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xrendan

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    Comment #45420968

    I would absolutely love if you brought Canadian maps to this. I work for Build Canada and I would love to see some maps from the fur trade and early exploration to tell stories. If…

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    Comment #44522106

    One thing that has surprised me (and I should've known that it wasn't great at it), but it is terrible at creating bounding boxes around things it's not trained on (like bounding p…

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    Comment #44511891

    Amazon - Ecommerce (1994), AWS (2006) Microsoft - Programming Language (1975), Operating Systems (1981), Office Suite (1983) Meta - Facebook (2004), Instagram (2010) I would argue …

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    Comment #44247897

    I read that as the size of file it's transferring so each operation would be bigger and therefore slower

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    Comment #44030629

    Ugh, I don't have it. It was from before I used git. Basically to do this you have a cups server that exposes itself as a network printer that prints to a specified PDF directory a…

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    Comment #44030543

    I have some really old code that pretty much does this, I'll see if I can find it.

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    Comment #43198940

    I love the Blueprint Understanding. One thing I've been thinking about is if you could use a model like this as the first pass for permitters (Like a GitHub Actions CI/CD) who revi…

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    Comment #42474188

    You're misreading it, there's two different runs, a low and a high compute run. The number for the high-compute one is ~172x the first one according to the article so ~=$2900

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    Comment #42350259

    Azure charges differently based on deployment zone/latency guarantees, OpenAI doesn't let you pick your zone so it's equivalent to the Global Standard deployment (which is the same…

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    Comment #40395311

    I'd be interested in knowing if anyone is seriously using the assistants API, it feels like such a lock in to OpenAIs platform when your can alternatively just use completions that…

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    Comment #39985139

    This generally resonates with what we've found. Some colour based on our experiences. It's worth spending a lot of time thinking about what a successful LLM call actually looks lik…

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    Comment #36759051

    I use this all the time and you can copy a range of values with multiple cursors and then paste them into the same size range. It's nice for hashes or modifying static lists that a…

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    Comment #36356966

    The Diff [0] and Capital Gains [1][2] by Byrne Hobert are excellent. If you're interested in in-depth analysis of current events in finance, tech and other related musings. Capital…

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    Comment #35083355

    I'm generally interested, but it would be helpful to understand what the different plans are actually offering? I have no idea what the difference is between: - Starter Developer B…

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    Comment #34724445

    Is it possible to join those data sources against an existing database like MySQL or SQLServer?

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    Comment #34185780

    I have a cluster using terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner [0] and I'm quite happy with it. It uses MicroOS for rolling releases and auto-upgrades for less maintenance. I'm quite happy w…

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    Comment #32096849

    A big reason that Ontario can't / doesn't is that the demand centers in Southern Ontario are ridiculously far from the generation centers in Manitoba. Toronto is 1800 km straight f…

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    Comment #31911224

    It just crashes after finishing onaboarding trying to load with: TypeError: can't access property "push", Mo['ex-Unicorn Founder'] is undefined

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    Comment #30294171

    What's the sort of timeline on GIS extensions? Great work btw, I've been following since the alphas and I'm excited to try it out :)

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    Comment #29908189

    I think it really depends on the application of web scraping. (As someone who does, what is in my mind, ethical web scraping) - Scraping public information from government websites…

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    Comment #28684948

    Depending on your use-case (if it's read heavy), you could use SQLite hosted on R2 being read by workers

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    Comment #28404317

    Yes, but you need to detect the fakes before you can ban them. An adversary could just rotate camera keys before they're even detected.

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    Comment #28143871

    The see an example button on the home page just refreshes the page on both Firefox and Chrome for me on Linux

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    Comment #28099501

    It's not true that all government power belongs to the federal government and that provinces only gain power by devolution from the federal government. The Canadian constitution de…

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    Comment #28054152

    Do you know what the big difference for companies to cram enough hardware into the same space to support 20W power like Anker [1] Is this just incremental improvements or is there …