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by gurchik 3y ago
The database gives 716 calories for 1 cup uncooked rice. So, 537 calories for 3/4 cup. It was a mistake to say 375 was half of 537, my intention was to point out that it's not close. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-ap
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by gurchik 3y ago
Very similar to your second example, I've been using ChatGPT to calculate the total calories in a recipe. Before, I would consult a database like the USDA food database for nutrition info and do measurement conversion manually. I'
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by gurchik 3y ago
It's not just the sex with someone else. The main character is lying to their girlfriend the entire time, avoiding the girlfriend to prepare in secret, trying to "get" her before she herself gets "got." But she didn
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by gurchik 3y ago
Can you say more about why you liked the ending, to someone who doesn't get it? It doesn't seem like a happy ending to me. She's riding off into the sunset, happy that she became the better person and didn't humiliate he
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by gurchik 3y ago
The main character cheated on their girlfriend to prepare for revenge for... what crime exactly? A private note that she violated her girlfriend's privacy to read? Are we supposed to root for the main character because they stopped the
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by gurchik 3y ago
> In the same way that if some engineer discovers a bug that is costing the company a lot of money, and fixing it, should also get a bonus? How often does this happen?
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by gurchik 3y ago
If I recall correctly, the ACA only ever required employers with 50 or more full time employees to offer coverage to their full time employees. As I understand it, this mandate was delayed a couple times but it eventually stuck. But that is
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by gurchik 3y ago
I think you meant to link to https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/
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by gurchik 3y ago
The illustrator is DALL-E.
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by gurchik 3y ago
I'd imagine Starlink on a private yacht would work "brilliantly," but on a large ship with thousands of passengers, you're more likely to suffer from problems. In my experience, I've tried Starlink on a RCL ship equ
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by gurchik 3y ago
The statement from Ubisoft is that the advertisement was only supposed to show when the game was first started, not when any other menu was opened. I know Ubisoft often does not deserve the benefit of the doubt but I find this explanation v
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by gurchik 3y ago
I've heard that half the time a restarant's POS is configured to ask the waiter to enter the number written on the tip line, but the other half of the time, it's configured for the them to enter what's written on the tot
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by gurchik 3y ago
The gaming community is often delusional and will rant online about a journalist giving a game a 9/10 instead of a 10/10. Good reviews, where the journalist actually played the game and has experience to compare it to, goes unnoti
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by gurchik 3y ago
> The screens that were seized are “hybrid” parts: the screens are third-party, but use a few original Apple parts like a flex cable that connects the screen to the phone. That invisible, internal part is marked with an Apple logo, which
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by gurchik 3y ago
The article is mostly centered around the short-term benefits but long-term harms of electronic devices and social media. This is a symptom, not the source of the problem. The Gen Z adults I know are struggling to survive, and they're
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by gurchik 3y ago
What do you mean "in the same sense we do?" Pets are good at learning your schedule. They know when you normally come home, or when you feed them, and they start to get impatient if you're late in either. Sure, that example r
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by gurchik 3y ago
I think you and I are pretty similar. I started using when I was in college and overdrafting on my account was a real risk, so tracking every dollar made sense. Now I'm at the point where I'm fine with transactions being automatic
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by gurchik 3y ago
1. This is the most obvious one, but S3 access control is done via IAM. For better or for worse, IAM has a lot of functionality. I can configure a specific EC2 instance to have access to a specific file in S3 without the need to deal with A
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by gurchik 3y ago
> I found out the process to open source my own work and get it published to the AWS Samples GitHub repo. I went through the open source process for every piece of code I wrote after removing the proprietary customer specific parts. I&#x
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by gurchik 3y ago
What about Monarch is less involved than YNAB? I’ve been considering changing since they’ve increased the annual cost.
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by gurchik 3y ago
Why did you copy-paste someone else's comment?
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by gurchik 3y ago
After I saw the hiring ad, I searched for this post. But now I'm not sure this was wrong of them. When the layoffs happened, the CEO said they would be cancelling all their 200 job openings "except for a handful of roles" tha
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by gurchik 3y ago
They're not taking the high road, they got caught lying and were banned from a state where a third of their vehicles operate[1]. Call me a cynic but I think the time to demonstrate you're "relentlessly focused on safety"
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by gurchik 3y ago
> is it really a fantastic income? Just because it's less than a FAANG doesn't mean it's not a fantastic income. I make less than this, in a HCOL area, and I think I have a pretty fantastic income. $250k/yr is 3.3x th
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by gurchik 3y ago
> The guidelines define “interesting” as “anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” Surely a real contribution to the OSS sustainability crisis counts? Arguing about whether the submission meets the guidelines is pointl
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by gurchik 3y ago
Where is the evidence it was removed by a moderator? I know that's the first thought, but HN doesn't have many moderators, and usually the moderators leave a comment on a submission after taking a moderator action. I regularly com
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by gurchik 3y ago
It looks like most discussion has been deleted by the mods. They've allowed this one to stay: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrencyMeta/comments/17b8lqe... Most of the mods involved are no longer mods.
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by gurchik 3y ago
The hard drive on my Cloudkey Gen2 Plus failed less than a year after I bought it. I don’t blame Ubiquiti for a hard drive failure. I blame them for designing the device to be fanless but constantly hot to the touch (44 degrees as I’m writi
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by gurchik 3y ago
I noticed some fake reviews for a business on Google Maps recently. They were giving high ratings praising the service they received yesterday etc. I knew these were fake because the business has been closed for renovations for months. I tr
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by gurchik 3y ago
A lot of people did take Equifax to court, and many of them settled.[1] But how does an individual demonstrate damages to a judge? Equifax leaked data on more than 150 million people. If a hypothetical business leaks data about an individua

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