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challenger-derp
2mo ago
That's kinda clever, and possibly something to consider for users who prefer an alternative to filing.
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challenger-derp
2mo ago
Are there limits on what kinds of websites can request for a visitor's global ID information? Must a website direct the user to log into their MS account before it is able to get a hold of the user's global ID information?
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challenger-derp
1y ago
> (I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses) I thought I had it lucky with my measly 25GB of lifetime storage. Have been using Dropbox for free for well over a
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challenger-derp
1y ago
Am eagerly anticipating the commercial availability of Mathpad. At the moment I'm using Espanso, an open source software that lets users map typed character sequences to unicode. So it's possible to set things up in such a way tha
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challenger-derp
2y ago
As I understand it, for retail market participants, the concern of dark trading venues is at least twofold: 1. With some brokerages, retail orders are prioritized for dark venues over lit ones (i.e., first routed to see if they can be fulfi
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challenger-derp
2y ago
It's not loading on my end, but I checked out the web archive version of it and have to say that this feels possibly quite fun and, dare I say, potentially addictive. Not sure if there's an intention to extend this, but giving the
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challenger-derp
2y ago
I've never thought about this – but it's quite the brilliant idea provided the user isn't someone prone to getting a heart attack from a jumpscare.
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2y ago
This list is quite well-put. Also, for a large number of roles, people are judged by the net value that they've contributed (net of mistakes). In a pretty large subset of such roles, it's usually the case that small-ish mistakes r
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2y ago
would be helpful if I could get assistance with the paywall – I could be wrong, but I'm assuming a sizeable handful of commenters in this section managed to read this paywalled article?
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challenger-derp
2y ago
There's a related line of research that concerns computer vision models and optical illusions.
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challenger-derp
2y ago
I just wanna say I like the idea and I think you're (OP) right on the mark on there being people who prefer communicating by voice in an informal setting instead of using text. Voice may be, in certain situations, a higher bandwidth me
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challenger-derp
2y ago
> And ultimately I think being a chef is one of the hardest jobs to motivate people because there’s no lure of a giant paycheck or bonus or stock options. You’re really trying to teach someone to better themselves through their own perso
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challenger-derp
2y ago
Enjoyed playing around the visualization to get a better mental picture of Earth's neighborhood. it's mind-blowing to know that there are 200 to 400 billion stars just in our galaxy alone. And it's even more breath-taking to
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challenger-derp
2y ago
Very nice. I wish I could do this sort of scroll story in my digital notes. Is this done with a javascript library?
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challenger-derp
3y ago
Similar to how people are intelligent in different ways, we too may be less-smart-than-the-average in different ways.
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3y ago
this made me spit out my morning coffee. ugh.
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challenger-derp
3y ago
I'd like to second this. Bonus points if a magnet were included so that the sample could be "levitated" over it. This is definitely a kind of novelty gift suitable for science-y and geeky friends.
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challenger-derp
3y ago
That actually sounds fun. It's like karaoke but more than singing songs... even without the acting aspect, it sounds fun to experience the story unfold while you're in it. Not sure if people will feel bogged down by the additional
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3y ago
It varies. Some days 4 hours, other days are 12 hours.
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4y ago
The preference for silence may not be universal. John Von Neumann, a highly regarded scientist, appears to prefer noisy environments according to his Wikipedia entry [1]: In Princeton, he [John Von Neumann] received complaints for regularly
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4y ago
> I used to love X, but now it's been a few years since I've done X. What changed? At some point, everything got serious. [1] > I started to only want to publish the best things, so I didn't publish at all. ... > Whe
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4y ago
Can anyone shed light as to why the push for symmetric non-competes isn't a movement?
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4y ago
I enjoyed reading this comment and agree mostly with what was conveyed. >I don’t think people should go back to a prior employer. Personally, I don't think that going back to a prior employer is a bad look. I've seen colleagues
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4y ago
Can see how this has potential. I've worked on a similar thing at work and there are some nuances as to the level the embedding is performed at (e.g. sentence level) and the kinds of queries that your search engine will be good at (i.e
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4y ago
Quoting the last two paragraphs of the blog post (cuz I think that's where the gist of this post lies): > Research should never be driven by success, because the pursuit of it either disheartens, or beguiles, even the greatest of me
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4y ago
The UI/UX is great as many commenters have pointed out. Your write-up (readme) is also excellent. Though, at the moment, your cloud server is having trouble processing requests, I got error notifications about your cloud server posting
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4y ago
love it. If i could configure my google search UX to this something like this, I would. Reminds me of TweetDeck in its early days. This is a power tool for avid searchers.
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challenger-derp
4y ago
If they really really want to track people: - Sir, you have to install this application, it's available on both iOS and the Google Play Store. - Do you have a Debian package? - Give me a moment to check our database of alternative OSes
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4y ago
> that's not actually implemented That's my understanding as well. > it's a convenient talking point in the west When online comments get worked up about The Social Credit System, a key thing I believe they're tryi
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4y ago
^ In case anyone is interested in learning more, the first part of what vmoore is doing is termed back-translation.
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