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ovi256

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About ovi256

ovidiu dot ciule at gmail dot com Machine learning engineer. Computer vision and predictive analytics, webapps, APIs. Available for consulting.

By carefully attending to client business, Ovi hopes to increase patronage to a most satisfactory level.

Must-read list: 'patio11, 'tptacek, 'grellas, 'rayiner.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48496068

    I love retro UIs, and this one even more, because of course it reminds of Turbo Pascal, which was so cool. Great job!

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    Comment #48350488

    It seems the OP agrees with you, and he's proposing a method for how to do so using agents.

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    Comment #47717870

    Definitely, the cow isn't free.

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    Comment #47649744

    Especially given the hardware has no moat and there are a zillion IR transceivers on Aliexpress. It's not a good market.

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    Comment #47612773

    > ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician that is being done as open source community efforts now: NewPipe for mobile, SmartTube for smart TVs etc. All you have to do is update them on…

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    Comment #47322886

    On the contrary, this gives me hope it's possible to create value for people even when you compete with hundreds of free Youtube playlists. This is good!

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    Comment #47167921

    I bet the two sources won't agree on what values go into the denominator and / or numerator of their effective tax rate calculations. It can be as simple as the 3.5% being a calcul…

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    Comment #47023594

    For inspiration, check out Ben Katz. He worked on the MIT Cheetah and electrified the Boston Dynamics dog https://build-its.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-mini-cheetah-robo... He designs…

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    Comment #46576443

    A user provided location cannot be trusted for geofencing purposes. A GNSS (GPS or other) is needed sooner or later. This is a legal requirement for sanction and regulation enforce…

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    Comment #46254826

    > I have escalated this through my many friends in WWDR and SRE at Apple, with no success. Ouch. If he can't get it fixed, it's scary

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    Comment #46106034

    While humans have historically mildly reduced their working time to today's 40h workweek, their consumption has gone up enormously, and whole new categories of consumption were ope…

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    Comment #46037323

    > Le Parisien (a big French billionaire-owned newspaper) They're all billionaire owned. As an example, left wing newspaper Liberation has Kretinsky among the owners

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    Comment #45460550

    I'm impressed you could train a dog to cleanup toys! It's hard enough with humans.

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    Comment #45004757

    > Heat pumps work as aircos In France, tax credits were denied for air-to-air heat pumps that could also cool (which they all can).

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    Comment #44985634

    CF will cooperate with UK authorities because they're not in 4chan's business.

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    Comment #44683567

    > Cheetah robot can run 10.3 km with a 3 kg (465 Whrs) LiPo Battery > the 33kg robot runs at 22 km/h (6 m/s). The total power consumption from the battery pack was 973 watts and re…

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    Comment #44482073

    Google's gemini-cli offers the most generous current free tier, 2500 daily requests. I'd recommend checking it out, since mostly everything said about Claude Code applies to it too…

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    Comment #44259585

    Some people are above the law. In a country ruled by laws, that's bad.

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    Comment #44209704

    It does limit, but I suspect a lot less for the rebuilt from ground up biplane, than for a certified for airline service aircraft (a commercial airliner).

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    Comment #43219412

    > countries on the eastern end of the EU look ready to make that trade without hesitation I don't think so, there already are populist opposition parties in most of these countries…

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    Comment #43219375

    The planned AUKUS submarines have no nuclear weapon capabilities. They're nuclear powered attack submarines that use conventional weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSN-AUKUS

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    Comment #42876731

    A coup by whom against whom ?

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    Comment #42320894

    That's weird, because France has a higher rate of homelessness than the US. The French average, 45/100k pop, is comparable to NYC. Italy is much lower at 8/100k.