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jwithington

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About jwithington

Not that weird for a submariner | jeff@terminalhoming.com | jwithing.com

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    Comment #49037831

    I've seen these systems at US defense industry tradeshows so I'm guessing they are in use somewhere.

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    Comment #48796137

    It's crazy that the title is largely clickbait because he's a Deepmind employee who reps Gemini AI Studio. So if you're just gonna do a clickbait project...why pump the competition…

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    Comment #48610503

    >What a weird thing to say. It's not a team sport where you support 'sides'. It is if you have equity!

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    Comment #48083091

    Yes https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#spend-caps

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    Comment #47781523

    Yes, we host it ourselves, acting as the data processor which can be important for enterprise customers. From developer experience, hosting them ourselves allows us to take advanta…

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    Comment #47780245

    I think a cheat code here is to route your requests to GCP's Vertex AI, which has stronger uptimes. Can use it as a fallback or main provider. Caveats: 1) May not be economic for t…

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    Comment #46080346

    The lock-in is around identity services, right? Servicing the jobs-to-be-done of the core applications is pretty straightforward I think. I'm not sure what keeps people locked in b…

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    Comment #45899709

    Negative, the Department of War was the predecessor to the Dept of the Army. There used to be a Secretary of the Navy and a Secretary of War, both of whom rolled up direct to the p…

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    Comment #45662380

    Why MacOS only and not Windows?

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    Comment #45645036

    hard to beat the MSFT bundle

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    Comment #45638783

    That's the $XXM question.

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    Comment #45638661

    Yes, I'd think Openshift with Kubevirt would be positioned to move in. Lots of Openshift in some of the sectors I've worked with so seems like a natural expansion. I forgot about M…

  13. story
    Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?

    In certain large industries it feels like there's more urgency to migrate off of VMware than there is to do genAI stuff. Do others sense this? If so, what options do you see for fo…

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    Comment #45610109

    grok 4's controller lol

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    Comment #45444876

    I was the internal tools PM that looked at the portfolio of products and asked, "Why aren't all of these just Google Sheets?" Pivoted out of there lol

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    Comment #44591818

    i don't really understand why folks are downplaying this in the comments: some engineers who write the code for production US systems that contain controlled unclassified informati…

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    Comment #43302039

    Say that I'm an amateur historian. I go into an archive and scan a bunch of documents (letters, diagrams, maps, etc). They're saved as JPG files. What's the best way to make sense …

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    Comment #43022095

    Trmnl was referenced but also this one https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...

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    Comment #43022086

    Yes https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byos

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    Comment #41035065

    So one could retain the contents of every website every visited and then run local, in-browser searches against that content? Is that the idea? This library would serve as the vect…

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    Comment #41035063

    So one could retain the contents of every website every visited and then run local, in-browser searches against that content? Is that the idea? This li

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    Comment #40851739

    Hellfire on its way now

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    Comment #40849190

    couldn't be it reasonably construed as an official act if the president believed that person was a member of a terrorist group? the post 9/11 Authorization of Use for Military Forc…

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    Comment #40565145

    Lol what?? What's their retention policy?

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    Comment #40337258

    I guess I’m surprised it’s against the law to train Chinese pilots? Anyone know what specifically is prohibited here?