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giancarlostoro

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About giancarlostoro

Fullstack Software Engineer with 9 years in the industry.

I'm on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/giancarlos-toro/

My first name (giancarlos) at protonmail.com to contact me.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49204143

    My understanding is an ASIC can last 10+ years, where are Nvidia enterprise GPUs are rated for 5...

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    Comment #49203510

    ASICs is what took over Bitcoin mining, cheaper in all ways, and lasts longer than Nvidia GPUs for inference.

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    Comment #49201280

    My Apple Watch asks me if I am doing an outdoor walk everytime I am at Disney World. It sometimes takes 15 minutes to notice. Imho if its going to ask me this it should know every …

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    Comment #49199188

    Microsoft was the exclusive way to have your own copy of GPT in the cloud for a few years, and they have been the primary host for OpenAI, including their training infrastructure e…

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    Comment #49195387

    Have you seen django-bolt? Might interest you, your setup sounds like it would benefit from it. https://github.com/dj-bolt/django-bolt

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    Comment #49195377

    Django-Bolt is one of the interesting projects I found recently that helps boost RPS for Django by handling HTTP requests via Rust. https://github.com/dj-bolt/django-bolt

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    Comment #49190095

    These sort of paper trails are for developers not management though, does your manager open all your commits and start commenting on them? If so, maybe apply somewhere else.

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    Comment #49190039

    Not in my case, I don't see any of my employers (past or current) trusting a country like China with their data.

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    Comment #49188767

    The API costs for the version of their model that feeds things back to meta is also drastically lower.

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    Comment #49188485

    So according to you 60% of Americans are all pedophiles and “retarded” because they use AI. Glad to have such constructive discourse with you bud.

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    Comment #49188288

    Will someone at Meta for the love of God make it so none of this stuff goes through Facebook.com? You want customers but most corporate firewalls block social media. Also, a lot of…

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    Comment #49187975

    You could always become Amish and then it all goes away... ;)

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    Comment #49186586

    I guess it should be said, of everyone who wants AI, they don't want to pay the expense for it to the level they want to use it.

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    Comment #49186316

    > And nobody is air-gapping AI. https://genai.mil/ I mean... I would hope that AI used for military needs is not deployed in the public internet.

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    Comment #49186129

    > Flash is in high demand I said for a few years to many a downvote on HN, everyone wants AI, nobody wants to pay the true costs, the AI race will turn into a "race to the bottom" …

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    Comment #49185739

    Now that is a fair criticism and I agree with that sentiment, I'm not a direct customer so I was unaware altogether.

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    Comment #49185727

    Their reputation is what keeps me away from anything free of theirs.

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    Comment #49185310

    As I was writing this it dawned on me, and I had a feeling someone would confirm. :) I am not a Sam Altman fan, but I do give him credit where its due, their press briefings are ch…

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    Comment #49185228

    > But, Oracle gonna Oracle I guess. This is one of the rare instances where I don't really have an issue with Oracle doing something any sane business would to be honest. It's a fr…

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    Comment #49185054

    OpenAI does surprisingly well in this regard with their blog posts, and I'm more of an Anthropic fanboy. I wish most tech releases for AI were as well done as OpenAIs they actually…

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    Comment #49184440

    Really not a fan of calling things an OS that are not an OS. This seems interesting, but it is also tied to CloudFlare workers, so beware.

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    Comment #49182814

    And here I was shocked and really happy to hear about Three 6 Mafia on HN. Fun fact: Three 6 Mafia used to be Triple 6 Mafia, they changed their name to be "radio friendly" (Three …

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    Comment #49176995

    The same way Steve Jobs said to hold the iPhone.

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    Comment #49176970

    The irony is it doesn't work for me no matter what I do now.

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    Comment #49176360

    Dunno first time I have ever been on that domain, I think the direct link to the PDF gets you blacklisted, I can navigate the rest of the site just fine. The PDF is linked here, wh…