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GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini(arstechnica.com)
4 points by oostevo 2y ago|0 comments
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by oostevo 2y ago
Key paragraph (from the original FT article): > The issue has arisen from idle cash sitting in customer accounts at brokerage firms and large banks, which “sweep” otherwise uninvested funds into interest-bearing alternatives in order to
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Google sold Android phones with hidden insecure feature, companies find(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by oostevo 2y ago|1 comments
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by oostevo 3y ago
My understanding is that most[1] other satellite devices use a centralized dispatch center who have experience with backcountry emergencies. Speculating obviously, but that article makes it sound like Apple might have tried do something els
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by oostevo 4y ago
The ban was postponed, as I understand it, as they work through ways to catch people cheating by still using the substances. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news...
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Judge Throws Out State and Federal Cases Against Facebook(nytimes.com)
2 points by oostevo 5y ago|0 comments
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by oostevo 6y ago
I’m not sure where you’re starting from, but this seems like a reasonable progression to start with: (1) A video about how the immune system works: https://youtu.be/fSEFXl2XQpc (2) An infographic from FDA explaining the EUA
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by oostevo 6y ago
If this caused anyone to be interested in what happens to snowflakes after they fall on the ground, The Snow Grain Photo Library[1] has a library of photos of snow in various states of decomposition and metamorphosis. [1] http://
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by oostevo 6y ago
I think you may have just re-discovered Disruptive Innovation (sometimes also called Disruption Theory): incumbents over-serve their customers by adding lots of features, complexity, and cost. Upstarts can attack them by focusing on only a
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by oostevo 7y ago
The author doesn’t spend much time on _why_ re-orgs “almost always make some people unhappy, cause employee departures, and stifle productivity,” but I’d claim it’s organizational politics. Every re-org has winners and losers, almost by def
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by oostevo 8y ago
These (fairly specialized) ski boots have a boa lace system as part of their closure system, which uses a central dial to tighten a continuous metal lace. It's not automated, but it's close. For what it's worth, though, I did
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by oostevo 8y ago
That does not match my experience (but n=1 and all). In my case, the result of the sleep study where I didn't really sleep was, "hmm ... it looks like you might have insomnia." (No kidding). No drugs were offered -- or forced
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by oostevo 8y ago
The New York Times has a fairly detailed rent-vs-buy calculator that makes it easy to see the effects of changing some of the variables the author talks about in the article. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014&#x2
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California Lawmakers Kill Housing Bill After Fierce Debate(nytimes.com)
2 points by oostevo 8y ago|0 comments
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by oostevo 9y ago
// I'm making the assumption here that you're _relatively_ new to strength sports. If I've misjudged that, sorry! > My callouses are starting to become a bother and my hands are pretty raw for any other lifts lat
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by oostevo 9y ago
Indeed. For further clarity: The retina is the thin layer of cells at the back of your eye that pick up light. The iris is the colorful ring on the front of your eye. A retina scan is thing most people wouldn't experience outside of a
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by oostevo 9y ago
I do the same thing - I make an email alias for nearly every organization that I do business with. It was surprisingly easy to set up with GSuite. This has the side benefit of making it obvious who's responsible for selling my email ad
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by oostevo 9y ago
Generally, agents in legacy airline lounges (e.g. a United Club, Admirals Clubs, etc.) are willing to do things like this. Anecdotally, I've noticed that they tend to be more senior (so know what's possible / what they can ge
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by oostevo 9y ago
You can roll your own VPN on a cloud provider. Still not perfect, but I'd argue Azure, AWS, and the like are less likely to try to inspect/monetize traffic than a consumer ISP.
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by oostevo 9y ago
The private labeling strategy is also getting to be a thing in the travel hacking crowd too. See, for example, http://www.frugalhack.me/2017/02/23/private-labeling-101-int...
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by oostevo 9y ago
I use my iPad pro about as frequently as I use my Macbook Pro now. As I've gotten further away from R&D and into business development and then a management-like role, most of my time is consumed reading and writing emails, using ou
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by oostevo 10y ago
> You're not going to be in the $1B space selling services There are lots and lots of companies in the government and huge enterprise services space that have more than a billion in revenue. A few off the top of my head: * https:&#
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by oostevo 11y ago
I made a quick little zsh alias for the wifi commands: wifi () { local opt=$1 case "$opt" in (on) networksetup -setairportpower en0 on ;; (off) networksetup -setairportpower en0 off ;; (toggle) networksetup -
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by oostevo 11y ago
>> For whatever reason this seems to get motorists to drive more slowly and makes it safer for everyone. That's actually a known phenomenon. When drivers experience unusual situations (like roads without stripes down the middle),
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by oostevo 11y ago
Other replies have done a good job describing the actual perks of status, but in terms of "cleaner cells in prison" ... I'd be happy to go to prison if it meant I got free massages in a spa[1] or chauffeured around in a Porsc
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by oostevo 11y ago
The regulations you're thinking of are ETOPS (Extended-range Twin-engine Operational Performance Standards or, alternatively, Engines Turn or Passengers Swim).
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by oostevo 11y ago
Context: I currently train weightlifting with a former US Olympic Team weightlifter and someone who has been to Olympic trials many times for swimming and has since switched to weightlifting. My wife is quite a good climber. While pretty mu
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by oostevo 11y ago
The consumer one does have Boingo access, though, which can come in handy.
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by oostevo 11y ago
There's two ways to ensure that you aren't inadvertently running afoul of drinking and driving laws: you can either not drink, or wait a large amount of time after drinking before you drive. Same with passing bicycles - you can gi
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by oostevo 11y ago
Yes, though it's substantially more memory-efficient. There's a fairly detailed description of the differences here: https://github.com/chrisaljoudi/uBlock/wiki/What-uBlock-can-...

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