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ferminaut commented on IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp   newsroom.ibm.com/2025-02-... · Posted by u/ahurmazda
nailer · a year ago
That's true, but it's easier to switch from Terraform to Pulumi than it is to move from VMware to some other virtualization platform.
ferminaut · a year ago
secrets, too.

Org's already knee deep in vault / vault-agent for PKI and secrets wont be eager to switch.

ferminaut commented on GPT-5 is behind schedule   wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gp... · Posted by u/owenthejumper
SamPatt · a year ago
I will check it out. The number of new tools is staggering.

I enjoy image and video generation and I have a 4090 and ComfyUI; I can't keep up with everything coming out anymore.

ferminaut · a year ago
If you're a offline kind of guy, try LM Studio + Cline :)

/not affiliated with cline, just a happy user

ferminaut commented on GPT-5 is behind schedule   wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gp... · Posted by u/owenthejumper
IAmGraydon · a year ago
Gemini 2.0 isn't particularly great at coding. The Gemini 1206 preview that was released just before 2.0 is quite good, though. Still, it hasn't taken the crown from Claude 3.5 Sonnet (which appears to now be tied with o1). Very much agree about Cline + VSCode, BTW. My preferred models with Cline are 3.5 Sonnet and 3.5 Haiku. I can throw the more complex problems at Sonnet and use Haiku for everything else.

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/edit.html

ferminaut · a year ago
the context limits on google are nuts! Being able to pump 2 million tokens in and having it cost $0 is pretty crazy rn. Cline makes it seamless to switch between APIs and isnt trying to shoehorn their SAAS AI into a custom vscode (looking at you cursor)
ferminaut commented on GPT-5 is behind schedule   wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gp... · Posted by u/owenthejumper
SamPatt · a year ago
I'm sure the debate over the definition of AGI is important and will continue for a while, but... I can't care about it anymore.

Between Perplexity searching and summarizing, Claude explaining, and qwen (and other tools) coding, I'm already as happy as can be with whatever you want to call this level of intelligence.

Just today I used a completely local AI research tool, based on Ollama. It worked great.

Maybe it won't get much better? Or maybe it'll take decades instead of years? Ok. I remember not having these tools. I never want to go back.

ferminaut · a year ago
vscode + cline extension + gemini2.0 is pretty awesome. Highly recommend checking out cline. it quickly became one of my favorite coding tools.
ferminaut commented on Ask HN: In Dallas for the Eclipse?    · Posted by u/gradschool
ferminaut · 2 years ago
Hopefully the weather holds out in Dallas. I'll also be in town for the eclipse...but may wind up heading out east if cloud cover predictions hold.

https://www.pivotalweather.com/eclipse2024/?m=cmceens&p=clou...

Is not looking so great right now.

ferminaut commented on Write a Letter to Your Future Self   futureme.org/... · Posted by u/skanderbm
ferminaut · 2 years ago
I personally write myself a letter once a year around new years. Covers what happened over the last year, my 3-5-10 year plans, goals, family/friends/health, photo of myself, etc.

Then the next year rolls around and I compare the current year to the previous year, see if I am hitting my goals & trending in the right direction. Helps me hold myself accountable.

ferminaut commented on OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/himaraya
sensanaty · 2 years ago
So the dude with a billion connections managed to use them to get cash for the startup that deals with the most insanely overhyped piece of technology to have ever been created.

No mention of the people actually responsible for any of this? Y'know, the scientists and engineers that actually had to do something to create the crazy technology he's taking credit for, the noteworthy dude is the generic MBA C-suite type that managed to not screw the pooch when given a team of the brightest minds out there?

ferminaut · 2 years ago
Do yourself a favor and integrate GPT4 into your workflow.

I use it probably 20 times a day at this point.

example: "I ran performance tests on two systems, here's the results of system 1, and heres the results of system 2. Summarize the results, and build a markdown table containing x,y,z rows."

"extract the reusable functions out of this bash script"

"write me a cfssl command to generate a intermediate CA"

"What is the regex for _____"

"Here are my accomplishments over the last 6 months, summarize them into a 1 page performance report."

etc etc etc

If you're not using GPT4 or some LLM as part of your daily flow you're working too hard.

Get GPT4All (https://gpt4all.io), log into OpenAI, drop $20 on your account, get a API key, and start using GPT4.

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ferminaut commented on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/ksec
codr7 · 2 years ago
I'm not touching booking.com again, and I recommend anyone else to stay the hell away.

Made a reservation a few months ago, searched for hotel rooms that would allow bringing a dog, and got a confirmation via booking.com that said everything was ok. But when I arrived at the hotel, I was informed that they don't allow dogs at all. And since the reservation was made through booking.com, there was nothing they could do about it. So I ended up paying for a hotel room that no one slept in and have been given the silent treatment from booking.com since then despite several contact attempts.

ferminaut · 2 years ago
I have to ask, why use 3rd party booking sites at all? From what I can tell, the prices are usually the same as the hotel... needlessly adding middlemen into the booking process.

u/ferminaut

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