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Re:On Contagion (2019) – Boris Cherny on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:34AM (#49785435)
Interesting that this was written close to the pandemic beginning!
It's been years I've been wondering if I should buy a reMarkable, or if it's just another gadget.

This might be the reason I finally do it. Thanks for such a cool demo.

Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @07:43AM (#44645677)
Couldn't agree more. I guess we _are_ getting old after all.

I've been using git since ~2014, never really thought about changing it: it's clear, well documented, and ok difficult learning curve but hey that's the fun part.

Re:Jujutsu for Busy Devs on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @07:42AM (#44645668)
Don't want to sound old school, but git works perfectly fine.

The learning curve might be a bit difficult, but afterwards everything makes sense. And let's be honest, you just need a few actions (pull, add, reset, branch, commit) to use it in 95% of the cases.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023) on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:06AM (#35436529)
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It looks pretty neat! Just wondering, what other languages are supported? English seems pretty natural as it is where GPT-3 thrives, but have you been able to support other languages as well?
Very much agree. I took RAW pictures with my Nikon on a christmas party, and even took the time to properly develop and adjust them.

Still, people complained on how "old and bad" their faces looked (in pretty normal pics, nothing fancy). I attribute this to the fact that everybody is now used to phones completely editing faces and smoothing skin and adding saturation, etc., which makes us more "instagramable" although less human.

Re:GitHub is down on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:22AM (#28945737)
Well actually there was an outage.

Check https://www.githubstatus.com

Re:GitHub is down on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:19AM (#28945686)
Up again.
Re:GitHub is down on Thursday October 21, 2021 @11:18AM (#28945679)
I got their error page for a good 5 minutes.

But yes, it's up again.

Bad colleagues tend to come to you with far more problems than solutions. Any colleague that is constantly complaining about everything, but never suggesting solutions (nor wanting to discuss them) is a major flag IMO.

Best colleagues I have had would point out something to be fixed / improved, and immediately suggest a tentative solution. Worst colleagues would just blame others (major red flag) for any issue they encounter, and never put energy in solving them.

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:13PM (#25002647)
Intellij is definitely an amazing tool, but if you are comparing it to Vim, then I don't believe it is a correct nor fair comparison.

Vim is not an IDE, and adding an infinite amount of plugins with the purpose of making it IDE-like, then complaining about how slow it is and how much it crashes, and how much better a proper IDE is, is IMHO a misconception of the true power of such a tool like Vim.

Re:Yann LeCun on GPT-3 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:32AM (#24907794)
You can find the study Yann was commenting here https://www.nabla.com/blog/gpt-3/

Is Facebook down?

I'm getting a lot of "Service unavailable" when trying to access it, and an extremely slow navigation if I am ever able to get in...

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Re:Janus WebRTC Server on Sunday May 31, 2020 @04:52PM (#23372630)
How hard is to use Janus for a media server in the SFU paradigm? Or where could I find a good example?

We currently use Kurento for the easiness of usage + the Java client, but we have been wondering about other solutions like Janus.

Re:Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:50AM (#23232374)
I was asking about differences in the features they support, and results in real life experiences.

Also, I don't agree with Kurento being dead (off topic, but hey). It is still being maintained and works perfectly well for modern applications.

Re:Mediasoup – WebRTC video conferencing on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @01:55AM (#23231672)
Has anybody compared MediaSoup with Kurento? https://www.kurento.org/
Re:Highlights from Git 2.23 on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:43PM (#20721638)
On the one hand I'm happy on the new "switch" and "restore" commands. On the other hand I wonder if they truly add any value other than the semantic distinction of functions otherwise present in "checkout".

I tend to prefer smaller vocabularies tools: less to remember if you know what you are doing.

Re:Google Photos is making photos semi-public on Saturday July 13, 2019 @12:43PM (#20428887)
Every uuid image link would be public, but virtually private. You would need to know the exact link to see the image.

Can't see how this is different from images stored in FB or other services.

There's no reason to panic, guessing the URL's is (virtually) impossible.