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by floren 4y ago
Nordstrom has a small selection of high-end baby stuff. There's also Pottery Barn Kids if you really hate your wallet.
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by floren 4y ago
There was a land-line telephone with a built-in screen that ran Inferno. Unfortunately it's very difficult to find any screenshots of the phone running Inferno; I'm not even sure they really sold them to the public, but a guy got
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by floren 4y ago
It would also be very stupid, because someone with bad credit still gets a worse rate than someone with good credit -- it's just that the difference isn't quite as big as it used to be.
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by floren 4y ago
The link here is to the old matrix. The new one, linked in the red text at the top of https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/media/9391/display , actually shows the changes in question. As others have said, it's n
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by floren 4y ago
Was the prompt "defend the use of chatgpt to replace human writers, parodying the way teens post on the Internet"?
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by floren 4y ago
> I fully trust the technology. It should not fail. But it sometimes happens that a man falls and breaks his neck with no reason at all. Something may happen here too. I do not believe it will happen. "How do I write a letter to tel
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by floren 4y ago
Some people are pretty invested in a return to in-person work (possibly invested in a literal sense, like they own office buildings) which is why a lot of articles like this sorta pivot to vague complaints about WFH part way through. Starts
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by floren 4y ago
> People breaking into cars in your area are driving to their thefts? In cities they just walk down the street looking for targets of opportunity. I assumed the same but based on reporting I've seen on SF local news, at least some o
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by floren 4y ago
There's a Nintendo packaging/distribution center in North Bend. Given that the discussion is about tech jobs, you're still basically correct though.
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by floren 4y ago
It'd be pretty hard to carry it concealed...
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by floren 4y ago
> the only times I've been victimized in the city was because I was being a privileged idiot like being oblivious on the Green Line, getting off the Blue Line on Cicero and walking around or being confrontational. It's your fau
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by floren 4y ago
They've got those at BART stations in the Bay Area. I don't remember the details but I believe you can even rent one so you're guaranteed a spot for your commute.
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by floren 4y ago
Or a review will say "Why didn't you cite Foo, an important work in the field?" and then you look at the committee list on the conference site and see that Dr Johnson worked on Foo. It's happened to me, but what can you
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by floren 4y ago
I think this is just called "making a VC-funded startup"
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by floren 4y ago
The other day I tried making scrambled eggs in my cast iron pan for the first time in years. Turns out that years of use had finally got it to the point where the eggs actually cooked beautifully without sticking at all! I used butter, of c
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by floren 4y ago
I got glass containers with plastic lids because I figure the lid rarely contacts the food, and I always take it off to microwave... although now that I'm thinking about it, I usually put that plastic splatter guard thing over the co
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by floren 4y ago
Hey, congratulations SF. You spent over a decade whining about tech-bros and Google buses. Guess those problems are solved now!
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by floren 4y ago
I had high hopes for KaiOS, but they (KaiOS and the manufacturers, not the hacking community) have chosen a path that makes them even less attractive than Android devices: locked down devices that have to be jailbroken, and ads injected in
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by floren 4y ago
If ChatGPT told you "the dye is cast", there's hope after all, because it's die , not dye .
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by floren 4y ago
I find that the text of the site looks bad on Firefox in Linux, much worse than the screenshot of the actual Smalltalk system: https://i.imgur.com/LP2yNRI.png Maybe they're just not doing as well at larger sizes?
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by floren 4y ago
I use the arrow keys occasionally, but wouldn't miss them too much if they disappeared. However, because I know how to type, I use the right shift key constantly. Of all the keys to fuss about...
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by floren 4y ago
Just a few more points and we'll be back at the levels of the late 90s, a period of time most millennials associate with prosperity and happiness (possibly because we were 8 years old).
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by floren 4y ago
This is where people who were still in elementary school in 2007 post about hyperinflation because all they've ever known is sub-2% federal funds, right? Clicking "All" on the chart at https://www.newyorkfed.org&#x
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by floren 4y ago
> One surprising thing I've discovered, as an adult, is that most people never really learn to write or read very well. I think people underestimate how much reading will help you write. You can't spend your life reading and no
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by floren 4y ago
Next time somebody asks me what "extremely online" means, I'm gonna send them this link.
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by floren 4y ago
Stallman's sad devotion to that ancient religion... ITS has been effectively dead for how many decades now, but by god we're gonna force everybody to use a port of their online documentation system if we can! At least we're p
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by floren 4y ago
The government did actually need the money, it's just that saying "bond sales fell short so we got it from this bank" would look worse.
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by floren 4y ago
I don't think Rainbow's End was supposed to be aspirational... it felt more dystopian than anything he's written, even the novels which are set (in whole or in part) in obviously/explicitly dystopian environments.
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by floren 4y ago
When I see "passive income from books" I'm thinking: https://youtu.be/biYciU1uiUw
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by floren 4y ago
> No more child actors it'd make movies better, anyway

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