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backend_dev82

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    Comment #49164553

    "... I don't enjoy reviewing AI-generated PRs. Poring over hundreds of lines of overly-defensive, badly-commented, subtly incorrect code is not fun. I might grudgingly do it for an…

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    Comment #49136408

    I kept hearing about meditation. And at one point I tried it. With one app that was given to me for free through my employer's benefits. It had a counter of your current uninterrup…

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    Comment #48886376

    I also recently got JBD2 compliant driver merged into GNU HURD's ext2, and I'm now improving documentation, and things like that. Here is the repo where the work was happening: htt…

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    Comment #48886351

    Yeah, perhaps its due to noone wants LLMs trained on their data for free. I don't know, at least for reddit there are still ways to get the data for free.

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    Comment #48885834

    Scraping. I applied for the token but never heard back. Reddit doesn't want new devs working on it.

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    Comment #48885646

    I am working on a reddit lead generator that pings you when someone wants a product like yours in real time, and It does so only when the intent is high. Was using this only for my…

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    Comment #48682418

    But as someone who sells Reddit leads, i can tell you first hand that Reddis has gotten more hostile to these kinds of self promotion as of late. Here is a nice write up from one o…

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    Comment #48675328

    Yeah, but he says customers 4-10, not the first and the second the third, he says use personal network for that, right?

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    Comment #48669286

    I guess I am very atypical. My first customer came from Reddit outreach, and also my second, and third and so on. None came from personal network (never really even tried that, may…

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    Comment #48593215

    Yeah I don't really use desktop systems any more. I just use a window manager and a few other things, and I'm happy with it

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    Comment #48566019

    So model drift is not really a thing?

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    Comment #48565933

    I heard from Ed Zitron that you can't really turn off "training" on these models even after they have been released because they need continuous re-training to keep up with the cha…

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    Comment #48565895

    FWIW I now use i3wm and some custom log off screen and rofi and ST and I am happy with it.

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    Comment #48565461

    Oh yeah, maybe 15-20 years ago, i started by Linux journey with Kubuntu, just because i loved how KDE looked, much better than the alternatives. Sadly it was not difficult to encou…

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    Comment #48506746

    That is a good question, and I got to say i do not know the answer. From what i have seen Hurd's goals is to actually end up using Rump kernels for a lot of things, and i think tha…

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    Comment #48505292

    I recently got this merged upstream and wanted to share the repository. Bolting a JBD2 WAL onto Gnu Hurd was an interesting learning experience

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    Comment #48456520

    Also I had a redis clone from before, but with AI i separated the epoll layer from the actual database engine which made it sort of embeddable. And hooked that embeddable database …

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    Comment #48456444

    Looking into twitter right now, it seems like the way to do it is with headless browsers, but they usually cost money. For reddit there used to be the json endpoints that you could…

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    Comment #48456415

    I created a realtime reddit lead generator. It scrapes reddit and looks for people that look like they would like to buy what im selling.

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    Comment #48456407

    I created a realtime lead generator that scraps Reddit and then looks for the people that seem like they would like to buy something that im selling.