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How do folks live with hyperinflation? Do salaries change monthly?
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A Man Called Ove was written by Fredrik Backman, who is Swedish. Not to be confused with Karl-Ove Knausgaard.
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As a former PhD student who made $28k (which was on the higher end, most made $20k) I’d always known there were better paying jobs out there. But I also lived in a LCOL city where my rent was $500 (room in an house with 5 roommates) and I l
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Sometimes simple ideas need a bit of marketing and "naming" so that we can concretely pin our actions to a concept that we can anchor on. I may not have had the language of "mindset" then, but now that I have it, I'
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by wenc 3y ago
Mindset may or may not be scientifically provable, but as a tool for attitude change, it has been invaluable. That slight shift from "I'm not good at it, I'll never be good so why try?" (fixed mindset) to "I may not
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Yes. Llama2 7B: >>> Which weighs more: a kilogram of gold or a kilogram of feathers? A kilogram of gold weighs more than a kilogram of feathers. One kilogram is equal to 1000 grams, so: * A kilogram of gold = 1000 gram
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When you factor in compounding and triple tax advantages (contribution/growth/withdrawals are tax exempt), it can be quite a lot of money over 20-30 years. HSAs can be invested as well say in a target fund or index which should ne
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Usually (single) people with high-deductible plans with no medical conditions and are able to pay out of pocket. Companies I've worked for will also match up to a $500 contribution, so it's free money. On top of that, the HSA is a
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by wenc 3y ago
Not sure what you mean. OMNY has contactless and fare capping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMNY I use Apple Express Transit on my Apple Watch with the NY MTA. I just tap my wrist and the turnstile unlocks. Also it ca
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No, my YouTube usage as stayed the same. I pay $15.40/month for YouTube Premium and it's a very good investment (better than Netflix, Max or Amazon Prime -- two of those I get for free). There's so much more independent conte
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I'm in one of the techiest cities in the U.S. Public Wi-fi is widely available. I don't use it due to friction. Here's what has to happen at a cafe in my neighborhood if I wanted to use their Wifi: 1. Ask for the password (so
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It builds on top of supercomputer model output and does better at the specific task of medium term forecasts. It is a kind of iterative refinement on the data that supercomputers produce — it doesn’t supplant supercomputers. In fact the pap
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Not to take away from the excitement but ML weather prediction builds upon the years of data produced by numerical models on supercomputers. It cannot do anything without that computation and its forecasts are dependent on the quality of th
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> Large cities contain more people but less community than small center Large cities comprise neighborhoods where lots of community is found. Chicago has 77 and very warm.
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As a city person, I don't really miss nature. I miss the city when I'm out of it. I'm deeply introverted, but I love the energy and bustle of people, and especially love the brownian motion of ideas and cultures colliding in
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I apologize. There’s a lot of debate as to whether onions and tomatoes are fruits or vegetables and they can both be vegetables according to many sources.
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Yes. The chat is gone now, but from what I saw, you explicitly asked about shopping for vegetables . It gave the correct answer but you insisted it missed onions and tomatoes. Yes they were part of the recipe but those aren’t vegetables.
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I love that TUI. Ncurses doesn’t even come close. I used to spend hours in Paradox for DOS, Turbo C etc. It felt so comfortable compared to Ncurses TUIs.
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The old API was meant to mimic MATLAB. It's in the name -- the "mat" in "matplotlib" refers to MATLAB. And yes, those of us who were brought up on MATLAB gravitated toward it in the early days because it was so fami
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I tried your prompts and it gave me the right answers. Also onions, chilies and tomatoes are not vegetables. Your response was actually not correct -- GPT actually gave the correct answer.
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That link doesn't open. (Unable to load conversation)
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HN opinions are not representative of the general population. There's definitely an echo chamber here, and as long as we recognize that and not think opinions here are normative, we can appropriately discount very emotional and contrar
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Here's a list of high rise buildings in a very dense, very seismically active country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_structures_in_...
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Give me your prompt. I'll paste the output from ChatGPT4.
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Nice! I can finally run a model locally on my 16GB M2 Pro Mac without a lot of futzing around with CUDA. Ollama is very nice.
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This is way way better than Shazam. I just tried it. I hummed a song to Shazam and nothing but Google found it in one shot.
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Try ChatGPT (GPT-4) or at least Claude 2. Claude Instant will not give you the highest quality answers.
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You can start by paying $20 for ChatGPT 4 and try it on tasks where you're familiar with the subject matter. I've tried it and I've been amazed.
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I'm using ChatGPT 4 (paid) and it has solved a few problems for me. (it sounds like you're using the free 3.5 and also having some pretty unrealistic expectations of ChatGPT like asking for a full implementation of a WAM) A mundan
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I think Tock tried to do dynamic pricing for tables. (Tock was founded by Nick Kokonas a former Chicago mercantile exchange trader and co owner of Chicago-based Alinea). Alinea also has other ways to prevent no shows like selling tickets et

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