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New comment by dna_polymerase in "Ask HN: Degoogling in 2024"

dna_polymerase — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:32:27 +0000

For E-Mail there are plenty of hosted alternatives. Fastmail is usually what I recommend, but there are others: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle?tab=readme-ov-file#gmail-...

Made in Europe: from mine to electric vehicle [video]

dna_polymerase — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:29:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5YiUgkJew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882471

Points: 5

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New comment by dna_polymerase in "Lego price per part over the years"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:49:09 +0000

The first data point in the time series seems to be from 1991, yet the x-Axis starts at 1949. Why? I'd have a better overview of the price changes if the actual data had more space.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Adobe Firefly repeats the same AI blunders as Google Gemini"

dna_polymerase — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:29:20 +0000

It's not like black soldiers for Nazi Germany are offensive. It's just stupid and everyone who knows how ML works knows that Google does a lot of stupid, often called “woke”, stuff to produce these images. Any other non-mutilated ML algorithm would just give you the more historically but also more common in the dataset version of white Nazis.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps"

dna_polymerase — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 07:36:15 +0000

Does this have any merit aside from satisfying intellectual curiosity? I assume GPS receivers to be quite cheap these days?

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Picking the Widevine Locks: Acquiring and Using an L3 CDM"

dna_polymerase — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:20:47 +0000

I'm not particularly fond of piracy either, but I get people doing it. If I were to consume more media content, I'd probably do the same, the whole shenanigans around which show/movie is with what provider today ruined the experience of modern streaming platforms. Early Netflix (streaming) was perfect, but the movie studios/distributors ruined it, they deserve to suffer.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Oklahoma receives first "Made in Oklahoma" EV"

dna_polymerase — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:17:01 +0000

> Thankfully your opinions and beauty standards mean nothing on the internet.

But mine do...

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Google Gemini Pro API Available Through AI Studio"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:19:43 +0000

When they finally release this train wreck to the EU we will have had another round of OpenAI, Antrophic and finally Mistral releases. Why even pretend to compete Google? Just admit already that you guys are only interested in shoving ads in our faces and call it a day?

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:19:16 +0000

Their abysmal user support is the number one complaint. How the f*ck didn't they wake up to this issue by now.

I think they are in dire need of a leadership change. If they want to serve businesses, they need to adopt actual business practices.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Vertical farming company raised $500M, and then it all but disappeared"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:10:11 +0000

> Most simple multiplication and division... Just to get some idea of unit economics.

I always considered this to be the fundamental promise of vertical farming. Maximum efficiency and easy forecasting of outcomes. Basically, reducing farming to a function with several very controllable inputs and an easy computation yielding the outcome.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Tesla FSD Timeline"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:20:18 +0000

I think Elon inspired a lot of great things. Undeniably he brought back the Space craze, he gave the automotive industry enough of a push to finally invest in something different from ICE tech or their pipe dream of hydrogen cars. But things like FSD really ruin all those achievements for me. I'd still be impressed if he said: "this is hard, we're working on it, we do incremental roll-outs and once we're there, we're there".

New comment by dna_polymerase in "W3C Leaves Twitter"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:25:45 +0000

@elonmusk

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Spotify Is Screwed"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:39:44 +0000

It probably says a lot about tech people if my comment, that obviously is wrong on every level, is taken this seriously. :)

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Spotify Is Screwed"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:38:01 +0000

Exactly!

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Gemini AI"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:37:30 +0000

Fancy name, fancy website, charts, people cosplaying as Steve Jobs. This is embarrassing. Hey Google, you guys are presenting a LLM that is at best as good as ChatGPT, but you are like a year late to the party. Maybe shut the f*ck up, marketing wise, and just get people to use it. Bard is just bad right now, let Gemini convince people instead of a fancy marketing page.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Spotify Is Screwed"

dna_polymerase — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:32:21 +0000

I could write Spotify in like a weekend or two tops! I don't see the need for all that dead weight. Personally, I don't like coding mobile apps, so idk maybe hire like 2 people (1 Android and 1 iOS) dev for that. I'll do the backend. Easy savings really.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

dna_polymerase — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 08:43:40 +0000

Firefox is essentially a dead fish in the sea. Depending on source, Firefox sits at 3-8 % market share. They are much more likely to lose funding because of irrelevancy than some users using AdBlock.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Three chips in and Google Tensor is on life support"

dna_polymerase — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 13:31:06 +0000

In Germany, they ran an ad campaign for those devices. They gave some well-known influencers some budget to make a spot by themselves and ran that on YouTube. Those spots were the bottom of the barrel. No idea who runs their advertising, but they need to fire all of them.

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year"

dna_polymerase — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:13:53 +0000

If you are keen to learn: Polygon runway [0]! They even have a Black Friday deal available. It's easier than I thought in the beginning. 3D-modelling makes for a fun little pastime.

[0]: https://polygonrunway.com/

New comment by dna_polymerase in "Writing a Compiler is Surprisingly Easy (part 1)"

dna_polymerase — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:39:33 +0000

I keep recommending “Compiling to Assembly”, by Vladimir Keleshev: https://keleshev.com/compiling-to-assembly-from-scratch/

The author chose TypeScript for the Compiler, which makes it somewhat more accessible to these days programmers.