abzolv | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: Frustrated with Unreliable Placeholder Image Services? Host your own!
Add the details of the Docker image to the home page.
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abzolv | 1 year ago | on: Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
Your scroll-to-death user interface made me close the window before the end of the second page.
Did you ask an LLM to recommend the most user-friendly UI to you?
abzolv | 2 years ago | on: Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services
abzolv | 2 years ago | on: Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services
The new Act does NOT affect podcasts.
abzolv | 2 years ago | on: Substack Notes Launched
I use a unique email address for each substack author that I subscribe to. That is incompatible with Notes.
abzolv | 2 years ago | on: Substack Notes Launched
If you subscribe to someone’s Notes you also subscribe to their email articles. No thank you, especially if aal their articles are behind a paywall. Not sure why Musk is so freaked out over Notes. Probably just general paranoia.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Bill Ackman: The gov't has about 48h to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake
The FDIC $250,000 insurance is there to protect the depositors.
The amount is not a secret.
If you keep more than that in cash in a bank account, you take a known risk and must definitely not be bailed out.
You did not need to keep that large amount in cash. You could have bought short-term US treasury bills with every cent above $250k, and your deposits would have been perfectly safe. All of it.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Bill Ackman: The gov't has about 48h to fix a-soon-to-be-irreversible mistake
Exactly.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Facebook Announces Meta Verified
Why would that merit a recurring charge? In other words, what ongoing expense is incurred by the company to display a particular icon next to your name?
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Facebook Announces Meta Verified
What about the verified status can change, that merits a recurring charge versus a once-off charge? Can you suddenly morph into “not you”?
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: It’s not aliens. It’ll probably never be aliens. So stop. Please just stop
Any alien race with technology to reach Sol will also have superior technology to defend themselves. Only start worrying when the “balloon” shot down the F-18s and F35s that were scrambled to shoot it down.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: ChatGPT has flaws and is underwhelming
The biggest weakness of ChatGPT is that you do not know the source of the information that it presents to you.
With Google, you can apply human assessment and judgment on the veracity of the information based upon your knowledge of the reliability of the source of the information. With ChatGPT that is not possible.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: FTX’s ownership of a U.S. bank raises questions
From the article:
“The chairman of FBH is Jean Chalopin, who, along with being a co-creator of cartoon cop Inspector Gadget in the 1980s, is the chairman of Deltec Bank, which, like FTX, is based in the Bahamas. Deltec’s best-known client is Tether, a crypto company with $65 billion in assets offering a stablecoin that is pegged to the dollar.”
That tells you everything you need to know.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: “Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”
This is the correct take. Without the staff and institutional knowledge of a 16 year old service, no amount of hand waving will keep the service healthy. It’s a stunning display of what not to do.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Withdrawals from BlockFi continue to be paused
Their website still has a yellow notice at the top:
> “We have limited platform activity, including pausing client withdrawals as allowed under our Terms. We request that clients not deposit to BlockFi Wallet or Interest Accounts at this time.”
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
The months you’re referring to was spent trying to get out of the deal. It was not spent preparing for it to close.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
Kara Swisher said some advertisers had told her, after a meeting with Musk last week in NY, that either he came to the meeting totally unprepared or he actually had no plan. He could not articulate a sensible plan to them.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
Having too many servers (many thousands) could be a big drawback for onboarding. Choice paralysis, and difficulty / time consumption of picking a suitable server to join.
abzolv | 3 years ago | on: Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
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