chockablock

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by chockablock 2mo ago
> Any Tokens-as-a-Service provider will refuse to serve those tokens to customers in the US. So under a ban rest-of-world gets to use cheap open-weight models but American companies/individuals must only use only ‘approved models fr
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by chockablock 7mo ago
Are you a bot or bot-assisted? Repeating back the content of a comment and then asking a generic follow-up is a strange pattern.
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by chockablock 2y ago
Alternatively, day parking rates drop enough (due to market forces) to compensate for the cost of the toll.
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by chockablock 2y ago
> even if you're not driving in downtown Manhattan, you will still pay the cost to enter the city through the normal entrances Incorrect--if you take one of those bridges/tunnels below 60th street, then stay on FDR or West Side
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by chockablock 2y ago
It’s a pointless affectation that distracts from your technical content. The evidence for your behavior being distracting/provocative is right here in this thread.
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by chockablock 2y ago
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by chockablock 2y ago
> in a group chat where your dancer buddy Rex is learning to surf, it’s a killer. Maybe, but this class of jokes/riffs is going to get old, fast.
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by chockablock 2y ago
> Agreed, but that noise can be contained with an effective Faraday screening. I don’t think car manufacturers are saying they don’t know how to shield, they’re saying it would come at a cost: "Requiring the installation of analog A
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by chockablock 2y ago
Got a pointer (or search terms) for this? I’d like to learn more
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by chockablock 3y ago
Official rules say otherwise: "Each puzzle includes at least one “pangram,” which uses every letter." https://www.nytimes.com/puzzles/spelling-bee -> click on 'How to Play'
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by chockablock 3y ago
Those terms are synonyms (at least in US academic parlance)
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by chockablock 3y ago
This fantasy of the line workers getting rich at cushy jobs does not seem to be related to reality?
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by chockablock 3y ago
Sorry 1 does not make sense. It's not like I bid on a house based on its square footage, and then only find out the address when I win. Even in the US, walkability scores, satellite photos, maps of transit and bike lanes, commute estim
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by chockablock 3y ago
You don't need to 'ride out winter'; there's a sweet spot around 100-hour storage where you can unlock a huge amount of grid resiliency and decarbonization (you can keep as many dispatchable gas plants sitting nearly-alw
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by chockablock 3y ago
40 years later and MacOS app menus are barely changed: Apple - (Current App Name) - File - Edit - View - [App-specific items] - Window - Help For Finder, there's still only one app-specific menu item, now called 'Go' instead
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by chockablock 3y ago
The linked article says the 2 bits are stored on Apple’s servers. I.e. they could persist even if the device were bit-for-bit reset to factory state.
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by chockablock 3y ago
The narrative that most homeless people in SF come there from other places is contradicted by data. In annual surveys, ~70+% of people who are homeless in SF lived in SF when they became homeless. https://sfstandard.com/publ
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by chockablock 4y ago
+1. You can still use the PW generator to achieve this but it’s a bit clunky.
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by chockablock 4y ago
In the US most states (37/50) don’t have sales tax on groceries. Also food bought with SNAP benefits (food stamps) is exempt from sales tax in all states.
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by chockablock 4y ago
As it says at the top of the page, this article is basically a precis of a journal article, which--hurrah! is on Sci-hub: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/0096144205282713 . As you'd expec
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by chockablock 4y ago
> It then claims, without reference, that the VCR was a market replacement for physical sexual encounters. It goes on to ignore that AIDS was a health epidemic related to these sexual encounters, and that when the seedy operators are fin
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by chockablock 4y ago
The same AGI phase-out applies in the year that you do the rollover. So this doesn’t allow you to avoid the income phase-out, it just lets you time-shift the educational spending to an earlier year (in which your income may be below the thr
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by chockablock 4y ago
Unlike a 529 plan, the tax benefit of using I-Bonds for tuition is only available if your AGI is under a certain amount in the year you cash them in (currently $154k for a married couple). https://www.investopedia.com/ask&#x
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by chockablock 5y ago
Interesting. Someone I know well with bipolar has very predictable manic episodes around the same date each springtime, but they aren't tied directly to the time change I.e. they happen +/- a week or so each year.
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by chockablock 5y ago
I run around the house updating every clock I can find early on the Sunday morning. I update the clocks on rental cars if they're wrong. I'm not otherwise a super detail-oriented person. Clearly this is some kind of personality te
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by chockablock 5y ago
Also, in NYC, your nearest option might be in another state (NJ or CT). I don’t get this.
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by chockablock 5y ago
Hitting that button on any modern car (like say my 2018 Volvo) will turn the fan on max heat, directed at the windshield and side windows. and also enable the AC. IIRC a 1998 Camry I drove had the same functionality. Confirmed in the ‘98
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by chockablock 5y ago
In a Bloomberg businessweek article this week on Rent The Runway the figure they give is that they rent the articles an average of 20 times before retiring them.
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by chockablock 5y ago
The game does not accept leading zeros (00017: "Not a 5 digit prime")
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by chockablock 5y ago
How could you break it without destroying its value?

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