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Readit Newsstigz commented on With One Call, Trump Alters the Fate of a Contested Power Project nytimes.com/2025/07/17/cl... · Posted by u/zekrioca
At my company, we have been using Ramp.
stigz commented on Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl techcrunch.com/2025/07/14... · Posted by u/akyuu
Is there any market/demand for AI companions for females (i.e. https://jaimee.ai), or has this trend of AI companions vastly for males? I suspect the latter, but curious if anyone has evidence beyond Jaimee AI of the former.
stigz commented on Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything sergey.fyi/articles/gemin... · Posted by u/serjester
Hmm I have been doing a but if this manually lately for a personal project.
I am working on some old books that are far past any copyright, but
they are not available anywhere on the net.
(Being in Norwegian m makes a book a lot more obscure)
so I have been working on creating ebooks out of them.
I have a scanner, and some OCR processes I run things through. I am close to 85% from my automatic process.
The pain of going from 85% to 99% though is considerable. (and in my case manual) (well Perl helps)
I went to try this AI on one of the short poem manufscript I have.
I told the prompt I wanted PDF to Markdown, it says sure go ahead give me the pdf. I went upload it. It spent a long time spinning. then a quick messages comes up, something like
"Failed to count tokens"
but it just flashes and goes away.
I guess the PDF is too big? Weird though, its not a lot of pages.
I experienced something similar. My use case is I need to summarize bank statements (sums, averages, etc.). Gemini wouldn't do it, it said too many pages. When I asked the max number of supported pages, it says max is 14 pages. Attempted on both 2.0 flash and 2.0 pro in VertexAI console.
stigz commented on 'The Brutalist' Director Speaks Out After AI Controversy Erupts forbes.com/sites/timlamme... · Posted by u/gslin
We've been using technology to touch up movies for years. What's the big deal - just because its the AI boogey man? Accusations the director is deliberately using AI to squeeze artists out of jobs is silly, he is simply perfectecting the scene using the tools at his disposal like every director before him.
This is neat. I take it these these accounting breakdowns for films are hard to come by? Would love to see more for some of my favorite films.
stigz commented on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot bottlerocket.dev... · Posted by u/akyuu
stigz commented on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot bottlerocket.dev... · Posted by u/akyuu
It's not like something is stopping one from doing a vuln scan, right? Like, there's something that SSM's in (or uses the admin container) and then runs the scan. Couldn't you just do the same thing?
Genuine questions, I don't know if this is the case or not.
That's a good point. And it sounds like it would work to me as well. I don't know the answer either.
I guess my point is the project should be providing a clear path that doesn't involve AWS instead of just stopping short.
stigz commented on Bottlerocket – Minimal, immutable Linux OS with verified boot bottlerocket.dev... · Posted by u/akyuu
This seems to still be very much an AWS/Amazon project with no clear path to becoming its own independent thing. For example, you want vulnerability scanning on the OS? Well you can use an Amazon product for that, otherwise *shrug* [1]. So I guess as long as you plan to run Bottlerocket in AWS, you're fine.
I wish the Bottlerocket team would do 1 of 2 things. Either own up that this is just an AWS project, or start to solve for things like this and actually be a product that "runs in the cloud or in your datacenter" as they suggest on their website.