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Are there a total ad time percentage metric in this law too, or will they simply be watching many more smaller ads?

I fairly recently tried to ask a question on SO because the LLMs did not work for that domain. I’m no beginner to SO, having some 13k points from many questions and answers. I made, in my opinion, a good question, referenced my previous attempts, clearly stating my problem and what I tried to do. Almost immediately after posting I got downvoted, no comments, a close- suggestions etc. A similar thing happened the last two times I tried this too. I’m not sure what is going on over there now, but whatever that site was many years ago, it isn’t any more. It’s s shame, because it was such a great thing, but now I am disincentivized to use it because I lose points each time I tip my toes back in.

Most problems in most distros are solvable with enough knowhow and enough research time. That time investment is not always worth it in a commercial context. It is a fairly known amount of time to reinstall a distro and get back up and running, and an unknown amount of time to fix an exotic Linux problem.

Many seem to be interested in knowing my distro. I’m not interested in throwing shade on a distro in particular, but it is one of the bigger and well known ones.

I’m not trying to cast shade on a distribution in particular. I’m using one of the big ones. If you have not had any of these problems, great!

Shameless self promotion, but I 80% vibe- coded a pip package for interfacing with LLMs right from the terminal. ‘pip install lask’. It has helped me a lot since it works from the terminal regardless of what the graphics drivers are doing.

I have been working professionally on Linux for many years. But about once a year I have to reinstall the os because it craps out for various reasons. The same story goes for most of my team, but for some reason they seem ok with this. My issue with Linux is this: I don’t feel like a consumer, but a janitor. I don’t want this. Yes you can do whatever you want, but I don’t want to do those things. I want to write code and play games, not maintain the intricacies of a running computer.

For a server there is no better choice than Linux, but for my desktop/laptop, I find other alternatives better. Perhaps I haven’t found «the right distro», if so let me know, but until Linux is as low maintenance as windows or macos, it will be for those with an interest in doing that maintenance.

I realize I have a love-hate relationship with Linux. It is perfect, but flawed.

I love semantic html. It feels so much more modern and efficient than all of these fashion-driven front end tools.

Just implement exponential backoff for slow requests logging, or some other heuristic, to control it. I definitely agree it is a concern though.

Does anyone have a link to the source of the statement without a paywall in front? I could not see any reference to this 150M$ anywhere.

Makes some sense that the owner can't just eavesdrop on every conversation on the platform. That is very illegal many places in the world.

It is free, as I understand it, not 200k per year.

Wonder how the ROI on this is going to be for salesforce.

They keep shrinking in the wrong dimentions.

Their selling point is to be a more open version of what cursor has. So the alternative is to use a full llm. So it is 10s+ 10s vs 10s+ 300ms

As far as i understand, this is not +-300ms. It is 300ms vs. 10 sec or something. That is a huge difference. I personally find the time to wait for these larger models a limiting factor. It’s also probably a resource waste for fairly simple task like this. (Compared to the general function approximation of the llms)

But I honestly feel like the task of smartly applying edits falls somewhat within traditional coding tasks. What about it is so difficult it could not be done with a smart diffing algorithm?

What are they protecting against? Honestly. LLMs should probably have an age limit, and then, if you are above, you should be adult enough to understand what this is and how it can be used.

To me, it seems like they only protect against bad press

Kind of serious question. Do we have any alternatives to html? If not, why? It’s essentially all html. Yes, browser will render svg/pdf/md and so on, but as far as I can tell, it’s not what I consider "real web" (links to other documents, support for styling, shared resources, scripting, and so on ).

I would have loved for there to be a json based format, or perhaps yaml, as an alternative to the xml- based stuff we have today.

I’m a noob to this subject. How can a build be non-reproducible? By that, I mean, what part of the build process could return non-deterministic output? Are people putting timestamps into the build and stuff like that?

I assume it would be possible to make yourself with the OpenAI api together with a locally run voice model to only detect the activation word. There might be of the shelf solutions for this, but I am not aware of any.

I usually find Claude to be my favourite flavor of LLMs, but I still pay for ChatGPT because their voice offering is so great! I regularly use it as an "expert on the side" when I do other things, like doing bike repairs. I ask it things like "how do I find the min/max adjustments on my particular flavor of front derailleur", or when cooking, and my hands are dirty, I can ask stuff like "how much X do I usually need for Y people", and so on. The hands-off feature is so great when my hands are literally busy doing some other thing.

I really wish Claude had something similar.

I think they are mixing some problems here. They could probably have used their original setup with Postgres NOTIFY+triggers in stead of polling, and only have one "pickup poller" to catch any missed events/jobs. In my opinion transaction medium should not be linked to how the data is manage internally, but I know from experience that this separation is often hard to achieve in practice.

Why is patent trolls even a thing? I thought you had to have a clear intention of using the patent in a product for it to be valid. How is it not a 5 minute court case showing how the patent trolls have no employees other than lawyers, which shows clearly that there is no intent to make a product?

Click the picture to get a full resolution version. On my phone it's quite obvious. But to my eyes it just looks like someone made it bolder, not less blurry.

Sorry, I didn't catch the founder part. Got two small kids, so my attention falters a little

My 2 cents ; let people buy packs of Scans. Say 100, 200, and 1000. Rarely people will have exact match with their work, so they are left with some pages "left over", which can nudge them back into using the product more often to "use up" what they paid for.

With this strategy you might be more successful in making a workflow out of it, and nudge people over to a monthly model. Just don't make the packs so small that they can be aligned with their normal workflows, eg. Transcribing a 40 page note book. I would advise to do some statistics to see how many pages people typically scan at the same-ish time.

Also: it is considered good practice to indicate that you are affiliated when promoting a product

Indeed. The data available includes most of the things you would expect, but some of it is just wrong. I’m only at my computer now, so don’t have a concrete example, but some models had vastly higher values for some fields than is possible.

I recently had to get a replacement heat pump. In the process I discovered that the EU has a database of energy ratings for almost (actually?) all electric appliances sold in the eu. This includes heat pumps.

I scraped the heat pump data and am the proud owner of 100% of this information. What I found is that some of the available data is inaccurate and much of the energy ratings (A-G character rating) is inconsistent with the performance of the device, probably due to changing standards over the years. It’s nice to see initiatives like this which hopefully will provide better and more normalized data.

As a side note. Air-to-air heat pumps have, as most people know, two parts to it. The indoor unit, and the outdoor unit. Many models can be used interchangeably, so the domain of heat pumps is a bit more complicated than I first anticipated.

I’m on mobile though, which makes it harder, but thanks for the tip for my desktop!

This is a false sense of security. Cookies isn’t random data. It is fingerprints and all kinds of dark wizardry. Chances are your cookies will be the same each time they are generated.

You have to disable cookies or tell the company responsible that you don’t want it. The latter, I believe (though ianal), is legally binding.

Besides the point here, but why is it so diabolically hard to decline cookies on this site?