abirch

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   by abirch 2y ago

   I like the book's message much like I enjoyed The Four Agreements; however, they both could have been a magazine articles instead of books. My takeaway from Rich Dad Poor Dad is think about ownership and value creation instead of worki
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   by abirch 2y ago

   I don't think he's necessarily bearish on Apple. Buffett could feel like the entire market is overvalued like in 2001. Even Microsoft fell for a few years with great profits.
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   by abirch 2y ago

   You'd probably need DNS and Root Certificates, something to which most employers have access
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   by abirch 2y ago

   Although Beryl is not going to hit Florida, how will these increased hurricanes impact Miami's goal of becoming the financial capital of the US?
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   by abirch 2y ago

   Your comment reminded me of college when they taught us: you don't ride in an elevator with a nitrogen tank because it can displace the oxygen in seconds.
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   by abirch 2y ago

   If someone spikes the punch with alcohol that's bad. If everyone is consenting: drop away. If they don't consent please leave them alone.
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   by abirch 2y ago

   It's sad when drugs are sold on hope and not on science. This reminds me of Biogen's Alzheimer's drug that eventually was stopped after millions were spent by people hoping it would work with controversial clinical results:
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   by abirch 2y ago

   The University of Phoenix started out the same: using high standards. It'd be great if you could carve those standards into stone to prevent some future person flooding the market with less qualified candidates.
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   by abirch 2y ago

   Or an app. https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/mobile-order simply select what you want, have your favorites saved and go. When I had my first blackberry I envisioned that you'd be able to order everything the
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    by abirch 2y ago

    A lot of html, css, and JavaScript may not be independent.
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    by abirch 2y ago

    The appeal court's decision is the right one. I'm guessing this will be going to the Supreme Court.
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    by abirch 2y ago

    It's stable for me so far. Are there any problematic prompts? It's been helping me with some code and I made the prompt below to double check. A Reddit comment in the style of Edgar Allen Poe: Good sir (or madam, for the veil of a
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    by abirch 2y ago

    Ditto. Apparently Gemini has near 100% of the market share right now ;-)
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    by abirch 2y ago

    I agree with you though I'd state the cheapest upfront option. They tend to cost more in the long run. See Terry Pratchett's boot theory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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    by abirch 2y ago

    From another comment thread here: Bluevec was the subject of a civil suit by competitor Vancouver-based SkyCope Technologies, which alleged Bluevec stole trade secrets through former SkyCope employees and gained a competitive advantage. Las
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    by abirch 2y ago

    Linux isn't afraid to break backward compatible. I'm pretty sure Win32 is going to outlive me.
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    by abirch 2y ago

    I think the article says open source. The project itself only says open. https://ai.google.dev/gemma
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    by abirch 2y ago

    I assumed that if you hit unsubscribe they would immediately sell your email. I've seen a lot of spam sent with an unsubscribe option.
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    by abirch 2y ago

    Hopefully this is the gateway to running on Oculus Quest 3. I want to code in 3D. That way I can virtually punch my buggy lines of code to delete them.
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    by abirch 2y ago

    Tim Hortons is part of $RBI [1] and not private equity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Hortons
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    by abirch 3y ago

    Here the bank CEO was being scammed and allegedly embezzled: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/-pig-butc... Prospect theory predicts people are more likely to gamble to prevent a sure loss.
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    by abirch 3y ago

    There seems to be a lot of pressure on the youth today. Growing up I had a lot of unscheduled time but now kids can't play multiple sports due to games, practices, and expectations.
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    by abirch 3y ago

    I would actually like to have books that had "Thinking Fast and Slow" as a prerequisite. Many data visualization books could be summed up as a bar chart is easily consumed by System 1. The visual noise creates mental strain on Sys
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    by abirch 3y ago

    Don't forget "Noise" it was a great read and great bridge between "Thinking Fast and Slow" with "Nudge"
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    by abirch 3y ago

    As an American an attack on donuts should trigger NATO article 5
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    by abirch 3y ago

    Scott Handelman said something like you're either building Ironman or Ultron
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    by abirch 3y ago

    I'm guessing bot authors will start to filter the instructions, minimally starting with s/I'm a bot//g
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    by abirch 3y ago

    The US doesn't allow for manufacturer of hard drugs. Any drug can be laced with fentanyl these days and lead to an OD.
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    by abirch 3y ago

    This would have been awesome for me 2 years ago. Currently much of my complicated SQL is generated by a LLM.
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    by abirch 3y ago

    I consider Hacker News as consuming media. Occasionally there's some heartburn, but usually it's very nutrient dense.