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by xtracto 1y ago
Reminds me when Rational Rose and UML were briefly famous in the late 90s. What an absolute piece of crap that the suits pushed to use.
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by xtracto 1y ago
And then the stupid "solutions" that people propose when something doesn't work in one distro: "have you tried Y distro". And then the new people install it, their original problem solved, but THAT distro has new pr
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by xtracto 1y ago
LOL, I can just imagine someone installing Ubuntu in their Surface, then seeing that several things don't work. Then they go to this repo, which is "scary" in itself for non-technical people, and then they click on the "
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by xtracto 1y ago
Can't play a lot of mainstream games in old windows computers also. Which what this website is about. So what?
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by xtracto 1y ago
Right, just freaking stop going there. Americans have made it loud and clear (by voting with majority) that they don't like outsiders. Stop going to the US. Is it pretty? There are way better places on earth. Is it fun? There are way
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by xtracto 1y ago
I think the paper got unwanted attention... for a scientific paper. It's like that old paper about a "gravity shielding" podkelnov rings experiment that got publicized by some UK news paper as "scientists find antigravi
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by xtracto 1y ago
Oooh I relate so much to this. But I know my boss is an under-35 CEO that browses HN so I can't say too much haha.
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by xtracto 1y ago
Because of the price of Monk Fruit. Pure monk fruit is expensive.
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by xtracto 1y ago
I am partial to Allulose [1] and Stevia [2]. A lot of people find their taste bad, but I've grown used to them, so much that I don't "taste" them anymore. [1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals&
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by xtracto 1y ago
Right, likewise the way science works is by publishing studies. Here we have a published peer reviewed study, "versus" a one paragraph anonymous dude trying to discredit the study. Wake me up when this dude gets a paper accepted i
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by xtracto 1y ago
I have a very clear example of Gemini getting it wrong: For a code like this, it keeps changing processing_class=tokenizer to "tokenizer=tokenizer", even though the parameter was renamed and even after adding the all caps comment.
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by xtracto 1y ago
I still remember when Altavista.digital and excite.com where brand new. They were revolutionary and very useful,even if they couldn't find results for all the prompts we made.
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by xtracto 1y ago
There was this great post the other day [1] showing that with llama-cpp you could offload some specific tensors to the CPU and maintain good performance. That's a good way to use lare(ish) models in commodity hardware. Normally with
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by xtracto 1y ago
Wonder how does that work... is HN considered a "social media site"? Is reddit? If at some point I opened a throwaway reddit account to ask about the mole in my anus, does should I report that account? And if I forgot the handle
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by xtracto 1y ago
Back when I was doing my BSc in Software Engineering, we had a teacher who did her Data Structure and Algorithms exams with pen and paper. On one of them, she basically wrote 4 coding problems (which would be solved in 4 short ~30 LOC). We
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by xtracto 1y ago
Unfortunately, a immoral as that sounds, it's not illegal.
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by xtracto 1y ago
Haha, you may be too young I'm sorry; it was meant to be a joke. Back in the 90s when linux came out and started getting traction, Richard Stallman was adamant that people should call the operating system GNU/Linux , because Linux
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by xtracto 1y ago
You raise a good point. Ba k in the early 90s when i started with programming, my source of knowledge were magazines with code, a "programming with C/C++" book, and a lot of time. Then the internet came, and it felt like &#x
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by xtracto 1y ago
You missed GNU!
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>Tinitus is misfiring nerves firing along the path somewhere from ear cochlea to cortex I've had tinnitus in both my ears for 25 years. Knowing that tidbit you mention, I've always wo dered if it would be possible to invent a &
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by xtracto 1y ago
Wheels up, feet up!
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by xtracto 1y ago
Yikes!. After the Germanwings incident where the copilot crashed the plane; I thought at least 2 people were supposed to be in the cockpit at all times. Im that case, the pilot tried opening the doornwith the emergency code, but the copilot
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by xtracto 1y ago
Combis are the only way to serve the last mile for a lot of locations in Mexico that don't have a large commuting population. It's the only cost efficient way to provide public transport to those pueblos or zones in the margins
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by xtracto 1y ago
Crypto. Yah, HN doesn't like it, but we will get there eventually.
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by xtracto 1y ago
This reminded me the video of the guy who went to his bank's branch to withdraw some of his money but they won't give it to him . The only thing you will get by "raising hell" in the branch is to get arrested haha
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by xtracto 1y ago
Another "sorry we got caught" case... companies will never change.
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by xtracto 1y ago
Usdc + paywithmoon. I don't understand why people nowadays allow to be patronized by private companies like this. No, wise, it's none of your freaking business why I want to transfer 100 bucks. It's MY money.
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by xtracto 1y ago
Having worked in Fintech for several years, THIS is the main reason why I moved the majority of my liquid assets to cryptocurrencies. For all the things people want the. To do, the most important one to me is the "not your keys, not yo
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by xtracto 1y ago
It's not AI. I can hire QA automation Sr level for $10 usd in Argentina... you wouldn't want to work at Walmart for that. The US government has to do something, or its Knowledge Worker market will keep suffering. (And I say this
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I don't think that is racist at all. A very good friend started an outsourcing firm here in Mexico 10 years ago. We (mexicans) were the cheaper alternative for US companies building software solutions. Well, a couple of years ago they

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