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pvtmert
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About pvtmert
DevOops Engineer by trade
BSc. Software Engineer by training
https://mert.akeng.in
https://pvtmert.at.hnhttps://meet.hn/city/49.6202283,6.1729364/
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Comment #49202356
Anthropic is the new AWS. Amazon's first principle is the Customer Obsession. Making customers happy. Fun bit is that the human psychology rates personal looking fixes better than …
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Comment #49202222
Around 2020, I think tools like Notion (notion.so) made it popular. Even the Huggingface itself is an emoji...
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Comment #49172587
I have sent several bugfixes to software I used as a "daily driver". I did the same when I was working at Amazon. While managers didn't usually understand the benefits of saving a …
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Comment #49166705
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Comment #49155569
Not an expert in this field, but the "expert" is consisting of multiple layers. To keep it small in terms of memory print, this project streams each layer (dividing even further). …
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Comment #49141700
Content of my website (although I was lazy enough to not fill all sections) already markdown, rendered dynamically as html on client side. But I rather keep LLMs from scraping it..…
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Comment #49128554
The "macroeconomic" phrase sounds like $AMZN. Kept hearing this until the new buzzword showed up; AI.
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Comment #48911117
> With only a couple of minutes experimentation I discovered that the app works by concatenating the username and password5 and using it in a URL of the form: In 2026, these terrib…
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Comment #48696023
The comment from a 5-year old: But Google is doing that too! > The spokesperson added: "We remain concerned that ignoring the growing power of Google Cloud and Gemini will tilt the…
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Comment #48577410
I am 100% sure there will be a `defaults write ...` command and/or a policy setting via Apple Configurator (mobileconfig profile) to disable it completely. They will probably push …
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Comment #48548264
Ryanair et.al. advertising minimums that are not including anything larger than a purse or a small laptop bag. When you go through the funnel, adding a cabin luggage (or anything b…
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Comment #48527782
I guess the article is targeting regular people. However combining terms like "Linux distro" with other non technical explanations like "useless components such as screens, cameras…
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Comment #48525282
They need a distinction between pedal assist and fully electric (motor) bike. I live in Luxembourg and the infrastructure is not as good as the Netherlands. Majority of offenders (…
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Comment #48190374
Given the advent of LLMs and agentic coding, I believe this article needs re-visiting as it makes it much more discoverable to compare individual files across commits.
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Comment #48172140
...each PhoneTool profile contains relevant "awards" (titles) on people's profile. Things like "Blaze", "Thunderstorm", etc are awarded publicly. Any employee can also click to the…
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Comment #48172110
I was working at Amazon until recently. Number of internal documents (PRFAQs, 1-pagers, etc) having these sort of proses boomed since 2024. Punchy titles are also part of the marke…
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Comment #48172082
Absolutely lovely article. > Software development is about translating a problem into a solution that a computer can understand and automatically resolve. Preferably in a secure an…
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Comment #48171898
Although I agree with the sentiment in the article, it smells very LLM~y. Especially the sections and punchlines. Such as: `That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that n…
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Comment #48166785
Not a hack at all. In fact, this is how Kubernetes APIs work. Even the CLI asks YAML or JSON content type when `-o yaml` or `-o json` is specified. Also, some other sites (albeit s…
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Comment #48162251
> But a representative for Amazon said that there is no such company-wide metric for AI usage, nor are there internal leaderboards where employees are measured against each other. …
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Comment #48162069
> But a representative for Amazon said that there is no such company-wide metric for AI usage, nor are there internal leaderboards where employees are measured against each other. …
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Comment #48161863
https://archive.is/VLWWE
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Comment #48133176
You don't need a (one huge) model to do everything. You need specialized & smaller models that are very good at specific tasks. Collaborating among themselves. The fact that we see…
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Comment #48104979
I opened the article thinking that it's about the on-call scenario (paging). Something like, I got paged in the middle of the night and let the remediation/mitigation to the agent.…