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by leakycap 1y ago
The most useful crime map in your area is likely to be from the exact provider your municipal police department uses to track cases. Secondary sources for this information are unreliable in my experiences.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Working for others is a great way to support yourself while you build the framework of skills and routines that can support a business. Freelancing or building your own businesses is more exhausting than having a job, so if you're feel
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Most charging, in the context of consumer electric light vehicles, takes place at home overnight. This is why I said "If you don't live where you park with access to low-cost charging" > Fast charging is more expens
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I didn't "miss a lot", I just ignored it. Yes, so did many others and now it has blown up. > Who cares. I think Ellen Dash, André Arko, Samuel Giddins, Martin Emde, and even Mike McQuaid could be proposed as indiv
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by leakycap 1y ago
What has surprised me is that "filling up" my electric vehicle at a fast charger, for example the common Electrify America stations, costs as much or more as fossil fuels in my other vehicle when you compare per-mile costs. If you
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by leakycap 1y ago
I see a human counselor, but I know at least two people in my close circle that talk to chatbots already to get through their thoughts. Anthropic's recent data release shows that many users seek counsel from Claude. There are at least
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by leakycap 1y ago
I wonder if this metric is similar for other providers? > In the last 24 hours alone (snapshot 9/15), the most requested models on our platform were: DeepSeek-V3-0324 — 54.89% [....]
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by leakycap 1y ago
> I have never seen anyone in leadership care about it at any company I interviewed at for the purposes of hiring This mirrors my experience, unfortunately. > B2B relationship where the customer wanted {n} people to be certified in
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by leakycap 1y ago
Such a cool write-up, I enjoyed the screenshots of the admin interfaces ... which look exactly as bad as I'd hoped Sad to see Mobile-X MVNO as the preferred SIM in the photos shown, but I wonder if an MVNO has local-level data to detec
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by leakycap 1y ago
Incredible! For only $1,999.95 I can get a DVD version of the repair manual for my 1990s VW Cabrio https://books4cars.com/bookLandingPages/96_VA35.php ~~~ That said, I tried every esoteric car I've owned and it ha
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by leakycap 1y ago
Butt why
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A car dealership hired me to help them change systems. Their 20+ year existing vendor suggested screenshots when asked how they could access/export their data. A nyway, we D id better than P rintshots but only had that option becaus
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by leakycap 1y ago
That's kind, thanks - I'm thinking of stopping at 100 certifications and letting a few I've kept up/renewed over the years expire. When I first started, my favorite series were from Microsoft - excellent courses and I le
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by leakycap 1y ago
This isn't a failure of AI, but an example where context in your prompt/RAG/overall architecture is key to a good outcome if you understand the other information the system is trained on.
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by leakycap 1y ago
I have earned multiple paid certifications a year non-stop for 24 years, mainly because a perk of working with one of my clients is unlimited payment for certification tests if you can pass two pre-tests above 94% So each quarter I push mys
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by leakycap 1y ago
A product like this is in a tight spot. The real value provided by AI can be pretty negligible or hard to extract for a new user to your service, so having them pay the same monthly price as Gemini Pro (when it can also make slides) makes m
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by leakycap 1y ago
Like a Palm Pre, but for a desktop machine? https://www.weboshelp.net/getting-started-with-webos/194-fir... Would webOS be a good start? https://www.webosose.org
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by leakycap 1y ago
I've noticed a lot of quiet but delightful things like that on HN. Try to end a comment with the word s i g h and the form won't go through, for example.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> " Basically, they integrated a li-ion battery back into a vertical cabinet that could be effectively “trickle charged” with a standard 110 or 220 AC connection, then “dump” that charge into an EV very quickly – enabling up to 200
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by leakycap 1y ago
This loss of knowledge of how to even do basic things is accelerated in tech Just try to find someone today who knows how to deal with the layers of tech to get something off an optical SCSI WORM drive formatted as Macintosh HFS with invisi
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by leakycap 1y ago
AI code review is like asking an intern with lots of time or a serious dev with very little time to review your code and give you their first feedback: sometimes incredibly useful, sometimes not > The AI doesn't have the product kno
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by leakycap 1y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352610
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by leakycap 1y ago
My friends often get scam texts and forward them to me to ask me if they're a scam, even though they 1) aren't expecting whatever it is, and 2) it is obviously a scam. I guess it's human nature to want to check, even when it&
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by leakycap 1y ago
I really like the Articles https://www.earlytelevision.org/postwar_magazine_articles.ht... (scanned PDFs about early TV) > "The Youngs have found the best way to control their children's television enthusiasm i
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by leakycap 1y ago
Try https://goblin.tools instead of one word responses, you might like the "meaning explainer"
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by leakycap 1y ago
Likely just service aftershocks from yesterday's Claude outage > We are experiencing degraded availability for the Claude Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Sonnet 4 model [...] due to an issue with an upstream model provider.
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by leakycap 1y ago
As alarming as location tracking is, many consumers don't know that level 3 credit card receipt information is also available on many of their purchases without their knowledge. In talking to non-tech friends, that seems much more upse
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by leakycap 1y ago
That one is a scam. The real GitHub bot will ask for Google Play giftcards.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Regulators don't seem to know what to do with companies willing to hide, lie, and deceive.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Your arguments that this was all just normal competition does not stand up to scrutiny Discussing Engine Yard now does not seem fruitful if you do not address the quotes provided by Katz which refute your own prior comments

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