CameronDev

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

Just to lightly temper your expectations, the OCR isnt perfect, and you may need to add your own tags/text, but its still an awesome system.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

At least for paperless, one of the selling points is OCR plus text search. Do you can dump in all your receipts as photos, and then 3 years later, search "lawnmower" and find the receipt for it. (I dont know if this applies for this software, but its very nice in paperless)

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 24 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Some oddly specific numbers there for the estimates. Would like to see some R values for the insulation, but $15k does buy a lot of good insulation, so its promising. (Edit: just saw your other reply, would have to see what the builders actually put in to know more)

I wonder how skilled one needs to be to assemble these houses? If the instructions are good, and its not too hard, could save some more money on the labor side of things? You can do your own electrical work in NZ right?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Someone can chip in with actual numbers, but pine is a goodish insulator, but it depends on the thickness. Corrugated iron is a terrible insulator, and the real important part is what's in between. I can't help but think that if it was good stuff, they would be proudly spruiking it in the article :/

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Yeah, you can get a shed from bunnings and assemble it yourself for a few hundred dollars, doesn't make it a good house though.

No mention of insulation, which should be a top priority for low income housing, otherwise the heating and cooling costs will be crazy.

Also, doesnt fisher and paykel have a fairly poor reputation for reliability?

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago

Try going through with a cute moustache, maybe thats the right combo

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Thats really sad. That kid is learning to get good at the one thing ChatGPT excels at - rewriting words into a different form. Who is going to want to employ someone for that?!

I always felt that schools do a bad job of explaining why plagerism is bad. Its not just that its theft, the really damaging part is that it cheats the student out of their own education. A late or poorly written assignment is far better than a passing chatgpt written assignment, because its still involves learning.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

True. I just assumed it was a significant part of the response time given they went to the effort of automating it. Still, like the other person said, a proper invoicing software should be the correct tool

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 25 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Seems like a problem that doesn't require AI. Just have an email template with all services, and delete the unnecessary ones. Shouldn't take 5 hours.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

I didn't say you can't have a GPU, but to me, its wasteful. I keep my jellyfin server off when not in use, and use WoL to start it when its needed.

I have played with local LLMs, and the models I used were unimpressive, but without knowing what the OP has in mind, we cant know how much power it will use. If it just spins up the GPU once a day for 20 minutes, probably okay, you won't even notice it. But anyone like me who doesn't already have a GPU in their lab will probably notice it quite clearly on their power bill.

A megacorps server farm is huge, but its also amortised over millions of users, they probably don't need 1-1 GPU to customers, so the efficiency isnt necessarily bad. (Although at the moment, given megacorps are tripping over themselves to throw compute at LLM training, this may not be true)

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Idle is low power, not zero power. And it won't be idle when its scraping and parsing the sites, so depending on how much scraping its doing, it could be significant non-idle energy usage.

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