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Hi, my name is Jose Simas and I run Gepsoft (www.gepsoft.com).
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cfn··on The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
Yes, you run the risk of sea sickness with all the unexpected screen scrolling direction changes.

Still a good and interesting article.

cfn··on Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card
No, network cards use chipsets, meaning, most of the logic is inside one or two large ICs (Integrated Circuits). What the poster is doing is creating a card using the simplest existing ICs which contain simple logic circuits such as NANDs, multiplexers, etc.
cfn··on Twenty years maintaining the WiX Toolset
I really tried to use msi back when it appeared but it wouldn't work in certain versions of Windows without installing something else before. I can't remember the details but it was self defeating.
cfn··on Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue
Great answer. I would add that ones taste may change with time, mine certainly did. I couldn't see the point of jazz as a youngster but came to enjoy it greatly later in life.
cfn··on Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make
There are different grades of MDF each with a specific density. I suppose that a denser MDF will last longer, it certainly is heavier and stronger.
cfn··on Mistral Large
I literally thought it was their mascot or something and ignored it.
cfn··on Unexpected responses from ChatGPT: Incident Report
I don't see the issue, in this type of software a one off bug in tokenization, for example, would create the type of nonsense people saw. That would make sense given their high level explanation.
cfn··on California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired
No, I don't think so. I live in a small island in one of the poorest regions of Portugal (thus Europe). This is just my observation at a local level.
cfn··on Extreme video compression with prediction using pre-trainded diffusion models
Given the same prompt and the same seed (and algorithm) the resulting movie/output will always be the same. This is the case for AI image generation now.
cfn··on California's war on plastic bag use seems to have backfired
We introduced similar laws here in Portugal last year and my anedoctal observation is that most people buy the thicker bags at 10-20 cents. It is also very obvious that many items that used to be sold loose are now packaged or bring their own plastic or paper bag. I'm looking forward to the statistics next year.

EDIT: It is not clear above, I mean that most people don't reuse the bags, they just buy new ones each time.

cfn··on Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)
I don't know if anyone mentionned it yet, but a big thing is that, while woodworking, you spend most of the time standing up AND moving around.
cfn··on AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
It seems so, I have been looking into AvaloniaUI for a product and read several articles about people having success porting fairly complex WPF apps that use third-party components like grids.
cfn··on AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
It is a few thousand USD/EUR. It is pricey but inline with most commercial WPF components.
cfn··on Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
I see what you mean, yes correct.
cfn··on Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
I asked it to create an icon for an app and there are two Tool entries:

1. DALL-E generation metadata: 1. A stylized chat bubble integrated with an abstract brain design, representing AI and chat. 2. A sleek, modern avatar that looks like a digital assistant, with elements like a clipboard or list to represent organization. 3. A microchip or circuit board pattern in the shape of a speech balloon, merging AI technology and chat. 4. A robotic hand holding a pen or stylus, positioned over a notepad, symbolizing AI's role in organizing chats. 5. An organizer folder or agenda book with digital or futuristic motifs for AI integration. 6. A light bulb with chat bubbles around it, showing the concept of generating and organizing AI conversations. Seed 8893527578

2. DALL·E displayed 1 images. The images are already plainly visible, so don't repeat the descriptions in detail. Do not list download links as they are available in the ChatGPT UI already. The user may download the images by clicking on them, but do not mention anything about downloading to the user.

cfn··on Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
Look for TOOL in the conversation.js The system prompts are empty but the tools aren't. Ask ChatGPT something like "What is the price of IBM stock", then download the history and you will find a bunch of TOOL sections there.
cfn··on Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered
True, there's an easier way to get that information. Download your chat history and look in the conversations.json file. It's all there.
cfn··on Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars
I suspect this a reference to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM&t=4s
cfn··on Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
This is spot on. I have had to do KYC for me and my company on a couple of financial sites and I hate to think where that data is saved and what will it actually be used for. And this is mandated by law which is crazy.
cfn··on Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
I've been running Linux on a workstation for a year and NVIDIA drivers kill it every other update. I'm seriously considering moving it to the server room and getting something else for my desktop.
cfn··on First tunnel to a magma chamber could supercharge geothermal power
Thirty years I was a subscriber and it was actually decent. After a few years of subscribing I noticed a pattern of recurring articles and stopped. I considered subscribing again a couple of years ago but it was so obviously not serious science, only sensationalism, that I gave up.
cfn··on UK announces commercial operations of longest land/subsea interconnector
I suppose gas and coal are sourced from different places and that may give some resilience to the system. They also serve very different functions in the grid. Coal is for baseline and gas is for peak.
cfn··on Valetudo – Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation
It means "anything goes" in portuguese but maybe it is a coincidence.
cfn··on Costs of running a macOS app studio business
Your client will ask you for a document (can't remember the details) and to get it you have to register with the IRS. If you pay taxes or not, I'm not sure, the sale was too small and I just dropped the client.
cfn··on Costs of running a macOS app studio business
I have been in this situation but selling to the States. Nothing happens if you sell to end users who pay with credit card but as soon as you have a large sale to a company or institution they will ask for all kinds of documents that force you to register properly and pay taxes.
cfn··on Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?
Yes (Graphics Processing Unit).
cfn··on Ansel
Would you mind giving examples where you use parametric masking? I read the docs* and it is not very clear to me the practical side (I'm a Lightroom user).

* https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3.8/en/darkroom/maskin...

cfn··on We Automated Bullshit
And yet, nobody has regulated stackoverflow...
cfn··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Probably includes taxes, social security, health insurance, etc
cfn··on Sony announces a9 III: first full-frame global shutter camera
The latest Hasselblad already ships with an internal 1Tb SSD so there's hope.
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