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cooperaustinj··on Proton's New Two-Factor Authenticator App
Yep. Aegis is great. Being able to manage your own backups is fantastic.

I use Proton products, but Aegis can't be beat.

cooperaustinj··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Superwhisper is great. It's closed source, however. There may be other comparable open spurce options available now. I'd suggest trying superwhisper, so you know what's possible and maybe compare to open source options after. Superwhisper runs locally and has a one time purchase option, which makes it acceptable to me.
cooperaustinj··on Working on databases from prison
Why not just pay them in exposure? I hope you can think about why the proposal in your reply is problematic.
cooperaustinj··on Square Theory
Do you know any unfriendly word games I can try?
cooperaustinj··on Getting AI to write good SQL
It is only a rumor to people who refuse to put in effort.
cooperaustinj··on Mistral OCR
There is an OCR page on the link you provided. It includes a very, very simple curl command (like most of their docs).

I think the friction here exists outside of Mistral's control.

cooperaustinj··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
Your credibility is killed by thinking using an API can guarantee which model you're getting. It's entirely black box. If OpenAI wants to lie to you, they can.
cooperaustinj··on Fast self-hostable open-source workflow engine
The Code Spell Checker extension is great. It has proper handling for camelcase and it's fast to add words to the dictionary (cmd + .). Catches many typos when coding.

Probably not best for the last line of defence for public articles, but probably good enough.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=streetsi...

cooperaustinj··on LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs
What a comment. Why do it the easy way when the more difficult and slower way works ok it to the same result‽ For people who just want to USE models and not back at them, TheBloke is exactly the right place to go.

Like telling someone interested in 3D printing minis to build a 3D printer instead of buying one. Obviously that helps them get to their goal of printing minis faster right?

cooperaustinj··on Google Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon DynamoDB
Can you expand on this? Documentation or an example so I can learn?
cooperaustinj··on Saltwater is pushing its way up the Mississippi River
> This statement doesn't mean anything useful. That might be true if that wasn't a well known phrase that carries decades of examples behind it.

> It also describes every social safety net. Social safety nets are not spending millions of billions of dollars on disasters, especially disasters we've been predicting since the dawn of industry. Social safety nets have upper bounds. Being able to handle these disasters is a benefit of society, yes. Social safety nets help people get on their feet, not prevent entire towns from being wiped out. It's disingenuous to imply America's social safety net (which it doesn't have) has anything to do with this.

When individuals create liability this large, they are jailed. When corporations do it, we pretend we never could have expected this outcome.

cooperaustinj··on People often forget to cancel monthly subscriptions, and the costs add up
A free trial with automatic billing at the end is a dark pattern. The non dark pattern would be to get approval from the customer before billing after the free trial ends.
cooperaustinj··on Automatic Generation of Visualizations and Infographics with LLMs
Everything you described been possible since the dawn of intellectual property. Just replace LLM with "person".

Furthermore, it isn't theft to learn from others' work and reproduce similar qualities.

cooperaustinj··on A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afters users were 95% fake
Sequential/ordered. One after another.
cooperaustinj··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
How often are you confident that you find the right answer on Google? As with anything, you need to reason about it yourself and verify.
cooperaustinj··on LaMDA’s sentience is nonsense
On this, I've pretty much concluded that the sentience argument isn't even the one that matters. There are plenty of sentient creates that we don't care about. What we really want to know is of LaMDA is like us in some real way. And from there, we want to know if we should treat it in some particular way. If it has feelings, perhaps we should be nice to it, and so on.

Disclaimer: I don't believe LaMDA is sentient or deserving of any special treatment.

cooperaustinj··on Self-host your blog on a Raspberry Pi
I've used this in the past: https://hub.docker.com/r/oznu/cloudflare-ddns/

Cloudflare is a nice option.

cooperaustinj··on How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts
You probably know this, but ignore that guy. "the global namespace" lol

They're good names. Obviously if there is ever ambiguity, one would simply say "Shopify Hydrogen" or "Shopify Oxygen".

As if everything else isn't named with other random words... React, express, moment, chalk, gulp, path, jest, morgan, passport, and countless others. That's just npm packages. Rust? Elixir? Go???

Turns out we name things whatever we want and it doesn't pollute the global namespace because context exists.

We're meant to invent new words for everything? Talk about pollution... We definitely need more words like Shopiract! /s

cooperaustinj··on Show HN: Voiceliner – Capture structured braindumps on the go
Reminders would be a useful addition to this for me, too.
cooperaustinj··on Notes on Web3
In a society where making as much money as possible is the end goal, it isn't.
cooperaustinj··on Show HN: Forlater.email – an email-based bookmarking service
I haven't played with the service like the other user, so I'm not sure whether this idea is viable.

You could send some sort of initial opt-in email to the recipient that would let them verify their desire to use your service. This combined with usual email validation should be good to keep spammers out.

cooperaustinj··on There is no “us” in team
This is wrong. Pair programming is a great way to work in a "task"
cooperaustinj··on Ask HN: How to negotiate continuing to work remotely?
Where's this manager been for the last year? All of these potential issues will have been resolved or found to be non-issues after a year of wfh.
cooperaustinj··on Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification
You'll be safe because you can't effectively use the modern internet :)
cooperaustinj··on Securing a Postgres Database
I agree with the password example. I don't agree with people updating queries willy-nilly. Updated queries should go through the same life-cycle of testing (etc) as code, meaning they can simply go out with continuous application deployments anyways.
cooperaustinj··on Apple Card restrictions include no jailbreaking or cryptocurrency purchases
Competitors already have better rewards. The Apple Card will have no impact on the world of credit cards.
cooperaustinj··on Developers don't understand CORS
Use a CDN!