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by almog 3y ago
> To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your AI Test Kitchen conversations, interactions and demo outputs. Please do not include information that can be used to identify you or oth
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by almog 3y ago
One area where I noticed Bard was clearly behind (at least without crafting a better prompt) is getting from half-working program to a running program then sometime even to a correct program (I was using Python). With GPT 3.5 and 4, I was a
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by almog 3y ago
To add to that, the penalty for random writes is paid not only with performance but also in durability of the drive.
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by almog 3y ago
That's interesting, I've seen it happening randomly that a search query would return unrelated results for 1 out of 100 queries using the same query. In your example however, it seems to me that if you add quotes, the irrelevant r
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by almog 3y ago
One of the best things about eBay compared to other market places like Amazon and Aliexpress, is that their search operators include not just AND (space) but also OR (comma separated values inside parentheses) and NOT (minus) but more impor
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by almog 3y ago
> `j` to jump to next post in Reddit is not "Vim-like" at all for someone familiar with Vim. Why not? For me the verb (motion) is down and noun is the post (I just think of each post as a line).
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by almog 3y ago
> If institutional investors hold bonds with 40 year maturity in Facebook they might be less inclined to invest in companies that might upend them. They have no obligation to hold these bonds to maturity.
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by almog 3y ago
While an app that can sync the predefined items and their code, as well as format the text properly would be ideal, my time constraints might not allow me to build that, and since it's for personal use only, and under the assumption th
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by almog 3y ago
I'm currently working on a service that would allow me to place orders using a satellite messenger. Some background: When I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail few years ago, I used to order items that needed to be replaced or that I lost to
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by almog 3y ago
Postponed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-27/amazon-ra...
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by almog 3y ago
Couldn't imagine it aging any worse than this for Amazon
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by almog 3y ago
Ironically, when I signed up with a new user just to use the marketplace while preserving my marketplace history separated from my private user for privacy, I found out that I couldn't use the marketplace until I establish my identity
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by almog 3y ago
Metaverse division revenue: $339M vs est. $613.1M
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by almog 3y ago
I'm guessing also that as the ex-date for a possible US default approaches (I think it hasn't been announced yet), the demand for older cheap bonds/notes would rise
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by almog 3y ago
> ... and get par back immediately rather than having to wait 30 years to collect In a parallel universe the US has entered a short technical default just slightly before SVB's collapse, which allowed them (if CDS insured) to collec
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US 5-year credit default swaps rise to highest since 2011(reuters.com)
146 points by almog 3y ago|98 comments
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by almog 3y ago
You might want to also listen to the SE Daily episode with Dhruba and Igor of RockDB, they cover similar aspects of RocksDB in details: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2019/02/05/rocksdb-with...
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by almog 4y ago
Not to make a competition out of it but since Guinness Record was mentioned in the article, I thought I might point out that there is at least one hiker who has hiked more miles: Brian Tansman, who is mostly known on trail as Buck-30. He ha
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by almog 4y ago
Hopefully this will put regulator on track to pursue anti trust when Amazon attempts similar acquisitions in the future.
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by almog 4y ago
Perhaps this talk/prophecy is also encapsulated in that reference: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by almog 4y ago
Yes, you can do that with the adb CLI. Of course it's a viable solution only for an archivist/advanced users, not so for common users who just wish to keep their old device running smoothly.
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CBC Wiretap – guide to seasons 1-5 (2019)(docs.google.com)
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by almog 4y ago
They were the ones to publish the research about Nikola... It's an odd response from Block given Hindenburg's solid track record. I expected them to try and refute some of the claims but they didn't even try it seems
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by almog 4y ago
True, I'm just not sure what's the plan after these 90 days have passed other than more loans, any idea? If the Fed suddenly cut rate aggressively that would be one way for banks to restore liquidity but I cannot see that happeni
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by almog 4y ago
It's a loan whose collateral is taken at par value rather than market price, which essentially increase the Fed's balance sheet. As of Wednesday last week, 4 months of QT have been reverted in a single week: https://fre
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by almog 4y ago
- Randomly Typed (haven't seen a new episode come out in a while but these two Canadian guys are great!) - Coding Blocks (I like their book club episodes a lot, specifically DDIA) - Talk Python To Me - Software Engineering D
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by almog 4y ago
That number is based on its Friday closing price of total shares outstanding times the market price of a common share. Such offer by itself would probably be enough to drive the share price given where things seems to be headed.
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by almog 4y ago
For perspective, Credit Suisse market cap is (on paper at least) around $8 bln.
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by almog 4y ago
Thanks a lot! I'll have to try this Frankenstein of a setup this week :)
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by almog 4y ago
More from the category of "history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme": https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1631866199515738113

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