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by xtracto 7mo ago
Sweet summer child. I was once opinionated and driven as you are now. I remember when I got out of college, I also thought like that of the mediocre clock punchers. Now at my 45 years, I couldn't care less for whatever grand objective
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by xtracto 7mo ago
It's so sad to read that there is people who is completely oblivious to the time when we had amazing free Gopher sites, or the WWW started and was fully Free (with L as in Libre). People born in 2000+ have no idea about that time
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by xtracto 7mo ago
When I started reading all these news, the thought that came to my mind is: how sweet of these companies to try this, but unfortunately I am sure that other countries advancing AI like China (deepseek, GLM, etc) or Russia, or whoever WILL
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PicoClaw: Ultra-Efficient AI Assistant in Go(github.com)
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Yes! That one. But we need it for video ads as well now. Ads are an evil that must be removed from the internet, and draining the wallets of companies using ads, without upside, would make them place less value on them.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
There was a Firefox extension long ago that did NOT block ads but hid them. Basically it loaded them and for all the site knew, the add was showing, so it was transparent. But, the ad wasn't rendering in the page. So the user didnt nee
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by xtracto 8mo ago
AI: Affordable Indian.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
As a buyer PayPal saved me after being scammed. It was a breeze to claim my money back, once I filed a police report. Stripe and other normal card processors make it impossible. And before someone says to "charge back" with my b
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by xtracto 8mo ago
The turning point for me was when they changed the + sign first the "" because of their Google+ thing.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
This fact never ceases to amaze me. It's so cool how relentlessly AI is pushing the horizons of our current hardware! Maybe now we will start to see the "optical" CPUs start to be a thing. Or the 3D disk storage,;or other gro
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by xtracto 8mo ago
And alcohol tends to be one of the top "people disabler" in the world
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Thanks!!
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by xtracto 8mo ago
The craziest thing to me are the follow up posts and people arguing with the bots. People are anthropomorfising (sp?) The token completion neural networks very fast. Its as if your smart fridge decided not to open because you have eaten too
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by xtracto 8mo ago
This is different. See, Drug cartels over here operate with the blessing and favor of our president. They are tightly connected. If a cartel dared to ground a US flight. The US government would have a "free pass" to break all hel
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Yes yes yes!!! I'm 45 yo. And also started programming quite early around 1988. In my case it was GWBAsic games and then C ModeX and A Later Allegro based games. Things got so boring in the last 15 years, I got some joy in doing AI res
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by xtracto 8mo ago
I agree but want to interject that "code organization " won't matter for long. Programming Languages were made for people. I'm old enough to have programmed in z80 and 8086 assembler. I've been through plenty of pr
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Attention is all you need was written by Googlers IIRC.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Location: UTC-6 (Americas) Remote: Yes, strongly preferred. Willing to relocate: Only for the absolutely right opportunity. Technologies: Python, TypeScript (Nest.js for API, React for mobile or web front), Ruby, AWS (Architect, DevOps, AI&
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by xtracto 8mo ago
This was written at a time were Software Engineering (not Developers) was valued more. I had my first programming job around this time, and there wasn't scrum and all that crap. I was a Jr engineer, still in the last semesters of uni
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by xtracto 8mo ago
I don't think they are trying to beat valve. GoG has been like those airlines that fly where no major airlines want to fly. Filling a underserved but large market.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Steam is pretty popular on that though. I'm sure GoG did it following on their steps. Back when GOG started it was pretty much download from web and run.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Mu gaming needs are more than fulfilled with Steam/Proton and Xbox Live. Both of them work in Linux (Mint is my flavour of choice) and Mac.
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Lol . You made my day. I was doing that kind of Registry mangling 25 years ago. Brought me good memories, its been a while. I'm so happy I haven't had to use a Windows machine in more than 10 years. For me, MacBookPro for coding
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by xtracto 8mo ago
Exactly. I was programming in R in 2004 and Pandas didnt exist. I remember trying Pandas once and it felt unergonomic for fata analysis and it lacked the vast library of statistical analysis library.
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by xtracto 9mo ago
My problem with these type of posts in HN is that the discussion doesn't offer ANYTHING constructive. I comment a lot about these matters on Reddit, and I'm very much against all that's happening in the USA. But the reality i
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by xtracto 9mo ago
That's why we should strive to use and optimize local LLMs. Or better yet, we should setup something that allows people to share a part of their local GPU processing (like SETI@home) for a distributed LLM that cannot be censored. And
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by xtracto 9mo ago
Slashdot moderation and something going by having people tag comments as Insightful, Interesting, Offtopic or flamebait. It assigned positive or negative points based on that. The two problems were the horrible UI and that at some points ev
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by xtracto 9mo ago
>Every ICE agent is armed, and most have ready access to automatic weapons. These are not well-trained members of an elite organization with a storied, patriotic culture. ICE is a personalist paramilitary organization, and the president
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by xtracto 9mo ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command" - 1984 I've found the reaction from most people in the US horrifying since the "grab em by the pussy" da
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by xtracto 9mo ago
My thinking exactly. And actually in Mexico we have https://www.doctoralia.com.mx/ Which is exactly that. I've actually found great specialists there, looking at their ratings.

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