Hacker News: thomasmarcelis

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

thomasmarcelis — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:11:51 +0000

What are you using it for? It has been completely subpar compared to any other LLM for me.

It's so bad at understanding your intentions.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "ChatGPT Pro"

thomasmarcelis — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:57:31 +0000

Yes, daily. It's extremely useful, superior to internal search while combining the internal knowledge base with ChatGPT's

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

thomasmarcelis — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:35:15 +0000

Probably same PR company or law firm

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Real-world stories of how we’ve compromised CI/CD pipelines"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 18:43:18 +0000

>>In our final scenario, the NCC Group consultant got booked on a scenario-based assessment:

>>“Pretend you have compromised a developer’s laptop.”

Most companies will fail right here. Especially outside of the tech world security hygiene with developer's laptops is very bad from what I have seen.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Search engines and SEO spam"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 16:34:44 +0000

I also can't help but wonder this. I'm certain people at google search want to provide the best quality search results and do this with integrity. But at some point in the business hierarchy you are at a level where people set objectives for both these departments ( search & ads ) and are trying to optimise for things like total revenue/profit.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Rqlite 6.0: the evolution of a distributed database design"

thomasmarcelis — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:34:28 +0000

Thats close to our use case. We use it to sync a small amount of configuration data across a small amount of servers (2-50, depending client).

RQlite was perfect as our software is an addon for a legacy platform. We needed an easy low-access way of installing a distributed datastore.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Digital banking, now halal"

thomasmarcelis — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:33:32 +0000

There is a cap set by the EU since 2015

https://www.adyen.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-eu...

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "New Cambridge Analytica Leaks"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:05:21 +0000

They had API access but extracting and using the data in the way they did was against the terms of use IIRC

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Building a Developer Tools Business"

thomasmarcelis — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 10:12:54 +0000

Sure looks like it. Part one, two and three are written by three different "Guest authors", who are freelance technical writers.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Developers mentoring other developers: practices I've seen work well"

thomasmarcelis — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 09:35:32 +0000

I can echo this experience. I guess this comes down to the Socratic method of teaching people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method

I have yet to see a more effective method of teaching developers, as this encourages understanding and learning about underlying concepts and problems

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "How to negotiate salary in the software development market of 2019"

thomasmarcelis — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 08:22:36 +0000

Especially in the search for competent developers or developers with experience.. We receive a lot of applications of completely underqualified candidates

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Alibaba has a voice assistant better than Google’s"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:09:05 +0000

Works in firefox as well, but in chrome:

https://i.imgur.com/KTN1Jnf.png

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:19:13 +0000

Excel for entering all the estimates. I write down tasks, one-offs (eg license purchase) and subscription costs. For the tasks I add columns for different roles, because the rates differ. The fixed costs are also entered. Some tables are made based on this data, and added to a written word document.

It might seem old school, but a lot can differ based on project basis (e.g cooperation with other companies, 1 month vs 2 year projects). Word and excel are just flexible and easy enough for me.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:07:13 +0000

I like the idea and could see myself using this. After trying the tool a bit, I liked it and had some thoughts.

I think your landing page communicates well, it was pretty clear what it was going to do. The only thing I wasn't sure about is if the tool is also meant for teams larger than one. Then I would need to be able to enter different costs based on different roles, but I'm not sure if that's the target audience.

You said the project is half finished, so I assume you have tons of small UI improvement ideas already... But I would really prefer a different method of adding new lines/tasks over just adding every type on add :), for example a dropdown with an add button.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?"

thomasmarcelis — Tue, 16 Jan 2018 13:40:38 +0000

I took 'truffles' (scletoria, Psilocybe tampanensis), which are legal where I live, multiple times in increasing dosages. I'd love to send you my 'trip report', but am not comfortable posting this online.

If you are interested you can contact me on my username at gmail dot com.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Ask HN: What influenced your personal growth the most?"

thomasmarcelis — Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:55:04 +0000

I find it weird people keep saying they lose the ego-based view of the world after taking psychedelics, it has had the complete opposite effecf on me. I know the experience is very personal but I have never read about experiences similar to mine. I become very ego-centric and just think about how I can get the most out of the world.

I do think it has affected me positively overall. I find it easier to work through tough times in order to reach what I want these days.

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "First draft of the new Artificial Intelligence and Games textbook available now"

thomasmarcelis — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 09:34:09 +0000

An additional difficulty is that the fastest way to achieve a build/goal often means you are weak/exposed at crucial moments in the game

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Fake IDs in the age of the internet"

thomasmarcelis — Wed, 03 May 2017 14:24:36 +0000

But a drivers license is not a valid proof of identification here

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015)"

thomasmarcelis — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 06:39:44 +0000

It is mandatory for there to be a light at the intersection by law

New comment by thomasmarcelis in "Learn X in Y minutes"

thomasmarcelis — Sun, 20 Nov 2016 23:19:53 +0000

I somewhat like learning languages this way, I rarely forget my own mistakes I have to fix.