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AltruisticGapHN
·7 дней назад·discuss
Completely misleading title.
AltruisticGapHN
·18 дней назад·discuss
All I know is I used to have full on colds during winter in my 20s to early 30s, like every winter I would get two weeks of runny nose till the skin became red and irritated, sore and painful throat, coughing, etc. Since I take 25000 IU (D-Cure in Belgium) like 2-3 times a month during winter for the past 15+ years my cold last 2-3 days and symptoms are much more mild. For me the data is there.
AltruisticGapHN
·19 дней назад·discuss
We need a new term like appslop
AltruisticGapHN
·27 дней назад·discuss
Damn. I set up a 2vCPU 4GB RAM VPS on Linode for my web app (Linode 4GB). Was ready to move there. Then I found Hetzner has servers in the US and I could get more for my budget (~30$/month). Not anymore!

CPX22 (2vCPU 4GB) seems to be the exact same price as Linode 4GB (24$/month).

Linode dashboard is really good.
AltruisticGapHN
·27 дней назад·discuss
YouTube seems a little much. Plenty of examples of bright kids who learn coding or electronics at a very young age, no doubt having access to YT is a big part of it.

Hmm I guess those kids would use their parents account or something like that.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I've never had to configure anything in uBO, it works great out of the box.

Therefore uBOL experience is practically the same. I haven't seen a single ads in months of browsing.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
The UI is just better overall. Ever since Chrome came out with the "unified search bar" imho Firefox was behind in usability. Firefox just follows. Like recently didn't they add tab groups after Chrome implemented them?

Isn't Brave based on Chrome?

Personally I think it is really stupid to choose a browser based on privacy. I choose a browser based on usability. Whats the selling point of Brave? That it hides ads?

Safari's OK if you're on Mac. I'm on Windows 11. Chrome looks tight, the tabs look great, my bookmarks bar looks great and I can fit a ton of bookmark folders on there. Firefox looks worse in almost every way.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Because Chrome is the better browser, lelz.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
uBlock Origin Lite works just as well. I don't see any ads anywhere. My experience has not changed one yota.

People just like to rage against Google.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/...

It's even available on iOS, I have it running in Safari
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
That's awesome. I wish there was like a "raw code" option like on many icons sites you can just copy the SVG.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Superb site. Just annoying in the Infinite View it keeps opening random pages when I just want to drag and scroll.
AltruisticGapHN
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
I don't like how most LLM explainer articles and videos say that essentially a LLM " predicts the next word".

I'm a developer but not very good at maths and I still don't understand any of it.

A LLM clearly has some "visual" capacity. You ask Gemini to build something with Canvas and it's able to reason about the shape of things. Like recently I waanted a checkbox that has like a gradient flowing around the edge. It figured out it could use a radial gradient from the center of the checkbox, and overlay that with a small inner div so you only see the edge that looks like the gradient is circling around the checkbox.

How is that "predicting the next word"?

Not saying AI is intelligent or conscious or anything like that, but the algorithm clearly is far more complex than "predicting words".

What I mean, is the LLM is able to represent things in space . That part I don't understand.

I also still dont understand the relationship between the chat based LLM and the multi modal stuff. I think I read somewhere when image is generated it is also tokens?
AltruisticGapHN
·2 месяца назад·discuss
I mean Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use and it extends the LTS support of 5 years so a total of 10 years afaik.
AltruisticGapHN
·2 месяца назад·discuss
What's the big deal?

https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-cli

They just revamped Gemini CLI. Plus it gets the harness of Antigravity, seems like a straight up upgrade to me?
AltruisticGapHN
·2 месяца назад·discuss
Talk about patience...
AltruisticGapHN
·3 месяца назад·discuss
> No more keyboards or mouse support for iPads.

Pretty sure there are students at Uni using iPads with keyboard. It's smaller form factor than a laptop.
AltruisticGapHN
·3 месяца назад·discuss
This is insanely good. But wow, prompting to get any one of these images is way more complicated than prompting Claude Code. There is a ton of vocabulary that comes with it relating to the camera, the lighting, the mood etc.
AltruisticGapHN
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I agree. I think of AI as a search engine on steroids.

But I think it IS the best way to search for information, to be able to put a question in natural language. I'm always amazed just how exactly on-point the answer is.

I mean even the best of docs out there that have a great search bar like the Vue docs still only matches your search term and surfaces relevant topics.
AltruisticGapHN
·4 месяца назад·discuss
I'm 51 now and I feel like I will never be an adult. Looking around I see a lot of broken people, each in their own peculiar ways. Everyone has some coping mechanisms, triggers, and behaviours rooted in childhood. I don't see it in a bad light, I think it is just humanity.
AltruisticGapHN
·4 месяца назад·discuss
"some people apparently exist who need to support ES3 - think IE6/7, or extremely early versions of Node.js"

Seriously what kind of business today needs to support ES3 browsers? Even banking sites should refuse to run on such old devices out of security concerns.