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by dustincoates 1y ago
We used to do this on the camp fire in Boy Scouts with paper cups. The older boys would learn it in science class and would use it to wow the younger ones.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Not mentioned in the article is Osweald Bera[0]. This is the "Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata" of Old English, that is a text that uses words similar enough words that you didn't need any explanation beyond the text in the ta
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Some offices are better than other when it comes up AC. My last regular office would turn the AC off for the entire floor if any windows were open. But then the meeting rooms would get stuffy, and people would open windows, so there effecti
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Thankfully in Paris it doesn't look like we're going to get it as bad as was expected. It's "only" going to be 100f/38c today and 90f/32c tomorrow. Hot, but considering that just a few days ago my weather
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That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose(theatlantic.com)
86 points by dustincoates 1y ago|65 comments
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by dustincoates 1y ago
If the populations that you're talking about are the famed "blue zones," then the most likely reason for it is poor record keeping: https://jheor.org/post/2682-ig-nobel-prize-winning-research-...
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by dustincoates 1y ago
It's done in Lambda; with the email template, script for sending via Resend, and script for packaging for Lambda all done with V0.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
My company has a specific format for weekly updates, and, frankly, it's a pain to put together. So what I do is I take notes in a doc throughout the week (Obsidian periodic weekly notes) and just send all of it to a custom GPT that cre
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I do a very similar thing. I have Gemini create me a story based on a historical activity that happened on that day with an instruction to use A2 and below constructs. Then I have it give me: - A transliteration (I'm still getting used
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Here are more details on this: https://augustafreepress.com/news/public-records-request-is-... UVA baseball lost >$3 million in 2023 off of $1.7 million revenue. UVA football (a middling program) meanwhile is making
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Similar to Twyman's Law: “Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twyman%27s_law
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Not to mention global poverty: https://ourworldindata.org/poverty?insight=global-extreme-po...
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by dustincoates 1y ago
> Deacons at church were usually on a first name basis (my parents volunteered a lot so I knew them all really well) but the one noticeable exception was the pastor and anyone in a teaching role. That brings up an actually interesting ex
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by dustincoates 1y ago
At least when I was growing up, it was still the norm in the South/Texas. My parents would have never referred to the elderly in our neighborhood by their first names.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I'll give it a check. I was playing the sample on the v3 page.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
The French one sounded like an Alabaman who took a semester of college French. But the English sounds really good.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I exported my data, and tags were there.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
There are streaks, but they're hard to find. There is a heat map add-on that makes them a lot more obvious.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I'll give you one example. Occasionally, I come across something that needs to be not be shown anymore. I realize that the question wasn't a good one, or my template spit out something empty. Now, do I suspend card or suspend note
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I'm using it to memorize all of the Paris métro stops and study for the French drivers license test. It was also a huge boon when I prepared for my citizenship interview. I tried it for a while with my eldest child (then aged 3) to hel
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by dustincoates 1y ago
For why the investor pays $73, it's right there in your quote: > an Investor pays $73 for a $75 loan, discounted for risk, fees, and return expectations The investor doesn't expect to get 100% of that $75 back on average. The $
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by dustincoates 1y ago
If your market research is asking the questions "Do you have a need for this product?" and "Do you like the product?" then you're asking the wrong questions. Ideally, you aren't mentioning your product until th
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by dustincoates 1y ago
Great stuff, congrats! A couple of suggestions: - I'm learning Hebrew and I'm at the beginner stage, so it would be good to have niqqud. Even with the STT, it's helpful at this stage. - For the STT, every time I tried it, it
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I worked at a building in San Francisco (589 Howard St) that still was fully manual. You controlled when the elevator stopped, lifted the gate by yourself to get out, the whole works. There was a safety mechanism where, IIRC, the gate on on
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Reaction to the Dec Spam of 1978(templetons.com)
6 points by dustincoates 1y ago|0 comments
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I misread that the first time, too. You should read it like this: > All of this — without investors, [without] a 20-person team, or [without] a “Series A” round. Later on, the author says: > Currently, the team behind Perfect Wiki is
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by dustincoates 1y ago
If Duolingo hired someone to be a plant and post under his real name on HN for over a decade just so one day he could make a lukewarm endorsement of the product in a reply to another comment, I'd have to question their business sense.
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I get that it's popular to slag on Duolingo, especially in language-learning communities, but Duolingo is great for getting people started. I'm fluent in French and immigrated here about a decade ago, and I wouldn't have done
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by dustincoates 1y ago
I learned recently that Tony Robbins set out to be a motivational speaker in his teens. I was connected to someone on LinkedIn who listed himself as a "thought leader" one year into his career! How can you be either of those witho
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by dustincoates 1y ago
You don't need the high cost and low cost areas to flip to be caught out. You just need the high cost areas to decrease in price and then it's immaterial whether the low cost areas increase in cost or not. There's no way they

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