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by smelendez 2mo ago
How do you use Amazon to commission custom software? Was this through the retail site or AWS?
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Yes, that’s a great example. I think most of the time you’d play with the order it would be for comic effect, like someone saying “my dinner is pretzels now” after having too big a snack.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
I actually thought the article could be more explicit about that, but in fairness I think the author figured readers were familiar with the app and that it would be obvious there’s no tarot functionality.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Yeah, this is the thing you can ask an LLM and get a confident and verbose wrong answer.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Yeah, I frequently wish you could get directions from your current point on a train/bus line.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
The word set is enough to identify some people based on speech patterns or interests. The inclusion of other words in the set — cocaine, divorce, abortion, merger, lymphoma — would make many people uncomfortable.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
A lot of the buildings along Canal Street in New Orleans, with souvenir and liquor stores on the ground floor, are empty upstairs as well. I can think of buildings in other cities in seemingly premium real estate, including the Chicago Loop
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by smelendez 2mo ago
I could see the NES being comparable to the Model T. People are going to know what an NES or an “original Nintendo” is for decades, just like we all know what a Model T is.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
I mean, how common is a terminal master’s program in STEM fields? I imagine there are departments where it’s more common to get a master’s by dropping out of the PhD program early than through any other path. Especially for people with a ba
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Probably also for students with “just” a bachelor’s. Most PhD students don’t enter with a master’s. I do wonder if NSF is hoping to seed more industry-sponsored PhDs as well, e.g., the first will be funded by NSF to establish the program, a
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Yeah, Facebook was primarily a directory when it started, a cross between a college facebook (like a yearbook given at the start of the year instead of the end) and a phone book. Also, it didn’t allow custom styles or html, which was unusua
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Sure, but they’re still potentially sitting in limbo and turned off in the trunk of an employee’s car or whatever. If you’re concerned about leak issues, why not wipe them and have them shipped back for less than the cost of an extra week o
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Six years ago was a long time — summer 2020. Substack is a huge competitor that has grown dramatically in that time. Beehiiv is another competitor that just launched a bunch of new features. Porn and sexy content is now on Onlyfans, which
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by smelendez 2mo ago
This seems more like a bounty for the laptop potentially full of company information, passwords, code, secrets, etc., which Patreon does not want out in the wild or to have to deploy lawyers to demand back. The carrot, rather than the stick
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Right, and any musicians taking that kind of gig will have professional photos they would happily share that you could just put some text on top of! With the OP and restaurant menus in general, and to some extent here, it also feels like fa
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Yes, this is exactly the problem. Multiple pieces of software vying to be your passkey provider, often using dark patterns so you don’t realize you’re making a choice, and not using the term “passkey” so people are using the technology with
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by smelendez 2mo ago
I enjoy the radio. I have a few stations I’ll cycle through at home and in the car. But all nonprofit/college /etc. Most US commercial radio is very bad. I don’t really understand why the playlists are so small, and why they don’t
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Ignoring it is hard to distinguish from waiting to see how other businesses successfully use it, then copying them, which will then be framed as adopting best practices.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
> The story doesn't mention how this schoolteacher got enough "private investors" so she could quit her job and pursue this. Yeah, this is the big question. Family money? Whatever the case, it’s still pretty impressive. Ru
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Very interesting! > Someone who buys bananas reliably every week for months will randomly stop for months, and then start again, for no perceivable rhyme or reason. The bananas were cut up or pureed and fed to a child at a particular st
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by smelendez 2mo ago
Right. Laptops are basically work (or school) tools now for a lot of people. They might have one tucked away that they pull out now and then when they need it, similar to a power drill or a sewing machine. It’s not a daily use device. I thi
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by smelendez 2mo ago
And also typing cat x to get a quick look at the file, hitting up, then piping that into another command and taking a look, hitting up, piping that result into a third command etc.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
The most common CD players around now are probably video game consoles.
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by smelendez 2mo ago
This is how it now works with music, I believe. Apple, Amazon, Bandcamp, etc. all sell you access to DRM-free files along with the ability to download or stream them in perpetuity.
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by smelendez 3mo ago
Yeah, it’s a problem with the employment and organizational structure, in a way. Software doesn’t need continual redesign and redevelopment at constant scale, nor is there unlimited need for new software tools in any one company’s wheelhous
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by smelendez 3mo ago
They do need more attention per person. Doing anything with a group of eight is just more complicated, and you’re more likely to have a person in the group who slows things down for whatever reason plus people trying to help them which can
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by smelendez 3mo ago
I’d put working for tips in here as well. From the worker’s point of view, it’s adding a gambling element to every transaction, complete with the usual gambler’s folk wisdom about which ones are going to pay out and how to maximize your luc
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by smelendez 3mo ago
Yeah, I can’t actually think of any contracts besides media licenses that are fixed payment for access to a resource for an indeterminate length of time. It doesn’t make a lot of sense when you think about it.
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by smelendez 3mo ago
Yes. I recently tried ordering a standard cardboard tube box of oats from Amazon, and it arrived crushed and leaking in its presumably nonsterile paper envelope. They gave me a refund and told me to throw it out. I think this would have bee
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by smelendez 3mo ago
It works better with music because many stores will sell you a DRM-free mp3. Most movie stores are just “selling” you long-term streaming access.

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