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soci

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About soci

Marc M.

current: Product & Engineering

past: VP Eng & Product @ Softnc co-founder @ JobFluent.com Founder @ JobsBCN.com Founder @ KiteBit.com Founder @ Panoramer.net

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    Comment #47692305

    Back in the day I was a hardcore Mac nerd and became a professional at it too. My best reverse-engineering trophy was building one of the first "iOS" apps when there was not an off…

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    Comment #47691934

    We already have images from the far side of the moon since the 2009's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [1]. In theory, LRO is currently flying at lower orbit than Artemis I mission [2]…

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    Comment #47326484

    Why is this comment downvoted? I mean, is it downvoted because Rust is bad for embeded systems?

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    Comment #47012619

    Reading between the lines, the game logic itself hasn’t been reverse engineered yet, so adding, changing, or fixing logic still means working with the original code that only Micha…

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    Comment #44073279

    Thank you. You are right, most likely the ones working in the field haven't switched. But the truth is that big bucks are in pretrained technologies. As Carmack himself said, "ther…

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    Comment #44073046

    > Fundamentally, I believe in the importance of learning from a stream of interactive experience, as humans and animals do, which is quite different from the throw-everything-in-a-…

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    Comment #43830822

    MasMovil / Orange. Yesterday connection went on and off while the router powered by and UPS. But since last night, the fiber does not sync with the GPON anymore.

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    Comment #43830382

    I'm from Spain, electricity is almost fully restored in my area. But my fiber network is still down, same with the buildin elevators. People do not realise that when the backup sup…

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    Comment #43203400

    > Open/Save Dialogs > Drag a file or folder from Finder into an open/save dialog to jump directly to that file. Doesn't work consistently anymore (Sequoia 15.2). Instead of focusin…

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    Comment #42982053

    I owned a Hotline server back in the day. Fun times! I ran it for three full years from my student shell account at my college’s HP-UX server. It was a T3 connection so it was faaa…

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    Comment #42178239

    agreed, extracting tables in pdfs using any of the available openAI models has been a waste of prompting time here too.

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    Comment #41035133

    > the companies, which use screen-scraping software to find and resell tickets, add additional charges and make it difficult for the airline to contact passengers. AFAIK, it's impo…

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    Comment #40961614

    I watched the video mentioned in the post [1], but now I’m more confused than before… What are the benefits, if any, of using gpu.cpp instead of just webgpu.h (webgpu native) direc…

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    Comment #40880132

    in Spain we call them “chispas”, which literally means sparks. An electrician is someone who knows the home electrical wiring stuff, while a chispas is someone who is skilled in re…

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    Comment #40825677

    or a stack!

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    Comment #40801841

    Amazing, thanks for helping anyone in the world explore Nefertari's tomb. The rest of the site is also amazing! For Nefertari's, did you just use a camera and tripod to scanned the…

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    Comment #40319132

    What’s most surprising is how the ad went live without nobody pressing the ”Retry” button to build a new ad idea, neither in the chain of command at Apple nor at the creative agenc…

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    Comment #40220208

    hmm, I don’t share the same experience. Works flawless in EU.

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    Comment #40219832

    At first, I thought you built a justwatch.com clone. But, after a quick inspection I realized you solve a related but different use-case where the user already paid for the streami…

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    Comment #40117079

    I tried to open another door with Restricted title in it and didn't open. I assumed all "restricted" doors would have the same fate.

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    Comment #40116652

    Thank you. While I really want to check your hint, I won't. Since there's no way to save progress this would be my fourth attempt to play the game from the start [1]. Maybe saving …

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    Comment #40114412

    awesome piece of work. ai can’t find the cockpit though.

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    Comment #39039262

    I wish I had read your comment 5 years ago when my son wanted to build a utterly complex game in Scratch. I ended “coding” the game, almost on my own, because it was boring for him…

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    Comment #38376682

    The Technologyreview article mentioned in the parent’s first paragraph is the most insightful piece of content I’ve read about the tensions inside OpenAI.