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31.
by mef 2y ago
consider that this is sending a negative signal to the VC that other VCs have already passed, rather than that it hurts their feelings
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by mef 3y ago
Anyone know why this isn’t on the front page with 96 pts one hour after submission?
33.
by mef 3y ago
anyone have a copy hosted? it's currently overloaded and not responding
34.
by mef 3y ago
Cloudflare does!
35.
by mef 3y ago
high interest rates increase cost to service debt
36.
by mef 3y ago
these days it looks like ChatGPT generates and runs code behind the scenes for math questions (it used to be pretty bad at these kinds of math questions. you can click the little "view analysis" button to see the code it's ru
37.
by mef 3y ago
He left Stripe earlier this year. https://x.com/patio11/status/1627815282776637440
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by mef 3y ago
it does seem like any of Google's support options for paid services have the primary goal of reducing support load on Google, not to solve problems for paying customers
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by mef 3y ago
> QoS is a control set and changed in the code launching a process, and can only be altered by the user if the app exposes a control, a feature which remains exceptionally uncommon. Neither is there any easy way for a user to know the Qo
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Air Canada sues seats.aero for scraping award availability [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
2 points by mef 3y ago|0 comments
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CAPTCHAs Are Dead(twitter.com)
2 points by mef 3y ago|0 comments
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by mef 3y ago
Or, both are deterrents but one or both can be weaker than the other depending on the perceived risk by the person committing the crime. Having multiple deterrents should be a greater deterrent as a whole across the average of potential cri
43.
by mef 3y ago
have you considered that a person who is in a life situation where turning to crime becomes a viable option is perhaps underestimating the risk and negative impact of either situation?
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Dutchman finds 18th century fortress wall in his backyard(nos.nl)
33 points by mef 3y ago|4 comments
45.
by mef 3y ago
six months later and not available in Canada, somehow
46.
by mef 3y ago
- the situation: you build cloud infrastructure via CLI or console - the problem: if something gets deleted, or if you make a bunch of changes and want to undo them, or if you need to make a change to a lot of stuff at once, or if you want
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LK-99 is So Over. Now What?(macroscience.org)
2 points by mef 3y ago|5 comments
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Reviving an IBM RS/6000 Workstation(twitter.com)
40 points by mef 3y ago|7 comments
49.
by mef 3y ago
an entire article about a new font replete with fancy graphics and not a single quick brown fox to demonstrate it
50.
Grab Using AI to Generate Food Photos?(old.reddit.com)
1 points by mef 3y ago|0 comments
51.
by mef 3y ago
maybe if it was unpreventable - but this seems like it could be easily prevented.
52.
by mef 3y ago
is there any evidence for this other than this tweet?
53.
by mef 4y ago
https://archive.is/Lqgk2
54.
by mef 4y ago
How can you be sure that investor signalling is their motivation?
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Japan skiers’ smartphones making unnecessary emergency calls(japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
93 points by mef 4y ago|91 comments
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by mef 4y ago
If you're giving $30,000 per year as a gift, you should definitely be paying for an accountant and you should ask them about what options there are for tax optimizing this. There may in your jurisdiction be nonobvious ways to structure
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by mef 4y ago
wow, searching the thread is a nightmare. there's a non-native search panel that comes up with cmd+f, and you press cmd+f again to do a native browser search... and both of them don't actually search the thread, only the visible s
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by mef 4y ago
I’ve been trying to read these Twitter files threads thoughtfully, and maybe it’s just a sign of the current average level of comfort with government involvement with social media platforms, but I’m generally not seeing much issue with the
59.
by mef 4y ago
the issue is that the large language model doesn’t understand what it’s saying, cannot reason or come up with novel ideas, yet it can convince a human that it _is_ doing so. so then if the world begins to prefer AI-generated content, any qu
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by mef 4y ago
the point is justice

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