halr9000

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by halr9000 2y ago
worth checking out. ideogram has the best creation of english text out there. Nightcafe ( https://creator.nightcafe.studio/ ) sturck a deal with them recently and added support for the ideogram model in their tool also, if yo
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by halr9000 2y ago
In case you missed it, the authors were pretty smart to include that folded section in the middle, "Prompt for prompt-enhancement". I slapped that into gpt ( https://chatgpt.com/share/2e53403e-4bd7-4138-ac34-55
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by halr9000 4y ago
> I had to think twice about this reply Good :) > The Economist Magazine, where factual snippets I have nothing special for or against the mag, but I will point out that economists are famously known for disagreeing on huge things onc
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by halr9000 4y ago
You are aware that disruption has been the human condition for 1000's of years, yes? Why do you posit that life expectancy will continue to fall? Not sure it's rational to expect an extended reversal of the trends which have been
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by halr9000 4y ago
> In the 1930s America there was mass unemployment Sure, but these are temporary disruptions. Now it's true that the pace of change feels immensely faster than ever before, and I believe that's an observable fact. But we adapt.
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by halr9000 7y ago
Your life or death scenario is an edge case with its own special complexities which should not be lumped in with discussions of the vastly voluntary choices we can make. Healthcare is heavily regulated as we all know. This raises the barrie
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by halr9000 7y ago
Well, the “right” workaround is an opt-in system. But that would drastically reduce the number of qualified ad prospects, reducing their wholesale value, killing the online ad business, drying up the websites themselves who exist for this r
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by halr9000 7y ago
While of course this problem exists, SO didn’t create them, but maybe enabled them at most. What created them was a big cycle starting with the internet leading to digital transformation and new business creation, which led to demand for ne
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by halr9000 7y ago
What I do has worked great for >10 years: - Direct deposit paycheck into checking account 1(the main account) - automatically transfer spending money to checking account 2 (I call it the Petty Cash account) - auto transfer $x for the lar
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by halr9000 7y ago
> And that’s what the internet has become. Full of gossip, junk content, paid posts, con articles, click bait links, sock-puppetry, spam, regurgitated spam, free e-books, self aggrandizement, fake followers, fake news, - all designed to
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by halr9000 7y ago
Most people I know hate taxis. Uber can nearly raise prices to parity with cabs.
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by halr9000 8y ago
I'm not even going to send an angry tweet. I'm going to keep ordering. If a driver takes the job, at the price Instacart wants to pay, it's on the driver, of course. And this works until it doesn't! Once people quit driv
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by halr9000 8y ago
It made me sad that the Evernote migration wasn't full fidelity. Been a few months, but I recall it didn't bring over pictures.
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by halr9000 8y ago
> Seems like a weak market to go after, given that people likely to respond to a "cool" financial services brand may be a poorer demographic that maybe doesn't have any prior experience with "legacy" financial se
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by halr9000 8y ago
This is the best way anyways. 50 experiments will lead to a better outcome.
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by halr9000 8y ago
> the cat litter I just purchased is $17.89 at Amazon, $13.49 at Walmart. Last week I bought a chair mat for $21.95 on Ebay - identical item on Amazon was $33.95 (both including free shipping but Amazon came with an additional 8.25% sale
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by halr9000 8y ago
Super polite legal notice tho!
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by halr9000 8y ago
> Now, it's just a giant subsidy for Amazon. But it's not. This line is reasoning is very outdated. They have built a massive network of warehouses all over the country, and that's the physical presence that a state sales
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by halr9000 8y ago
I liked the aisle, but have a lot of issues with it. This is one of my main ones: IP addresses and information security. Quoting you: > Storing an IP for a limited time for security reasons is fine. Have rules in place for how this data
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by halr9000 9y ago
> It's not protecting your interests, it's protecting Google's interests. But you can always install (or develop) another browser that might do this job better for you . > If it was protecting your interests, it would
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by halr9000 9y ago
I'm "old" and I remember websites, and Bulletin Board Systems too, for that matter. But technology changes, and you gotta keep up, man. Don't let the kids bother you--they're just running through your yard to the ne
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by halr9000 10y ago
Wah? I mean, it's a giant step up from a non mobile optimized website, hands down. The article downplays Facebook and Apple despite them doing the same exact thing.