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rad_gruchalski··on Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names
Who decides when one has too many of something?
rad_gruchalski··on AI Hallucination Cases Database
Ignorance is easy to hide behind many words.
rad_gruchalski··on AI Hallucination Legal Cases Database
Ignorance clusters easily. You’ll have no problem finding alike.
rad_gruchalski··on The Newark airport crisis
Close down the toilets. Poof, problem gone. Think about applying to DOGE. They may like your ideas.
rad_gruchalski··on Denmark to raise retirement age to 70
Not everyone sits on a bazillion tons of natural gas and oil. Also, there are 5.5 million people in Norway. Though, Denmark is almost the same population, they have no bazillion tons of oil and natural gas. See the problem?
rad_gruchalski··on Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)
Apparently

> It has totally separate civil construction and worker safety rules.

rad_gruchalski··on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
A GmbH is s for-profit company. They have a managing director, shareholders, … ultimately it’s a for—profit org established on an insider-level knowledge and good luck creating a competitive business to the one of those players. Case in point: Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH.
rad_gruchalski··on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
But why focus on the car only? To me it would be interesting to know where has the driver got the driver license from. Or if they have a medical condition. Or maybe they have a stiff neck on the day of the accident. Were they distracted by children?

I’m probably failing to see the difference between Peugeot 208 or Renault 5 being involved in an accident. What insights could one expect from this info?

rad_gruchalski··on Is Winter Coming? (2024)
> Why is that the standard? I, a human, can’t handle driving in Mumbai.

Aren’t you confusing “navigating” vs “driving”?

rad_gruchalski··on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
I have so many issues with German “sovereign” initiatives founded as GmbH companies. This feels so uncompetitive.
rad_gruchalski··on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
What’s wrong with that?
rad_gruchalski··on France Endorses UN Open Source Principles
Why is it even relevant what car was involved in an accident?
rad_gruchalski··on High Available Mosquitto MQTT on Kubernetes
> without the pseudocontroller

I am making an assumption. I assume that you mean the deployment. The deployment is responsible for individual pods. If a pod goes away, the deployment brings a new pod in. The deployment controls individual pods.

To answer your question: yes, you can simply create pods without the deployment. But then you are fully responsible for their lifecycle and failures. The deployment makes your life easier.

rad_gruchalski··on Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit
Your original post:

> That's to do with (inter)national regulations, regulations which can be changed by politicians. Pilots can choose another career if they dislike being monitored at their jobs. There will be other people willing to become pilots.

You haven’t asked any questions and haven’t made any argument. If you want to have a discussion, make an attempt at having a discussion.

The “if they don’t like it they can go and others will come” is the same populist argument Musk and Trump use all the time. Zero attempt at understanding why things are the way they are.

By the way, tell me where I throw insults around.

rad_gruchalski··on Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit
They have their say because on that aircraft they are the highest authority. You ain’t flying without them and you cannot train a replacement within a quarter.
rad_gruchalski··on Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit
Mmm… “hey, it looks like you are distracted, how about you stop and have a coffee break” during an emergency while on a final approach might not be what you want.
rad_gruchalski··on Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
Can the QA team? How does the dev/staging environment help writing less buggy code?
rad_gruchalski··on Fixrleak: Fixing Java Resource Leaks with GenAI
But can you leetcode heh.
rad_gruchalski··on Lufthansa plane flown by autopilot after pilot faints in cockpit
It was flown by an autopilot before the pilot fainted. As it was after they brought him back. My sarcastic response to this line is “I fucking hope it was, imagine the mess if it didn’t”.

The main problem is, there was one guy in the cockpit.

rad_gruchalski··on Getting AI to write good SQL
Wow, you can now pay to have „engineers” being overruled by artificial „intelligence”? People who have no idea are now going to be corrected by an LLM which has no idea by design. Look, even if it gets a lot of things right it’s still trickery.

I get popcorn and wait for more work coming my way 5 years down the road. Someone will have tidy this mess up and gen-covid will have lost all ability to think on their own by then.

rad_gruchalski··on Getting AI to write good SQL
You must be confusing „intelligence” with „statistically most probable next word”.
rad_gruchalski··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
There are 5 million people living in Norway and you have 10 parties in the parliament? Talk about divided country.
rad_gruchalski··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
yet it has nothing to do with Proton and everything to do with encryption and the reason why you hear the name Proton is because they open their mouth
rad_gruchalski··on Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo – Open and Process CSVs Locally
And on operating systems other than Windows...
rad_gruchalski··on PDF to Text, a challenging problem
Yes, pdf.js can do that: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/master/web/viewer.htm....

The purpose of my original comment was to simply say: there’s an existing implementation so if you’re building a pdf file viewer/editor, and you need inspiration, have a look. One of the reasons why mozilla is doing this is to be a reference implementation. I’m not sure why people are upset with this. Though, I could have explained it better.

rad_gruchalski··on PDF to Text, a challenging problem
Yeah. What I’m saying: pdf.js seems to have some of these solved. All I’m suggesting is have a look at it. I get it that for some PDF is a broken format.
rad_gruchalski··on PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem
I don’t know. I use pdf.js for everything PDF.
rad_gruchalski··on PDF to Text, a challenging problem
You are wrong. Pdf.js can extract text and has all facilities required to render and extract formatting. The latest version can also edit PDF files. It’s basically the same engine as the Firefox PDF viewer. Which also has a document outline, search, linking, print preview, scaling, scripting sandbox… it does not simply „render” a file.

Regarding tables, this here https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdf-table-extractor does a very good job at table interpretation and works on top of pdf.js.

I also didn’t say what works better or worse, neither do I go into PDF being good or bad.

I simply said that a ton of problems have been covered by

rad_gruchalski··on PDF to Text, a challenging problem
So many of these problems have been solved by mozilla pdf.js together with its viewer implementation: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/.
rad_gruchalski··on Just use HTML
You’re making stuff up. You should try your luck as a non sci-fi writer. Thanks for your psychoanalysis. Don’t think too much. It doesn’t seem to work anyway…

You have your answers at the fingertips and yet you choose to make shit up. Like I thought, you’re an ignorant person who has a desire to judge others. You do live in a bubble, indeed.

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