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by bambax 1y ago
The problems you mention are real; but on average it seems Google Maps review are fair; in my experience they tend to reflect the reality better. I think it would be interesting to be able to see an Airbnb place directly on Google maps (via
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by bambax 1y ago
Yeah well, the main talent required for being a host on Airbnb isn't to host well, it's to manage reviews well. Reviews should have an expiration date, because places age and wear out; I'm not interested in learning about the
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes, I had a similar experience. Reviews on Airbnb can't be trusted because most hosts are experts at having bad reviews removed. But if reviews can't be trusted then the whole thing is worthless.
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by bambax 1y ago
I used to like Airbnb. It's not better or cheaper than hotels, but when travelling with kids it makes a big difference. Until I had a bad experience, that turned horrible. I saw a side of the company that made me think "never agai
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by bambax 1y ago
It doesn't seem to handle multi-columns PDFs well?
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes. It's good to inflict huge fine on the company itself, as it will eventually hurt stockholders; but management should be held accountable too, especially C-level personnel who quit with golden parachutes of various sizes. They shou
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by bambax 1y ago
| <font size="5" face="Helvetica">Monitor and protect your web app from cyberfraud, account threats, bots and abuse with a single security platform.</font> Sure but how is this better than setting up t
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by bambax 1y ago
I studied both and so did my three kids (each in a different school). You can't really escape Molière, Hugo, Rimbaud and Baudelaire (and some others too).
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by bambax 1y ago
> Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil > Les Fleurs du mal appeared on the bookshelves of Paris in June 1857... Side note: it's not "Fleurs du Mal" but "Les Fleurs du Mal"; it's ok that the domain is
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by bambax 1y ago
> You probably need to have at least a little of the same darkness in your soul to get something out of it In France he's part of the normal curriculum so every student reads and studies some of his poems (sometimes the whole book
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by bambax 1y ago
Lol I just read the parent comment without noticing that they were quoting the exact same sentence from the blog! ;-) Sorry about that!
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by bambax 1y ago
There has to be a private API for this; the post says: > The Metal profiler has an incredibly useful feature: it allows you to choose the Metal “Performance State” while profiling the application. This is not configurable outside of the
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by bambax 1y ago
> This is going to be a VERY LONG HIGHLY TECHNICAL post, so either buckle your seatbelt or leave while you still can. Well, I read it all and found it not too long, extremely clear and well-written, and informative! Congrats on the wri
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The Ballad of the Loser Billionaires(slate.com)
12 points by bambax 1y ago|3 comments
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by bambax 1y ago
> 10 years later, I regret having essentially no pictures of anything Yes. I take lots of photos and even I regret not having more, or videos of the kids learning to walk or learning to talk. Also: memories are fleeting, very fast. I&#
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by bambax 1y ago
They say they buy in bulk and get better prices than those available to the general public... IDK if that's the whole story, but could be.
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by bambax 1y ago
Neat! But instead of hitting each provider's API separately, managing their keys, etc., it may be easier to go through OpenRouter, which is a single endpoint, has hundreds of models, and doesn't add any cost on top of public price
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by bambax 1y ago
> We’ve got <iframe>, which technically is a pure HTML solution, but they are bad for overall performance, accessibility, and generally extremely awkward here What does this mean? This is a pure HTML solution, not just "tech
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by bambax 1y ago
I don't know if a minimum viable blog needs to pre-render html... For this a PHP script is lightning fast and the source markdown file is the only source of truth -- if you correct a typo then it's immediately live, no need to thi
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by bambax 1y ago
It's true that it's not a good way to learn, but it's fun for a little while. That's why an app on glasses for this is better than a complete alternative instrument; the app is much cheaper and should work with any real
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by bambax 1y ago
> I just stopped having to look down at the keyboard Maybe the next step is an app for people who don't read sheet music; it would light up the keys on the keyboard that you need to press, when you look at it...? Same for guitar,
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by bambax 1y ago
This is a really cool project. From the end of the video: > I had the bars of music auto-sending at a preset interval. The pedals, instead of flipping bars, temporarily pause the flipping or speed it up, in case I'm desynced from t
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by bambax 1y ago
I don't want to be rescued.
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by bambax 1y ago
Oh he definitely lacked empathy. But things haven't improved much. Today we have "prompt engineers" whose only job is to input the right question in order to get the right answer.
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by bambax 1y ago
> If it takes a long time to copy a database and it gets updated midway through, rsync may give me an invalid database file. The first half of the file is pre-update, the second half file is post-update, and they don’t match. When I try
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by bambax 1y ago
From your linked comment: > The scenario of "I just sent you an xlsx where the rows highlighted in red are problems and if you can just add your notes to column K, that would be great. Thanks!" -- is not easy in other tools th
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes that's what I meant. You can edit xlsx in Excel 2003; you open, modify and save as. It's a little annoying but it works.
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by bambax 1y ago
You're right about Excel; however, I think big data files should be handled in a db rather than in a spreadsheet. And sqlite can query Excel files (with an extension), and it's super fast and you can use any function you want, or
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by bambax 1y ago
Office 2003 can absolutely open docx and xlsx and pptx files. It is annoying because it usually opens those in read-only mode, and then you need to "save as" to do your modifications. But it works fine otherwise.
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by bambax 1y ago
Yes.

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