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Re:Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:54AM (#48500724)
for me it's a most disappointing model release ever. It takes a very long, runs bunch of random commands and burns through so many tokens even for simple tasks
Re:I wish GPT4 had never happened on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:14PM (#35495413)
Actually, I think we are living in the most equal times ever. Don't get me wrong the situation is very bad especially if one belongs to any minority group but the wealth is divided more equally than any time in the history before
My Amazon interview was cancelled as interviewer got ill. It was never rescheduled
Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:16AM (#33785735)
>I’m an American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local ads

The number of travelers in foreign countries are so low compared to local population that I don't think it even makes sense for Google to optimize ads for people like that

Re:My Overemployment Story on Friday November 25, 2022 @08:58AM (#33742409)
It's an extremelly low effort post. How did it even make into the frontpage? Upvotes by bots?

Ask HN: Is having a personal blog/brand worth it for you?

I'm curious if people here find blogging as a valuable activity from the following perspectives: - Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you? - Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities? - Do you learn something new from it?Personally, I tried writing in some blogging platforms (medium, dev.to etc), then moved to self hosted solution with Hugo but honestly it was too...

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Re:Crypto: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:02AM (#29821565)
>Every time I dig into crypto I find things that seem stupid, or useless, or actively bad. But so many people are into it!

During my time in tech I've only knew two people who held crypto. However, I've know a lot of people(myself included) who got into crypto, got dissilusioned by the promises, and after seeing that nothing they promissed actually arrived left.

5 Years ago I've heard how crypto is going to be a killer usecase for e-commerse, banking, and even cloud computing but no actual work was ever done to acomplish these goals

Re:A Note About Recruiters on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:59PM (#29101599)
The worst mistake I made was accepting linkedin invites from recruiters. I expected that it will increase my chances to get offered some kind of job but most of them never even wrote to me. And my linkedin absolutely filled with spam
Re:Windows Package Manager 1.1 on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:22PM (#28832610)
Wow, I've just tried it and it's really good. As mentioned in the article, I already had winget in my PC. So I was able to use winget upgrade and it listed all the apps that I can upgrade(None of them were installed using winget but it still worked).

It's a huge improvement over downloading new version of VLC from their website for example.In total it upgraded 10 applications. The only annoying thing was that it still had to open GUI installers for updating applications. I'm also not sure how does it handle applications that are currently open during the update

Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:55AM (#27995386)
I've noticed another trend recently where it seems that some websites write content for google SEO instead of optimized for human readability. E.g.: I've seen my exact search phrase repeated mutiple times and then a very long article about the topic when what I searched was a simple question with a few words answer.
Have you seen Kelsey's Hightower demo where he used s3 event as a trigger for Google Cloud Function? You can already use serverless providers that abstract your function from the provider, but of course in that case you're locked to that specific vendor.

Also, no licence stops you from migrating from Lambda at any moment. Other Companies have you to pay enormous licencing fees and lock you for a one year contract or even longer.

Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @10:51AM (#19144469)
The problem isn't Firefox. The problem is chrome. Since it has a biggest market share and most of the web developers use it. Websites tend to be more optimized for Chromium engine than Firefox. I moved to Firefox and Gmail and other google apps work terribly slow. I'm trying to find a new email provider now . Does anyone have recommendations?
Re:The Raspberry Pi store is much cooler than an Apple Store on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:35AM (#19133131)
with 1 order per customer and £3 shipping fee
Re:Jabra: we know our Bluetooth headsets don’t work with laptops on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:14PM (#19098638)
I also have a Jabra headset. I bought it from Amazon I chatted to amazon support about the issues I have with it and they told me to keep a headset and issued a full refund
Re:Google's 'two-tier' workforce training document on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @11:26AM (#18665205)
A lot of guys have their own businesses that they use for contracting
Re:Sorry, upgrading your Dropbox Business plan will take 11 months on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:31PM (#18554825)
Have you tried https://blendle.com/ you can read wsj articles there
Re:HashiCorp has raised $100 million in Series D funding on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:40AM (#18362550)
Except the fact that multi cloud doesnt work and I don't think it will. It adds too much complexity also costs are the big issue too since clouds price data transfer out quite heavily
Re:Instapaper is going independent on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:39PM (#17543793)
Instapaper is still not available to users in EU. It's been to months. I started to use Pocket because of this and now I don't think I'm coming back.
How much influence with his stock will the github founder have in this case?
Re:Hello, GitHub on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:51PM (#17230880)
So you tell that people trust private company which was loosing money since the creation better than Microsoft with all of its reputation at stake?
Re:Pocket Casts acquired by NPR on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:47PM (#16991017)
I agree overcast is miles ahead of pocketcasts.It protects privacy of the users, smart speed is awesome (removing silences and thus saving tons of time) and app is not laggy as pocketcasts was
Re:Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:19PM (#16496459)
haha, I have a guy like this in my job. He won't do ANYTHING that couldn't be represented in a promotion document. Which is annoying but at the same time he is always successful with his promotions
Re:MINIX: ​Intel's hidden in-chip operating system on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @03:21PM (#15647156)
What a terribly writen article! Sure intel me is a terrible thing but all this fake information about minix being slow and obscure makes this article a joke
so microkernel is finally a thing!
If you care about diversity stop interviewing on these stupid algorithmic questions! Getting a job literally depends on buying the cracking the coding interview book and solving these stupid problems. I know some of my course mates who worked on very interesting projects but couldn't get a job because they couldn't white board a tree balancing problem :D
What happens when all extremist websites move to TOR at least now governments can monitor them. But with these extreme laws they are just going to start to use more secure communication channels
Re:Privacy on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:31PM (#15360471)
When I was younger I hated apple for what I thought was overpriced products, but then I realised that I was simply a product to Google. After switching to Apple I never looked back. I hope that it can keep it's standards and keep delivering good products
Re:TensorFlow Examples for Beginners with Latest APIs on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:03PM (#15342057)
Or you can use amazon mechanical turk to get everything classified by people
Re:Introducing Surface Laptop on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:32PM (#14248504)
If this laptop can run Linux I'm buying it
Re:Learning to Think Like a Computer on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @08:23AM (#14031739)
> At Stanford, Princeton and Tufts, computer science is now the most popular major.

In my times, comp-sci was only studied by geeks and wierdos. Glad that the steriotypes have changed and it became more popular

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