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by etblg 1y ago
Judging from the list of languages that have "menu" as a word (with a comparable definition to "menu"), I don't think it's a stretch for people to know what the word "menu" means: https://e
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by etblg 1y ago
He can't hear you.
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by etblg 1y ago
Buy a bag of rice, a bag of frozen veggies (corn, carrots, peas, already cut up), some chicken thighs, throw it in a rice cooker, that's a meal right there, almost no effort. Roger Ebert wrote a whole cookbook about using the rice cook
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by etblg 1y ago
Here it is cleaned up by ChatGPT: "Really? Does having flaws actually make for better reading? Okay, I’ll admit—that hurt to write (as did that last sentence), but writing isn’t furniture. Aside from a few tells I haven’t kept pace wit
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by etblg 1y ago
Why don't you start then? Tell us the positives so everyone can discuss it instead of just lazily dismissing everyone else's takes?
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by etblg 1y ago
Are there any brands of soy sauce that could be commonly (even if its in an Asian market) found in the states that you would recommend?
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by etblg 1y ago
Powder Mountain (Reed Hastings' ski resort) has lift tickets available for about $100-150, in-line with most common ski resorts in America (about the same price as Hunter Mountain in New York, for example, the place everyone in the are
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by etblg 1y ago
Funnily enough there is a Costco in NYC, in Astoria (Queens) decently close to Manhattan. You can take the ferry there from Manhattan, or the subway, or busses, or bike there even, or heck just take an uber if you bought a lot of stuff. Phi
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by etblg 1y ago
> event distincts were done in memory! I can’t fathom the decision making there… This is one of those situations where I can't tell if they're operating on some kind of deep insight that is way above my experience and I just do
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by etblg 1y ago
> It's true that Prisma currently doesn't do JOINs for relational queries. Instead, it sends individual queries and joins the data on the application level. ..........I'm sorry, what? That seems........absurd. edit: Might
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by etblg 1y ago
> For instance, people did lament the invention of calculators, saying it would harm kids' ability to do mental arithmetic. And it did. > Fortunately for us, we replaced those skills with technology that allowed us to do somethin
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by etblg 1y ago
Wish they'd shrink the workforce by 100% so I'd never have to hear about Klarna and their stupid AI gimmick news again.
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by etblg 1y ago
> When I need to write an email, I often bullet-point what I want to write and ask the LLM to write out a coherent, cordial email. I’ve gotten worse at writing emails. Think I'd rather just have the bullet points in the first place,
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by etblg 1y ago
Wouldn't that definition then include, say, riot police at any protest, or USA in the Iraq war, or say, Israel when they bomb homes in Gaza? That's a definition that seems like it would fit an incredible number of uses of violence
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by etblg 1y ago
Since you brought up sampling in music and I feel compelled to point this out in any AI thread when that gets mentioned: sampling machines don't give you a free pass to sample music all willy nilly, if you're going to publish the
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by etblg 1y ago
For what it's worth, the amount of fentanyl seized appeared to be 54kg, less than I weigh. They also seized 390kg worth of meth, and firearms, which I would be more concerned about than fentanyl but hey. The "enough to kill x peop
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by etblg 2y ago
I like it, it reminds me of the olden days when sites were basic and functional before everything got crammed full of design practices and analytics and ads and marketing and tons of things vying for your attention at once. People have a us
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by etblg 2y ago
Also Metrocards are not going to be printed anymore, I'm assuming that includes the unlimited ones, probably just shifts over to OMNY.
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by etblg 2y ago
For the MTA you cross a weekly threshold of 12 rides where rides after that are free: https://omny.info/fares You max out paying $34 a week, or $17 if you qualify for reduced fare.
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by etblg 2y ago
And strangely enough, by the last President! Not even this fresh new one that we expect all the bizarre pardons from. That one was a Joe Biden classic.
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by etblg 2y ago
I did the same thing years ago and have never regretted it. I really just hate my phone randomly vibrating and taking my attention over some dumb notification I don't really care about -- or feeling ghost vibrations in my pocket where
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by etblg 2y ago
Howard Hughes was one of the biggest business successes of the 20th century, on par with, if not exceeding, the business acumen of the zucc. Fantastically rich, hugely successful, driven, talented, all that crap. Anyway he also acquired RKO
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by etblg 2y ago
As one of the seemingly few people who actually do read the article and not just the headline, it makes all the discussion people have around news infuriating. Most articles I come across have a very fiery headline, then you dig in to the a
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by etblg 2y ago
Their net income for the previous quarter results was $15.3 billion, in what way are they known for being unprofitable?
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by etblg 2y ago
I mean hell, one of the states (Hawaii) didn't even join willingly, it was annexed by President McKinley by force.
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by etblg 2y ago
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is
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by etblg 2y ago
The US government and its media partners sure seem to think so.
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by etblg 2y ago
And only the americans the administration deems to qualify as human.
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by etblg 2y ago
Yes.
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by etblg 2y ago
Jeff Yass?

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