement.
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by vosper 2y ago
Which art? The one that's cherry-picked? I read Harry Potter but I haven't seen too many wizards or dragons around lately.
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by vosper 2y ago
> How is it undermining a currency and distorting a financial system to allow people to exchange their OWN hard-earned money for another currency? In practice, it's because the government of that country says that it is.

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