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I don't understand how come it happen? It is a human who wrote that blog post - it is for sure. I don't believe the automatic program which is "agent" could do it!


I'm also from EU. I tip only at restaurants, only 10% on average. The prices when recently up like 50% or so. So adding the tip on top of that is a hustle. And 10% on the higher price is also higher tip, so I am double assured I do good


here in Central Europe (SK/CZ) we never done percentage, we were just rounding up the sum, like 283 to 300, but even 292 would become 300, and if it's bill 300 then tough luck for waiter. But not sure what is the situation in recent years with card payments replacing cash, tips must been hit hard, also raising prices and people going to restaurants less and less doesn't help much.

Personally I pretty much stopped going to restaurants completely during COVID when I was treated worse than dog - dogs allowed (to some places), unvaxxed not allowed to enter.


> unvwaxxed not allowed to enter

This is the correct approach. If you are an asdhole for not caring about others but using the herd immunity znyway, this is the latest that can be done to show contempt.

My wife is immunodepressed and cannot be vaccinated. She avoids plenty of places because shit people like this do not care.

I once physically threw away someone sick and unvaccinated from a place for babies only that are not protected by the mother and too young to protect themselves. It was violent, I called the police afterwards myself.

People don't be dicks with other people life.


Covid vaccines never prevented infection and transmission. If anything, out of the people I know the vaccinated got it much more often because they were more careless.


No one claimed it totally prevented infection or transmission. But it did significantly lower the rate.


Please stop stating idiocies and behave like a grown-up.

Look at the numbers and you will see the drop in BOTH the number of infections, AND the transmissions (because of a reduced viral payload).

These are sensibly larger than would be expected from natural herd immunity due to infections.

Vaccines also greatly reduced the severity of the disease, when caught anyway.

If you do not believe in science, treat this as a religion and do it anyway without thinking.


Whenever someone complains about being treated "worse than dogs" I have to wonder how they think dogs should be treated. To be fair, if dogs could catch COVID and pass it onto humans they'd likely have banned unvaccinated dogs as well.


Inflation my man


It was just luck


You can't luck your way into building Apple or Pixar.


Luck was required, but not sufficient. What are the odds that, while bumming around, you'll meet a guy who singlehandedly built an awesome home computer, and needs someone to market it? Jobs took initiative he wasn't the only one who knew Woz, but was the only one to use that opportunity. But, on the other hand, if he never met Woz, there'd be no Apple - so, lots of luck was required.


You can luck your way into being a super Type A manipilative boomer with good taste before personal computers became a thing, before everyone was effectively required to have degree, and knowing a hobbyist electrical engineer who's capable of making a computer from scratch and not Type A.


If you allow him to stay, and do the learning (if he's willing to) you would be magical fairy granting wishes. There is no such work place with such an attitude


small angry troll


Thank you for this article. It reminded me how I was profitable in DOS memory optimization. To run game like Mortal Kombat, Doom, Dune, Dune 2 or others I got very good in optimizing. I remember now how I wrote my own config.sys and autoexec.bat files or run MemMaker. This is a piece of history for part of us


I landed two jobs in the 1990s on the strength of my DOS memory-optimsation skills.

I didn't use Memmaker, or Quarterdeck Optimise or anything. I did it by hand. I got as much free base memory, with shorter more readable config files, and they were more maintainable.


Never used it, never knew it existed and I'm using Internet from the 1997. Seeing all the warm comments here I suppose it's like IRC for me.


I and my friends 3 years ago switched to closed group on Signal. We switched from our makeshift mail group we used for 10 years (we all were just using "reply to all" to the infinity). Thanks god Signal has mute option. The emails always waited for me not knocking on the doors like Jehovah's witnesses!


Is it wrong if I ask here where I can find Allie chatbot? I would like to try it. The only AI I chatted with is ChatGPT. It is very polite, but I often hit a wall where it says "I'm just an algorithm... So I can't do what you ask". I would like to experience more freedom when interacting with such an entity, to feel what it is like.


TavernAI and SillyTavern both have pretty detailed guides on setting one up by downloading the models from HuggingFace and loading htem into their software.


I created Allie. I don't want to link anything here that might violate HN rules, but you can find me in Discord where my username is belladore.


How it is even possible to run Linux only with 8MB of RAM? In the article it's Ubuntu, it's the distro what I use on my Dell i7 gen. 3 laptop.


The wording is confusing. They used an Ubuntu build system to run this script, which produces the firmware file to be flashed to the ESP32. The firmware is a minimal Linux-based OS, not Ubuntu.

https://gist.github.com/jcmvbkbc/316e6da728021c8ff670a24e674...


It just runs the kernel and one CLI app, maybe two. No ui, no swap.

It is the same kind of rootfs your laptop runs, but the similarities end there.


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