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jamesralph8555 commented on MCP Run Python   github.com/pydantic/pydan... · Posted by u/xrd
jamesralph8555 · 4 months ago
How secure is this? I tried building something similar, but it was taking too long to setup a fully virtualized solution like kata container or firecracker.
jamesralph8555 commented on Ente Auth: open-source Authy alternative for 2FA   ente.io/auth/... · Posted by u/memset
jamesralph8555 · a year ago
I’ve had a really poor experience with the (open source) 2FA app Raivo on ios. Developer got bought out. Ads got added, and a bug was introduced where users lost 2fa backup. Losing 2fa access was not as bad as I expected since I stored 2fa backup codes in bitwarden notes. A lot of sites also feature email recovery. I ended up migrating totp 2fa to bitwarden and its been very convenient.
jamesralph8555 commented on The economics of the Birkin handbag   wsj.com/style/fashion/her... · Posted by u/wallflower
jamesralph8555 · a year ago
This model is not unique to Hermes. Watch and car brands work the same way. Early on in these markets, you can get one of the desirable items without spending too much on undesirable items.

Some examples:

Rolex - stainless steel models are desirable and appreciate, gold models go for below msrp

Porche - Bucking the trend a bit, Porche gives you the option of paying an additional dealer markup rather than making you buy a Macan to get a GT3 RS.

Over time, this arbitrage goes to equilibrium and resellers can’t make money. It is relatively easy to get into this market so naturally it gets flooded. Profit goes to 0. Resellers also carry a risk that the item loses market value while they hold it. The only real winner here is the brand.

jamesralph8555 commented on Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design   blog.jitx.com/jitx-corpor... · Posted by u/DHaldane
maccard · a year ago
> The same way you can't expect an AI to generate a website in assembly, but you CAN expect it to generate a website with React/tailwind

Can you? Because last time I tried (probably about February) it still wasn’t a thing

jamesralph8555 · a year ago
I tried GPT-4o in May and had good results asking it to generate react+tailwind components for me. It might not get things right the first time but it is generally able to respond to feedback well.

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jamesralph8555 commented on Eye exercises for myopia prevention and control: comprehensive systematic review   nature.com/articles/s4143... · Posted by u/gnabgib
simonebrunozzi · a year ago
Talking about Myopia - I have it (~2 and ~3 degrees, so not particularly bad), I am in my mid 40s, and I have been considering a surgery to fix it. Let's assume that for this particular case, money is not an issue.

There's a ton of different types of surgery available [0] to fix refractive errors.

Besides Lasik, which I think is the most popular but not necessarily the best, there's at least two other options out there:

1) Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) - 1st gen

2) Laser-assisted stromal in situ keratomileuses (LASIK) - 2nd gen

3) Small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) - 3rd gen

However, I am not fully convinced that SMILE is absolutely by far the best; and it's not easy to find the right provider (outside the US).

Anyone with experience or knowledge that could help navigate this mess?

[0]: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?con...

jamesralph8555 · a year ago
I would recommend finding a good (modern/updated) treatment center near you that at least offers LASIK and PRK, then get a consultation. They will perform tests on your eyes and let you know which procedures will work for you. Due to factors like corneal shape and thickness, you might not be eligible for LASIK which at least makes the decision simpler. From what I’ve read, outcomes are very similar between the 3 types of surgeries. I ended up going with LASIK since you can get back to work in a few days instead of a week with PRK.
jamesralph8555 commented on Banging sounds heard during Titan search, according to internal government memo   cnn.com/2023/06/20/us/tit... · Posted by u/_iven_
rirze · 2 years ago
I have a dumb idea; how hard is it to add a location tracker to these kind of subs? Does the high pressure make this incredibly hard to add?
jamesralph8555 · 2 years ago
Its not the pressure, but the fact water blocks radio waves. Submarines can’t get GPS signals or transmit their location. Submarines have to rely on other means such as IMUs to track their own location.
jamesralph8555 commented on Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500k group chat messages   izzy.co/blogs/robo-boys.h... · Posted by u/izzymiller
cameroncooper · 2 years ago
Best thing I learned from this article is that Messages on Mac stores all your messages in a sqlite db. Pretty cool!
jamesralph8555 · 2 years ago
If you don’t have a Mac but have an iPhone, iOS does the same thing - if you back up to iTunes you can access the database file.
jamesralph8555 commented on TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning   arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
svantana · 2 years ago
Yes, Google TPUs are sold to consumers under the Coral brand.

https://coral.ai/products/

jamesralph8555 · 2 years ago
These things come with a lot of limitations, like not being able to work with 4D and larger tensors, plus the 8 bit quantization. Getting models to run on them is a real pain.
jamesralph8555 commented on Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda   bitecode.substack.com/p/w... · Posted by u/sametmax
zaptheimpaler · 2 years ago
Python packaging is sooo fun it has given me permanent brain damage and PTSD. Now I have a docker devbox with all my language toolchains and fun unix tools installed. I could install 3 different versions of cuda, 8 different pyenv pythons all sharing parts (but not all) of each others modules with torch compiled for a 4th different version of cuda that is NOT installed, then replace the core system python with a duck. pipx has somehow installed a version of borg backup that depends on a secret hidden 9th python. Then I will simply `docker rm` and `docker compose up -d` and I'm back. Yesterday I ran a random academic paper ML model in python in 5 minutes on my docker machine. HAHAHAHAHAÀÄÄÄÄÄ i am invincible!!!!!!
jamesralph8555 · 2 years ago
Docker is the only way to do ML. One thing I didn’t think to do before for a while was make separate docker files for each project so all of the deps are installed automatically and that has since helped tremendously.

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