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dudus

3,472 karma · joined January 2, 2011

Interests: AI, LLMs, Open Source, Startups, Technology, UI/UX Design, Web Development
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dudus··on WhenFS: Calendar Is Now a File System
Same here. I think that would be a terrific idea.

$ cat /cal/2024/08/04/events

dudus··on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days
Can you let the user bring their own API key?
dudus··on Yes, there are more driverless Waymos in S.F
Since Uber and Lyft make no money it's not a reasonable comparison, they are only cheap because they are financed by VC money. Uber and Lyft only exists today because there's an expectation that in a not so distant future they'll be able to replace all their pesky drivers that demand compensation and benefits for Waymos.
dudus··on Planet eBook: free literature for your device
If you are going to shove this amount of ads on your users how can you say it's "free"
dudus··on A Brief Note on the CrowdStrike Outage and "Tech Influencer" YouTube
The author need to name these channels, it doesn't match my experience watching YouTube.
dudus··on The workers have spoken: They're staying home
Why would US companies continue to pay US wages for people at home when there are remote people much cheaper in south America and Europe ?
dudus··on Typst: An easy to learn alternative for LaTex
Have you tried reportlab as well? It was a good solution when I had to deal with a similar problem many moons ago. Not quite the same volume you have but still.
dudus··on Can I? Tools
It hit me that there's a treasure trove of possible cool websites you can find just by looking at hostname and other DNS fields.
dudus··on Eight Years of GraphQL
I've veen reading about graphql forever and never understood it. Your comment finally made it click for me. Do you happen to have any more documentation around your method of working?
dudus··on Firing Myself
So a company gives junior engineers full access to a production database without backup so they can work on it developing features that require DDL SQL commands. I've seen it happen before, what I've never seen is someone blame the junior employee when things undoubtedly go south.

I'm not sure I even believe that part of the story. This was either a very disfunctional company or a looooong time ago.

dudus··on Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
Does that mean rewriting all the extensions to Rust? Or maybe CPython itself?

Would that be enough to make Python no gill viable?

dudus··on Automate Project Environments with Devbox and Direnv
This seems to be mostly a thin wrapper with a nice interface around nix-shell. Replaces Nix (the language) with this random json format inspired by node package.js. Keeps Nix packages.
dudus··on Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
FWIW I once tried and failed to compile Chrome. My machine didn't have enough RAM to compile chrome at the time. Even though it was able to fully compile any other software I threw at it.
dudus··on Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective
> It doesn't create an internal model of the problem given, it just guesses.

It's not entirely true. They often use some sort of memory/scratch-pad to keep a context other than previous tokens. This recent exploit lets you see claude's default prompt that have some references to this system.

https://youtu.be/AbPTz08oq58?si=7F5Lbbkxg99tr3FP

dudus··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Yes I did. So?
dudus··on Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?
Sounds like you'll be better served by obsidian. The free plan covers all those use cases and more
dudus··on Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
I can't speak for other people. But for myself I'd rather have it as a --option than another command. I dislike tools that install a lot of different commands, it just gets harder to remember them all.
dudus··on Wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files
MacOS comes with curl but no wget by default. Sure you can easily install it with homebrew. But it would be nice to have wget functionality by default.
dudus··on The Cheapest NAS
Synology sure provides an expensive but complete package for home office and enthusiasts.

Just buy it and be done with it. It's certainly more expensive than DIY it yourself using off the shelf components and things bought out of online classifieds. But for most people that have no interest in tinkering or don't know what to do, just paying the price of a complete solution might be worth it.

dudus··on Meta 3D Gen
SOTA text-to-image 5 years ago was complete garbage. Most people would think the same. Look how good it got now.

You have to look at this as stepping stone research.

dudus··on Working Title (Insurance)
The more I learn about real estate the less inclined I am in participating. I'll probably rent for the rest of my life.
dudus··on A Git story: Not so fun this time
I never heard the term porcelain before, but I liked this tidbit.

"In software development terminology, comparing low-level infrastructure to plumbing is hard to trace, but the use of “porcelain” to describe high-level packaging originated in the Git mailing list. To this day, Git uses the terms “plumbing” and “porcelain” to refer to low-level and high-level commands, respectively. "

Also, unrelated, the "Ruby people, strange people" video gave me a good chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlWx7oRk&t=1080s

dudus··on Aeon: OpenSUSE for Lazy Developers
Is SUSE still used by anyone other than SAP or other German businesses?
dudus··on gRPC: The Bad Parts
If I remember correctly the initial version allowed required fields but it caused all sorts of problems when trying to migrate protos because a new required fields breaks all consumers almost by definition. So updating protos in isolation becomes tricky.

The problem went away with all optional fields so it was decided the headache wasn't worth it.

dudus··on Coup Attempt in Bolivia
I wouldn't be surprised if a large part of the population support the coup.

South America has a history of military dictatorship but after the pendulum swings enough to the other side people seem to lose their memory a bit.

dudus··on Supreme Court strikes anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts
Corruption is a cancer. Once it takes hold it's hard to get rid. Countries in South America (Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela) and asian countries are known for high corruption.
dudus··on Supreme Court strikes anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts
It's a matter of optics and reflects the growing concern and distrust of the supreme Court in the current political US climate.

Justices are in the spotlight for improper and unreported gifts.

Anyone that's been in a large Corp knows a bit of bribing because of the yearly training you have to take.

The fact they brushed it off as nothing to worry about and now start to make changes that loose regulations is very concerning. Even if these changes don't affect them directly.

dudus··on Mozilla's Original Sin
I agree Mozilla should be building browsers, supporting open source and being active on the committees.

But I wouldn't choose DRM as the hill to die on. There's probably better examples of things Mozilla did wrong.

dudus··on VPN by Google One shuts down
The top reason in this case is not the right reason.

I think it is reasonable to offer a product that only tries to tackle the security side of vpn market.

For what is worth Google consumer VPN is not dead and lives on as a feature for pixel phones.

dudus··on Now is a good time to start a service business
AI increases productivity. If you are selling your time that means higher margins. It doesn't have to do everything. If it increases your productivity by 10% that is all profit.
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