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Man describes falling victim to AI job interview scam(nbcboston.com)
1 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Are boot camps still a thing? I thought the bloom was off, as documented here many times in recent years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095805
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by ilamont 1y ago
In our neighborhood near Boston, coyotes have become very active at night and trot in the middle of roads and between houses. Several times in the morning I have found absolutely shredded carcasses of squirrels and rabbits on our property i
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Paddling 200km in a Paleolithic canoe from Taiwan to Japan(theguardian.com)
1 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum(programmablemutter.com)
9 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this info. Does "eccentricity" refer to the orbit, or the shape of the object? For ‘Oumuamua in 2017, some method was used to determine its shape, which is (apparently) remarkably elongated. Is it possible to de
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A Chip Packaging War Brews Between TSMC and ASE(english.cw.com.tw)
3 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
For all its notional advantages, DAT never really caught on in the domestic market, although it was somewhat more popular in professional applications. It was positioned and priced as a professional device. In 1990 you could get a decent
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by ilamont 1y ago
> I would expect this prospect to be very appealing to conservative rural residents I am in a conservative rural district right now. Here's the math: 20% are at or below the federal poverty line, and of the remainder there are a hug
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by ilamont 1y ago
Essays like this filled with AI-generated spew are really irritating. I hope these figures aren't hallucinations, but it jives with my own experience: Ductless systems averaged around $29,000, but quotes ranged from under $20,000 to o
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by ilamont 1y ago
> Look at the top startups founded in the last couple of years, nearly every founder seems to come from an Ivy League school, Stanford, or MIT, often with a perfect GPA. Is that true? If I were to comb through recent YC batches, the star
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Lightning Carriers: The Marines' secret weapon in the Pacific(taskandpurpose.com)
3 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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CareerBuilder and Monster selling businesses, filing for bankruptcy(staffingindustry.com)
2 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
> I prefer to fly less since the experience has consistently deteriorated over decades. I never liked flying, but was able to put up with it better when I was younger. Nowadays, I get some satisfaction by leveraging credit card points th
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Fugitive VC from Circle Series B round reportedly died in India(axios.com)
1 points by ilamont 1y ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Wasn't Jony Ive also hired during the interregnum period? I think I remember reading in the Isaacson bio that when Jobs came back in the late 90s he encountered Ive who was hired a year or two previously.
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Authors get bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated(thebookseller.com)
14 points by ilamont 1y ago|4 comments
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Mexico is now Chinas No. 1 car export market(mexiconewsdaily.com)
1 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Almost every year we make a trip to a foreign country to visit the spouse's family. Last year was the last time we used Airbnb. 2023 was already sketchy (building address and contact person didn't match the confirmation listing) b
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Getting by on the Generosity of Strangers in Japan(theworld.org)
85 points by ilamont 1y ago|49 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Brand hijacking got to be so bad with so many sellers complaining that Amazon finally did something about it ... kind of. Quoting an Amazon employee in the Seller Central forum: If you have experienced an incorrect change in the brand name
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by ilamont 1y ago
Former 35mm projectionist here (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35887809 ). I also worked with 16mm projectors and cameras as a student. It's cool to see that people are still interested in this media, and tryi
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If you care about copyright law, this is the lawsuit you should pay attention to(keithriegert.com)
7 points by ilamont 1y ago|4 comments
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Nasdaq-traded Chinese herb stock with no revenues rallies 58,000%(cnbc.com)
4 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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The East Asian high-rise development model is catastrophic for birth rates(taipeitimes.com)
16 points by ilamont 1y ago|10 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
"I don't see anything about AI that will reduce the need for copyeditors and proofreaders." Former copyeditor here. That ship has already sailed. The suits realized the copy desk was a cost center that they could live witho
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by ilamont 1y ago
Robert Silverberg wrote something in this vein in the 90s, Roma Eterna. I don’t remember details about industrialization but by the last chapter Roman civilization had reached the rocket age. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Disney, Universal Launch AI Legal Battle, Sue Midjourney over Copyright Claims(hollywoodreporter.com)
4 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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Taiwan's Air Force to retire F-5 jets after more than half a century(focustaiwan.tw)
2 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
400-year-old traces would be hard to detect owing to admixture, but if they could find identical-by-descent segments that would be very compelling, as the research into Native American traces found in Polynesian populations shows: https:&#

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