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by volkk 1y ago
switched to this and never looked back
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by volkk 1y ago
how do you test for this stuff? is a lead test through a blood draw enough?
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by volkk 1y ago
this is semi-relevant -- and I do love how technically amazing this all is, but a massive caveat for someone who's been dabbling hard in this space, (images+video) -- I cannot emphasize enough how draining text-2-<whatever> is. e
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by volkk 2y ago
poor analogy since this implies that Trump has everyone's best interests in his heart
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by volkk 2y ago
like, you don't think the product has longevity given what he's done/said? or you don't like the person behind the product regardless of success of product?
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by volkk 2y ago
is there anything super differentiating to this tool other than a nice UX on top of claude/chatgpt? don't get me wrong, this certainly has its merits/use cases, but like OP, i'm actually also looking for a tool that is a
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by volkk 2y ago
so why are you not renewing?
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by volkk 2y ago
> If someone gets hired after cheating on an interview, they'll presumably not be as good as expected. there are people that are entirely clueless and then there are people that are solid engineers who aren't willing to spend m
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by volkk 2y ago
i had a feeling someone would say "there's always been cheaters." i've been working in the industry for a long time, i'm certainly aware. but there's a difference between going out of your way to cheat when it
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Ask HN: Interviewing at this point feels unfair due to cheaters. What now?
3 points by volkk 2y ago|7 comments
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by volkk 2y ago
yeah that's awesome, but I think staleness could be a concern? i'm sure there will be updates to nutritional values, additions of new foods, etc. API gives me the latest without having to redownload/rehydrate every time. plus
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by volkk 2y ago
Super cool. Would you consider an API?
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by volkk 2y ago
he's a zfellows guy. the whole thing is likely some kind of plant/stunt
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by volkk 2y ago
clearly this isn't working given that this post is highly upvoted as some kind of feat that people sat outside and talked to their neighbors. no one talks to each other, and either way you look at it, certain apps get people out there.
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by volkk 2y ago
i think there's a really valuable app/site to be made that involves discovering people or handling communications literally on your block (i.e hyper local neighborhood). nextdoor is the 1.0 of this that introduced the concept but
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by volkk 2y ago
i think most of the types of people you'd want to hang out with aren't posting on nextdoor
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by volkk 2y ago
i use them a lot and constantly forget to turn mine off and it just drains my credits. i really need to write a job to turn them off when it's idle for longer than 20minutes
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by volkk 2y ago
> Stating it is not out of the ordinary isn't excusing it. that's literally what it is. why else mention other failures than to soften the blow of the current failure in front of you. that's an excuse to me. anything else
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by volkk 2y ago
> But to me it’s clear why these abilities are listed: veterans with disabilities. The author not getting that is just… do you ever stop and think? at what point do you stop treating people like they're not utter idiots though? the
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by volkk 2y ago
> Nobody has responded to me with anything about how authors are harmed i imagine if books can be published to some e-book provider through an API to extract a few dollars per book generated (mulitiplied by hundreds), then eventually it&
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by volkk 2y ago
> Are AI-written books getting published? actually i think they are. lots of e-book slop > If they start out-competing humans, is that bad? Not inherently, but it depends on what you mean by out-competing. Social media outcompeted boo
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by volkk 2y ago
> ("half your age plus seven" was my lower bound, i remember reading about this rule of thumb but dang, i'm 35 and can't imagine dating someone that's 24-25 right now. no judgments here btw.
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by volkk 2y ago
just straight up hard to read. great site though
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by volkk 2y ago
really takes me back. i love this. that progress bar is how i remember steam being stuck updating for ages (meanhwile it was just entirely frozen and i had to restart it)
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by volkk 2y ago
yeah i see the argument, and its an important skillset to be able to deal with chaos/bullies but this other part of me wonders whether dealing with bullying early on is healthy at all? to be clear, i do believe that tough personalities
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by volkk 2y ago
why can't homeschooling involve the same attributes? genuine question. from what i've been seeing in modern trends, homeschooling doesn't literally mean you sit and your mother teaches you all day and then you "go home&q
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by volkk 2y ago
i don't get it. doesn't fly autoscale? i thought the point of services like these is that it makes it super easy to account for traffic spikes. or is this not fly.io?
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by volkk 2y ago
this headline feels like i'm in 1996 again
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by volkk 2y ago
i don't disagree that bots/bad actors are a problem. but it's futile to call everyone a bot since it shuts down literally all discussion. at this point just accept that the internet is the wild west and act with discretion. i
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by volkk 2y ago
because mosquitos/viruses are found in nature that operate within the confines of evolution, and has zero ties to ethics. while the other creates extremely dangerous precedents around how to disperse viruses via airborne/borderlin

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