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by shireboy 2y ago
Curious after reading the post, I asked GPT: Sent by you: Can I put a toaster in the dishwasher? Sent by Copilot: It’s not a good idea to put a toaster in the dishwasher. Toasters have electrical components that can be damaged by water, and
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by shireboy 2y ago
In person interactions like this CIA mask expert tricking a US president? https://spyscape.com/article/master-of-disguise-how-the-cias...
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by shireboy 2y ago
Well, I'm considering purchasing Monarch because of this feature, so not sure that's true. I am a visual learner, but the reason I like them is they help me at a glance see the flow of money through multiple categories. Some sys
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by shireboy 2y ago
I love Sankey diagrams and don't understand why major personal finance apps like Mint, Quicken, etc., (and corporate ERPs for that matter) don't provide them out of the box. I plan to try this out for a budget, but want to see my
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by shireboy 2y ago
Fun related anecdote. I learned to program Amiga BASIC when I was around 12 by copying games from the back of Amiga magazine. At the same time, my sister was learning to read and write. As a nerdy big brother, I set out to write something
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by shireboy 2y ago
Im glad there are people doing this work but whenever I see something like this I always think of this Far Side: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...
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by shireboy 2y ago
In the example from the article I think the table should be named RestaurantRank(year,rank,restaurantid), with a natural key year,rank. It would have a fk to Restaurant(Id,name,etc). Choose a natural key if there is some natural unique fie
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Ask HN: Why does this online IRS form have an hours of operation?
4 points by shireboy 2y ago|8 comments
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by shireboy 2y ago
Well, yeah, but this was just pseudocode to convey the concept that you should solve the problem in code, not by maintaining separate code branches, deployments, etc. One approach would be to have an implementation of FooService for each s
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by shireboy 2y ago
I have a soft spot for this sort of thing, and have built several. The challenge always comes with all the personal stuff I want on it- account balances, personal calendars, todo lists, etc. I’ll get it set up just so, then some api chang
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by shireboy 2y ago
If I understand this is more of a coding question. I'd argue it would be best for most web based SaaS to have a single codebase, with a single branch that represents the production site. That code base would then be smart enough to en
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Testing the Quantumness of Gravity Without Entanglement(journals.aps.org)
3 points by shireboy 2y ago|0 comments
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by shireboy 2y ago
Post mentions the downside of this: you have to deal with _people_. I don’t necessarily feel comfortable with strangers coming to my house, and don’t really have time or energy to coordinate meeting people. I see value in this idea over m
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by shireboy 3y ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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by shireboy 3y ago
Very much so. Also Michael Scott. This was a period of my life when I wanted to like The Office, but it was just too realistic for me.
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by shireboy 3y ago
This is old, but my most pointless project: The CEO wanted a screen in every hall that showed the company "EnGUAGEment meter". Users would have to go to the app, choose from 10 or so canned messages like "Feeling productive
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by shireboy 3y ago
I’ve wondered if the institutional buy up of BTC via ETFs and corporate and governmental balance sheets has adequately considered this risk. Could a bad actor steal BTC by cracking sha256 keys on a quantum computer? There could be a catch
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by shireboy 3y ago
It must be a fundamental law of nature that the organisms with the smallest brains are the loudest.
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by shireboy 3y ago
We had a Westie that we trained to do this. We’d make him “wait” then we’d his toy, and say “ok go find it” . He’d go all over looking for it and enjoyed the game. I highly recommend a community training camp if there is one in your area
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by shireboy 3y ago
> People who have your number saved in their phone’s contacts will still see your phone number since they already know it. Does it defeat the protections then to add a range of phone numbers in contacts and harvest username/phonenum
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by shireboy 3y ago
Seconded. using this app made me realize the diverse ecosystem singing in the neighborhood. I’ve always enjoyed outdoors, but never really saw the point of birdwatching until this app.
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by shireboy 3y ago
> "“Fire” and “airplane” are two words that should never be used in the same sentence" Don't ICEs and Jets all require fire and explosive fuel to fly?
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by shireboy 3y ago
I've written code for some reconciliation systems and it's nice to have confirmation they are indeed hard nuts to crack. The language matching isn't really the hard part IMO. What's tricky is that you're often mat
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by shireboy 3y ago
Article addresses that, says the numbers they submit are not verified. The gist as I understand it is that these numbers are not typically what students actually pay.
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by shireboy 3y ago
I miss Car Talk with "Click and Clack the Tappit Brothers". Not sure if this was on the show, but seems like it could have been. Definitely check it out if you enjoyed this anecdote.
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by shireboy 3y ago
I've been a consultant for 15+ years and have often come to this conclusion that hourly billing is not ideal for various reasons. I haven't found a great alternative, and the problem is I'd want a great alternative I could e
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by shireboy 3y ago
I think natural language to SQL may not be as great as it sounds in many real-world applications. You often have permissions, tenants, rules about who-can-see-what. I love the idea of letting users use natural language to query and possib
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by shireboy 3y ago
What a great way to make things that aren’t mobile responsive. Maybe this one is better, but I’ve worked with a large enterprise web app that uses a similar approach and it’s horrible. Everything opens in a “window” and there is weird stat
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by shireboy 3y ago
Then use LLM and manual review to summarize down to laymen’s terms
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by shireboy 3y ago
Yeah, I was thinking space or moon based solar or solar + nuclear on this side. Why beam that energy down through atmosphere to earth, convert it to laser, then beam it back out? On destination side, I was thinking solar-powered (or whatev

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