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ChopSticksPlz

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ChopSticksPlz··on Hibiki: High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation
seen the demo here https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ij35u7/hibiki_...

great stuff

ChopSticksPlz··on How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?
This is a very useful .csv, what is the license? Is it free for personal and commercial use?
ChopSticksPlz··on Ask HN: Generative AI makes me want to quit the industry
Embrace it instead of fighting it. Delegate simple tasks to GPT, I found it useful as an example generator. There are so many niches you can create software for, not necessarily well paid but fun and with new tools like AI you may deliver solutions quicker. That being said, I kinda feel sorry for all these folk who jumped into the IT bandwagon with dreams of making more money without actually having deep tech background. I guess, AI backed tools will reduce need for junior positions significantly very soon.
ChopSticksPlz··on How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]
Oh my, I had to blink twice seeing a post about motorcycles at the most nerdy news board this planet has ever seen :o

I turn coffe into code to earn $ for gas for my enduro bike and to take long distance trips across Europe and maybe other continents soon :)

ChopSticksPlz··on Show HN: Automated Website Screenshots Made Easy
Hi, glad you like it. I'm the author of Miniature.io.

To be absolutely honest, I posted a link to the website here as I have never done it previously. Built it years ago, because at the time I found this topic challenging to implement and worth trying. For years the system was online and free to use, serving even 2 million images daily. Free of charge. I didn't know whether I should kill it or spend some more time finally finishing the commercial part. Done the latter over the last couple of months and so here it is, polished a bit with a new rewritten website renderer.

If you were looking for a simmilar projects, or simply interested in the tech behind it, you can have a look at https://github.com/cepa/rabarbar this is the current engine that captures screenshots.

ChopSticksPlz··on Ask HN: Are any remote desktop solutions good enough for full-time use?
In case of Linux, the best results so far I had with X2Go using the virtual desktop mode.

More about it here: https://cepa.io/2018/08/05/building-an-ultimate-remote-linux...

For Win & Lin, NoMachine works reasonably okeyish if your link is fast enough to stream in high quality.

ChopSticksPlz··on [dead]
I've built a home lab, just prefer to keep my data close and like its overall performance and flexibility https://cepa.io/2018/01/27/refurbishing-good-ol-development-... That being said, it is my personal and development/testing stuff.

Things are trickier when it comes to production environments due to "data gravity", assuming you have plenty to backup I would stick to vendor's offering. Say for AWS you can use EBS Snapshots for instances and RDS Snapshots for SQL data, other than that S3 to other regions, etc. Depends on your usecase of course. Professionally, RTO and RPO requirements are to be defined before you choose what's the right solution.

Re ZFS, used on BSD and Linux, both work well, never had issues even while migrating between ZFS versions or pools from say Linux to BSD and vice versa.

ChopSticksPlz··on [dead]
I keep my projects on my private infra. Software (Git/Subversion/etc) is installed in a VM which easy to backup automatically, data is kept on a shared volume on ZFS filesystem which has snapshots enabled. Additionally rsync job is running daily to sync all my important data with a disk in a remote location, could use encrypted cloud for that though. Recently been able to restore my projects from 2003 so this approach works for me :)
ChopSticksPlz··on Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine – Part 2
Sorry I disagree, first many people who work in IT are _forced_ to use Windows as their primary host at work. Next, even if you install a Virtual Machine it might not work as seamless as having an Unix shell natively, thus some use Cygwin. Regarding poor students, would you prefer to commute daily with multiple laptops? One for Linux one for Windows? I doubt so. Other than that, if your work is not just coding but doing _anything_ apart from code itself, word processing, spreadsheets, graphic design, cad and you still need to run something from Linux ecosystem the WSL is currently probably your best option.
ChopSticksPlz··on Linux'izing your Windows PC into a dev machine – Part 2
Thanks for posting this.