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deburo··on Meta rolls out AI language model LLaMA
As long as it is pronounceable, memorable, it's actually a good one.
deburo··on Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
Okay, I'll keep hoping it gets upgraded in the future :P
deburo··on Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
Yes, & a light theme for very sun light-heavy environments (having a window in your office room).
deburo··on Grug Notes, A tool for text: simple, fast, self-organizing notes
Cool! Looks really nice. Why is the smart indentation active in view mode but not edit mode? :/
deburo··on 1Password Park – St. Thomas Ontario
Just imagine googling around and see the name of this park. I’d probably think it’s a joke.
deburo··on Show HN: Build auto-updating dashboards in a spreadsheet
Cool! I'll bookmark it for sure.

I'd be interested in that product if I can figure out how to bring the data from a self-hosted MSSQL database into it somehow, and refresh it regularly without too much trouble. Perhaps I could whitelist IP addresses in our firewall to allow the site to connect to the database.

Another problem is about sharing the dashboard; we are a Ms365 business. Could we re-use those logins to log into shared Dashboards? I'm mostly concerned about the ease of viewing those Dashboards from the end-users' POV (our internal employees).

deburo··on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
I'm not an accounting nor a forecasting expert, but I'm comfortable theorizing that the current quarter's financials of a company doesn't necessarily dictate its next moves.

I find people's tendency to generate outrage from nothing other than headlines to be very annoying.

deburo··on Gitlab to lay off 7% of staff
To me, complaining about the reasoning used by companies while not currently at the head of such a company feels pretty darn foolish. You just don't have the numbers at hands to qualify what they are saying.

And I don't understand why you would care about layoffs from the tech industry (of all people) anyway, it's one of the best industry today and will probably for a while still (forever?). Maybe one of those engineers can help his local tech shop instead.

deburo··on Intel’s Dunnington: Core 2 Goes Dun Dun Dun
I wonder if Intel will rebound. I thought it was in good hands with Jim Keller, but then he left for personal reasons (were there too many road blocks within Intel, or perhaps he just wanted to work on AI with his friend?). Then came Patrick Gelsinger, and he succeeded at bringing back a few of his friends, but then a few of them left again after a while. I don't know. But we're lucky that AMD is back in the game (the current leader).
deburo··on Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
It's pretty effective too, I often ask colleagues to download this or that app and just giving its name, but they keep falling for Google Ads. Now I send them an URL instead.

If I didn't know any better, I would think about suing Google for boosting malware spread x)

As an aside, I'm always suspicious of free utilities being downloadable from well-designed hosting websites, such as www.fosshub.com. I'm less suspicious downloading it from a very basic, almost plain text web page, for whatever reason.

deburo··on State Farm says 105 Kia, Hyundai models ‘ineligible’ for new insurance in LA
I had this feeling in my mind that car security was not very good, similar to home security (most homes being protected only by door locks), but I guess not! Reducing up to 40% theft, according to Wikipedia (sourcing a 2016 article).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immobiliser

deburo··on Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
I guess when we get to have AGI agents, they will start replacing HR, even though I doubt this will sit well with anyone. Again, it’s dystopian. Maybe in a Demolition Man world.

But today? Wew

deburo··on Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
You’re proposing that an imperfect AI flags (ok) or fires (wow) employees based on potentially bad input.

Same thing on muting mic or doing any kind of auto moderation.

That’s going very far on an imperfect technology. I’d sooner bet on autonomous driving than people using such a moderator.

deburo··on Microsoft Teams Premium: powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5
Very dystopian. It works well as farce, if it were one.
deburo··on Ask HN: Why are some Windows 11 keys so cheap?
hm, odd that they are not locale-locked, but maybe it's impossible to be sure of the origin of the activation request.
deburo··on History of Web Browser Engines from 1990 until today (2022)
Haha, I was interviewing for an internship in those years, and I remember asking the only webdev guy there if he thought he had the coolest job in the company (I sure thought that the web was better than Windows). The guy just looked at me like I was crazy.
deburo··on Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of homelessness
Indeed it can happen, imagine a state in which taxes are higher than elsewhere.
deburo··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
>Does this drug allow you to indulge without consequences or does it make you not want to eat?

Why wouldn't satiety drugs be helpful?

deburo··on For U.S. companies, the race for the new EV battery is on
Just look at what people said about Steve Jobs and Wozniak. There's no point in replying to these people, there are thousands of them and I don't think they care to be fair.
deburo··on The Twitter Files, Part Six
I agree. The ease of it all and for frivolous things.

And to think the gov tried to have a department of disinformation.

That’s how you divide the country even further.

deburo··on Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
The FDA regulates human trials though.
deburo··on TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia
Do you mean Apple should’ve built a fab instead of spending on buybacks?
deburo··on Trust in Musk or go federated with Nextcloud Social
There's still plenty of left-wing tech people on Twitter, althought they recently created their Mastodon account. I think they're waiting for the final nail in the coffin (a big outage ?), which may or may not come. And I'm on Twitter to follow them. Outrage is mainly not part of my feed unless those same tech people start ranting on Musk or what have you.
deburo··on Activist glues his head to glass covering 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting
>and has people talking about climate change

Not in this thread so far.

Neither in this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33309661

There's a few comments in this one discussing the climate, but mostly they are puzzled by the activists' method: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33268174

deburo··on Amazon CEO violated labor laws with union remarks, federal agency alleges
>The Amazon Labor Union, which filed an unfair-labor-practice charge with the NLRB over Jassy’s comments

Hm, it seems nothing has been debated so we don't know if and what's wrong specifically.

In another article:

>To resolve the complaint, Amazon can settle with the union or take the case before an administrative law judge in February.

deburo··on Dotfile madness (2019)
On Windows anyway, the root of the user profile is already filled with garbage directories, and so a few more dot-dirs and files feel par for the course. The advantage is that accessing your root dir is easier than typing out %appdata% in File Explorer.
deburo··on Never trust a system that seems to be working
Given that for non-city dwellers, interactions with transgenders are rarer than rare. Given that the assumption that anything non explicitly female is male is still very common. I suspect foone will be dealing with this issue for longer than they’d like.
deburo··on The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars
Oh. That's depressing. Maybe AI-augmented cars will perform better in that regard.
deburo··on The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars
It seems to have been approved only in 2018 in Canada, so we aren’t much better. It’s also merely an (apparently expensive) option, so we will have to live with careless high beam drivers for a while.
deburo··on The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars
Available in Europe since 2006? Why did it take so long for the US? LED lightbeams are so bright that high beams is almost unbearable for opposing cars.
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