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by jakub_g 4y ago
I saw an example where ChatGPT was randomly mixing two journalists-bookwriters' lives when asked about one of them. A bit like asking "who's Lionel Messi" and getting back that he's a Portuguese player known for car
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Living in France, to buy technical books in English for sensible money and without onerous shipping cost, I always used Amazon and the books were often delivered by Book Depository. Wondering how things will be after it closes.
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> Next: Casual games. Minesweeper, Solitaire… who didn't waste time with those in the 1990s? Now they are cluttered with in-app purchase offerings. Wat? What are the purchases in Minesweeper and Solitaire? (My old laptop can't
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I recently asked it to convert some bash code to golang (which I'm just beginning to learn) and it was really useful to give the skeleton with proper syntax.
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Specifically about Arizona, this is super interesting: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-te... Long story short: they reduce costs (thinner cans, no need for heavy marketing because fi
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What is the unit of the X axis on those graphs? Is it % relative to something? (% of GDP? % of something else?) Or absolute values of some sort?
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I can definitely taste a difference between stevia-sweetened tea vs sugar-sweetened tea. "Sickly sweet" is a good description of stevia. Xylitol on the other hand feels quite similar to the regular sugar.
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TIL the provenance of Sir Mullich :)
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The juice about the bug: > On the morning of Jan. 26, as two Alaska Airlines flights from Seattle to Hawaii lifted off six minutes apart, the pilots each felt a slight bump and the flight attendants at the back of the cabin heard a scrap
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by jakub_g 4y ago
> When I can't copy MY photos out of MY device, without uploading it to Apple's cloud. Wait, what? (Not an Apple user - genuinely curious)
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Ouch, ESPP that you can't immediately sell are indeed really bad especially when everything is on fire.
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Mandatory gotcha counterpoint: it's risk free assuming immediate execution, which is not the reality. Between the time ESPP is finished at price X and the time your shares actually land on your account in Etrade / other broker so
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> Construction amnesties, which allow owners to register unlicensed properties or ones that violate building codes in exchange for a fine, have made a bad situation much worse. Mr Erdogan’s government passed several such amnesties, the l
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> Do you really expect Apple to make life easier for their competitors? If Google Chrome was using 100% internet bandwidth for downloading Google.com, but 60% for downloading Bing.com, would that be just "not making life easier for
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This overall trend towards massive phones is nuts. I recently bought a Pixel 6, but I didn't expect how much heavier it would be over my aging Pixel 3a (207g vs 147g). Pixel 6a is 178g, still not light.
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Agree. Learning AWS and especially scripting things with CLI / using terraform is a good start. AWS is a huge area with a bazillion of ingredients but you could start with learning: S3 buckets, permissions, lambda functions.
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I'm not a hiring manager but I think if you're early in your career, a cert wouldn't hurt and may distinguish you from other candidates. If you have 5-8+ yr exp, it probably matters less.
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If someone's interested with more details about MoTW, EricLaw (long time MSFT engineer at IE and Edge teams) got you covered: https://textslashplain.com/2016/04/04/downloads-and-the-mark... https:/
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The article says that some corporations do not care and do not cooperate after unloading the machine to recyclers. (Including schools - which makes a bit more sense, one can assume school computer for pupils does not have any security-criti
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Yep, three main things that can go wrong apart from overflow: 1) daylight savings changes the clock by 1h 2) leap seconds 3) user changes the clock. This one is fun. Gathering telemetry for a big website, I sometimes see operations that wer
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For web developers, see also: https://textslashplain.com/2021/10/01/practical-time-machine...
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Subversion was the main thing in opensource space in before-git before-GitHub mid-2000, when projects were hosted on SourceForge. Old times!
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Bruce Dawson often finds issues in software linked to inefficient algorithms, and sometimes they're linked to slow folder enumeration on big folders. Example: Windows Voice Recorder enumerates files in a folder on startup in a interact
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As a consumer of Android devices, one thing that's super annoying is that all pictures you take with a camera are stored in a single massive folder. When you connect to the device from your computer over USB (which is usually USB 2.0 e
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Matteo Messina Denaro: How Mafia boss was caught on a visit to a clinic(bbc.com)
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Could someone summarize the article please? At 8 screens of text it seems a bit long but I'm curious what's so bad about it.
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Also for EU specific resources see https://indexfundinvestor.eu/
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For sources of info: There's a bunch of subreddits decidated to "personal finance", "Financial Independence / Retire Early" (FIRE). For French speakers living in France you have /r/vosfinances Try to
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I'm not gonna recommend any particular investment but something to keep in mind is that taxation has an important impact on overall gains, and it's different in every country. You need to learn the details relevant to your country
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You need to choose from a drop-down that the token owner is the organization, not you. Then you can create a token for a repo of the org. Your org must opt-in to beta.

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