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TruthWillHurt··on Escaping Duopoly: Best 5 Linux Smartphones Without Performance Security Excuses
This article has outdated information and lacks experience and understanding of this ecosystem.

Sent from my PinePhone Pro.

TruthWillHurt··on Stable Video Diffusion
And thanks to the porn community on Civit.ai!
TruthWillHurt··on Tutanota is now Tuta
And female lady-parts in Hebrew slang (and Arabic?)
TruthWillHurt··on Startup idea: Zapier for consumer apps
With AI, the solution might be browser automation.

Maybe try https://harpa.ai . It seems the most advanced / flexible browser extension in a survey I did. Not affiliated in any way.

TruthWillHurt··on Maersk to cut 10k jobs as shipping demand drops
Slow down in shipping demand? Few months ago a ship got stuck in the Suez Canal and the world went bat-$h1t crazy, but now shipping is a chill business?

I don't get these execs.

TruthWillHurt··on Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity
Yes!! More emails from Github!!! Fck yea!!!
TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023)
Hmm... maybe find tasks for existing associates before hiring new ones?
TruthWillHurt··on Show HN: Demystifying Advanced RAG Pipelines
Not using neighbour, but Autogen has a multi-agent pipeline where if a question is not answered by top K docs, the agent can request "UPDATE CONTEXT" and pull the next set of results.

See example 5 here: https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agen...

TruthWillHurt··on Taking on SpaceX: Why Germany is building its own spaceport
How's the Eurocloud project doing? Are they done writing regulations and started on services already?
TruthWillHurt··on Startup CTO's Handbook
So little about tech, and what that's there is mostly how to annoy your devs with trivial corp-like control nonsense.

Too many people in startups try to "play house", pretending to be big shot managers/company rather than develop the product and actually moving the needle (i.e hiring an HR manager as employee #3-5).

How about you do the work, keep to a pizza size team in a garage until you actually can't?

TruthWillHurt··on Launch HN: Radical (YC W23) – Autonomous high-altitude solar aircraft
Stop. This is not a valid startup and a waste of your time.

I say this with a heavy heart as I know you're passionate, but numerous failed startups of my own tought me to be critical in thinking.

What is you're "secret sauce"? How hard is it to replicate/exceed your efforts? I'm afraid the answers are "we put a lot of engineering work into it" and "not much, as we're just two guys and the army/google/fb have hundreds of engineers", and you're limited by physics. It's not like you invented new super-light batteries, did you?

I'm afraid this will likely be a waste of your time. You'll have fun, learn a lot, and that can be a goal on its own, But don't take a mortage....

sorry..

TruthWillHurt··on Show HN: Shuttle – Build and ship backends without writing infrastructure files
Good luck competing with AWS! went great for my serverless platform startup (and everyone else..)
TruthWillHurt··on Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13
A GPU, a GPU! my Razer for a Framework with a GPU!

edit: Actually the integrated gpu is not as bad as I thought!

See here (different machine.. a very cool one!): https://youtu.be/66n1nylac0M?t=293

TruthWillHurt··on DJI Mini 4 Pro
But how many grenades can it carry?
TruthWillHurt··on Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
1. They keep changing the hidden setup prompt to prevent abuse and such. For me it insists on providing sample code and saying "this is just an example". I used to be able to tell it "write production-grade code" but it seems to ignore that now.

2. They fine tune the model. When you do that it tends to overfit on certain things, causing them to have more "weight" and others get pushed back. creativity suffers.

Those are only my thoughts, can't confirm anything.

TruthWillHurt··on Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
Thats hilarious :D I told it to sound like a senior dev but yours gets the gist of it better
TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: What low code platforms are worth using?
Honestly? you might be right.

Perhaps Airtable for an aaS approach that can be exposed to external visitors as a website, but the concept is sound.

TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: Are there any fulfilling careers in tech anymore?
But don't go into game development!

Seems every engineer I meet these days is learning Unity and is working on a game (myself included :D ).

Don't think there's much income potential there.. but it is fun for sure!

TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: Are there any fulfilling careers in tech anymore?
First - people usually point out that it might be depression, so look into that.

Then you could consider joining a startup (a real one. small team, tech focused). You could also consider taking on new challenges - new lang, new role (devops/fe/be/pm/arch).

Be prepared for a salary cut.

TruthWillHurt··on ToDesktop – Web app to desktop app in minutes
Yo dawg I hear you like apps, so we put an app in the browser in your app...
TruthWillHurt··on Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately?
GPT knowledge cutoff is eons ago in js time.

They all had to go back to React for it to write code for them :D

TruthWillHurt··on OpenWorm – A computational model of C. elegans worm
Wow it's amazing how much progress was made on this! a full simulation!!!!
TruthWillHurt··on Google “lightest thinnest homemade laptop” and find me one. I dare you
All I get are ads. Not a single homemade item among them. Tried quotes, plus sign, different terms - can't get results in google.
TruthWillHurt··on Language models cost much more in some languages than others
I think LLMs need a language of their own to cross communicate and to compile to code. This strengthens that reasoning I believe.
TruthWillHurt··on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers
If you're a startup that can pay my salary you must have fired me already.
TruthWillHurt··on Zip-NeRF: Anti-aliased grid-based neural radiance fields [video]
My thoughts exactly. This is the future - both realistic and lazy (as a scene can simply be described to a proompt).
TruthWillHurt··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
Contractor leads can earn ~£700 per day. And who knows how much Capgemini / Fujitsu / KPMG are charging the project..
TruthWillHurt··on UK Treasury trying to find a Head of Cyber Security for £55k
Oh don't worry.. they have an army of contractors to give the best advice.. surely..
TruthWillHurt··on Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners
Sooo... it's an airconditioner. Welcome to the 20th century YC!
TruthWillHurt··on Attacker with access to XML config can trigger keepass.exe to obtain passwords
me too
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