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Hi, my name is Jose Simas and I run Gepsoft (www.gepsoft.com).
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cfn··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Maybe this is the dawn of the multicore era for LLMs.
cfn··on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
No an expert here but RAW is the data generated by the sensor and requires some heavy processing before you can show it on screen. A bitmap is an image format (assuming you mean the BMP files).
cfn··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
The contents of the emails are encrypted so you have a normal login plus a key to unencrypt your email locally. They save your encrypted email conyents and your login but not the key and they also don't log your access (I'm assuming here from reading the article).
cfn··on 20 years working on the same software product
When he dies, if not before, he or his family can sell the business. There's even websites/communities where you can post this kind of business for sale.
cfn··on You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5
And the funniest part is that when you buy from Amazon (ES, DE, etc) that tax is not applied further hurting the local shops.
cfn··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
If there's one thing I was surprised when I moved to the UK from Portugal were the number of stories work colleagues told about bullying in school. Although there were fights and stupid games in the schools I went to in Portugal there was never systematic bullying.
cfn··on Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
That's how I learned HTML, building the page in Frontpage and then looking at the markup. I don't remember it being free though.
cfn··on Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia
It's the law. You can't pay in cash for anything above three thousand euros. If you're a company the limit is even lower at 1000 Euros. Interesting though that a foreigner, such as a tourist, can pay up to 10 thousand euros in cash as long it's not a business transaction.
cfn··on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
For anyone 50+ of age wider monitors are harder to use than multiple monitors specially if you don't use varifocal glasses. I bought a 47 inch monitor some time ago but had to go back to a multi monitor setup with smaller monitors because I can't see the sides and corners of the larger one without moving or standing up. Works better if you have a standing up desk though.
cfn··on Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024
I spend way more than 100/week in food for two people. To spend less than a quarter of that I would have to scale down or remove fruit, vegetables, meat or fish from the menu. Probably would have to eat pasta and rice with some sauces all the time which isn't healthy at all. And I'm in Portugal, not the most expensive place in Europe by a long shot.
cfn··on Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024
You should put a link to your work in your bio it is really cool. Your name gives a clue but I only found your site after adding "software" to the search.
cfn··on "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
Never used the Steam Remote Play but all the other RDP clients in linux have been lacking in one way or the other. I'll have a look, thanks.
cfn··on "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
I don't know if this is still true of Virtualbox but VMWare Player supports USB devices such as payment processors and others and Virtualbox doesn't (or didn't when I tried it).
cfn··on "Extreme" Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says
I also have a Linux host with Windows VMs running VMWare and KVM/qemu didn't work for me because the VMs don't capture Alt-Tab and other combinations. This is a major annoyance when doing development on the VMs. There were other small things that made me go back to VMware but I can't recall exactly what they were.
cfn··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
This is a big issue with the App Store. Either you charge a subscription or you charge a on-off and all upgrades are free forever.
cfn··on iPhone 16 Pro Storage Expansion 128GB to 1TB [video]
Yes you can but operating one CNC without major snafus takes some practice and selecting the proper bit and speeds for such a delicate operation isn't exactly easy. It is actually very easy to puncture the iPhone through and through.
cfn··on How Olympics officials try to catch “motor doping”
Olympic sailing classes such as the Laser have been doing that for years, they could do that for cycling as long as they provided an array of sizes.
cfn··on Ask HN: Has anyone been fired for ignoring in-office mandates?
I once ignored a shirt and tie mandate and nothing happened besides some stern words from my manager after I told I wasn't going to comply. We worked in a basement and never saw customers, the mandate was just a power move on his part.
cfn··on What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues
My migraines stopped when I went carnivore which meant no gluten and sugar as well (though I kept the coffee). I'm now in a more keto diet but still no gluten at all and I've only had a couple of light migraines in a year or so (used have them a monthly or more frequently).

It is interesting to know your case as it is a smaller dietary change than mine.

cfn··on What causes migraines? Study of 'brain blackout' offers clues
At one point, if I drunk a coffee just before a migraine started it would go away. Nothing scientific here but it happenned too many times (both had the coffee and didn't) to establish the result for me.
cfn··on Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
Maybe not exactly what you mean with frozen in time but they used to (or maybe still do) publish a new tome every now and then with updated information. I think they are still very useful for children, for example.
cfn··on Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
I remember them being a big help with History for example. I believe I read most of the encyclopedias I had at home (a couple of them totalling maybe 20 heavy books). Now, when I want to learn about something, say acoustics, I go to the internet, back then I would go to the encyclopedia as a starting point and later to the library for more specific information. That's how it used to be.
cfn··on Publishing AI Slop Is a Choice
For me, having an encyclopedia at home was a huge help with my studies and even finding out what I wanted to do/be later in life. This was 40+ years ago and I also had or had access to a lot of other books but never found them disappointing at all.
cfn··on Smoking Is Awesome [video]
Very topical for me, I was just watching the movie The Insider.
cfn··on 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed
They seem to be struggling a bit and the there's no wind or waves. Maybe coupled with a battery like an ebike it might be sustainable for longer than a few minutes.
cfn··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
How much do these kind of services pay the GPU owners? Before I sign up and add my nodes I need to know if it will be worth it considering I'm paying the power to run it, depreciation, etc.
cfn··on Show HN: gpudeploy.com – "Airbnb" for GPUs
Just a quick comment: The country list in your Add Basic Node Data is not sorted.
cfn··on Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster
One thing I don't understand about Uno is how do they make money. Everything looks very well done and I have been following them for a few years but I don't see how they will survive without selling anything.
cfn··on Two-bedroom house printed in 18 hours
In an organized place yes but here in Portugal the construction business is littered with one man bands that fail at every corner and have a lot of issues managing their employees and sourcing materials on time. We use bricks and concrete, not wood, and the structure and walls take a few months to complete. Hopefully, a machine that does that work in a couple of days will be less problematic. They have to fix the wall surface though, flat and smooth walls are the norm around here.
cfn··on Two-bedroom house printed in 18 hours
After some recent experiences with house renovation, I suspect that it removes a lot of waiting for people and materials to show up. If you can lay the concrete in 18 hours without any other external dependencies then it is a great savings timewise.

The total time of 2 months seems very optimistic to me.

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