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by nzealand 14d ago
> the author broke a social contract by probably putting less effort into writing this than I did reading it. I seriously doubt that. First, the author documented a substantial effort (testing, emails, references to documentation.) Secon
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Show HN: Bringing Back a Bulletin Board with (Mostly) Static HTML(folj.com)
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by nzealand 2mo ago
He spent the next month coming up with an algorithm to solve it, not knowing if such an algorithm was even possible. After he sold the puzzle, he traveled around to various conferences, to prove it could be solved.
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by nzealand 2mo ago
It took Ernő Rubik four years to develop the cube. He immediately scrambled it, then spent the next month figuring out if it could be solved. Luckily no one told him there were 43 quintillion valid combinations.
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by nzealand 2mo ago
This is exactly correct. Here is what the latest issue covers: His exfiltration of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was swift, effective and - as we found in our follow-up reporting - surprisingly popular among Venezuelans (plo). But then t
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by nzealand 3mo ago
The satirically brilliant Genius AI detector correctly indicates it is not AI https://geniusaidetector.com/
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by nzealand 4mo ago
Early internet wisdom was "don't feed the trolls" - I never realized trolling was from fishing.
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by nzealand 4mo ago
Funny. The didge forces you to learn circular breathing, it's cheaper, it is easier to learn, and is easier to play well. Plus I think it sounds better. Everyone should learn to play the didgeridoo. Bagpipes are a whole another level,
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by nzealand 4mo ago
AI is your Google and your yellow rubber ducky (rubber duck debugging) all rolled into one.
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by nzealand 5mo ago
We intuitively think large documents show significant thought. I don't just mean the readers. The generators of slop often think this is useful. Things have changed. Our intuition has not.
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by nzealand 5mo ago
> Fake because no uber eats order is under 30$
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by nzealand 5mo ago
“If cracking propagates with continued use and strain, the wheel stud could eventually separate from the wheel hub.” That quote is from Tesla, in the linked article. That says the wheel can fall off.
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by nzealand 6mo ago
I've been doing that for two decades. Most of the spam comes directly to my primary gmail. Because I shared that with friends and family. And at least some of my friends and family shared their entire contact list with the wrong app at
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by nzealand 8mo ago
> I've worked in many places around the world, developing countries, tropical islands, small huts on remote mountains I am genuinely curious about your work lifestyle. The freedom to travel anywhere while working sounds awesome. Th
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by nzealand 9mo ago
Looks like they already closed this arbitrage opportunity? When I try to ship a lemon to a friend I get "There was a problem with some of the items in your order (see below for more information): Sorry, Lemon can't be shipped to t
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by nzealand 1y ago
Fun fact. You can click into Popcornmeter and see verified audience reviews versus all reviews. E.g. Audience who went to see 2025's Snow White loved it. Those who haven't seen it hated it. Who is more biased?
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by nzealand 1y ago
This surprised me as well, until I remembered how long it took advertisers to move from traditional advertising to the internet. Even if you wanted to reallocate a significant portion of your advertising budget to LLMs, it's not clear
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by nzealand 1y ago
The real revenue opportunity for OpenAI is advertising. More than 25% of Americans use ChatGPT instead of Google, and OpenAI has already announced partnership with Shopify to directly list products. But for now they are focused on market sh
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by nzealand 1y ago
I pay for both.
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by nzealand 1y ago
MSRP of Honda Accord went from $15k-$30k in 2005 to $30k-$40k in 2025. MSRP of one model is also not perfect, but it's another data point.
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by nzealand 2y ago
> the United States needs to manage its massive national debt, > The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mature, by i
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by nzealand 2y ago
> This reduction marks a 13% drop in Amazon’s global management workforce, shrinking the number of managers from 105,770 to 91,936. (second sentence in btw)
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by nzealand 2y ago
Christian Bale's real accent is cockney english. His interviews are... very jarring.
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by nzealand 2y ago
We have a P0 to add calendar 445/ 544/ 454. This critical oversight is causing us to lose sales, as our sales folks never know when those companies fiscal year ends, and end up missing budgetary deadlines. Also, my legal team says
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by nzealand 2y ago
Without the speedstacks stackmat, (invented by this guys dad for sport stacking), I doubt speed cubing would be a thing.
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by nzealand 2y ago
This is for startups who are looking for that one in a hundred person hungry for their solution. Enterprises who have already scaled use an entirely different cook book to get the attention of a VP like yourself. A well-targeted and persona
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by nzealand 2y ago
I am. OP is correct. To get his or my attention, you would need to put in more significantly more effort than you are asking back.
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by nzealand 2y ago
Kagi provides a fantastic summarizer. I have a bookmarklet for Kagi's Universal Summarizer, and if a long article or video doesn't immediately tell me "what it's gonna tell me" then I just click it. javascript:O
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by nzealand 2y ago
Amazing!
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by nzealand 2y ago
Yup. The correct query is: SELECT * EXCLUDE (titleType, primaryTitle, language) FROM 'imdb01-11-2024.parquet' WHERE (region is null and titleType = 'movie') ORDER BY ( (numVotes * averageRating)+(100000 * 7))/ (numV

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