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by float4 4mo ago
As someone who's in his late 20s and didn't (consciously) witness the dotcom crisis I want to ask the older people here: was this also part of the dotcom bubble era? Were people working in bookstores angry at Amazon, people workin
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by float4 7mo ago
Wouldn't you get >50% of the usefulness and 0% of the risk if you add read+draft permissions for the email connection through a proxy or oauth permissions? Then your claw can draft replies and you have to manually review+send. It&#x
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by float4 1y ago
For me it's a bit of both. I'm working on exciting energy software with people who have deep knowledge of the sector but only semi-decent software knowledge. Nearly every day I'm reviewing some shitty PR comprised of awful, u
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by float4 1y ago
I should have read this 12h ago! This afternoon, I tried to create my first simple agent using LangChain. My aim was to repeatedly run a specific python analysis function and perform a binary search to find the optimal result, then compile
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by float4 2y ago
You call it silly because you could be doing useful stuff on your phone. I'd go one step further and say that even if you're slacking off that's not necessarily a bad thing. Everybody, including politicians, slacks off from t
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by float4 2y ago
> Bezos nailed it on this topic: “[...] [I]n our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It's impossible
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by float4 2y ago
> Except Dairy Queen, Wendy’s, and McDonald’s outside of the U.S. don’t have this problem. Heck, even Ikea has successfully been selling ice cream (from self serve machines!) here in the Netherlands for like 20 years now. €0.50 back in t
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by float4 2y ago
I was under the impression that Netflix was not deemed video sharing platform because they don't actively dictate what is and is not allowed on the platform the way YouTube does. But maybe it was the 10,000 rule, who knows. To my knowl
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by float4 2y ago
Multiple reasons: 1. Size. DMA requirement is >=7.5b turnover in the EU, or worldwide market cap >=75b. Not the case for Spotify. 2. Non-provision of core platform services. It's not just "important gateway between business
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by float4 2y ago
https://archive.is/Lhkml
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by float4 2y ago
Most people buy pea protein isolate. This is a more complex product where the protein has actually been separated from the remainder of the peas. (Not sure if it would qualify as ultra processed though.)
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by float4 3y ago
> he made his students work use pens while taking his tests This is very common in the Netherlands, I think that's why it was a rule of his. In general, the Dutch education system seems to be against pencils (at least this was the c
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by float4 3y ago
> look for the spouse sitting quietly on his phone, but please don't bother him Might as well just be someone with social anxiety. Many people like that in tech.
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by float4 3y ago
Shakespeare had an exceptionally large vocabulary. He constantly used words his audience / readers didn't understand. And that's okay with you, because he was "expressing and transferring ideas". Except that it&#x27
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by float4 3y ago
> Good writing is about expressing and transferring ideas. Not everything is a scientific paper. Good writing can also be art. There's a reason why Shakespeare wrote his 18th sonnet and not just "I think you're very beauti
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by float4 3y ago
What happens when you place your phone in the microwave (don't turn the oven on, obviously) and walk away with your speaker? I'm curious what kind of range you're getting. For reference: I just tried this with iPhone 13 mini
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by float4 3y ago
There is no one way of doing this. What you write is correct, but most people use the (IMO simpler) 3rd digit rule: the decade is decided by the third digit of the year. So 2020, 2021, ..., 2028, 2029 belong to the same decade, as do 2030,
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by float4 3y ago
Or at least show us how long the sky's been up currently? I have no idea if this page is 2 days or 2 years old, and I'm too lazy to check archive.org.
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by float4 3y ago
Toyota already said it was around the corner in 2017[0]. Now it's 2023 and it's still around the corner. I'll believe it when I see it. [0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bertelschmitt/2017/07&#x2
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by float4 3y ago
The S3 was the real problem. VanMoof released the VanMoof S3 in 2020, which was €2000 (the predecessor was close to €3000). The S3 sold very well because of its low price and great design, but its build quality was really subpar. In fact,
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by float4 3y ago
Developer of Apollo was completely surprised that they mentioned his app today[0] [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/141kfmi/wwdc_2023_ev...
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by float4 3y ago
> I'd also be surprised if they used custom cores for smaller chips like for airpods/airtags. AirTags have an nRF52xxx SoC by Nordic. The only Apple silicon in them is the U1 UWB chip (which is also present in iPhone, HomePod,
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by float4 3y ago
Don't think so. I know many people here in the Netherlands who own a home at the age of 25 thanks to their parents, and their parents are generally actually nice people who just want to help their children out. It makes their kids happ
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by float4 3y ago
> Concatenate a semiprime with a Fibonacci number to obtain a palindrome with at least two distinct digits. For some reason, the thought that someone worked on this makes me very happy :)
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by float4 3y ago
You submit it to OEIS and it may be added. https://oeis.org/Submit.html
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by float4 3y ago
> Bet $100 that all classical music ALL classical music, in just 3 years. I'm perfectly willing to put my entire net worth on the line for this one.
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by float4 3y ago
> PayPal has restricted our business account because we have invoiced a license key containing the random letter sequence “ALEP”. This makes me wonder: what's the best way to generate "safe" license keys? Binary feels like
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by float4 3y ago
Alep is French for Aleppo.
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by float4 4y ago
> write an asynchronous streaming parser for Server-Sent Events in Rust using reqwest and nom And now ask yourself how many non-SE's can even ask that question to ChatGPT.
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by float4 4y ago
> BDFL (Benevolent Dictator For Life)

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