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by jelling 2mo ago
I wonder if there is any correlation between open caskets and debt collection rules / norms in each country.
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by jelling 2mo ago
> Why people get surprised with that stuff? Whenever you don't understand how people can think things on the internet, consider that they might be younger than you. They may not be, but it makes the world far less rage inducing. Non
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by jelling 3mo ago
Did Anthropic, unlike Open AI, forget to offer free equity to the government? “Thats a pretty nice IPO you got there… it would be a shame if something happened to it.”
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by jelling 3mo ago
This and we already did a dry run of ad-hoc distributions with COVID relief. They had to use the data from tax filings but it did work in terms of getting the money out there.
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by jelling 6mo ago
They borrowed $40B from JP Morgan. They literally did not have the money otherwise.
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by jelling 8mo ago
> Dimes Square consists of a series of late-night interactions in a Chinatown apartment. The apartment belongs to Stefan, a rich, connected writer who has attracted a social circle by virtue of his strategically applied charm, vague prom
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by jelling 8mo ago
I didn’t like studying chemistry at all when I was your age. But I also didn’t like physics until I took a class thar focused on it in a practical way. So definitely listen to your interests but perhaps you’ll find a better on-ramp to chemi
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by jelling 11mo ago
Same. We've all fooled ourselves into believing that an LLM / stochastic process was finally solved based on a good result. But the sample size is always to low to be meaningful.
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by jelling 1y ago
Yes and MSFT sells it on Azure as Signal iirc
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by jelling 1y ago
NPR voice is a thing. It started with Ira Glass voice and now the default voice is someone that sounds like they're not certain they should be saying the very banal thing they are about to say, followed by a hand-shake protocol of nerv
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by jelling 1y ago
Clarifying the pricing would make it easier to value the revenue from current and future users. And naturally they rounded up to leave themselves literal margin for error.
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by jelling 1y ago
Etymology: like others said, the old version of cap was short for a bullet. And that term most likely comes from “cap guns” which are/were you guys for kids that had a tiny tiny amount of gunpowder/similar so they made a small noi
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by jelling 2y ago
Any guitarist that places outside of the house will have no problem inflicting enough damage on their guitar to make it unique.
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by jelling 2y ago
So did I and having chosen it once, I still thought "well, I'll hear this out..."
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by jelling 2y ago
Try this: get the travel version of a water pick / flosser. They’re like $30 and you refill them from a tap. Now put it in your shower and make it part of your shower routine. No mess. Easy to fill. No discomfort. Almost impossible not
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by jelling 2y ago
So he did what… made a boom bap, cat-in-the-hat rap musical and put it in midtown to save them the drive? Lin-Manuel Miranda loves letting people think he came from the streets when his Dad is a political consultant that worked for multiple
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by jelling 2y ago
If you've ever seen someone that naturally takes to gambling - like they play, lose, and immediately think they must be due to win now! - that's probably a good analogy as any for how some brains can be more likely to get addicted
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by jelling 2y ago
IRC is back and I love it
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by jelling 2y ago
Reddit requested to interview me once. It was the least professional company with which I’ve spoken.
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by jelling 3y ago
I had the same problem while designing an AI related tool and the solution is simple: ask the user a clarifying question as to whether they want a specific ethnic background or default to random. No matter what technical solution they come
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by jelling 3y ago
Huh? Have you not used the search feature in Slack or Discord? Whether it's a forum or a chat, the data structure is largely the same, especially with Slack/Discord as they have threads.
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by jelling 3y ago
> What exactly is the problem here? Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something? Yes. Yes and more yes. That is why, at least in the U.S., we have given non-profits exemptions from taxation. Because
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by jelling 3y ago
REST Client extension in VSCode. Just a file that makes requests and lives in your repo. No totally unnecessary SaaS business with per user licensing fees.
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by jelling 3y ago
Yes. The people involved in tech changed to a non-trivial degree over the last 15 years. I grew up in a family that made software and I’ve been a professional myself for over twenty years. The post-2008 cheap money era brought a huge influx
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by jelling 3y ago
> Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is not classified as a medical condition. Internet doctors in shambles after learning they're jus
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by jelling 3y ago
Cheers. Nice to see something whiskey related that isn’t trying so hard to communicate the usual whiskey stereotypes.
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by jelling 3y ago
The write-down might be fair. But the lesson I see with Reddit, Discord and Twitter is that letting a public company own even a tiny slice of your private company is a terrible idea. Despite only owning a point or two of multi-billion dolla
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by jelling 3y ago
The Wolf Hall book series is a great read also, albeit much much longer.
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by jelling 3y ago
Can you contrast your product with Liveblocks? I am considering it for a real-time application.
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by jelling 3y ago
Same. Also Apple payments are great for subscriptions, as like PayPal, they provide a control center to cancel subscriptions. For things like streaming services where I know I only need it for a month, I cancel them within seconds of signin

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