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by jetrink 3y ago
> Buying groceries for a family for whole week That's the thing: when your grocery store is a short walk away, you don't buy groceries for the whole week. You just duck into the store on the walk home or you walk over at lunch.
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by jetrink 3y ago
Also, that is assuming that the group willing to pay $60/month includes many who use the service less than average. It's possible that only heavy users would stick around after a 6x price increase.
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by jetrink 3y ago
Several dogs are credited with finding dinosaur fossils, but I will grant you that they were not allowed to perform the excavation.
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by jetrink 3y ago
I recently hit ctrl-z in explorer after accidentally moving some files and instead of moving back, they just disappeared. I couldn't believe it. I had to recover them from a remote backup.
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by jetrink 3y ago
I bet students would start to print out the plagiarized essays and retype them. If the plagiarists made an effort to make minor changes and rearrange things as they went, no screen recorder or edit history could distinguish it from normal e
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by jetrink 3y ago
Also getting everyone smiling with their eyes open at the same time. Phone cameras could record a group photo for five or ten seconds and use the best expression from different times for each person.
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by jetrink 3y ago
Yes, a school near my parents' house in Michigan did this! They built several large outdoor pavilions and also have a clearing in the adjoining woods that they hold classes in. I visited in the dead of winter and sure enough, there wer
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by jetrink 3y ago
Also dogs! New York banned dogs on the subway unless they fit in a bag or other container, so New Yorkers have been dressing their dogs in Ikea bags with four holes cut in the bottom. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/
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by jetrink 3y ago
I regularly see people on HN who have a static site for their personal site or blog. There's a niche for this kind of thing.
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by jetrink 3y ago
I have the most recent version (116.0.3) and I'm also seeing a loop. This includes trying the site without plugins.
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by jetrink 3y ago
My favorite old explainer video, telephone switching (1951): https://youtu.be/xZePwin92cI About the Strowager Switch, which was invented by an undertaker who was fed up with the local telephone operators whom he suspected o
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by jetrink 3y ago
You don't need a huge truck to move pallets. A standard Sprinter van can carry three or four and you can get specialized vans that carry six.
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by jetrink 3y ago
I question the premise that 18 wheelers should be allowed operate in urban centers at all, let alone be tacitly allowed to resort to illegal maneuvers. It's a convenience and cost-savings for businesses that are able to have a semi tru
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by jetrink 3y ago
> Giffen goods are essential goods, such as rice, potatoes and wheat. Demand stays high when prices increase because there is no ready substitute for them. The way Giffen goods were explained to me is that not only is there no substitute
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by jetrink 3y ago
Anecdotally, even the non-technical people in my life are starting to notice the decline of Windows after updating to Windows 11. My aunt, for example, has been a Windows user since her first computer in the 1990s and she recently told me t
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by jetrink 3y ago
At a certain point though, models become good enough for particular tasks. Once that happens for whatever my application is, I don't care if OpenAI has a model that's twice as good on some metric, because it's overkill for my
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by jetrink 3y ago
Hosting an infomercial for a product that no one has had the opportunity to review must be a new low for TED.
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by jetrink 3y ago
Last year I moved onto a street that had a ton of litter. I lived with it for about a month before I realized how easy it would be to walk a loop and pick it all up. For the first six weeks or so, I would fill two 20L garbage bags and by th
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by jetrink 3y ago
I have another specific example of this to offer: Active vs. passive flood control. One passive control mechanism is the retention basin. This is just a pond connected to a water system. When it rains and the water begins to rise, some wate
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by jetrink 3y ago
The podcast Switched on Pop had a fascinating episode[1] last year called 'Invasion of the Vibe Snatchers.' They cite a number of instances where people are assigned songwriting credits on tracks simply because the new song is hea
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by jetrink 4y ago
Similarly, the top two suggestions for me were both sequels to books that I had selected. Interestingly, I asked ChatGPT for recommendations based on the same list and it gave me a very similar result, including matching the top two suggest
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by jetrink 4y ago
It also seems like it would come to light as soon as one of the trucks was involved in an accident. Checking the logs against who was operating the vehicle has to be one of the first things done during an investigation, if not by the regula
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by jetrink 4y ago
The explanation at the time was that unavailable chat data (due to, e.g. high load) resulted in a null input sometimes being presented to the chat summary system, which in turn caused the system to hallucinate believable chat titles. It&#x2
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by jetrink 4y ago
I'm surprised we're making this mistake again. Isn't it possible to structure the chats as something more than a flat stream of text and insert unrepresentable tokens after the tokenization step?
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by jetrink 4y ago
Wolfram Alpha tells me that to bring 10 sq. cm of the material to 1GPa would require 18x the bite force of a T-Rex. I don't consider the inside of a dinosaur's mouth "room pressure" either, but I could imagine a reasonab
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by jetrink 4y ago
Another early inertial navigation system for cars was the Etak Navigator, which was originally released in 1985. The idea for the device was conceived onboard Nolan Bushnell's racing yacht in a conversation between Nolan and his naviga
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by jetrink 4y ago
> I found it was often wrong, left out important details, and was superficial to the point of barely expressing an idea. Sounds like it would be ideal for use in science journalism.
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by jetrink 4y ago
YNAB is $100/year and though it is polished and well-designed, it's a pretty simple system that hasn't changed much recently. I think there's a lot of room to compete on price, particularly for users like me who still en
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by jetrink 4y ago
Here's a fun list of these from Mike Pope from 2012: https://mikepope.com/blog/AddComment.aspx?blogid=2354 He adds, > Then there is the question of what we might call a nickname like this. A name based on a pla
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by jetrink 4y ago
I gave ChatGPT a section of the article and asked it for some non-clickbait titles and it suggested, * Exploring the potential risks associated with advanced AI development * Considering the risks of a world with transformative AI Then I as

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