hawski

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Comment · 17 days ago
I would be interested in seeing a list that would order countries by:

- a sheer number of assembly lines,

- number of SKUs,

- automation engineer jobs.

Something more fuzzy: mean/median wait time from a fully specced project to a 10,000 unit batch. Of course only for products where such a batch number makes sense, but probably it could be divided to a few groups of batch magnitudes. For this to be an interesting metric it would require to pick several specific classes of products. For example: per Integrated Circuit number magnitude, per price point, a car, a smartphone, a TV, a home radiator, a bathtub, etc.

Comment · 1 month ago
What is "laptop class"?
Comment · 8 months ago
I think that LLMs should not be allowed to say "I". It should always be in third person. Instead of "I can write this for you" it should say "This machine can write this for you" or with a store front name "Google can write this for you". To operate on a given text or while generating texts it should divide what is meta from what is direct. This generated text "quote" should be styled different, a bit boring: smaller text and maybe monospace. There should be a clear divide between the machine conversation part and its workable output. If one converses with the machine it should not answer in the first person, because it is not a person.

Of course it wouldn't be bullet proof, but it would help in general to not let people personify the machine. Just a step into a better thing. At the same time it should be relatively easy to replace unquoted "I" and "me" with "This machine". At least it should be easier to find where it falls off the rails.

Comment · 1 year ago
My first thought was that if there was any carbon based life around there there isn't anymore.
Comment · 1 year ago
In this case watch your toes!
Comment · 1 year ago
At the moment those are region locked.
Comment · 1 year ago
It is not that easy.

From https://fosdem.org/2025/faq/#registration

> Q: I plan on visiting FOSDEM, where can I register?

> No registration is required.

> Q: How much does a entry ticket for FOSDEM cost?

> Attendance is free, including access to all talks and facilities.

Comment · 1 year ago
I understand that those drugs are very useful, but in a way it feels for me like ancient Rome with its orgies and vomit inducing so they can eat more. At least looking at USA from Europe. The problem of sugar content, dietary choices and portion sizes remains. It is similar to gas guzzling cars.

Sorry if it seems not empathic enough, that was not my intention. I know that the use of such drugs may be medically necessary.

Edit: To serious answers: I was wrong, I stay corrected.

Comment · 1 year ago
Depending on coding style you could just do something like this:

  ^struct whatever
Comment · 1 year ago
When I hear Chinese CEO, I think they may be easily replaced and in the end the real CEO is Xi Jinping. I am sure it is a bit more complicated and I may have some prejudice, but how far am I? I would expect for a Chinese CEO that would behave like Elon Musk to disappear quite quickly. Am I wrong in this assessment as well?
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't a shared host with php serverless for all intents and purposes?
Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of people listened to music from YouTube as their primary source besides an FM radio before Spotify was available as it is now. YouTube somewhat famously signed deals with music labels back in the day. Content ID was the controversial, but necessary compromise for the music to remain on YouTube. I am pretty sure a very significant percentage of music listeners globally listen mainly from YouTube, I did it and I also saw a lot of people doing it.

It may seem stupid or counter productive, but it is easy and good enough. YT Music is a clear upgrade for those users.

I think YT Music makes more sense than many of the Google initiatives and it will continue to make sense as long as they will have deals with music labels.

Comment · 1 year ago
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