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by mannyv 4y ago
Shrinkage is real, and is a major problem in poor areas. For political reasons stores don't say that, but just go into the big stores in poor areas - everything they can lock up is locked up. Wal-mart carries too much stuff lock up, so
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by mannyv 4y ago
The NYT characterizes 4chan as a far-right message board, which is ridiculous. I mean, if giving the finger to pretty much everything is considered far-right, then what's considered far-left? Fundamentalism?
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by mannyv 4y ago
It's actually a misconfiguration (see the comment below with the documentation).
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by mannyv 4y ago
I used to buy sound effect CDs whenever I saw them in record stores. They're really hilarious to play, because there's no context to the sounds. Another reference: the BBC sound effect archive https://sound-effects.bbcr
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by mannyv 4y ago
We need private businesses (including banks) because it's the most efficient way to reach consumers. Any large bureaucracy has standards for loan/lending evaluation. Inevitably those standards become more and more restrictive and
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by mannyv 4y ago
The RabbitMQ stuff seems pretty straightforward: Channel prefetch: https://www.rabbitmq.com/confirms.html "Once the number reaches the configured count, RabbitMQ will stop delivering more messages on the channel unless
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by mannyv 4y ago
Unions are advocates and adversarial by default, because there's no cost to being so and plenty of benefits. In addition, the union doesn't care about one unit of workers. They will happily sacrifice one store, or one industry, to
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by mannyv 4y ago
It looks like Graham Hancock's Supernatural may not be complete fiction after all! I loved his books when I was a kid - but with serious grains of salt, obviously.
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by mannyv 4y ago
IMO a lot of the commenters here are missing the point, which is that LLMs are exposed to orders of magnitude more stuff than a human. Two obvious differences are that humans also learn from the context in which they live (social, environme
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by mannyv 4y ago
You can look at the "Commercial TV" section on Best Buy's site. Westinghouse used to have basic TVs, but I see all their big ones are smart now.
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by mannyv 4y ago
You could ask, and they'll say "yes" or "no." If you have a question I'd just ask it straight out. I mean, you're at an early stage startup. It's a ton of risk for you, so you should know what you&#x2
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by mannyv 4y ago
Instead of a desk chair I use one of the pottery barn wells leather swivel chairs. Perfect for sitting cross legged, with a blanket, straight upright, and good for napping. One ridiculous thing I have is an old griffin usb volume knob that
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by mannyv 4y ago
Yeah, once states were able to opt-out (due to medical/privacy issues) it basically stopped being a canonical reference. But it's still pretty good for the most part.
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by mannyv 4y ago
This article is amusing because some countries don't have a good way of notifying institutions about deaths (like the SS death master file)...and there are lots of issues associated with dying (taxes, inheritance, loss of benefits, etc
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by mannyv 4y ago
Most of the time those people are just like us, but in a position to do these things. Some of them, though, really know what they're doing and are just better at doing stuff.
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by mannyv 4y ago
IMO Bush's biggest win was Gorbachev. Bush was the USSR station chief back in the day, and there's an outside chance the CIA orchestrated Gorbachev's rise to power.
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by mannyv 4y ago
IMO any complicated protocol or format will be subject to crashing bugs because just verifying correct behavior is difficult. To discover bugs, just build the xyz file yourself. People tend to use tools to generate content, and those tools
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by mannyv 4y ago
Agriculture uses about 80-85% of California's water, yet when there's a drought environmentalists point at lawns and swimming pools as the culprit. In fact, ag water in the US is super low compared to residential rates, which is w
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by mannyv 4y ago
Most likely they have them in an rdbms, so it's more like joining a forum thread together. Not expensive, but why not prebuild and store it instead?
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by mannyv 4y ago
I've had dogs for a while, and at least for my dogs they use their eyes and ears more than their noses. I've tested this a few times with steak, and using their nose is a last resort tactic.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Siri is garbage because it's trying to be a real AI, as it was understood to be at the time. Alexa works because it's not an AI but it seems as if it's an AI.
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by mannyv 4y ago
I think RoR is the core problem here.
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by mannyv 4y ago
There was talk about this problem a few years ago, because lots of Chinese firms were using this stuff as collateral for loans. Apparently the fears were borne out in this case.
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by mannyv 4y ago
This is pretty much the end of stock photography as we know it.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Many practices today have a transcriber with every doc, and that person is their personal scribe. You trust them, right? In any case HIPAA will protect you. Your provider will have a business associate contract with them, so they're su
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by mannyv 4y ago
No product is ever ready. The iPhone didn't have copy/paste for a while, after all. Feed it to the public and see what happens.
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by mannyv 4y ago
When you're playing with yourself it can take years to make a baby. In general, OS release 1.0 takes about 4 years. That's feature complete and ready for users, not necessarily production ready and stable.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Apparently they're going to let the market validate their findings.
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by mannyv 4y ago
Linux's not unix!
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by mannyv 4y ago
The truth in medicine is that we don't really know a lot. The truth is that not every treatment works on everyone, for known and unknown reasons. The truth is that modern medicine has only been around since around the 1930s. In science

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