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danpetrov

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About danpetrov

I am a software engineer working in social game development. Have a background in software testing and computer vision, mostly work with Erlang and Elixir these days for work and personal projects.

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    Sadly completely unusuable for our usecase - if you are targeting Enterprise, you should know better than to use OpenAI models as the only LLM available. For now I will stick to Pr…

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    Nice! Although the naming could be a bit better, because I cannot be the only one who thought that this has to do with https://matrix.org

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    Comment #29748793

    Telegram is great if you like shiny native features like stickers and having lightweight native clients, but at everything else Telegram is at risk of losing in the long-term. The …

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    Comment #29747447

    Wow that is really cool!

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    Comment #29564824

    Emacs Lisp is totally usable as a minimal scripting language outside of the regular Emacs context. You can compile Emacs without any GUI toolkit support and run it heedlessly as a …

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    Comment #29229048

    That's the thing, ideally you would perform a test for every single service that you use directly to their network. In my previous company where we were doing live broadcast, we wo…

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    Comment #29228844

    Huh interesting, works fine on my 2018 Intel MBP. Surprising to see a bug like this on the newest models.

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    Comment #29227044

    There is also "networksetup", which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with network configuration. Useful if you want to e.g. automate VPN network switching or location…

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    Comment #28474983

    I have been studying programming since my early childhood years, because apparently I had decent logic skills and parents in the city would sign up kids for this private math and p…

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    The Elixir core team has been knocking it out of the park recently with features that developers actually care about, especially the developer experience like the IEx shell and err…

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    Interesting project! A while back I made something similar in Clojure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23257195 One tip - I noticed that you use XPath selector and send click …

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    Comment #27131776

    Erlang already comes with a distributed DBMS called Mnesia https://erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html , which under the hood uses ETS/DETS depending on the configuration. In distribute…

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    Comment #23269638

    Nice! It will will the award in speed, but not in the amount of fuel it wasted :D

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    Heh, never thought about it that way! But good question. Yes, it can translate on 2 axes at the same time, since the control loops for each axis run in separate threads, so there i…

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