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DJHenk

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About DJHenk

For more information about me, see: https://erikwinter.nl

Recent public activity

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    Comment #43879367

    My guess: no-one needs it. Originally, iframe were the solution, like the posts mentions. By the time iframes became unfashionable, nobody was writing HTML with their bare hands an…

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    Comment #43745587

    > More and more I start to realize that cost saving is a small problem for local LLMs. If it is too slow, it becomes unusable, so much that you might as well use public LLM endpoin…

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    Comment #43703009

    Still, it burns money like nothing has in history.

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    Comment #43703001

    'Wildly optimistic' is a very fitting categorization for Altman/OpenAI.

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    Comment #43341411

    That is not relevant to the argument. Censoring limits possibilities. While that sometimes has its uses, the overly puritanical approach American companies generally take degrades …

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    Comment #43341104

    The argument is that it simply improves the product. For instance, Github Copilot is apparently refusing to do anything with variable names like "trans" and anything related to sex…

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    Comment #43277456

    The regular forges have just as many obstacles. You have to register an account, figure out whether the button you need is 'Pull Request' or 'Merge Request', and what the exact flo…

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    Comment #42936218

    I think bundling links is better than just throwing one out whenever you find it. If you get one link at a random time, you probably skip it. Unless you are a dopamine addict, in w…

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    Comment #42654765

    > I do find it interesting that so many people have such great problems with their searches Even ignoring the quality of the results, the idea that people refuse to pay 10 dollars …

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    Comment #42026066

    Because you cannot freely say no to that. They have authority over you. Even if they promise it won't affect their opinion of you, you never know if that is actually true. So you a…

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    Comment #41472402

    Ads are a cancer. They take valuable resources from legitimate functionality just to multiply and multiply, until the host is starved to death.

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    Comment #39861291

    Monero is nine years old, Bitcoin is fifteen years old. I looked up the history of the credit card on Wikipedia to see how fast that caught on. It seems it had a slow start as well…

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    Comment #39612934

    For extra fun, add a rewrite rule to change every result from reddit.com to old.reddit.com: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html

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    Comment #39463869

    > I thought that the dutch would be more ... modern? As a Dutchman: no, we are not when it comes to businesses software. Dutch companies are very conservative and always choose the…

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    Comment #39454254

    > Ironic. Not at all. When you're the underdog, it makes perfect sense to be open because you can profit from the work of the community and gain market share. Only after establishi…

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    Comment #39370338

    > Is it really the same input? An argument could easily be made that as you’ve gotten accustomed to ChatGPT, you ask harder questions, use less descriptive of language, etc. I don'…

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    Comment #39368631

    > I'm almost certain this is because you're getting use to chat bots. How would they honestly be getting worse? People say that, but I don't get this line of reasoning. There was s…

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    Comment #38683978

    > I think this should be of particular importance to the US which has fudamental rights protecting freedom of expression. It is important for everyone in the world and most nations…

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    Comment #37368370

    > Why is discord any different than other platforms like office365 or AWS? Do you feel the same about companies using those platforms as well? The difference is that Microsoft and …

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    Comment #37347100

    I tried something like this with the LinkedIn timeline, where they suggest a popular post from a stranger "Because you are interested in topic X". You can indicate that you are, in…

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    Comment #37031778

    > What is this article about? It is not an article, it is an essay. Wikipedia defines an "informal essay" as: characterized by "the personal element (self-revelation, individual ta…

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    Comment #36628113

    > Most of peoples' problem is watching the AI type, it's not instant, but then not all (or even most) applications need to be instant. You can also avoid that by having it return e…

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    Comment #36476119

    > You’ll cave eventually, they know this. I caved in years ago and registered. Only to find out that the site was still horribly broken and it was impossible to get any information…

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    Comment #36367973

    > This is insane. So that rain doesn’t destroy it? So that spilling a drink doesn’t destroy it? So that dropping it in the toilet doesn’t destroy it? If rain destroys your phone th…