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OpenAI community repo with lots of examples: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook
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>They’re having a lot of trouble finding people who they can trust to take that job Let's be generous and say room and board in a rural farmhouse and use of an old farm truck is worth an additional $1500, you would still make more m
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Sorry to hear about your health problems, they sound very real to me. >I’ve tested it every way I can to rule out placebo. I'm genuinely curious, could you tell me a little more about how you did that?
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>I think some people will never understand the desire of others to simply be left alone. Is that what he really wanted thought? Nobody was preventing Thoreau from disappearing into the wilderness. He did not do that because it would have
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My electronics background is that I worked under Underwriters Laboratories where I’ve used some very nice soldering irons. The pinecil is unbelievably good for what it costs. I find myself using it more than any other soldering iron, only p
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> The divorce laws take care of that imbalance. They do not. 90% of US households have a total household net worth of less than $300,000. Even if you got all of that, it's not enough to make up for the lack of marketable skills. Sim
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Ikea and generic home depot LEDs have lasted 13 years of daily use with zero failures. Also, I've never seen that high a rate of LED failure. You may want to have your house checked out by an electrician for peace of mind.
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It’s the cheapest headset that also offers a reasonable experience. For around $250 you get a well designed device that includes controllers and does not require a separate computer to use. It’s a very good value, and if you’re unsure about
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The idea of the free market in this context comes from Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, in which he says that a market is free if buyers and sellers can pursue their own self-interest. It's in the interest of the seller to sell the
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>Plus if the insurance covers career advancement losses the incentives become really adverse. Fair concern, I think we can screen for people faking it for money. Also, in these situations the payout is usually somewhat less than you woul
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> If you're competent enough to be a pilot you're competent enough to make money other ways I believe an experienced commercial pilot makes around 200K? If I’m 50 have no professional skills except being a commercial airline p
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>Overcast (iOS) supposedly can block ads and skip intros/outros Overcast intro and outro skip is a thing (that I use for most podcasts), but I've never seen anything like an ad-skipping feature. I listen to the developer's
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Any efficient “DC to DC” converter is going to invert DC to AC as step one. If you need different dc voltages, an inverter coupled with various ac-dc power supplies in low power applications is perfectly fine.
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We are not in the audience, the audience is any organization that needs to manage and understand the output of software engineers, but does not have the necessary technical ability to do this. If I’m understanding them correctly, their pitc
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As I kind of expected, a lot of general statements I mostly agree with, but very light on specifics and no concrete data at all. “276% better!” does not mean anything without knowing how they define better. > leaders and developers alike
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>you don't have to learn powershell Always surprised to hear this on HN. Powershell is such a better experience than any other option on windows. I think it's objecty nature scares people off, but it's really not much of a
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>out-of-band identification would also be possible, i.e. a QR code Any out-of-band method of enabling what you are talking about is necessarily going to prompt the user with the same kind of serious-looking security prompt they would see
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It's a feature of the latest version of task manager. I don't know of any way to do it with the win10 task manager, but you can always "Get-Process | Out-GridView" which will present a GUI process info table with sorting
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Shift + Right Click shows the classic right click menu. I'd prefer a setting to turn it off, but it's just muscle memory for me now and I never see the new menu.
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>I DO NOT want to put my family's or my personal-project data on the internet! DNS-01 challenges addresses this, the webserver never needs to be exposed to the internet. >I can't even show my projects to my non-technical fri
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Same reason pizza delivery (a fairly dangerous job, more likely to die on the job than a cop) makes less - It’s not as hard to train and retain armored car drivers. Armored cars make routine deliveries of exactly one product to a fixed numb
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> The writer may believe it when they write "most people ignore trees" but it is at least bi-model right? I grew up relatively poor, and I can tell you that most Americans I have met generally feel deep anxiety about their eco
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Our company signed a huge 5 year deal with microsoft for azure services just today. We evaluated all major providers for more than a year, Microsoft offered the best terms by far, and we were able to meet all of our needs using it just as w
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I love the idea of v6, but the reality is still not worth it for most situations even at that price. IP v6 implementations are still all too commonly buggy and inconstant, and that’s on top of all the work required to bring v6 online.
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>…too lazy… I thought this too, until I tried to add IPV6 support for a fairly simple web application. The single biggest problem is the quality and consistency of IPV6 implementations is frequently very poor. I ran into many bugs, stran
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Are you asking if the west could make phones? Almost certainly. Have they chosen to do so? Not at all. Apple may be big enough today to possibly operate without china in 10-20 years, but no chance in 2007 or today.
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>...ask if he is credible It would not matter if the most credible source alive said it, I would still ask this question: if what they are saying is true, then it's possible to prove it without needing to take what they or anyone el
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Maybe I am unique, but especially when you start dealing with many levels of nested directories, it is much faster to grok both the absolute and relative sizes of files and directories with a visual representation versus a textual represent
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Most institutions in the US will accept a homeschool transcript. How much they will value that transcript is another question.
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Chiropractors are basically dangerous and overpriced massage therapists who pretend to be doctors (complete with their own brand of pseudoscience) to ape the legitimacy of real medicine. Massage feels great, but many people feel uncomfortab

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