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davidgh
27d ago
I mean, yes - but somehow this feels like a different category. At least to me. I view slop as the classic garbage like: [Thing] isn’t just [X]—it’s [more dramatic Y]. And [short validating statement]. I can see and smell this type of slop
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davidgh
27d ago
I understand the sentiment, but not quite what I’m thinking. It’s not that the AI is necessarily wrong, it’s more like, it replaces clarity with rich but unhelpful text. Maybe like candy. Full of flavor, texture and color but lacking the nu
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davidgh
27d ago
My son is currently learning Romanian and I was trying to help him with verbs. I don’t know Romanian but recalled when learning a foreign language for the first time it really helped me to break down how a verb form or tense worked in Engli
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davidgh
4mo ago
My frustration is with services like Uber, Bolt, Airbnb, etc. where you need the push for core services and then the provides use them to slip in spam.
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davidgh
5mo ago
You can use it here: https://scoreboardmax.com/ All features are included in the free version, just some usage limits. If you decide to use it, send a message using the “Contact Us” from with the account and I’ll send you t
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davidgh
5mo ago
A group of us in our community broadcast many of the local high school sports. Our original setup had a scoreboard that was really clunky to manage and was hard to learn, so I built a web-based version that pretty much any 12 year old with
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Starlink 2025 Progress Report
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davidgh
9mo ago
This. When I first started learning Russian, we immediately jumped into basic grammar rules. After two weeks of incredible frustration, I realized I did not have sufficient mastery of English grammar to be able to establish a framework for
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davidgh
11mo ago
Rumor also has it that in virtually any major grocery store in the USA you can put in any (valid) area code and 867-5309 and it will work as a rewards member number to get you the discounts. I have done it when traveling and have had succes
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davidgh
1y ago
Sadly, it seems this option is fading away, at least in the US. https://www.smseagle.eu/2025/05/08/no-support-for-email-to-t...
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davidgh
2y ago
To be sure, Live Nation owns and / or operates many of the venues. They also provide management services to artists. So it’s not that TicketMaster demands exclusivity from the venue, they #are# the venue.
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davidgh
3y ago
> a state government inhibiting that choice A state government inhibiting that choice for minors , which is a well-established practice for all sorts of things. Alcohol consumption, tobacco, driving a car, voting in elections, gambling,
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davidgh
3y ago
Here are a couple of references for you. Compulsive Internet Pornography Use and Mental Health: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Sample of University Students in the United States https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#
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Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify
(leteyski.com)
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3y ago
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Disinflation
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4y ago
This is the way China is going [0]. Based on success there it seems it will follow in other places. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/inside...
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davidgh
4y ago
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
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davidgh
4y ago
You have it exactly backwards. Thou is singular and informal, ye is plural and / or singular formal. Ye is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". [0] The word thou is a second-
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davidgh
4y ago
Agree. “Ya’ll” is linguistically necessary in English since the word “ye” was deprecated. A common alternative to remove ambiguity between singular and plural “you” in some parts of the US is “you guys”.
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4y ago
“The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”
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Copper plunges to its lowest mark in 17-months as the economic bellwether
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I Tried Apple’s Self-Repair Program with My iPhone. Disaster Ensued
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5y ago
Yeah but you can get away with pretty much anything in a construction safety vest. [0] 0. https://youtu.be/GyvRamX1VyA
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davidgh
5y ago
You mean, become a typical agency?
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5y ago
I made a previous comment that I deleted because it was a bit sarcastic which doesn’t help the conversation. More seriously: If you’re raising children, do you attempt to place safeguards in your family to prevent the potential outcomes dis
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5y ago
There are a variety of documented undesirable side effects of heavy pornographic use [0],[1], including issues with mental health, sexual disfunction, and the ability to maintain normal romantic relationships. It may be hard to stop, but th
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davidgh
5y ago
I think there’s a difference. “You are the product” means that your usage and data are the primary thing the company develops (with software) so it can be sold to their actual customers, namely, advertisers. I’ve been involved with many sof
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davidgh
5y ago
Which SMTP server do you use for sending? Are you able to use Gmail's SMTP servers with your setup?
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davidgh
5y ago
Not necessarily. They could be performing a “lower case” function on all passwords before hashing them.
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davidgh
5y ago
Or perhaps the opposite. Those that never had the chance to work remotely have since experienced and now that they are back in the office - they want to find a way to be remote again.
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