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alastairr

161karma·106submissions·March 23, 2023
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Just a list of links to some wonderful dharma podcast meditation episodes. I made it for myself, but maybe some others here will find it useful!
8mo ago·view thread
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yep, same for me and unable to use the API either
9mo ago·view thread
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I agree, though it's hard to tell what people outside the tech sphere are signalling about what they think about the tech - many seem to be pretty positive about chatgpt. What concerns me is that…
9mo ago·view thread
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This is incredibly shallow, and feels almost bordering on a type of delusion. Even if you agree that all labour _could_ be automated, it's highly debatable whether you'd want it to be. A lot…
9mo ago·view thread
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Vodafone & O2 / VM are separate entities I think. In fact, 3 is being merged into Vodafone. Regardless, hard to know how to have a good backup, maybe starlink ;)
10mo ago·view thread
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I'm not sure that would necessarily have helped. My regular sim was on another network (giff gaff), that was down. Went out and bought a pay-and-go sim on yet another network (EE) - no dice the…
10mo ago·view thread
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which country do you propose Russians ought to move to such that they are no longer complicit with some other government's malfeasance? Russia is not the only country that under your logic you m…
10mo ago·view thread
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Love this! Something I've been working on that is a bit similar https://blognerd.app/?qry=AI+research+llms&type=sites&conten... you can search for blogs with feeds, and …
10mo ago·view thread
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Isn't 'agentic search' just another form of RAG? information still gets retrieved and added to the prompt, even if the 'prompt' is levels down in the product and not visible …
10mo ago·view thread
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I think this article misses the point. I don't think many engineers are averse to collaborating, advocating for their work and using soft skills. Politics also entails lots of complex human relat…
10mo ago·view thread
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https://blognerd.app/ A little search engine I'm building for RSS fans, lets you - create custom RSS feeds via search query API - search RSS feeds / blog posts - find simila…
10mo ago·view thread
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Thanks and also thanks for the pointer to karakeep, it looks great and very relevant to this!
10mo ago·view thread
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I agree, and I think intent behind the code is the most important part in missing context. You can sometimes infer intent from code, but usually code is a snapshot of an expression of an evolving inte…
10mo ago·view thread
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I collect a lot of feeds, I see each of these a lot. It'd be great if there was a service to politely notify the site owner, as I'm sure many don't realize their feed is broken / i…
11mo ago·view thread
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Interested to hear any more on this. I've been using pinecone for ages, but they recently increased the cost floor for serverless. I've been thinking of moving everything to pgvector (1M ish…
11mo ago·view thread
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Enough, but for what? Enough implies some satisfied state on which this advice intends to be on the trajectory of.
11mo ago·view thread
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Where do you suppose AI overviews get their source from? The problem here is Google is now inserting itself between a business' user and the business' content. I'm not saying that was a…
1y ago·view thread