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by xtracto 4y ago
I agree. I showed ChatGPT to my 70 year old mom who was a Biology professor at a university all her life. We asked some questions about her field, and even asked it to draw a cell through SVG. My mon confirmed that all if its output was co
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by xtracto 4y ago
The open source Talk to Chat GPT extension works remarkably well, and its source is on Github https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/talk-to-chatgpt/ho...
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by xtracto 4y ago
Oh my! I just tried licking my Mario Kart Switch game ... it does taste really bitter, and the taste stayed in my mouth for a couple of minutes. It makes a really interesting prank.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've always thought of American "non-profit" labels for orgs to he similar to the "democratic" label of the DDR or the "people's " republic of China, or all other "adjectives" that people pu
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by xtracto 4y ago
Reminds me a lot of Ben Heck portable projects. I loved reading his site back in the day when he made a portable Xbox and portable Playstation.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I like debian for servers and Mint for desktop
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by xtracto 4y ago
Library.nu / gigapedia was destroyed between those two. It was a really vast collection of material. Such a shame .
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by xtracto 4y ago
I could see where that is coming from. Here in Mexico there's some sort of idea that people from outside Mexico, particularly Anericans or Canadians are "better" in some way just because... and it's a sentiment a lot of
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by xtracto 4y ago
They just have to do their typical "sorry your accound has been suspended for violating our terms and conditions. Which one? we won't tell you" to screw with him.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I know Azure generally sucks... If you think you cannot go lower, you should try Oracle Cloud. That is a total piece of dung of a Cloud Service. I tried it a couple of years ago. After finishing the trial, I removed all instances and dis
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by xtracto 4y ago
I have, and i also bought a license of Overgrive, a good program. But both still arent as easy/set-and-forget as Google's main client in Mac.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've always used it for IrfanView ... I haven't found anything close in all in one place functionality which is Linux Native. EDIT: There are two applications that I wish could be installed/run on WINE, but so far there&#x2
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by xtracto 4y ago
I am just waiting for the personal I formation train to get to include my listening history and like/dislike behaviour. There should be an XML/JSON standard to store, download and share that information. I've got a listening
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by xtracto 4y ago
If you are using TypeCript checkout ReadOnly<T> utility type https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.h...
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by xtracto 4y ago
People over here say there's no recession. But believing HN's assertions on global economy makes as much sense as believing it's opinions on Medical or Science threads. For financial information about the world economic situa
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by xtracto 4y ago
> However, limiting yourself to vegetarian approaches of recreating meat dishes, then you are missing out on what good vegetarian food can be. This is the key to becoming a vegetarian/plant-based food eater. I cook an amazing lasag
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by xtracto 4y ago
For me MacBookPro with M2 chips would be perfect if the 13in model allowed 64GB RAM. My workflow requires me to run Docker (intel images) heavily with several containers. Having a virtualization layer is pretty resource consuming. Usually
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by xtracto 4y ago
Right on. Shitty developers are going to make shitty software. Every City Mayor wants to build their bridge in 1 week. However, you don't see Civil Engineers "cutting corners" and leaving "debt" when designing and b
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by xtracto 4y ago
A long time ago, in a mexican company far far away we needed to download some files from a Bank to automate some process... but to do that the bank would force us to use some crappy custom client software that was windows only. We reverse
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by xtracto 4y ago
> There is a far, far bigger problem than WhatsApp here, starting with the fact that the article reports a recent collision with fatailities. Oooh Mexico Májico. The Mexico City Metro system is falling into pieces. There have been seve
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by xtracto 4y ago
I graduated from Software Engineering in 2001. Doing a 3 year postgrad degree was one of the best options work-wise at that dark time. We are not that deep, for now, at this time.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've had good experiences with AirBnB I several countries as well. VRBO was trash for me, also with last min cancellations and the corresponding company inaction. But really, I expect to be let down by airbnb at any point, and always
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by xtracto 4y ago
I've found that ChatGPT makes outstanding summaries of famous self-help/non-fiction books. Particularly if you ask it to give you a 100 word summary of each chapter.
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by xtracto 4y ago
This is important and relevant. I was into AI already in the late 1990s when symbolic AI was all the rage, and we had just passed the first AU winter. Technology like "Creatures" was again amazing people , NN also sparked new
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by xtracto 4y ago
DAO as in decentralized autonomous organization? As a non USian, im not grokking that.
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by xtracto 4y ago
I recently I stalled the latest version of Linux Mint on an 2013 macbook pro. The touchpad feeling is slightly off, choppy I would say (it gets kind of "stuck") . I also tried to setup 3 and 4 finger gestures to switch desktops si
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by xtracto 4y ago
That's super interesting. Someone should start investigating that line to treat autoimmune diseases.
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by xtracto 4y ago
Location: Remote (US central time) Remote: Yes. Only remote Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Node, TypeScript, React, Ionic. I've done a lot of stuff that wont fit here. Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oba
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by xtracto 4y ago
They can and should. Every time this discussion comes up in HN I describe how this could be viable. In the past it was done through something called patronage: a rich guy paid an artist for a painting or art piece. Nowadays with crowdfundi
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by xtracto 4y ago
Magento in docker on Mac is horrible for this reason.

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