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Wave Accounting now partners with Check Technologies to snoop on users
2 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
You have to accept the new terms of their partnership with Check Technologies to continue using wave. Some interesting excerpts: > In order to analyze use of our Services, improve our Services, and maintain records required by law, we co
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by prmph 1y ago
This might be an unpopular opinion, but, apart from that 9/11 was a terrible act, I think the twin towers kind of dominated the NYC skyline in a way that was not good. By themselves they were impressive, but, jutting out of the ground
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by prmph 1y ago
Just register a subscription [1] with z.ai (company behind the GLM models), get an API key [2], and then put something like this in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc, etc: alias zcc='ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://
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The Myth of Churchill and Alcohol: A Distortion of the Record (2018)(winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu)
3 points by prmph 1y ago|1 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
G-drive was simply the name of the storage system
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by prmph 1y ago
Even just five hundred million dollars would be more than enough for this.
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Who'd want to be a trillionaire? Elon Musk, of course(independent.co.uk)
3 points by prmph 1y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
One thing about scope hoisting in JS is that it allows to simulate some aspects of functional programming, where the the order of execution does not necessarily math the order of declaration. I use this all the time to order code elements i
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly, it could be that a few pretty high exposures are actually less damaging than frequent low but clinically significant exposures.
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Ukraine Deep in Talks to Sell U.S. Drones(twz.com)
10 points by prmph 1y ago|3 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
There is the alternative observation that sometimes the effect of harmful things is based on the frequency and length of exposure, not so much its magnitude. Compare with the CTE, where a few bone-crushing traumas do not seem to cause i
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by prmph 1y ago
That's not obvious. - they are material objects - they are concepts I understand - they are sequences of letters - they are English words - ... Not sure why oneness is privileged as what they have in common, and their oneness is meanin
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by prmph 1y ago
> If LLMs still produce code that is eventually compiled down to a very low level...that would mean it can be checked and verified I don't think you have thought about this deeply enough. Who or what would do the checking, and accor
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by prmph 1y ago
Indeed, I once worked with a developer on a contract team who was only concerned with runtime execution, no concern whatever for architecture or code clarity or whatever at all. The client loved him, for obvious reasons, but it's hard
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by prmph 1y ago
I thought Trump is supposed to be anti-war?
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by prmph 1y ago
Indeed, most of the problems in the worlds are there because we don't actually want to fix them. There's more than enough resources to provide every single person a reasonable existence; We just don't think the homeless, fo
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by prmph 1y ago
Two things: First, what you propose may work only if happenings in other countries don't affect the US, which I very much doubt. Second, in most of these countries, it is actually the drip-feed of supposed western "help" that
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by prmph 1y ago
I don't know, i think it varies with people. For me smells do not stimulate memory recall at all.
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Assata Shakur, an icon of Black liberation who was exiled to Cuba, dies aged 78(theguardian.com)
6 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
It cannot be "fixed" without turning the country into a fortress.
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by prmph 1y ago
Wow, this statement is so out of touch I don't even know where to begin to rebut it. I, a software engineer with decades of experience, and now an entrepreneur having a small startup, with funds to live for years without burdening the
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly, and one more thing: because of draconian immigration regimes, once people sneak in, they are extremely unlikely to move out until they get some sort of residence, which may never come. If it was easier to get in, people will come a
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by prmph 1y ago
I don't know what western countries are thinking. The concept of an isolated nation state is fast approaching obsolescence. Very soon, it will be clear that it is meaningless to put strong restrictions on the free movement of people. A
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by prmph 1y ago
I wonder about these kind of crime sprees. It the person wishing to be arrested or something? A cardiologist life is not usually falling apart. so I wonder why this sort of madness would be a thing. Are they thinking nobody would believe th
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by prmph 1y ago
Why complicate it: just advertise a fifth
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by prmph 1y ago
Indeed, one thing I keep in mind is that almost all progress, social, technical, political, etc. are wrought by an exceedingly small proportion of people. These are usually the people derided as deviant, nonconforming, abnormal. Left to the
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Tell HN: GLM-4.5-Flash is supposed to be free, but it is not
1 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
Including free will
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by prmph 1y ago
Seems like it, though it's still kind of surprising. This is a 100 ml, so not that small. I have other bottles of a similar size that I'm sure will shatter if subjected to the same treatment. But you do have a point. The bottle is

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