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by albert_e 3y ago
$90million (fees towards enforcing the Twitter purchase deal) was wired 10 minutes before the deal was signed (purchase of twitter by Musk) And then Musk as owner fired the top executives, chief legal office, and general counsel for Twitter
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Ask HN: Crossword Scanner Site/App?
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by albert_e 3y ago
BofA had a online tool (Flash based I think) to generate and manage virtual CC numbers linked to your real card. When Flash was sunset -- they gave a BS reasoning and shutdown this tool as well whithout making an effort to rebuild / re
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by albert_e 3y ago
I clicked on Class 7 > Mathematics > English Was sent to a Mediafire link That wanted to download an APK file Seems like this is malware disguised as useful educational material? Happy to be proven wrong, but if it is malware please r
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by albert_e 3y ago
Yeah this part is left out of the explanation
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by albert_e 3y ago
idea: add a checkbox to make the red line "snap" to the tick marks / major scales. (user can press Alt key to re-enable fine control momentarily)
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by albert_e 3y ago
Excellent tutorial! The hands-on practice built into each page is brilliant. I wish more tutorials were like this!
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by albert_e 3y ago
Do non subscribers have access to old NYT crosswords
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by albert_e 3y ago
at least in this respect the now prevalent UPI (unified payments interface) used throughout India fares better. each merchant -- even a roadside vendor or a mobile hawker of wares -- displays a QR code that has their payment account details
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3b1B explains how the patterns fool ya [video](youtube.com)
27 points by albert_e 3y ago|0 comments
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by albert_e 3y ago
What would be the shape of a rotationally-symmetric (nearly conical) shape that has 1/2 of the volume of a cylinder with same base?
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by albert_e 3y ago
But "this context" is Twitter's policy and technical changes under Elon Musk. We have seen twitter implement and revert broad policy changes within a few hours in this era. So I would agree that one month is long in this cont
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by albert_e 3y ago
wow thanks what is 3b1b "hidden" channel -- is this official too
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by albert_e 3y ago
I found this via my YouTube recommendations today: Seems to be a reasonable attempt at explaining all the references in that original video -- https://youtu.be/tbqU9APUuYI
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by albert_e 3y ago
Humble suggestion -- please mention country and location in such posts. HN has audience all over the world.
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by albert_e 3y ago
That's a very common pattern. Special characters are usually allowed only from a predefined list. I don't see how this is specifically bad or deserves a blog post.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Is there a video of the talk that preceeded this song?
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by albert_e 3y ago
yep desktop Teams is not loading any chats on the right panel
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by albert_e 3y ago
Also, getting generic ChatGPT answers: >> What is the popular opinion on the recent Reddit protest As an AI language model, I don't have real-time access to the internet or social media platforms, so I cannot provide the current
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by albert_e 3y ago
Not sure it is getting the prompt : >> What is the most popular discussion around AWS cloud The most popular discussion around AWS cloud on Hacker News is titled "It's Time To Subsidize E-bikes." It discusses the benefi
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by albert_e 3y ago
Like the archive.ph bypass for soft paywalls on news articles ... Isn't there a website that simple records a GIF of the said tiktok/ IG reel and lets you share that instead?
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by albert_e 3y ago
just one perspective : framing other's ideas as bad might come across as lacking humility to some. maybe it can be framed as contributing critical ideas to design and convincing rest of the team to see why they need to revise the desig
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by albert_e 3y ago
I must be misunderstanding what anchor link means. PDF definitely supports internal "links" like a Table of Contents where clicking on a chapter name in TOC takes you directly to that chapter. What am I missing?
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by albert_e 3y ago
Glorious. I followed SOME of the math there. Like Nolan's movies have, is there an "explainer" or a for dummies narration of what's going on here?
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by albert_e 3y ago
interesting. one of the reason I think this does not get used is because PDF as a document format got firmly entrenched as the go to format for 1. printable documents, books, slides, or strictly static content whose layout on every page is
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by albert_e 3y ago
Ensemble of LLMs, each with a different expertise and bias and temperature. GenAI by committee.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Imagine if this piece was the output of a GPT model ...that would be meta.
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by albert_e 3y ago
Thanks i live in the country and have previously devoured MOOCs ...but never heard of this! Bookmarked! https://nptel.ac.in/
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by albert_e 3y ago
My experience (n=1) was not so bad. I cancelled Amazon Prime 4 or 5 times in the last decade. Yes they try to keep you and make you jump through 2 or 3 confirmation pages but it never prevented me from actually cancelling on whatever day I
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by albert_e 3y ago
He has already concluded that the five souls are lost.

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