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iamflimflam1
5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
Also, subscribe to our newsletter - https://makernews.substack.com/
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I can’t tell if this is a serious post or not…
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Good fun - and revealed how bad I am at chess. It seems to hang sometimes - playing on iPhone if that helps.
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Looks amazing. Some feedback on the website - black text on a dark grey background? I had to use reader mode.
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Small typo - “This is now all pretty much automated…”
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You’ll be joining a lot of other people doing exactly the same thing. The barriers to entry for this used to be slightly higher. You would have to write the script, read it out, edit any bloopers and …
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Just be aware that if your aim it to generate income it’s not a hobby anymore. Also remember that for every successful person making money online - there is a long tail of people grinding away making …
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Great advice above. I can’t emphasise enough how important it is to be in the companies finance system and also to be sending invoices to the right people.
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Invent a fictitious finance controller for your business. This “person” can be as angry/obnoxious as needed to get paid. And don’t be afraid to pass debts onto collection agencies - or at least t…
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Many of the senior devs who are so critical of newbies relying on AI to generate code would have started out copy and pasting from stack overflow. The level of gate keeping in our industry is pretty d…
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I think back to how I learned to program when I was child. Blindly copying things from magazines and books with little to no understanding of what I was doing. I see a lot of posts on forums stating t…
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If you are doing things “properly” then you have good evals that let you test the behaviour of different LLMs and see if they work for your problem. The vendors have all standardised on OpenAIs API su…
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Once you have the weights, actually running these models is easy . The code is not complicated - they are just huge in terms of memory requirements. Deep learning has now been around for a long time. …
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Joking obviously!
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Well yes - best to make that part somebody else’s problem :)
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For me just starting is the best way. So many people see a big project and get trapped in analysis paralysis.
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Credit cards used to be used for offline payments - the cashier would take an imprint of the card and it would all be processed later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_…
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Very true. But ORMs did make it particularly easy to trigger N+1 selects. It used to be a very common pitfall - and often not at all obvious. You’d grab a collection of objects from the ORM, process t…
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Electronics and liquids are just not a great combination. Unless of course you stick to pure alcohol or distilled water…
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Would define MS-DOS as an operating system?
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What would be your definition of an OS?
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I’m probably missing it - but are there any instructions on how to add support for another board?
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This is how good legislation works. Good legislators let it be known that a situation is unacceptable and that legislation is coming. Good companies respond to that and start to align with the legisla…
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Back then being white and nerdy was a super power. Probably a lot tougher for non white and non male.
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> - IMO it makes you a better/gentler person. I don't hold grudges because I can't be arsed to remember why exactly I was mad at someone. Something I have to keep reminding people. T…
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Successful outcome - we are really clever, what a great decision we made. What foresight we had. Bad outcome - nothing to do with our decision, external events that we could never have foreseen are at…