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factsaresacred commented on Gemini 3   blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek
pennaMan · a month ago
> It also returned 8 "sources"

well, there's your problem. it behaves like a search summary tool and not like a problem solver if you enable google search

factsaresacred · a month ago
Exactly this - and how chatGPT behaves too. After a few conversations with search enabled you figure this out, but they really ought to make the distinction clearer.
factsaresacred commented on Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos   blog.google/products/phot... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
factsaresacred · 3 months ago
Still no way to sync the "favorites" album between the default Android Photos app and Google Photos, yet they're busy building this slop.

Not to mention the dark patterns that attempt to trick you into backing up your entire photo library, over and over again.

Or the inability to exclude folders from the backup process.

Maybe get the basic expectations of a Photo app right before adding features nobody asked for.

factsaresacred commented on Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?   zilliz.com/blog/will-amaz... · Posted by u/Fendy
conradev · 3 months ago

  At a glance, it looks like a lightweight vector database running on top of low-cost object storage—at a price point that is clearly attractive compared to many dedicated vector database solutions.
They also didn’t mention LanceDB, which fits this description but with an open source component: https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/

factsaresacred · 3 months ago
For low cost, there's also Cloudflare Vectorize ($0.05 per 100 million stored vectors), which nobody seems to know exists: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/vecto...
factsaresacred commented on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]   twitter.com/soham_btw/sta... · Posted by u/sohzm
sreekanth850 · 5 months ago
YC should put integrity and ethics of founders as a key variable for funding.
factsaresacred · 5 months ago
I follow a bunch of YC founders on X. Lots of behavior that could be construed as 'growth hacking - or 'deceptive' depending on your bent: promoting open source libraries that don't work, rewriting tweets from smaller accounts, coordinated replies from mutuals and so on.

I guess that's the game, but they do seem a lot more cavalier about it of late. Increasingly resembles the crypto 'community' (derogatory).

factsaresacred commented on The Monster Inside ChatGPT   wsj.com/opinion/the-monst... · Posted by u/petethomas
factsaresacred · 6 months ago
> Almost every place I've been people absolutely detest black people.

Not an experience I can relate with, and I'm pretty well traveled. A cynic might say that you're projecting a personal view here.

factsaresacred commented on Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation   finance.yahoo.com/news/ex... · Posted by u/baristaGeek
factsaresacred · 8 months ago
Crazy that devs choose supabase and vercel when Google Cloud is right there.

Google were late to the game but they've built perhaps one of the easiest cloud platforms to work with.

factsaresacred commented on I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts   nickcraux.com/blog/cursor... · Posted by u/striat
factsaresacred · 9 months ago
Too bad they removed the ability to use Chat (rebranded as Ask) with your own API keys in version 0.47. Now every feature requires a subscription.

Natural for Cursor to nudge users towards their paid plans, but why provide the ability to use your own API keys in the first place if you're going to make them useless later?

factsaresacred commented on I still like Sublime Text   ohdoylerules.com/workflow... · Posted by u/james2doyle
factsaresacred · a year ago
Reluctant VScode user here. Sublime's speed make it the best editor to work with by far, but its package manager is in a sorry state. A good 70%+ of packages are outdated or don't work.

Fix this and I'd be back in a flash.

factsaresacred commented on The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding   addyo.substack.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/mooreds
factsaresacred · a year ago
The clue is the name of the tools: "co-pilot".

Assistants that work best in the hands of someone who already knows what they're doing, removing tedium and providing an additional layer of quality assurance.

Pilot's still needed to get the plane in the air.

But even if the output from these tools is perfect, coding isn't only (or even mainly) about writing code, it's about building complex systems and finding workable solutions through problems that sometimes look like cul de sacs.

Once your codebase reaches a few thousand lines, LLMs struggle seeing the big picture and begin introducing one new problem for every one that they solve.

factsaresacred commented on NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM   github.com/meta-llama/lla... · Posted by u/bibinmohan
dartos · a year ago
Idk if I’d call it a killer app.

The podcasts are grating to listen to and usually only contain very surface information I could gain from a paper’s abstract.

It’s a wildly impressive technical achievement though.

factsaresacred · a year ago
It does have a tendacy to meander or spend too time reflecting on a topic instead of distilling the details. However the new ability to add a prompt improves this greatly.

Some instructions that worked for me:

- Specifics instead of high level

- Approach from non-critical perspective

- Dont be philosophical

- Use direct quotes often

- Focus on the details. Provide a lesson, not reflections

- Provide a 'sparknotes' style thorough understanding of the subject

u/factsaresacred

KarmaCake day1551February 24, 2017View Original