benmanns

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by benmanns 2y ago
And what is your recourse? There's no private cause of action for HIPAA violations.
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by benmanns 3y ago
True, I was a bit extreme. Maybe I should say we’re not creating policies encouraging eating corn instead of chickens, when both are digestible by humans.
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by benmanns 3y ago
Original article title: Fish fed to farmed salmon should be part of our diet, too, study suggests Original paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-024-00932-z https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-0
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by benmanns 3y ago
If you need same day/local service, I’ve found our local Walmart to be cheaper and much higher quality than the Kodak kiosk inside the local CVS stores. Not sure how Walgreens compares.
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by benmanns 3y ago
I wonder if it could be considered securities fraud, in the Matt Levine sense of "Everything is Securities Fraud." I certainly would take CEO approval rating and employee's reviews of overall job satisfaction into account whe
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by benmanns 3y ago
Ahh 00s/10s era ING Direct and TreasuryDirect. I think TreasuryDirect finally dropped the virtual keyboard in the last couple years.
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by benmanns 3y ago
Do you mean a different domain? mail-checker.com Looks like a parked spam domain.
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by benmanns 3y ago
You could try embedding the two codes with an LLM and run any number of similarity measures on the output vectors.
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by benmanns 3y ago
Is there any way to do this on iPhone? I use a Google Voice number since Google Voice came out, and I would love to iMessage from it, but Apple won't let me add it as a number for the device.
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by benmanns 3y ago
Not anymore! https://github.com/HackerNews/API
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by benmanns 3y ago
Oh that's too harsh. Don't forget, you could subscribe to this valuable and expensive to run HTTP handler for an ongoing $45/year.
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by benmanns 3y ago
I wish I could play around with Spanner for personal/side projects, but a production ready instance starts at $65/mo. DynamoDB can run for ~$0.00/month with per-request pricing.
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by benmanns 3y ago
I may be the only one not familiar, but nom refers to https://github.com/rust-bakery/nom which looks like a pretty handy way to parse binary data in Rust.
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by benmanns 3y ago
Somewhat aside, I love the graphical display of the benchmark results: https://fitzgeraldnick.com/media/bumpalo-switch-to-downwards... --I think I'll start doing that when I run benchmarks in the future.
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by benmanns 3y ago
In coffee shops the conversation has approximately 0 to do with you (ok, maybe you overhear about a new local restaurant). In the office you overhear conversations that are much more relevant and, therefore, harder to tune out.
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by benmanns 3y ago
$50/$500 is a 10%/year yield, which is hard come by in any guaranteed investment. The Crocs will likely have no retained value, while the $500 shoes may be worth something after 10 years. However, that ignores the cost of maintain
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by benmanns 3y ago
This is why HFTs pay so much for order flow from retail firms. Large orders on the books at public exchanges are subject to informed traders, while retail orders from Robinhood are random (or worse).
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by benmanns 3y ago
To some extent, the war on drugs is a war on minorities is a political war on the left.
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by benmanns 4y ago
If you trust GitHub you could curl https://github.com/capableweb.keys on startup
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by benmanns 4y ago
Also, if you want to be able to create legitimate projects that are not tied to your real-world identity, you need a break between bank -> exchange -> address -> ??? -> contract deployment address.
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by benmanns 4y ago
Yuck, it seems like no exceptions, minimums, or safe harbors that I can find. Definitely something to keep in mind and save/price accordingly. Seems like bootstrapped software needs to charge 30-50% more than 2021 and prior, at least f
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by benmanns 4y ago
Oh that's pretty cool. It looks like there are no fees for the service (at least for now), where Venmo has a 1.75% fee ($0.25 min $25 max) and Cash App has a 0.5%-1.75% fee ($0.25 min) for the same instant withdrawal service.
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by benmanns 4y ago
GPT-3 Prompt: A broadcast from the Super Bowl: Reporter: "How does it feel to have won the Super Bowl?" Star quarterback: Completion: "It feels amazing. We worked so hard all season and to finally have won the championship is
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by benmanns 4y ago
I did a version of this in elementary through high school. Lend someone $1 for the vending machine today. If they blow off repaying you, don't lend them $5 for lunch tomorrow.
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by benmanns 4y ago
This browser extension doesn't work everywhere, but it works some places. You can auto-decline all cookie prompts, or if you're so inclined, auto-accept: https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic
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by benmanns 4y ago
Is geothermal any quieter? I was assuming the ground loop pump would be quieter than the air-to-air fan.
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by benmanns 4y ago
I used them as a “virtual travel agent” similar to the prompt on https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts#act-as-a-travel... It’s nice to be able to respond, “I’ve done 1 already, 2 is too far a drive, and 3 is not
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by benmanns 4y ago
Haven’t seen my related use case mentioned: I frequently upvote posts as a private favorites list, as favorites is public and can feel kind of revealing.
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by benmanns 4y ago
You could also voluntarily share the device location with Apple and friends as part of reporting it stolen. I don’t really care if Apple knows where my stolen phone is after it’s stolen.
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by benmanns 4y ago
Yes, the state bar will generally refer you to a lawyer in good standing who is familiar with the practice area and is willing to do a 30 min to hour consultation for a flat rate.

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