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wsgeorge

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About wsgeorge

writer, composer, photographer, developer.

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    Honestly surprised by this outcome. My geo estimates were way better than my period estimates. Anthropeum.com · Jul 28 2026 64,056 · top 55% of players today!

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    But Firefox also has browser profiles now (something I wanted for so long I moved back to chrome to get it), so what’s the purpose of first-party containers now? Don’t browser prof…

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    > (Yes, the invader could try to get Mexico to agree to host the invading army, but the US would probably find out about that plan and respond by either blockading Mexico or invadi…

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    Alexandr Wang suggesting this might be open-weights/source in the future gives me hope. Hopefully they stay on this path.

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    > a positive reinforcement of not doing it because then the stress goes away and that is nice. I may be similarly wired, and I've found abandoning Duolingo streaks on my own terms …

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    What I gather from the announcement: it's part of Deno Deploy (their SaaS offering). I too would love a self-hosted version.

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    2 screens, laptop hooked to a monitor. But I usually have a second laptop next to me, so 3 screens. Then there's my phone (when testing apps), so sometimes I do 4 screens. That's m…

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    I fell in love with elementaryOS when I first learned about it c. 2013, and followed it closely (used to read commits weekly) for perhaps a year. It was one of the first open sourc…

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    There's a reddit thread from a few months ago that sort of explains what people don't like about ollama, that "shadiness" parent references: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/com…

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    > If the elite colleges are not comprised of the rich and well connected it beats the entire point of an elite college. Depends on how you define "elite", and I assume you mean som…

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    Your experience mirrors mine. I have found LLMs kludgy to wield, but I deeply appreciate the technology, its pace of improvement and its promise. And I feel myself getting better a…

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    Ask HN: Have we reached the acceptance phase of generative AI?

    In the immediate aftermath of GPT 3.5 and the LlaMA leak, Github Copilot, there was a lot of denial (negative sentiment, barely concealed rejection etc) about the world we were bei…

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    Comment #43610248

    I tend to see a lot of criticism of the Trump administration when such topics come up. One "standard" HN tends to uphold is not following every single turn of the news cycle. This …

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    Tell HN: GenAI companies stopped gatekeeping product access

    Today OpenAI lets you try ChatGPT even before you logging in. Meta surfaced their models on WhatsApp. You can use a bit of Grok and Perplexity without giving up any personal inform…

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    The name of your app reminds me of one I had started working on when I was out of employment: the app was going to send periodic reminders of stuff you've bookmarked/saved on vario…

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    My guess, frontlines.