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by xtracto 1y ago
Kind of... the fact that they have the actual data behind a "soft" paywall (waiting times and terribly slow transfers otherwise) makes me a bit skeptic of their "goodwill".
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by xtracto 1y ago
I'm not candidate for LASIK or any other eye surgery due to the thinness of my cornea :( I would love to see this new approach. Maybe I'll be a candidate for it.
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by xtracto 1y ago
It's amazing how little understanding some people with "a gift" for certain skills have. I play guitar, it's easy and I enjoy it a lot. I've taught plsome friends to play it, and some of them just... don't have
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by xtracto 1y ago
Someone close to me works in Workday. About 3 years ago, Workday arrived to Mexico and opened a lot of positions. They opened offices in several cities as well. Fast forward to today, Someone up in the management chain decided that Costa
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by xtracto 1y ago
All engineers implementing Wayland should read Joel Spolsky's seminal article on software rewrite https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... And Martin Fowler article on Strangle Fig
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by xtracto 1y ago
Just a comment: One of the reasons why offshoring is increasing and will likely increase in the following year, is because CXOs are being sold that a cheap Mexican, Tico, or Indian using AI can be as performant as a local.(also Language bar
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by xtracto 1y ago
I assume it doesn't work well for books that have non-text structured elements (code, diagrams, etc)or images (which is expected). I wonder, is there some open source NN that can consume PDF pages and produce a "pure prose"
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by xtracto 1y ago
>The novel describes the rise of Berzelius "Donald" Windrip, a demagogue who is elected President of the United States, after fomenting fear and promising drastic economic and social reforms while promoting a return to patrioti
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by xtracto 1y ago
I don't agree with you. I am as leftist as it gets, but I don't let my political beliefs get in the way. I subscribe to r/ccw (gun subreddit) and some conservative subs because I want to understand where the right wing peopl
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by xtracto 1y ago
I'm a 44 yo Xenial, not too old, not young. That is, I'm part of the "walkman generation" . It surprises me how people are less and less open to socialize, to the point that some even see you with disgust if you DARE to
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by xtracto 1y ago
Tried it and definitely worked!
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by xtracto 1y ago
Do not under any circumstance download Stremio (available in Firestick as well). Also don't try to install the Torrentio extension for Stremio. That would allow you to play pirated content with one click I your TV, similarly to Popcor
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by xtracto 1y ago
In my country it is not illegal to download or share copyright content for non-profit and personal use. It's the IPTVs, torrent and streaming pirate sites with Ads or asking for money the ones that should die (that's why I don&#
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by xtracto 1y ago
I feel it would be better to start cycling 2 colors, so that you naturally "catch" the reasoning you have to do. Then keep adding colors. It reminds me of the dual n-back game, where you had to remember N steps before of 2 things.
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by xtracto 1y ago
I think LLMs follow more of an Energy analogy: Gas or Electricity, or even water. How much has any if these decreased over the last 5 decades? The problem is that as of right now, LLM cost is linearly (if not exponentially) related to the
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by xtracto 1y ago
This is actually so fascinating to me. I remember when we had metered & very expensive long distance calls, "metered" dial-up Internet (Todito Card!), then capped DSL internet, then metered Mobile calls, SMSs and then Metered
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by xtracto 1y ago
If only there was some kind of decentralized technology that allowed us to move value between two independent entities in a trustless manner, at very low cost and very very fast. No, I'm not talking about the POC that the pseudonimus g
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by xtracto 1y ago
Me and 2 cofounders are in searching for our next B2B startup idea to implement. We come from different backgrounds (im the tech guy). We are in the process of market research for prospective ideas.
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by xtracto 1y ago
I've been doing diagrams with Mermaid. The beauty is that I use Gemini to ask it to add stuff to the diagram. And there are a bunch of plug-ins for Google docs to visualize the diagrams. I just wish Confluence had a free way to do
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by xtracto 1y ago
This is so funny. For me, it was as if the "monkey's paw" had played me. Back in the early 2000s, I loved desktop applications. My thinking was that there's no way a web app could do what a desktop application could. I l
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by xtracto 1y ago
CEOs and board members should be personally criminally liable for shared personal information coming out of their platforms. It's the only way they will push companies to STOP storing them long term. I've been in several companies
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by xtracto 1y ago
Shit I'd love to do R&D on this.
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by xtracto 1y ago
I wonder if the fact that we use "floating point" is itself a bottleneck that can be improved. Remembering my CS classes, storing an FP value requires the base and the exponent; that's a design decision. Also remembering so
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by xtracto 1y ago
Pirate Sites are stupid. And the need for a Site is a stupid limitation of Bittorrent. People should use real distributed protocols like SoulSeek, Kademila or other similar file sharing protocols that do not require a website for discovery
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by xtracto 1y ago
The thing is, the Internet was supposed to be P2P initially (in Spanish it had the motto "La red de redes" (the network of networks, meaning that it was supposed to connect several LANs together). But as soon as you had ISPs start
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by xtracto 1y ago
That's what i find stupid of current browsers. When Firefox was first created by "stripping" all the bloat from Netscape navigator, the idea was that Extensions would allow end users to add optional functionality . It put the
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by xtracto 1y ago
I've been using something called BoringReport https://www.boringreport.org/app For news consumption. I'm not the author. But saw it here on HN dome time ago, and found it pretty good.
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by xtracto 1y ago
Have a look at https://www.boringreport.org/app I saw it here on HN a couple of years ago and found it pretty good. I hate the current state of news. Titles are usually pure clickbait and half of the article's conten
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by xtracto 1y ago
I think I might be missing something. I use Cursor daily as part of my development process and it feels like magic. I've tried Aider and other agentic options and its amazingly clunky. Maybe I'm looking at the "apple vs lin
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It already happened several times for BTC. Look for ATH drawdown chart. Bitcoin has lost 75% of its value 4+ times, but for some strange reason everytime it "comes back stronger". My thesis is that, in all these years, the BTC pr

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