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dudus

3,471 karma · joined January 2, 2011

Interests: AI, LLMs, Open Source, Startups, Technology, UI/UX Design, Web Development
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dudus··on Optimizing Beer Glass Shapes to Minimize Heat Transfer – New Results
These look awesome. But they cost $10 compared to the 25c of the Nadir. The Nadir is also crazy strong.
dudus··on ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project
The difference in this case is intent.

Did the employee have the intent to cause damage? If so just fire him/her.

dudus··on WireGuard Performance with a Pi Zero (2019)
The Lenovo Thinkcentre M series tiny or a HP mini are the sweet spot for me.

For less than $200 you can get a used one with 16GB of RAM and a fast SSD.

For home servers I want low power usage and reliability. Mine idle at 5W running proxmox.

dudus··on Inkscape 1.4
This should be an export option or at least some sort of plug-in
dudus··on Possible futures for the Ethereum protocol, part 2: The Surge
ETH doesn't scale. This is not surprising or new. Then they use secondary chains to batch transactions so they can backup on chain less often.

What seems to be new here is that these secondary chains that already exist are getting integrated into ETH while still being a separate chain.

So after reinventing a database they are implementing sharding on top of it which to me seems like trailing already walked paths that will guide you nowhere new.

The result is a less flexible and more complex system that attenuates but doesn't solve the scaling issue.

dudus··on Meta's open AI hardware vision
Very impressive. Not sure if worth $40 Billion. But very impressive nonetheless.
dudus··on Six transplant patients in Brazil contract HIV from infected organs
Freedom of expression is guaranteed in Brazil. In general people feel free to speak and that hasn't changed.

What has become a crime is the spread of misinformation in the form of fake news. For the most part these are still legislated fairly IMHO. But the precedent feels a bit dangerous

dudus··on Nearly all of the Google Images results for "Baby Peacock" are AI generated
AI is not a "species" in any sense of the word.
dudus··on Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more
I use it and find it very helpful. Never tried cursor or copilot though
dudus··on Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games
While this seems counterintuitive Mac makes it very convoluted to release on their platform. To the point that the low sales really don't justify. Here's a video from a game dev driving this home

https://youtube.com/shorts/qRQX9fgrI4s?si=Wg2NkJlo8r0kd9NC

dudus··on One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Excel (2016)
I had a different interpretation of the video you linked. It seems to me even a backwards bicycle is perfectly drivable as long as you adjust you mental model.

In that sense the excel UI doesn't make sense only for those not used to it. Which might be a nice analogy

dudus··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
The extra optical zoom has been THE defining feature that pushes PRO to most users. It's a feature enjoyed by anyone and everyone.
dudus··on Htmx, Raku and Pico CSS
I must be a masochist because I love FE frameworks. I love learning them and comparing them. I love how they are changing all the time and things are always improving somehow. What was great 10 years ago now are ridiculous to think about, What is great now will be completely forgotten in a couple years time. It's beautiful and maddening at the same time.

My favorite stack right now is Astro + SolidJS. Maybe it'll change next week. Who knows?

dudus··on I hate ChatGPT and stackoverflow and nothing can help me code anymore
He says he is already banned from SO, probably for a good reason
dudus··on Judges rule Big Tech's free ride on Section 230 is over
You are directly responsible for everything they say and legally liable for any damages it may cause. Or not IANAL
dudus··on Many small queries are efficient in SQLite
And even being this simple and having clear challenges it's worth using it for the latency gains.
dudus··on Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem
Ask about price match. Often times they are happy to match the price with Amazon as long as it's shipped from Amazon.
dudus··on A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily
The key here is tested daily. The last time I wanted some sample data api it took me way too long to find one because all the ones that were recommended to me were deprecated. It's really tough to keep a free api up, because there's no incentives. You can't sell ads on it.
dudus··on Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase
While it seems inflexible at first this system is surprisingly capable and provides great DX, one of the best things about working with firestore.
dudus··on Rye and Uv: August Is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
You still have dependencies. But they are included in the repo.

What happens when you have 2 different apps in your monorepo but one uses an older version of Django and wasn't upgraded yet. The monorepo doesn't handle that automatically, you need tooling. It's not as black and white as you say.

dudus··on Google's 'Reimagine' tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to photos
So does every other technology that ever existed. Every tool can be used for illicit purposes if the user wants to.

Where exactly do you draw the line of where it's "too easy" to create a disturbing image? Knowing this will likely be the line where it's "too easy" to create any image.

dudus··on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
They are both entitled to their decision. And I certainly wouldn't blame either X or Google for leaving in that situation. Even though I disagree with you it's the same circumstances.

What I'm saying is that everyone loses when that happens.

dudus··on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders
Xitter is full of spam and fake news.

Elon decided to take the company in this direction where everything is fair game. Things just got worse.

If Xitter isn't going to up their game the legal system has to jump in and do it for them. It's not going to be pretty.

Now Elon is taking their ball home. Closing the offices, firing hundreds, burning bridges.

It's a power move where everyone loses but his ego.

dudus··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
The 20 bucks a month is actually for 2TB of storage. Gemini advanced is just a plus.

https://one.google.com/about/plans

dudus··on Mistral Agents
The LLM works great for this use case for doctors in Brazil where a lot of the scheduling happens in WhatsApp. Hooking up a WhatsApp bot to chatgpt and Google calendar is incredibly powerful
dudus··on The spinning ATR plane crash in Brazil
At the end he says...

"So… icing by itself likely cannot be the cause of the recent accident in Brazil."

dudus··on .INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications
Great question. I think they leak but this happens regardless.
dudus··on Jake Seliger has died
What happens to his hacker News account? What about email account, cloud servers, etc ...?

I know Google has a nice tool to share your account after you are gone, as for the rest, I have no plans.

Anyone has good suggestions on managing one's own digital legacy?

dudus··on Mistral Agents
Doctors are already using agents for scheduling. These agents can access calendar and talk to patients to arrange scheduling, changes, conflicts etc
dudus··on WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System
Why not enable both modes? It's a virtual filesystem after all. You don't need a single path per event.
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