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I was sponsoring him on Patreon for $2/month but it looks like he deleted his Patreon back in mid-2021 and I didn't notice. I'm using him for 4 of my personal websites ( 172, 1135, 25 and 22 visits in the last month ). Satisf
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They paid a lot for the rights. The Ring of Power can improve in the 2nd and later seasons (It had good bits but obviously could have been better) and the can also make other middle-earth based shows.
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Another Interview with the same guy on the same site Aldi: Hard Discounter Business Models https://inpractise.com/articles/Aldi-hard-discounters-paul-f...
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The numbers there are bogus. In reality your client isn't setup to ping remote sites every 15 minutes. Instead it'll learn and only ping once per day or so (or if you force a refresh). Whats more if you use a SaaS based service th
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They have tried to move away from Google. The problem is none of their other ideas have worked out.
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Company I was with (200 employees) was running out of runway and funding round didn't work out so they laid off around 30% of employees in February 2023 including me. They seem to have stabilized and their new product is finally online
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That would be search window at the bottom of the main HN page. You can use it to find the thread last week that points all the other HN secrets.
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What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay(zwischenzugs.com)
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A small number of outputs of ChatGPT are close enough to training articles to be (probably) copyright infringement. What does that mean? Look up "substantial non-infringing use" and this little court case: https://en.wi
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You sound like one of those government people who demand encryption that has government backdoors but is perfect safe from attackers. When told it is impossible they go "Geek Harder then Nerd" like demanding it will make it happen
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How about if I borrowed them from the library and gave them to the kid to read? How about if I got the kid to read the books on a public website where the author made the books available for free?
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FAST or "Free advertising supported streaming television" sometimes include includes "FAST Channels" which are can resemble old-style network TV channels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_ad-suppor
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There is a scene in The Lord of the Rings (Book) where Éowyn switches to using "thou" and "thee" when begging Aragorn to take her with him when he takes the Paths of the Dead. If you don't know (as I didn't for
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Thats The Boring Company. Musk's other tunnel idea. Dodgy but not yet bankrupt.
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I mostly listen to audiobooks so difficult to skim though these beforehand. Get candidates from blogs I follow, magazines and the like. Also do keyword searches for my areas of interests and look for new books in those areas. Usually I just
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Look at a channel I watch (RMTransit). 269k subscribers and only the 191,056th most popular channel. Never would have guessed there were over 200,000 channels each with over 200,000 subscribers.
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Behind the scenes scaling ChatGPT and the OpenAI APIs [video] - Eng Mgr @ OpenAI(youtube.com)
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I mean a nice natural two hands held apart is 1 metre. I can use that to roughly measure things like the width of a room. My full outstretch (wingspan) is around 2m.
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Thats what people say who have grown up with the system. If you grew up with the metric system in day to day life then you'd say the same. eg A Metre is a distance between two held out hands. A litre is half a 2l bottle. A kg is the sa
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One of the complaints about Hashicorp products was that they were not accepting any/many contributions from outsiders. Not sure if that was the case with vault.
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https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/threefold/
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Now judge every US president and Secretary of State by the same criteria. Kissinger might be worse than average but he certainly isn't exceptional.
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Yes it is. Diversity means restaurant options go beyond MacDonalds and the local bar Diversity means that if you are Gay, non-religious or into Table Tennis you can find others who are the same
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I did a version of the potato diet from mid-2022 to early-2023. Lost around 27kg although I've put some back on since. Been meaning to restart it to get back down again.
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Slightly more practical would be something like this Connect A Desk: Mobile Laptop Harness https://www.amazon.com/Connect-A-Desk-Mobile-Laptop-Harness-...
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Various Exceptions. Usually places where it is very easy to built or demand is low. Most US locations outside of the Big cities. Even some big cities like Houston.
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You probably want the "Maple Edit" of the Hobbit (also known as "J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit"). It is 247 minutes and is setup as a single film with intermissions. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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I don't see this on the list but "Do things by yourself" is one I'd add. Lots of people seem to have a thing against Going to the Movies, Eating at a restaurant or attending an event/concert/museum without a fr
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The Chatham Islands are an Island group, two of which are inhabited (Chatham Island and Pitt Island). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Islands Right now is it on +13:45 due to Daylight Saving https://en
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"I interviewed a Japanese bespoke shoemaker last month and asked why are there so many craft-based businesses in japan, like bespoke tailors. He said rent is relatively low in Tokyo, so if you have a passion for making suits and you o

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